If you are in the New York City Area come down to our gallery to view our exhibit GROUND ZERO. We are located in the heart of New York City's East Village on 420 East 9th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A. For more information you can call us at 212-420-1263 or contact us via email at JBolivarArellano@aol.com. We are open Tuesday through Sunday from 2pm to 8pm, closed on Mondays. Admission is a suggested donation of $2.00.

If you can't make it down, to the left are some images of the gallery on random rotation to give you a sense of the volume of images that are presently on display. 







Among the thousands of people that have come to visit our gallery, none made as much of a presence as the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson.  Above right she is pictured with the gallery's curator and director, Bolivar Arellano.  Below you can see her pictured with some of the photographers whose work is presently on display in our exhibition.

Sarah Ferguson, or as she is more well known, "Fergie" founded two children's charities, Children in Crisis and Chances for Children.  Children in Crisis is based in London and Chances for Children is based in New York. Both organizations raise money with the intent to give it away to qualified aid workers who help children who are in urgent need. Sadly her Chances for Children offices had been based on the 101st floor of Tower One at the World Trade Center in New York City, which of course was destroyed on September 11. Her staff had not arrived to work when the tragedy occurred that day so they were safe but so many of their friends in the surrounding offices at the company Cantor Fitzgerald (which gave them their office space for free) died. They've since moved into new offices in Manhattan and in the memory of all who were killed on 9-11 we remain very committed to carrying on the charity's work in the US.

Little Red, the rag doll Sarah Ferguson designed years ago for the logo for Chances for Children was found in the ruins at Ground Zero. She donated it to the Bolivar Arellano Gallery to be included in the Ground Zero exhibition.

The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. has bought more than 100 photographs from Bolivar Arellano’s gallery in New York City.

The exhibition on September 11 images originally featured work by 11 newspaper photographers from the New York area when it opened in November last year. The contributors were the New York Post’s Bolivar Arellano, Juan Gonzalez, Mary Altaffer, Tamara Beckwith, G.N. Miller and Steven Hirsch; Todd Maisel, Susan Watts and Michael Schwartz from the Daily News; Robert Mecea from Newsday; and Jose Rivera from El Diario. In the next few months, seven more have joined: Jim Alcorn, Tony Fiorannelli, Brigitte Stelzer, Robert Miller and Don Halasy from the Post, William Lopez from The New York Times, and Willie Cirone, a firefighter and photographer for the First Responder newspaper. The images run from the moving to the gory: from firefighters who died that day to jumpers and even body parts.

The Library of Congress will place the prints in its archives and give $12,000 to charities such as the Emergency Medical Service Command Memorial Foundation, the New York Police and Fire Widows and Children’s Benefit Fund and the Father Mychal Judge Fund. In a letter to Arellano, Carol Johnson, the curator of photography at the Library of Congress, said that the exhibition was "outstanding, if not the best in the city."


Every day we get visitors from all walks of life. One of them one evening was from New Jersey native Janeane Garofolo, who's best known for her stand-up comedy and independent films. Here she is pictured on the right looking intently at the exhibit.