Photography from all over the world, in pop-up form

He was the face of the horrific Boston Marathon bombings before the world even knew his name.

Jeff Bauman, bloodied and singed, his legs blown off by the first of two bombs detonated near the finish line of the 2013 race, was photographed as he was frantically wheeled away from the scene moments after the explosions. The Associated Press image, so graphic some news outlets chose to crop it, became one of the most famous photographs of the attacks, which killed three people and injured hundreds more.

Bauman, who was 27 at the time, had just been a bystander, there to cheer on his girlfriend as she ran the race when the bombs went off. It was a story that encapsulated the tragedy visited upon all the victims that day. But in many ways, it was the next beat in the tale that was the most compelling: How could someone so viciously and publicly attacked, left with the kind of grievous injuries more normally seen on battlefields, find his way back to a normal life?

Three weeks after the bombings, Josh Haner, a photojournalist with the New York Times, arrived at Bauman’s hospital in Boston to document the first steps of that journey. He quickly won the trust of Bauman, who allowed him to photograph some of the most intimate and painful moments of his path to recovery—from his physical therapy to his moments alone, lying in a hospital bed trying to grasp the enormity of what had happened to him.

Haner’s photo essay, “Beyond the Finish Line,” won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography and is among the exhibits at Photoville, a pop-up photography festival running until Sept. 28 in Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier Five in New York.

Along with Haner’s photos, the festival showcases more than 60 other exhibits from photojournalists all over the world displayed in shipping containers placed in the park temporarily. Other presentations include “Testament,” a collection of images from Chris Hondros, a Getty Images photographer who was killed while covering the uprising in Libya in 2011; and “ Bedrooms of the Fallen,” featuring photographs of the bedrooms left behind by soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan by veteran photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson.

But it's not just professionals. The photo-sharing network Instagram is also on hand with an exhibit presenting images taking my amateur photographers and those outside the photojournalism and art worlds.

The festival has also scheduled panel discussions and lectures with working photojournalists as well as more than a dozen additional exhibits displayed on “The Fence,” on display throughout the park.