A set of large-scale portraits has been on view on the Plaza at 300 Ashland since early October, and it comes down at the end of this week. The installation is the Brooklyn stop of New York Proud, a public art campaign by the New York Immigration Coalition that puts the faces and stories of immigrant New Yorkers in parks and plazas around the city. The Brooklyn installation is on view through Friday, Oct. 30.

What is on the plaza

The portraits are the work of Oscar B. Castillo, a Venezuelan artist and documentary photographer who made every image in this year's campaign. The portraits are printed large-scale, and each is paired with a short personal story from the people in it.

The subjects are mostly photographed in small groups, and many of them are Brooklyn artists, musicians, writers, cooks and business owners. The panels shown by Downtown Brooklyn Partnership include a writer from Trinidad and Tobago, a writer from the Philippines and a poet from Singapore photographed together; an artist and filmmaker from Brazil with an artist and educator from Ethiopia and another from South Korea; a dancer and choreographer, an architect and a filmmaker from Argentina; three people from Chad; and two cooks from Guinea alongside a chef and actor from Nigeria.

The coalition describes the campaign as a way to present immigrant New Yorkers as neighbors, workers, artists and business owners, and Castillo has said he wanted each portrait to show people the way they see themselves. The installation is free and open whenever the plaza is.

The third year of the campaign

New York Proud is in its third annual edition, and it runs citywide. The Brooklyn location was unveiled at 300 Ashland, the plaza in the part of Downtown Brooklyn that Downtown Brooklyn Partnership promotes as the Brooklyn Cultural District, and the partnership announced the opening on Oct. 8.

More about the campaign and the people in the portraits is on the coalition's New York Proud site, immigrantsareny.org.

Getting there

The Plaza at 300 Ashland is where Ashland Place meets Flatbush and Lafayette avenues, a block from BAM. The Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr station (2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q and R) is a few minutes' walk south, the C stops at Lafayette Avenue, and the G stops at Fulton Street.

The portraits stay up through Friday, Oct. 30. A weekday lunch break or a stop on the way to a show at BAM is enough time to walk the full installation.

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