Join us at Photoville 2026!
Photo by Elliot Ross
At this year’s Photoville Festival, Magnum Foundation is proud to exhibit three projects: Tracing Memory, by Cheney Orr, shows a county in Texas with one of the highest known rates of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in the U.S. Asthma Boulevard, by Pablo Unzueta, documents a community disproportionately affected by oil and air pollution in Los Angeles. A Question of Balance, by Elliot Ross, shows a story of a water supply divided along racial lines in Utah.
See more about the projects below!
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
1 Water St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Location
May 16 – May 30, 2026
Duration
Join Photoville on May 16 for a can’t-be-missed FREE Community Celebration! Bringing all the usual #PhotovilleFestival fun into one jam-packed day in Brooklyn Bridge Park. More info here.
OPENING NIGHT
As part of the programming, we will be hosting a talk with four photographers on Visualizing Health Disparities in the U.S., including Cheney Orr and Pablo Unzueta. This event is co-presented by Magnum Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, and Photoville. See more here.
EVENT at magnum foundation
About the Exhibitions
Cheney Orr
Starr county, TX | tracing memory
Starr County, Texas, is a place of wind farms and cattle ranches, close-knit families, and border patrol boats moving along the Rio Grande. Beneath those daily rhythms lies another story: one of the highest known rates of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in the United States. Made over several years in and around Starr County, these images trace not only the weight of dementia, but the dignity and fleeting beauty that persist within it.
This projects was produced with support from the Magnum Foundation and Commonwealth Fund’s Health Equity reporting partnership, and published in The Atlantic.
Pablo Unzueta
los angeles, CA | asthma boulevard
Asthma Boulevard is a collection of stories and toxic landmarks that document the legacies of oil and air pollution in the Los Angeles region where the cancer risk and asthma rates are 90% higher than the state average. These communities have been historically neglected and are bound together by industrial decay, oil refineries, major freeways, and one of the largest supply chain complexes in the world.
This projects was produced with support from the Magnum Foundation and Commonwealth Fund’s Health Equity reporting partnership, and published in The Atlantic.
Elliot Ross
Najavo nation, UT | A Question of Balance
As the American Southwest endures the worst drought in 1,200 years, A Question of Balance shares a story of a water supply divided along racial lines. More than one in three Diné (Navajo) must haul water to their rural homes. The Diné, who are 67 times more likely to lack running water than the average American, use the least amount of water per person in the nation yet effectively pay the most. Eighty miles away, in Utah’s Washington County, the opposite is true in the predominantly affluent Mormon communities centered around St. George. Despite relying on the same water supply, residents pay some of the lowest water rates in the country and consume the most per person.