Our Team

  • Sade Boyewa El - Founder & Chief Curator

    Sade Boyewa El is a Social Documentary, Portrait and Street Photographer, Community Activist and Organizer who lives and works in Harlem, New York. A native of Sweden and Nigeria, her colorful and vibrant photographs pay homage to her transnational and multicultural upbringing from around the world. Sade’s work challenges the viewer’s eyes by looking past the obvious. With her images she seeks to inspire people to look carefully at the world around them to uncover all the beauty that exist in the most unusual and unexpected places. Sade earned a bachelors degree in Social Psychology of Women, Gender and the Family from the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies. Her work has appeared in various group exhibitions in New York and Europe. In 2021 Sade founded FACES OF HARLEM. A Non profit organization dedicated to shaping public art engagements for the Harlem community and beyond, that center contemporary art and visual storytelling through public photo exhibitions presented in Harlem parks.

  • Madeleine Budd - Youth Project Manager & Co - Curator for the Youth Showcase

    Madeleine Budd works as a freelance photographer, teaching artist at NYC Salt and marketing executive at B&H Photo. She obtained her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2014 where she worked on her most substantial body of work entitled 'Street Fam'. The series culminated into a self published book and exhibition at Milk Studios.