2008 New York Photo Award Nominee

Harlan Erskine, “Guest Bedroom. Vero Beach, Florida” © 2007

The image above was my submission to the Student Personal work / fine art - Single category that is now a nominated work.

From the events Press Release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The New York Photo Festival is pleased to announce the Nominees for the New York Photo Awards View the Nominees at  www.newyorkphotoawards.com Friday, May 16, 2008 Awards Begin at 8pm St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn After Party Begins at 9:30pm The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn Sponsored by PhotoShelter Inc. Music by DJ Disco Wiz Drinks Courtesy of Stella Artois Tickets available at www.newyorkphotofestival.com/tickets.html The nominees for New York Photo Awards have just been announced! View the list at www.newyorkphotoawards.com The New York Photo Festival invites you to celebrate the work of the Winners and Honorable Mentions of the inaugural New York Photo Awards. The New York Photo Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, May 16 at 8pm.  Selected works of the Winners and Honorable Mentions will be presented on the big screen before a packed audience of industry luminaries. Sixteen major awards will be publicly presented to the Award Winners, and thirty-two artists will receive Honorable Mention certificates. One Award and two Honorable Mention certificates will be presented in each of the following categories: Editorial (series/single), Personal Work/ Unpublished/ Fine Art (series/single), Advertising (series/single), Books, Multimedia (photo/audio and video/audio), and in each of the Student categories: Editorial (series/single), Personal Work/ Unpublished/ Fine Art (series/single), Books, and Multimedia (photo/audio and video/audio). Each category winner will also receive a Canon PowerShot G9 Digital Camera, courtesy of Canon USA. Located in the St. Ann’s Theater, designed to accommodate 500 persons, the ceremony will feature guest speakers, a/v projections of winning works, presentation of the awards and subsequent acceptance speeches. Award Presenters include: Tim Barber (tinyvices.com and New York Photo Festival curator), Michelle Bogre (Parsons New School for Design), David Friend (Vanity Fair), photographer Lauren Greenfield, Bill Hunt (Hasted Hunt Gallery), Meagan Keane (PhotoShelter), Charlie Melcher (Melcher Media), Alison Morley  (International Center of Photography), Jules Naudet (Hachette Filipacchi), Evan Nisselson (Digital Railroad), Jody Quon (New York magazine), David Schonauer (American Photo), Mary Virginia Swanson (Marketing Consultant and Educator), Lauren Wendle (PDN), and the festival founders and co-chairmen, Frank Evers of VII Photo Agency and Daniel Power of powerHouse Books. The New York Photo Awards After Party will be located at The powerHouse Arena and will begin at 9:30pm. Classic soul tunes courtesy of the legendary DJ Disco Wiz. Drinks will be served. Admission to the Awards Ceremony and After-Party is included in the Evening Programming ticket. About the New York Photo Awards: A new international, annual competition launched during the New York Photo Festival, the New York Photo Awards, will honor talented photographers from all over the world whose exceptional work breaks new grounds visually, intellectually and aesthetically. The Awards will give those visual artists the opportunity to reach key decision makers in the photographic community and the editorial, fine art and fashion worlds. All Award Winners and Honorable Mentions will enjoy unprecedented visibility for their work. In addition to the New York Photo Awards ceremony, their work will be showcased on the New York Photo Awards and New York Photo Festival websites, and published in leading photo magazines. These artists are also automatically eligible for inclusion in a beautifully produced New York Photo Awards Annual by powerHouse Books. The Annual will be published in November 2008. Jury: The Chairwoman of the jury is Elisabeth Biondi (The New Yorker). The members of the jury are: Bill Hunt (Hasted Hunt Gallery), Jody Quon (New York magazine), Benjamin Trigano (M + B Gallery), and Charlie Melcher (Melcher Media) from the New York Photo Festival Advisory Board, photographer Lauren Greenfield, Tim Barber (of tinyvices.com, and New York Photo Festival curator), and the festival's founders and co-chairmen: Frank Evers of VII Photo Agency and Daniel Power of powerHouse Books. A separate set of jurors from the multimedia industry will judge submissions in the Multimedia category, including the Snorri Bros. (famed Sprint commercial directors), Bjarke Myrthu (Magnum In Motion), Meredith Birkett (MSNBC) and Greg Clayman (MTV), as well as Lauren Greenfield, Frank Evers, and Daniel Power. As part of PhotoShelter Inc.’s sponsorship of the event, the PhotoShelter Personal Archive will be used to store each photographer’s images, distribute galleries to jury members, support the process of filtering and the ultimate selection of winning images.  The Personal Archive is PhotoShelter’s solution that allows photographers to archive, organize, distribute and sell their images online with powerfull tools including slideshows, lightboxes, ecommerce capabilities, and website customization. DJ Disco Wiz, (born Luis Cedeño), is credited with being the first Latino DJ in Hip-Hop music. Wiz teamed up with Casanova Fly (Grandmaster Caz), to form the Mighty Force crew in the mid-70s in the Bronx. Wiz is also credited for being the first DJ to create a "mixed plate" in 1977 (hip-hop’s first mixed dub recording) when he and Caz combined sound bites, special effects and paused beats. The creator of The Hip-Hop Meets Spoken Wordz Series, a hip-hop and poetry performance series that gives a voice to up and coming Latino talent in New York City, Wiz has performed as a poet at the Apollo Theater and the landmark Nuyorican Poets Cafe. A major contributor to the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, Wiz is also a board member of the Universal Federation for the Preservation of Hip Hop Culture, chaired by Afrika Bambaataa of the Universal Zulu Nation. At present time Wiz is co-authoring his memoirs with Simon & Schuster author Ivan Sanchez. The book is titled, It’s Just Begun: The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip-Hop’s First Latino DJ.

For more information, please contact Sara Rosen, Publicity Director New York Photo Festival, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: 212-604-9074 x105, Fax: 212-366-5247 email: sara[at]nyphotofestival.com

Tonight!!! William Greiner opening at Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Loungers
Noac, 1995, Digital C-Type Print, Signed & Numbered Verso

I am exhausted, spent and still unfinished with my final projects for the School year but I have to go to this for a bit tonight. I'm looking forward to seeing the final images in printed form. So far, I have only viewed Greiner's work on his website and his blog.

FALLEN PARADISE — William Greiner
May 1 — June 27

OPENING RECEPTION: May 1, 6pm — 8pm

This is the underbelly of pre-Katrina New Orleans. Greiner presents an image of a city that was already devastated, by neglect and abandonment, long before natural disaster struck. His imaging of New Orleans' urban vernacular is perceptively pictured through a carefully constructed use of color, form and content.

William Greiner's modus operandi is the American Color Tradition — the snapshot that isn't. Here, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. The seemingly objective actuality of the city, its banality, its ordinary everyday impression, is transformed into a vista of flush saturated palettes of color. Born, raised and (until Katrina) living and working in the city, New Orleans has always been an importnt source of inspiration for Greiner's work.

Here, a decade of looking and picturing his immediate environment, is brought together and displayed for the first time. Fallen Paradise is a celebration of apparent incidental imagery that is, of course, abound in formal devices — frame, vantage point, shape and line. Although there exists an autobiographical subtext, Greiner is most successful in compelling us to also look, not just at his city, but at the photograph itself. Whilst the importance of his subject does not disappear, these images function as photographic artifact — at once, they are observation and cultural object.

William Geiner lives and works in Baton Roughe, Louisiana.

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

111 Front Street, Suite 206
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Miami Basel to Brooklyn and then straight into finals...

I have been meaning to write about Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 here since I got back on Monday but I have been neck deep in finals so that will have to wait until Wednesday. I will however post a interesting interview I just happened upon (see above).