UNWAVERING
SANCTUARY - FRIDMAN GALLERY, NYC, 28 JAN TO 7 MARCH
The PhotoBridge Project’s mission is to to end the invisibility of locally led initiatives by pairing world-class photographers with local NGOs and community organizations.
Across fractured societies, existence itself becomes an act of resistance, carried in gestures, gazes, and everyday persistence. The photographs are intentionally uncaptioned, creating space for silence, recognition, and connection beyond words.
Learn more about the local organizations featured, the photographers, and how you can purchase a print and support the work of these remarkable locally led organizations.
This film, presented by The PhotoBridge Project, as part of Fridman Gallery’s exhibition SANCTUARY documents lives shaped by displacement, scarcity, and violence, but defined by a refusal to disappear.
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Bangladesh
Guillaume Binet (2017)
In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, more than one million Rohingya live in fragile shelters along the Naf River, uncertain if they will ever leave.
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Chad
Guillaume Binet (2024)
After the fall of El Fasher, tens of thousands flee Darfur to Zabout in eastern Chad, stopping when exhaustion takes over. Improvised tents become neighborhoods, then cities.
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United States
Agnès Dherbeys (2025)
In Baltimore, USA, a man facing deportation becomes a symbol of harsh immigration policy, as volunteers from the Holy Trinity Migrant Team La Familia accompany families through intense stress.
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United States
Agnès Dherbeys (2025)
In Baltimore, USA, a man facing deportation becomes a symbol of harsh immigration policy, as volunteers from the Holy Trinity Migrant Team La Familia accompany families through intense stress.
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United States
Agnès Dherbeys (2025)
In Washington DC, USA, families build new lives while waiting for the asylum process to decide their status. Volunteers from the Holy Trinity Migrant Team La Familia accompany families through intense stress.
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United States
Agnès Dherbeys (2025)
In Baltimore, USA, a man facing deportation becomes a symbol of harsh immigration policy, as volunteers from the Holy Trinity Migrant Team La Familia accompany families through intense stress.
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Haiti
Olivier Jobard (2025)
In Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, waste overwhelms retreating mangroves as people fleeing Port-au-Prince settle with few alternatives. The local organization FoProBim works with fishermen to restore mangroves and secure long-term livelihoods.
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Sri Lanka
Guillaume Binet (2026)
In Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dakhika lives with her unemployed father and grandmother. Emerge Lanka’s trauma-informed work with girls who have survived sexual abuse helps them thrive.
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Kenya
Guillaume Binet (2025)
In Nairobi’s Kibera settlement, Kenya, families crowd into single rooms as the Inuka Cultural Center offers young people an alternative to the street through art and mutual support.
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Chad
Guillaume Binet (2024)
After the fall of El Fasher, tens of thousands flee Darfur to Zabout in eastern Chad, stopping when exhaustion takes over. Improvised tents become neighborhoods, then cities.
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India
Chloe Sharrock (2025)
In Maharashtra, India, widows left by drought, debt, and discrimination persist as Jagar Pratishthan supports them against bonded labor, caste injustice, and exploitation through legal action and education.
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India
Chloe Sharrock (2025)
In Maharashtra, India, widows left by drought, debt, and discrimination persist as Jagar Pratishthan supports them against bonded labor, caste injustice, and exploitation through legal action and education.
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Sudan
Olivier Jobard (2026)
In Sudan, people displaced from their homes gather in camps, supported by local mutual aid societies in El Dabbah, Kosti, and Khartoum as the state collapses.
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Sudan
Olivier Jobard (2026)
In Sudan, people displaced from their homes gather in camps, supported by local mutual aid societies in El Dabbah, Kosti, and Khartoum as the state collapses.
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Sudan
Olivier Jobard (2026)
In Sudan, people displaced from their homes gather in camps, supported by local mutual aid societies in El Dabbah, Kosti, and Khartoum as the state collapses.
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Sudan
Olivier Jobard (2026)
In Sudan, people displaced from their homes gather in camps, supported by local mutual aid societies in El Dabbah, Kosti, and Khartoum as the state collapses.
Buy a signed numbered print…
and support local changemakers
Numbered prints are available in 12 × 8 inch ($650) and 36 × 24 inch ($4,200) editions. All works are fine art prints and come mounted. Prints can be ordered in person through the Fridman Gallery or by emailing contact@thephotobridgeproject.org
Proceeds from all sales will help support the vital work of the local organizations featured.
The Local Initiatives
The Inuka Cultural Centre, based in Kibera, Nairobi, is a community hub where young people come together to learn, create, and grow.
Through dance, capoeira, music, and storytelling, Inuka offers safe spaces for children and youth to build confidence, develop skills, and strengthen community bonds. A central part of its mission is empowering girls and young women — providing mentorship, education, and platforms for leadership that help them challenge inequality and imagine new futures. Beyond performance, the centre promotes resilience and social change, turning creativity into a force for transformation across the community.
Founded in 1992, the Fondation pour la Protection de la Biodiversité Marine (FoProBiM) is one of Haiti’s oldest environmental organizations, dedicated to protecting marine ecosystems and watersheds. The foundation works with coastal communities to promote sustainable fishing practices, restore mangrove forests, and safeguard biodiversity. By empowering local people to protect natural resources, FoProBiM ensures that both the environment and the livelihoods it supports are preserved for future generations.
Jagar Pratishthan
Founded in 1989, Jagar Pratishthan is a grassroots organization working in Maharashtra to advance the rights of marginalized communities. Its initiatives span from farmers’ access to seeds and water, to Dalit women’s land ownership, organic farming, sex workers’ rights, and reproductive health. The organization has also been at the forefront of campaigns against bonded labor, caste discrimination, and systemic exploitation.
For its decades of advocacy, Jagar Pratishthan has received the Padmashri Karmaveer Dadasaheb Gaikwad Award for land rights activism, while co-founder Manisha Tokle was honored with the Ahilyadevi Holkar Award for women’s leadership.
Emerge Lanka works directly with communities affected by poverty, abuse, and systemic exclusion, providing safe spaces, education, psychosocial support, and pathways toward long-term independence. Their approach is trauma-informed and centers dignity, trust, and survivor-led recovery, ensuring that those most affected are actively shaping the solutions themselves.
Founded in 2017, the Holy Trinity Migrant Team / Migrant Familia is a grassroots initiative in Washington DC that accompanies and advocates for refugees and displaced families. Beginning with the welcoming of the Cheikho family from Syria, the organization now supports 28 families from 13 countries. Through advocacy, accompaniment, and community-building, Migrant Familia ensures that mothers, fathers, children, and extended families find safety, dignity, and belonging in their new home.
Screened Photographers
Guillaume Binet
Guillaume Binet has developed a documentary aspect to his photographic work, including reporting for the international press during the conflicts of the Arab spring (« Rage against the regime », Newsweek 2011, Les Inrockuptibles, Syria, 2012, Libération Yemen, 2015-2018) or in Ukraine (Al Jazeera 2021, Wall Street Journal, L'Obs, TIME, 2022). He also collaborates with humanitarian organisations such as Action against Hunger or Doctors Without Borders who provided logistical support in Yemen in 2015 and 2018, and used his reportage for their international advocacy on Lybian jails. In 2019 he realized the book of the 40th anniversary of Action Against Hunger, What I see, photographing to testify.
Agnès Dherbeys
Born in South Korea in 1976, Agnès Dherbeys grew up in France. She now lives in Paris after being based in Bangkok for 12 years. She graduated from Sciences Po Lyon and Celsa, Paris IV.
Agnès is the récipient of numerous awards and grant (second prize Spot News Stories at the World Press Photo, the OPC Robert Capa Gold Medal for “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise”, European Center of journalism grant, Foundation Lagardère Grant,…). She mainly works in Asia and Europe for French and International media such as Marie Claire, M Magazine, the Wall Street journal, Le Monde, GQ, Harpers…. In 2019 she received the Contemporary Documentary Photography grant of Le CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques pour la Photographie Documentaire Contemporaine).
Chloe Sharrock
Born in 1992, Chloe is bathed early in an artistic environment in which images are considered as a privileged medium to convey emotions and commitments. She first enrolls in Art History studies in Lyon, specializing in the artistic trends of the 14th to the 17th century, a field still deeply influencing the aesthetics of her work today. She then concludes her education with Cinema Studies in Paris, specialized in aesthetics and documentary making.
Motivated by a dire need to bear witness of the world’s turmoil, she decides in 2017 that her medium will be photography.
Her work has been published in the international press such as Newsweek Japan, The Washington Post, Libération, Le Temps, Neue Zurcher Zeitung...
Oliver Jobard
Oliver Jobard has reported from many theaters of war: Croatia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Colombia, Iraq etc.
Having documented immigration experiences for over ten years, today it is the integration of immigrants into their host countries that is the focus of his photographic work.
Olivier Jobard is the laureate of numerous awards, including the Visa d'Or News in 2004 and the Visa d'Or Magazine in 2011, the World Press Photo in 2005, the Emmy Award for best documentary for Kingsley's Crossing in 2007, and the ESJ Lille Prize in 2013.