New YOrk, NY - March 19th
NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL 2008
The First International Photography Festival in the United States
http://www.nyphotofestival.com/
Photography, one of the most important visual media of our lives, has been surprisingly uncelebrated, particularly in the United States. New York City, home to the most influential commercial and fine art photography community, has lacked—until now—a large-scale event dedicated to photography.
PowerHouse Books and VII Photo Agency have joined forces to launch the new, annual New York Photo Festival, the first international-level festival of photography to be based in the U.S.
The inaugural New York Photo Festival (May 14–May 18, 2008) promises to deliver a dynamic, high-quality event in what is arguably the photographic capital of the world. The festival will celebrate both contemporary photography and the creative, inspirational talents of the people who produce this work.
The New York Photo Festival will be headquartered in DUMBO, an off-the-beaten-track, but easily accessible neighborhood on the Brooklyn waterfront between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.
World-Renowned Curators
The goal of the New York Photo Festival is to document the future of photography in all its forms. Our group of internationally-respected curators will deliver their personal vision of the newest and most important trends in contemporary photography, each exhibited in their own pavilion and promising to draw the attention of the entire photographic community.
Curators include 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.
Four Days Celebrating Contemporary Photography
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, slide shows, book signings, photographic workshops, live performances and events, and a gallery row. The festival will also be documented online in a regularly updated virtual environment.
Our Growing Support
The New York Photo Festival has already received support from major institutions and individuals in the U.S. and abroad: museums and galleries, photo agencies, the media, scholars, and more (for references, please refer to our list of advisory board members on page 4). The scope of our support demonstrates the expectations of the festival and the high standards on which it has been built thus far.
Over 100,000 Visitors Expected
With its unique scope and focus, the festival will appeal to all people involved in image-making and collecting: professional photographers and artists, arts editors, scholars, curators, collectors, as well as everyone with an appreciation for what is undoubtedly the most popular fine arts medium. The four primary international photography festivals in Europe and Canada each draw between 100,000 and 1,000,000 people per year. Our ambition is to attract a comparable audience to the inaugural festival in 2008, and to increase substantially in subsequent years as the scope and real estate available for the festival grows.
Founders
Frank Evers is the Managing Director of the VII Photo Agency. Prior to joining VII, he spent 10 years in the video game world running game production studios. His games have generated over $1 billion in sales. He started in the movie business as a Management Associate for Sony Pictures Entertainment, and later produced the cult classic film Swimming with Sharks. Evers is married to the photographer Lauren Greenfield, with whom he has partnered on her work since they both graduated from Harvard in 1987. They have two sons, Noah and Gabriel, and are based in Venice, CA.
VII Photo was named the third most important entity in photography by American Photo (April 2005). It is considered one of the most prestigious photo agencies, and its members are among the best photojournalists in the world. Formed as a photographic collective just a few days before the tragedy of 9/11, VII has since documented a world in turmoil, and has provided images for most of the world’s leading magazines. The creation of the New York Photo Festival is the newest addition to VII’s public education programming, which includes seminars, workshops, and lectures.
For more information, please visit www.viiphoto.com
Daniel Power is the Founder and Publisher of the 2007 Lucie Award-winning publishing company powerHouse Books. He has done sales and marketing work for Aperture, Artforum , and Parkett . He co-founded Distributed Art Publishers in 1990 and started powerHouse Books in 1995. Power launched the powerHouse Gallery in 2003, and in 2006 he moved the gallery, bookstore, and publishing company into a large, two-story space in DUMBO, now the powerHouse Arena. Since its founding, powerHouse Books has published and distributed more than 500 photographic and illustrated books. powerHouse Books also incorporates an artists' agency and publishes a magazine.
powerHouse Books —the world-renowned publisher of cutting-edge and classic art, photography, advertising, and pop culture books—is housed in the powerHouse Arena in DUMBO, a 10,200 square-foot laboratory of creative thought offering a gallery, boutique, performance space, and community center. powerHouse Books was selected as one of the 50 most important people and places of the next decade by Wallpaper* magazine.
For more information, please visit www.powerHouseBooks.com
Advisory Board
Special Advisor?
François Hébel - Les Rencontres d’Arles Media
Vince Alletti -The New Yorker?
Tim Barber – tinyvices.com
Simon Barnett - Newsweek ?
Elisabeth Biondi - The New Yorker?
David Friend - Vanity Fair?
Vicki Goldberg - The New York Times?
MaryAnne Golon - Time?
Eliane Laffont - Hachette Filipacchi?
Nadja Masri - GEO?
Michele McNally - The New York Times ?
Jean-Jacques Naudet - Hachette Filipacchi
Jody Quon - New York Magazine?
Kathy Ryan - The New York Times Magazine ?
David Schonauer - American Photo?
Lauren Wendle - Photo District News Museums & Galleries
Tony Bannon - George Eastman House?
Kim Bourus - Higher Pictures?
Sarah Hasted - Hasted Hunt Gallery?
Bill Hunt - Hasted Hunt Gallery?
Robert Klein – AIPAD
Paul Kopeikin - Paul Kopeikin Gallery
Joseph Kraeutler - Phillips de Pury & Co.
Marloes Krijnen - FOAM
Peter MacGill - Pace/MacGill?
Lesley A. Martin - Aperture?
Alison Morley - International Center of Photography?
Alison Nordstrom - George Eastman House
Benjamin Trigano - M+B Gallery?
Brian Wallis - International Center of Photography? | Scholars
Michelle Bogre - Parsons New School for Design?
Stephen Frailey - The School of Visual Arts?
Dennis Keeley - Art Center College of Design,
Pasadena
Fred Ritchin - Tisch School of the Arts,
New York University
Thomas Roma - Department of Photography,
Columbia University School of the Arts Photo Agencies
Geoff Katz - Creative Photographers, Inc.
Gary Knight - VII Photo Agency?
Maureen Martel - Stockland Martel?
Stephen Mayes - Image Source?
Evan Nisselson - Digital Railroad?
Martin Parr - Magnum Photos?
Marcel Saba - Redux Pictures?
Aidan Sullivan - Getty Images?
Bill Stockland - Stockland Martel? Other Institutions & Individuals
Gerry Badger?
Nathan Benn?
Simone Ellis - SweeneyVesty?
Marvin Heiferman?
Hossein Farmani - The Lucie Awards
Peter C. Jones - Breitenbach Foundation
Charles Melcher - Melcher Media?
Tucker Reed - Dumbo Improvement District?
Michele Stephenson?
Mary Virginia Swanson
Michael M. Thomas?
Chad Thompson - Communa-k inc.?
David and Jane Walentas
Jed Walentas - Two Trees Management |
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