Photoville and South Street Seaport Museum Current Photographer Jon McCormack’s “Elements of Wonder”

Photoville—recognized for its annual citywide images pageant—continues to develop its year-round free, public programming

New York, N.Y. – Photoville (co-founded by Laura Roumanos, Sam Barzilay, and Dave Shelley), in partnership with the South Street Seaport Museum, will current Australian conservation and nature photographer Jon McCormack’s “Elements of Wonder: When Nature Becomes Art” from April 22 to June 14, 2026. This out of doors exhibition in entrance of the Museum’s Water Street galleries and printing store is free and open to all—no registration required. 

“Elements of Wonder: When Nature Becomes Art” includes a decade-long environmental images undertaking spanning 5 continents, captured in Jon McCormack’s e-book Patterns: Art of the Natural World. The work explores the pure world at radically completely different scales, from microscopic mineral formations to aerial views of rivers and coastlines, revealing recurring patterns of kind, construction, and motion. The goal is to reintroduce viewers to a way of marvel and awe, and to ask a slower, extra attentive approach of seeing. Moving between the intimate and the immense, it reveals the quiet structure of the pure world—its rhythms, textures, and hidden harmonies. These photos ask us to pause, to look extra deeply, and to recollect our place inside a residing, respiratory system far bigger than ourselves. In attending to magnificence, fragility, and interconnectedness, the work presents an invite not solely to witness the world however to take care of it.

Details

On view April 22 via June 14, 2026

Exterior space of South Street Seaport Museum: Water Street, Manhattan

About the Artist

Jon McCormack is an Australian photographer and conservationist whose work has been featured by prestigious publications and organizations worldwide, together with TIME, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, UNESCO, The Guardian, CNN, and The Telegraph. Alongside his photographic observe, McCormack leads digicam software program engineering for iPhone at Apple—a convergence mirrored on this monograph, the place among the photos are captured utilizing iPhone.

About Photoville

Photoville is a New York-based nonprofit that promotes a wider understanding of and elevated entry to the artwork of images for all. We produce an annual, city-wide images pageant in New York City, a variety of free academic initiatives,   and a nationwide program of public artwork exhibitions.

Through inventive partnerships with festivals, metropolis businesses, and different nonprofit organizations, Photoville presents visible storytellers, educators, and college students monetary help, mentorship, and promotional & manufacturing sources, on a variety of exhibition alternatives.

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About the South Street Seaport Museum

The South Street Seaport Museum, positioned within the coronary heart of the historic seaport district in New York City, preserves and interprets the historical past of New York as an important port metropolis. Founded in 1967, the Museum homes an in depth assortment of artworks and artifacts, a maritime reference library, exhibition galleries and schooling areas, working nineteenth century print outlets, and an lively fleet of historic vessels that every one work to inform the story of “Where New York Begins.” seaportmuseum.org

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