New York and Bronx Documentary Centre 2023

Future Hackney have been gaining insight from the Bronx Documentary Centre based in the Bronx New York over the last two years. They have worked with us to develop a framework and funding applications to set up a Documentary/ Photography / Heritage Centre in East London. Now in their 12th year, the BDC offer a model for other community-based groups. The model of ‘community-based documentary journalism and deep engagement with their neighbourhood that continues to ‘change lives’ and is deeply rooted in the local Bronx community and education. 

We are currently looking for potential partners, stakeholders, funding partners and individual artists and photographers to support this project for a documentary centre scheduled for 2025. 

A photography, social-profit gallery and educational space. Through exhibitions, screenings, and public programming, we would show the work of renowned and emerging photographers, provide free workshops for young people and historically underrepresented adults. We would aim to facilitate in a range of photographic disciplines, whilst documenting ‘Hackney Stories’ through reminisces and oral histories, to also be exhibited.