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13/5/2008

New York Photo Festival

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The First International Photography Festival in USA. The curators Martin Parr, Kathy Ryan, Lesley A. Martin, and Tim Barber present their personal visions of the future of contemporary photography at the Festival's main pavilions. The 2008 Satellite Shows presents new and never before exhibited work in one of the festival's DUMBO spaces. In addition an extensive range of activities: seminars, portfolio reviews, workshops, live performances, and a gallery row.


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New York Photo Festival Curators Martin Parr, Kathy Ryan, Lesley A. Martin, and Tim Barber present their personal visions of the future of contemporary photography at the Festival's main pavilions.

Artists: Claudia Angelmaier | Roger Ballen | Marco Breuer | Michel Campeau | Julian Faulhaber | Andreas Gefeller | Stephen Gill | Curtis Mann | Simon Norfolk | Horacio Salinas | Joachim Schmid | Hank Willis Thomas | Donovan Wylie | Ananké Asseff | Jan Banning | Robert Bowen | Natalie Czech | Raphaël Dallaporta | Harrell Fletcher's | Jan Kempenaers | Alejandra Laviad | Jeffrey Milstein | Sarah Pickering | Lars Tunbjörk | Penelope Umbrico | Katherine Wolkoff

The 2008 New York Photo Festival will feature the future of contemporary photography with curated pavilions, satellite shows, a dynamic events calendar, and the New York Photo Awards.

Founded by Daniel Power and Frank Evers, and a joint initiative of powerHouse Books and VII Photo Agency, the New York Photo Festival will be the first international-level Festival of photography to be based in the U.S., with the ambition of documenting the future of photography in all its forms. For the inaugural edition (May 14-18, 2008) of this new annual event, a group of internationally respected curators have been selected to deliver their personal vision of the newest and most important trends in contemporary photography: Magnum photographer Martin Parr, The New York Times Magazine picture editor Kathy Ryan, Lesley A. Martin of the Aperture Foundation, and Tim Barber of tinyvices.com. In addition to the curated pavilions, the Festival will offer visitors an extensive range of activities that will generate dialogue and buzz among all the communities of photo professionals, amateurs, students, and aficionados of art and culture: seminars, portfolio reviews, slide shows, book signings, photographic workshops, live performances and events, and a gallery row. The New York Photo Festival will be headquartered in DUMBO.

“The NYPH08 curators were selected for their decisive and innovative approaches to curating, editing, sequencing, and showcasing the varied work of the medium in ways that continually surprise and inspire those of us in the photography industry and the creative cultural public at large,” say New York Photo Festival Founders and Co-chairmen, Frank Evers and Daniel Power.


Images from New Typologies, Curated by Martin Parr

Magnum Photographer Martin Parr’s exhibit, New Typologies, highlights the use of the photographic series as an attempt to bring order to the chaos around us. The show features the work of WassinkLundgren, Donovan Wylie, Jeffrey Milstein, Jan Banning, Sarah Pickering, Ananké Asseff, Michel Campeau, and Jan Kempenaers.
Martin Parr was born in Epson, Surrey, in 1952 and studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic. Parr was the featured curator of the 2004 edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles. His monograph Martin Parr was published in 2002, accompanying a large retrospective of his work initiated by the Barbican Art Gallery in London. It has since been shown in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. Parr is also assembling an exhibition, “Parrworld,” curated by Thomas Weski for the Haus der Kunst in Munich, also opening in May 2008. This will show new work from Parr and his substantial print, objects, and photography book collections.


Images from Chisel, Curated by Kathy Ryan

Kathy Ryan, picture editor of The New York Times Magazine, looks at sculptural and painterly qualities of recent photography in Chisel. The exhibit includes new works by Roger Ballen, Horacio Salinas, Stephen Gill, Katherine Wolkoff, Simon Norfolk, Raphaël Dallaporta, Julian Faulhaber, Lars Tunbjörk, Alejandra Laviada, and Andreas Gefeller.
Kathy Ryan received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Griffin Museum, as well as the first annual Lucie Award for Picture Editor of the Year at the International Photography Awards in Los Angeles. In 1997 she was named Canon Picture Editor of the Year at the Visa Pour L'Image Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan, France. Ryan has been a judge in a number of photography competitions and has chaired the American Photography Annual Jury. The New York Times Magazine has won awards from the Art Directors Club and the Society of Publication Designers and has reached first place in the Best Use of Photography category of the Pictures of the Year International competition. A member of the Board of Advisors of the Look3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, VA, Ryan is also an MFA Thesis Advisor at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and is an Editorial Advisor for Foam magazine, Amsterdam.


Images from The Ubiquitous Image, Curated by Lesley A. Martin

Lesley A. Martin, book publisher at the Aperture Foundation, reflects on the replication and reproduction of the photographic image in The Ubiquitous Image, focusing on how contemporary artists are using the seemingly limitless cache of disseminated images to create their own work. Artists include Joachim Schmid, Claudia Angelmaier, Marco Breuer, Penelope Umbrico, Harrell Fletcher, Natalie Czech, Curtis Mann, Hank Willis Thomas, Robert Bowen, Peter Piller, and Useful Photography.
Lesley A. Martin is the publisher of the book program at the Aperture Foundation. She has edited over fifty photography publications, including: Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer; An-My Lê: Small Wars; Fandomania by Elena Dorfman; Shuffle by Christian Marclay; Paris – New York – Shanghai by Hans Eijkelboom, and Richard Misrach: On the Beach. Martin is also the coauthor of two volumes on design, Graphicscape: Tokyo and Graphicscape: New York; and a contributing author and editor of Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys.


Image from Various Photographs, Curated by Tim Barber

Tim Barber—photographer, curator, publisher, and former photo editor for Vice magazine—brings together over 300 images in Various Photographs. The exhibit showcases a wide spectrum of works from well established to unknown photographers.
Originally from Amherst, Massachusetts, Barber studied photography in Vancouver, BC, before relocating to New York City. He currently runs the online gallery tinyvices.com, which has featured the work of hundreds of artists including Ryan McGinley, Richard Kern, Peter Sutherland, and Boogie. Its corresponding gallery installation, tinyvices, has toured all over the world, from Proyectos Monclova in Mexico City to colette in Paris, and continues to be an innovative showcase for new work.


2008 Satellite Shows

The New York Photo Festival is pleased to announce the 2008 Satellite Shows. Each show will present new and never before exhibited work in one of the festival’s DUMBO spaces.

Satellite Shows will be presented by (among others):

Archive of Modern Conflict
Archive of Modern Conflict is based in London, UK. It began in the 1990s as a collection of photographs documenting ordinary people’s experience of war but quickly expanded to take in other fields. Now it holds close to two million images encompassing many areas including nineteenth century photography, family snap albums, engineering record photography, early colour photography as well as the work of contemporary photographers. The pictures, albums and individual images come from all over the world–brought in, found in auctions, on the Internet, in markets, or from photo dealers. For their New York Photo Festival exhibition, the Archive of Modern Conflict will showcase recently acquired work by three emerging Chinese photographers: Fang Er whose work is a reaction to Beijing under construction, Lu Zhongguang who shows photographs of Red Army youth, and Liu Yiqing who portrays the new youth of Shanghai. Logistical support in the production of this exhibition has been provided by Thomas Sauvin.

Getty Images
Getty Images creates and distributes the world's best and broadest imagery collections, making them available in the most accessible and usable way -- 24 hours a day, every day. From contemporary creative imagery to news, sports, entertainment and archival imagery, our products are found each day in the full range of traditional and digital media worldwide.

Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein founded Getty Images in 1995 with the goal of turning a disjointed and fragmented stock photography market into a thriving, modernized industry able to meet the changing needs of visual communicators. Getty was the first company to license imagery via the web, moving the entire industry online.

Today, gettyimages.com serves an average of 3.2 billion thumbnails, 7.3 million visits and 4 million unique users in addition to an average of 175 million page views each month. Nearly 100 percent of the company’s visual content is delivered digitally.
The company frequently receives industry recognition for both its photography and its business accomplishments. In 2005, American Photo Magazine acknowledged the company’s commitment to the photography industry, naming Getty Images’ co-founders Jonathan Klein and Mark Getty as number one of “The 100 Most Important People in Photography."

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Photography will present six emerging artists who investigate the quirky, random, sometimes mundane aspects of their lives to create work which is simultaneously diaristic and universal. Organized by MoCP curators Natasha Egan and Karen Irvine, the exhibition includes work by Melissa Catanese, Jonathan Gitelson, Nate Larson, Jason Lazarus Ed Panar, and Stacia Yeapanis.

Founded by Columbia College Chicago in 1984 as the successor to the 1976 Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, the museum collaborates with artists, photographers, communities, and institutions locally, nationally, and internationally. As the leading photography museum in the Midwest, presenting projects and exhibitions and acquiring works that embrace a wide range of contemporary aesthetics and technologies, the museum offers students, educators, research specialists, and general audiences an intimate and comprehensive visual study center.

The Museum is committed to broadening the visual arts by constantly searching for new national and international talent to exhibit rather than simply following suit established by larger institutions. To this end, the museum’s programming guides the public to a greater understanding of thought-provoking contemporary photography as well as an appreciation for traditional work that has not yet received critical acclaim.

The Tierney Fellowship
The Tierney Fellowship was created in 2003 by The Tierney Family Foundation to support emerging artists in the field of photography. The primary goal of the Fellowship is to find tomorrow’s distinguished artists and leaders in the world of photography and assist them in overcoming the challenges that a photographer faces at the beginning of his or her career. The aim of the Fellowship is twofold: encouraging recipients to produce a new body of work and creating a global community of artists that will function as a crucial support network in an increasingly competitive field. The Fellowship supports the recipients both financially, by way of a cash grant, and technically, with mentorship and guidance from seasoned experts. At the end of the one-year grant period, recipients are expected to present a new body of work. Fellows remain an important part of the Program after the conclusion of their Fellowship. Seminars and critiques are held throughout the year to facilitate interaction between all current and past recipients, encouraging discussion of their photography, work experience and lives as artists.

VII Photo
VII is one of the most significant photo agencies at work today. The original members of VII are Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, and John Stanmeyer, and they were later joined by Lauren Greenfield (2002), Joachim Ladefoged (2005), and most recently Marcus Bleasdale and Franco Pagetti (2007). "VII @ DUMBO by HASTED HUNT" will be a 6 screen multi-media installation presenting the most exciting and provocative images from the past 18 months. Themes like War, Peace, Famine, Health, Poverty and Social Injustice from throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas will be rotated through in an ever-shifting order with long form photo essays and portfolios by the individual artists. The show will also include work by the VII Network photographers, a new division of VII with Eric Bouvet, Jessica Dimmock, Tividar Domaniczky, Balazs Gardi, Benjamin Lowy, Stephanie Sinclair and Donald Weber.

Image: Photograph © Jan Kempenaers

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