Blue Sky Days in the Pulitzer Center’s 20/20 at the Photoville Festival

Blue Sky Days
in the 20/20 Pulitzer Center group exhibition
at the Photoville festival

16 – 30 May, 2026

Brooklyn Bridge Park
1 Water St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA

About the exhibition

For 20 years, the Pulitzer Center has supported hundreds of photographers spanning all continents and photographic approaches. This exhibition selects the best of those images that still hold relevance today. Individually, the images capture singular moments in time. Together, they form a visual archive of a changing world and remind us that human-centered imagery does more than record events: It creates connection, deepens understanding, and continues to resonate long after the cameras are put away.

About Blue Sky Days

In October 2012, a drone strike in northeast Pakistan killed a 67-year-old woman picking okra outside her house. At a briefing held in 2013 in Washington, DC, the woman’s 13-year-old grandson, Zubair Rehman, spoke to a group of five lawmakers. “I no longer love blue skies,” said Rehman, who was injured by shrapnel in the attack. “In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray.”

With my camera attached to a small drone, I travelled across America to photograph the very sorts of gatherings that have become habitual targets for foreign air strikes—weddings, funerals, groups of people praying or exercising. I also flew my camera over settings in which drones are used to less lethal effect, such as prisons, oil fields, and the U.S.-Mexico border. The images captured from the drone’s perspective engage with the changing nature of surveillance, personal privacy, and war.