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Latest photo essay
Scenes from Astronomy Night at the Intrepid Museum, New York City
On the deck of the Intrepid, families, enthusiasts, and amateur astronomers gathered to share telescopes and the wonder of the night sky.
Workshops, conferences, classrooms, festivals, exhibits, and civic science in public life.
Photography makes the people, relationships, and practice of civic science visible.
A growing visual record of where science and communities meet, learn, and act together.
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Latest photo essays
Civic Science Observer
After School Science: Wild New York City — BioBase Harlem in pictures
Civic Science Observer
Photo Essay: 2026 Stand Up for Science New York City
Civic Science Observer
Our developing civic science photojournalism experiment: Photos from 2025
Civic Science Observer
Together again: Day 1 of the 2025 ASTC conference in black and white
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Explore the archive
A changing selection from the curated CSML Images archive album. Shuffle the desk to surface a different mix of people, places, events, and photographs that may never become published essays.
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Search the Images Desk
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The Images Desk on display
Installations that bring the people, projects, and places in the archive into shared public spaces.
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Photographing civic science as it unfolds
The CSML Images Desk is home to our developing civic science photojournalism practice. It captures the people, places, and interactions that shape civic science in workshops, conferences, classrooms, community spaces, and public life.
The goal is not only to archive images, but to make the field more visible through photography.
Supporters
This work would not be possible without the early support of the following organizations.
American Society for Cell Biology
STEMPeers
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A vision of a future gallery in Washington DC
We imagine a future gallery bringing civic science practitioners together to showcase their engagement work to the broader publics alongside our ongoing documentation of projects on photographs, audio, and video. We are hard at work to to raise the necessary funds and bringing the right people together to make the dream a reality in what would essentially be the physical home base of the Civic Science Media Lab. Drop us an email if interested to get involved.
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