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A visual series exploring the world in New York City during the 2026 World Cup.
We are NYC’s World Cup Artists in Residence.
#WorldCupWorldTour

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Usha Bhandari and Laxmi Paudel have achieved what many kids dream of, but few reach. Playing for the Nepal National Team was an unforgettable experience. But debuting with your childhood friend made it even sweeter.

Today they run Namaste Wireless in Jackson Heights keeping New Yorkers connected to one another and to family back home. Between sales of cell phones, speakers, and concert tickets they are always talking about football. Retired professionals watch the game a little differently than the rest of us.

They still play whenever they can. And just like their favorite player, Cristiano Ronaldo, their bodies don’t always move the way their minds want them to. Because once you’ve played on a National level, the game never really leaves you.

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Produced & Directed by @michaelspremo, @jeanmicheldissard, Rachel Falcone
Produced by @Nathan_Birnbaum
Cinematography by @michaelspremo, @martinthesupernaut
Editing by @lindseycordero, @edgar_andrade
Sound by @Nathan_Birnbaum

A @storylinemedia series

We are Public Artists in Residence for New York City’s celebration of the 2026 FIFA World. The residency is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor

#WorldCup2026 #Queens #Nepal #WomensFootball #FootballCulture by @1world1game

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They met in a bar during the 2010 World Cup.

He was already a fan. Love made her one.

Ten years of marriage, a child, and five World Cups later, they are still watching together.

Their story is a reminder that football is always bigger than the game. It carries culture, identity, memory, politics, and belonging. The social world around it matters. The bar, the crowd, the strangers who come together for ninety minutes.

But within all of that, something private can happen too.

A glance. A conversation. A shared moment.
And sometimes, in the middle of a game watched among strangers, two people find each other.

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Produced & Directed by Rachel Falcone
Produced by @michaelspremo
Cinematography by @jacobsklar.visuals
Editing by Eva Lewis, @edgar_andrade
Sound by Rachel Falcone

A @storylinemedia series.

We are Public Artists in Residence for New York City’s celebration of the 2026 FIFA World. The residency is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor.

#worldcup2026 #Netherlands #lovestory #couplegoals #Oranje by @1world1game

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Curaçao may be a small island of 158,000 residents, but Curaçaoans have an outsize impact in New York.

Here, the diaspora gathers the same way it does back home: friends, cousins, neighbors, friends of friends. Everyone knows someone who knows someone. One island. One family.

Curaçao is a place shaped by movement. A crossroads of the Caribbean where languages, cultures, and histories have blended into something uniquely its own. That mix isn’t just its history, it’s its identity.

Qualifying for the 2026 World Cup was bigger than football. It means being recognized. Being seen.

Their tournament may be over.

But for Curaçao fans, this was never a story of defeat.

They already won.

This video is produced by @storylinemedia, which the City of New York has announced today as Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) for New York City’s celebration of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Through their residency, which is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor, Storyline is continuing work on “One World, One Game,” a series of short films and photography capturing how New Yorkers live, welcome, and celebrate the tournament across the five boroughs.

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Produced & Directed by @michaelspremo, @jeanmicheldissard, Rachel Falcone
Cinematography by @michaelspremo, @destamboss
Editing by @edgar_andrade
Color Consultant @sodalite_color
Sound by Rachel Falcone

Bar conversation filmed at the incomparable @starrbarbk. Thank you for hosting us!

A @storylinemedia series

We are Public Artists in Residence for New York City’s celebration of the 2026 FIFA World. The residency is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor.

#WorldCup2026 #TheBlueWave #CuraçaoWorldCup #curacao #PAIRnyc taken in New York, New York by @1world1game

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Today, Chinese businesses line Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park. And if you look closely you’ll see proud remnants of the Norwegian community that was once so large this area was called Little Norway, or Lapskaus Boulevard. Lapskaus is a stew created by Norwegian Sailors hundreds of years earlier that became a local staple.

Originally Sunset Park was a Carnesee hunting ground, until Dutch colonists turned the area into farmland. By 1900 the descendants of the Norwegians who worked Dutch ships had moved up from around the docks in Red Hook helping to transform the area into the neighborhood we know today.

At our first stop, Soccer Tavern, an Irishman named Brendan Farley is preserving this Norwegian history at a pub that has been in continuous operation since Prohibition. Norwegian flags. American supporters. Chinese neighbors stopped in to watch the match. Young fans discovering the place for the first time, settling in next to regulars who’ve been coming for decades.

Around the corner is Sporting Club GJØA. Founded in 1911 by Norwegian immigrants, New York City’s oldest community soccer club is still doing what it has always done: teaching children the game, bringing families together, and passing something from one generation to the next. Former #USMNT player and club president Gregg Bergstrom welcomed us into a club that has outlived waves of migration and changing languages without ever losing sight of why it exists.

Featuring:
@gjoasoccer, @sc_gjoa, @thesoccertavern, @letsgomathias

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Produced & Directed by @jeanmicheldissard, @michaelspremo, Rachel Falcone
Hosted & Produced by @letsgomathias
Cinematography by @brunopapic
Editing by @edgar_andrade
Sound by @thesoundcoop, Phillip Shipman

A @storylinemedia series.

We are Public Artists in Residence for New York City’s celebration of the 2026 FIFA World. The residency is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor.

#SunsetPark #Norway #footballculture #WorldCup2026 taken in Sunset Park, Brookyn by @1world1game

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This summer, Magnum Foundation partnered with Storyline @storylinemedia for "One World, One Game" @1world1game, a storytelling project unfolding across New York City throughout the 2026 World Cup. We gave grants to five local photographers who documented how communities experienced the tournament and how New York became a gathering place for the world.

Destiny Mata @destiny.mata explored how fútbol became a way of claiming public space in Bushwick and Sunset Park. In Bed-Stuy, Kisha Bari @kishabari showed how September Cafe became a gathering place for the Cape Verdean community and the team’s growing fanbase. From Harlem, to Jackson Heights, to Brooklyn Bridge Park, Walaa Yassien @walaayassien documented “not only how people looked, but what they were feeling, what they were carrying with them, and what this moment meant to them.” Richard Louissaint @haitianrich documented vibrant fashion and collective excitement for Haiti in Bed-Stuy, and in Astoria, Bay Ridge, and Crown Heights, Sara Konradi @sarakonradi found points of connection across the SWANA diaspora.

🔗 See more from each project at the link in bio! by @1world1game

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Meet Georges Forgeois. Twenty-five years ago, he opened Bar Tabac.

“We’re not a fancy restaurant,” he says. “We’re the soul of football in Brooklyn for the French people.”

On the day France faced England, hundreds packed inside. They cheered. They argued. They danced.
Georges has lived many lives and came to New York with almost nothing. Now he looks around his café during a World Cup match and sees people from everywhere, shoulder to shoulder.

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Featuring:
@thegipsybandofficial @bartabacny

Produced & Directed by @jeanmicheldissard, @michaelspremo, Rachel Falcone
Cinematography by @brunopapic
Editing by @edgar_andrade
Sound by @thesoundcoop, Danny Hole

A @storylinemedia series

We are Public Artists in Residence for New York City’s celebration of the 2026 FIFA World. The residency is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor

#WorldCup2026 #FrenchInNYC #FootballCulture #NYCFrench taken in New York City by @1world1game

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In Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Pastor Juan Carlos Ruiz has welcomed thousands of newly arrived immigrants to New York City. A memory from when he was a boy is a reminder of what holds many back…

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Produced & Directed by @michaelspremo, @jeanmicheldissard, Rachel Falcone
Cinematography by @icecreampapiii, @belovedthekid, @michaelspremo
Editing by @edgar_andrade
Sound by Rachel Falcone

A @storylinemedia series.

We are Public Artists in Residence for New York City’s celebration of the 2026 FIFA World. The residency is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor.

#1World1Game #WorldCup2026 #Brooklyn taken in New York, New York by @1world1game

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I grew up playing football in the streets of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia until my knees were scraped and my clothes were covered in dust. I remember my father waiting for his team to win, even though they almost never did. Football has stayed with me because of the people, the rituals, and the memories attached to it. Not the game itself.

Living in New York as a Sudanese refugee, I realized I was looking for places that felt familiar.

Sudan is facing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Over 13 million people have been displaced. I find myself drawn to where Sudanese still come together in ordinary ways. Football is one of those places.

When the World Cup came to the US, I wasn’t interested in the official fan zones. I wanted to go where New Yorkers watch.

As I moved through the crowds in Astoria, memories of downtown Cairo on match days drifted in—the scent of shisha, people overflowing into the streets, and that sense that celebration paused the ordinary rules for a while. This wasn’t Egypt, but it felt oddly familiar.

I started making portraits and carrying a notebook because some moments felt too important to let disappear. I wanted to remember what they were feeling.

Next stop, Harlem. Senegal v Iraq. The last match I attended in a stadium was the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations final between Senegal and Algeria in Cairo—one of the happiest days I can remember. Walking through Harlem brought that back in a way I didn’t expect.

Sudan has never played in a World Cup. This year they came closer than ever to qualifying while the country endured a devastating war. Seeing other African and Arab nations carried a different kind of meaning for me. I wasn’t only watching as a photographer. I was celebrating alongside communities that, in different ways, also carry home with them wherever they go. Before I left, I sat down on the sidewalk and braided my hair. It felt like the only way to leave without leaving empty-handed.

Words and 📸 by @walaayassien

A @storylinemedia series

We are Public Artists in Residence for NYC’s celebration of the World Cup. The residency is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor. Add’l support from @magnumfoundation taken in New York City by @1world1game

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As a second-generation Mexican-American from the Lower East Side, photographing World Cup gatherings became deeply personal. I was raised in public housing, where residents are surrounded by fenced-off green spaces, limiting opportunities to connect with our neighbors. That has shaped my life and my work. It has fueled my commitment to advocating for public spaces that truly belong to the people who live there. While documenting World Cup watch parties, I was drawn to the ways fútbol fans activated streets and sidewalks.

I didn’t grow up watching fútbol. Before this summer I had never experienced the energy of a World Cup match. Walking into my first watch party in Jackson Heights, Queens, I barely knew the rules of the game. I quickly realized knowing the rules didn’t matter. The excitement, chants, and emotions carried everyone along. You didn’t have to understand every play to understand what it meant to the people around you.

With so much of our lives filtered through phones and screens, these gatherings felt like a reminder of our humanity. Strangers stood shoulder-to-shoulder, celebrating, grieving, hugging, and singing together. For a few hours, everyone shared an emotional rhythm. It was a rare communal experience that made me feel connected not only to the people around me, but also to a part of my own cultural identity that I hadn’t experienced.

One moment that stays with me was buying a Mexico jersey from a street vendor. I’ve never been someone who buys sports jerseys or follows a team, but in that moment it felt like more than merchandise. It was a symbol of participating in something larger than myself. Wearing it wasn’t about becoming a soccer fan, it was about feeling a sense of pride and a real sense of belonging. The World Cup creates energetic spaces where culture, identity, and community become visible.

For ninety minutes, the city belongs to everyone.

Words and 📸 by @destiny.mata

A @storylinemedia series.

We are the Public Artists in Residence for New York City’s celebration of the 2026 FIFA World. The residency is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor.

Photos created with support from @magnumfoundation taken in New York City by @1world1game

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In the midst of an administration bent on making Haitians’ lives harder here, and in their home country, the solidarity and representation of Haiti during the World Cup was hard to miss. From the fashions that were created specifically for the games and the ways the Haitian flag were worn, the pride and resilience was everywhere.

Haiti Cultural Exchange in Brooklyn @haiticulturalx redesigned their space for the World Cup for viewing parties and to promote the designs of two Haitian designers, Garvenchy Nicolas and Maison Demar. (Both pictured in second slide, Nicolas L, Demar R).

While down the street MoCADA hosted World Cup viewing parties, their gallery simultaneously presented Pitch Black: Haiti and Congo.

Words and 📸 by Richard Louissaint @haitianrich

A @storylinemedia series.

We are the Public Artists in Residence for New York City’s celebration of the 2026 FIFA World. The residency is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor.

This photo essay was created with support from @magnumfoundation taken in Brooklyn, New York by @1world1game

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@septemberbk became the hub for Cape Verde World Cup games. The 40ish people that came for that first match grew to hundreds, spilling into the street for the next three. Owner Sara Lopes, and her team brought the culture, serving traditional food, and attracting Cape Verdeans from as far away as Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vancouver. She even had to buy two extra TVs to accommodate the crowds.

A friend invited me to September to watch the first game with other Cape Verdeans she had met in a group chat. You could feel the excitement as we walked in.

Owner, Sara Lopes, was born in Cabo Verde, and grew up in Brockton, MA where there is a large Cape Verdean community. She came to New York 18 years ago to escape the community bubble. “For the longest time, I was running away… Because growing up, you’re like, oh, everybody knows your parents.”

When she heard Cabo Verde qualified for the World Cup, she considered buying tickets to a
game. Until friends started to ask if she was showing matches at her cafe. “It felt like a deep responsibility, almost,” she said.

Sara hired Cape Verdean chefs to serve traditional foods such as pastels, barrigada atun, carne gizado and fresquina. Her mom, Maria, came from Massachusetts to make the cachupa, a traditional stew. And Cape Verdean DJs played after the games, making it a true cultural experience.

From running away from her roots as a teen, Sara says that she’s now running towards it.
She’s already planning cultural collaborations and a block party for August 2nd. “I’m looking forward to just really staying connected to everyone that I met, and building on the community.”

For three weeks, I, and so many other football fans, became Cape Verdean. We will all remember Cabo Verde’s contribution to this year’s FIFA World Cup and the communities that welcomed us to cheer alongside them. And now, we all know where Cabo Verde is.

Words and 📸 by @kishabari

A @storylinemedia series.

We are the Public Artists in Residence for New York City’s celebration of the 2026 FIFA World. The residency is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor.

This photo essay was created with support from @magnumfoundation taken in september by @1world1game

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I remember when I was a kid in Tehran, we spent a lot of time at family gatherings. Every weekend, we would go to my grandma Mamanjoon’s house and she’d cook a meal for us – one week Reshteh Polo, the next Persian-style Spaghetti with Tahdig. They were greasy and delicious. After lunch, we would have black tea with saffron rock candy and cream puffs in her living room, which was filled with colorful rugs, patterned velvet furniture, oil paintings, antique decoration, and framed family photos. Her ground floor apartment had a backyard with trees, flowers, and a howz.

Photographing different generations coming together to celebrate during the World Cup reminded me of my childhood in Tehran, where I spent a lot of time in my grandmother’s living room with my aunts, uncles, and cousins. It’s a feeling I thought I’d never experience again, but I’ve had glimpses of it through the Persian community in New York and got to feel it again in the gatherings and shared customs among Southwest Asian and North African communities during the World Cup.

Sometimes, the farther you go from home, the more you try to connect with people over similarities to find common ground – whether it’s Iranians cheering at a Moroccan watch party or Egyptians dancing at an Algerian gathering.

Words and 📸 by @sarakonradi

@1world1game is a @storylinemedia series.

Storyline’s collective of artists are the Public Artists in Residence for New York City’s celebration of the 2026 FIFA World. The residency is coordinated through @nyculture in partnership with @nycmayor.

This photo essay was created with additional support from @magnumfoundation

#worldcupworldtour #persiansofinstagram #astoria #documentary taken in New York City by @1world1game

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