Exhibit Curator, Director, Producer
MAD Arts, Dania, FL, 2022
This IRL NFT exhibition, curated by multi-media artist Maritza Molina, showcases the works of 138 international photographers from 6 continents, 39 countries, and 90+ cities, combining world-renown artists and emerging talent from National Geographic, Magnum Photos, Guggenheim fellows, World Press Photo, Pulitzer Prize, and Emmy Award winners.
Each photographer was given one month, from March to April 2022, during a time when much of the world was experiencing chaos, to capture a microcosm of life. 13,800 native 1/1 NFT photographs of cities, landscapes, communities, people, events, and conceptual creations that will tell our story for centuries to come.
An ode to the 1955 exhibition “The Family of Man” by legendary curator Edward Steichen for the MoMA, this collection features a unique glimpse of our connections in the 21st Century to ourselves, nature, humanity, culture, technology, politics, architecture, community, family, relationships, our ancestors, our imagination, and worlds not visible to most.
A camera testament, a drama of the grand canyon of humanity, an epic woven of fun, mystery of holiness – here is the Family of Man!
-Carl Sandburg, Prologue, The Family of Man
Portions of this captivating visual ledger are brought to the physical space in this unique IRL exhibit of interchangeable spaces where no moment is ever the same. Visitors can scan the QR code of any work and visit the NFT auction for that artist, and become a crypto art collector, supporting TWT projects and artists in their Web3 journey.
The Talking Space, a unique feature of this IRL exhibit, showcases Q&A interviews with 26 of the participating artists from TWT, giving access to their photographic practice and process, and spanning over 15 countries, including Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, Georgia, India, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Spain, Trinidad, United Kingdom, and US.
The World Today is also a world history class in geography, culture, economics, and politics. It provides an insight to richly diverse people and regions in the world not often seen from such intimate perspectives. Going through all this work makes me fall in love with photography all over again.
-Maritza Molina, TWT Curator