Design Trust Photo Urbanism 2025 Exhibition: “Desire Lines and Daylighting” by Nathan Kensinger

• June 18, 2025 - July 16, 2025
• Daily

Host: Design Trust

Space: Living Room

 “Desire Lines and Daylighting” by photographer and filmmaker Nathan Kensinger

In partnership with Pier 57, Kensinger’s Photo Urbanism exhibition “Desire Lines and Daylighting” follows local efforts to protect and expand access to New York’s waterways. Focusing on waterfront communities in The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, a mix of photographs, videos, and interviews uncover grassroots initiatives to reclaim and restore coastlines that have been polluted and cut off by industrialization.

The work will be on display at Pier 57’s public indoor living room space in Hudson River Park from June 18th 2025 to July 16th 2025. Join us for opening night on 6/18 at 6 pm! RSVP HERE. Subscribe for email updates about more upcoming exhibition events here.

This year’s Photo Urbanism theme was chosen alongside Design Trust’s 2025 Request for Proposals, a call for projects focusing on the relationship between New York and water in all its various forms–rain, oceans, rivers–and our multiple relationships with it–from construction, art, play, to drinking and sewage.