The Return of New York Photo Festival, 2010 Edition

In the past few years the New York Photo Festival came out of thin air to become the top hit on the Google Search for "Photography Festival" This years programming looks really diverse and engaging with interesting topics and speakers for everyone. Also, take a look at the Main Exhibitions and the Satellite Exhibitions. I will be covering the events on this blog as will as tweeting along. If you are there please introduce yourself - I would live to meet you.

Programming during NYPH '10

Thursday, May 13

11- 11:45am	INSTITUTE Presents: New Directions in Storytelling with Elisabeth Biondi
12 - 12:45pm	Object Lesson: Richard Learoyd & Kathy Ryan
1 - 1:45pm	DutchDoc!Space: Do-It-Yourself, Part 1 - with Petra Stavast & Wytske van Keulen
2 - 2:45pm	Object Lesson: Laura Letinsky
3 - 3:45pm	Use Me, Abuse Me: Paul Kooiker
BREAK
4:30 - 5:15pm	Aperture Presents: Emerging Artist Support Systems, Part 1 (The Artist’s Perspective)
5:30 - 6:15pm	Contemporary Latin American Photography: A Curator’s Perspective
6:30 - 7:15pm	Bodies in Question: Michael Wolf
7:30 - 8:15pm	Critical Photography: Michele Thursz & Alfredo Cramerotti

8:30-10pm:

New Waves and Documentations – An evening of special screenings at St. Ann’s Warehouse, featuring:

Lou Reed presents: Hidden Books, Hidden Stories – 15″

INSTITUTE presents: Where Storytelling Lives – 30”  (Featuring new works by Academy Award nominated filmmaker James Longley, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Lauren Greenfield, Gillian Laub, Guillaume Herbaut, Jehad Nga, Zed Nelson, Lorena Ros, and Jeff Jacobson).

Purpose Magazine presents: Desire – 35”

Friday, May 14

11 - 11:45am	INSTITUTE Presents: Zed Nelson's "LOVE ME"
12 - 12:45pm	Bodies In Question: Raphael Dallaporta & Tina Enghoff
1 - 1:45pm	DutchDoc!Space: Do-It-Yourself, Part 2 - with Rob Honstra
2 - 2:45pm	Object Lesson: Yamini Nayar
3 - 3:45pm	Use Me, Abuse Me: Thomas Mailaender
BREAK
4:30 - 5:15pm	Aperture Presents: Emerging Artist Support Systems, Part 2 (Funds, Fellowships and Reviews)
5:30 - 6:15pm	Hidden Books, Hidden Stories: Alice O'Malley
6:30 - 7:15pm	Bodies In Question: Deborah Willis & Jessica Ingram

8:30-9:30pm: New York Photo Awards Ceremony at St. Ann’s Warehouse

9:30pm +: New York Photo Awards Ceremony After-Party at the powerHouse Arena

Saturday, May 15

11 - 11:45am	Power of Color in Photo Journalism: Ed Kashi
12 - 12:45pm	Aesthetic Journalism: Alfredo Cramerotti
1 - 1:45pm	DutchDoc!Space: Do-It-Yourself, Part 3 - with Willem Popelier, Daan Paans, and Boudewijn Bollmann
2 - 2:45pm	Object Lesson: Sharon Core
3 - 3:45pm	Use Me, Abuse Me: Batia Suter
BREAK
4:30 - 5:15pm	Aperture Presents: Sawdust Mountain - Eirik Johnson & Jason Houston, In Conversation
5:30 - 6:15pm	Hidden Books, Hidden Stories: Michael Macioce
6:30 - 7:15pm	Bodies in Question: Alexandre Maubert & Lim Young Kyun
7:30 - 8:15pm	Contemporary Latin American Photography: An Artist's Perspective

Introducing the New York Photo Festival’s Night of Images, featuring:

Extended Exhibition Hours (all venues 8pm – 10pm)

Outdoor projections at the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza (8pm +)

World Visions: Emerging Photographers, curated by Michelle Bogre – 40″

Human Rights and Multimedia presented by Anthropographia – 100″

Slideluck Potshow XV at the Archway under the Manhattan Bridge (7pm +)

Sunday, May 16

11 - 11:45am	INSTITUTE Presents: Jodi Bieber's SOWETO
12 - 12:45pm	Bodies in Question: Marc Garanger
1 - 1:45pm	Bodies in Question: Jo Rodriguez & Benjamin Busch
2 - 2:45pm	Object Lesson: Bill Jacobson
3 - 3:45pm	Use Me, Abuse Me: Erik Kessels
BREAK
4:30 - 5:15pm	Aperture Presents: Time Frames
5:30 - 6:15pm	Bodies in Question: Luc Courchesne

Tonight: Open Cover Before Striking Confounding Expectations Panel Discussion

This should be interesting. Especially in light of the all the technology talk I have been having - it will be interesting to here these artist's perspective.

Open Cover Before Striking
Confounding Expectations. Panel Discussion

Thursday, April 8, 2010
7:00 pm

FREE

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York

Aperture and the photography department in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School present a panel discussion with artists Roe Ethridge, Collier Schorr, and James Hoff & Miriam Katzeff of Primary Information, to discuss the pressing question: As print faces the encroachment of digital technology and the mainstreaming of online culture, what is the viability of the printed and published form of photography—monographic, serial, underground, or otherwise—as a means of artistic production? This panel discussion will be moderated by Gil Blank, artist and founding editor of Influence magazine.

Roe Ethridge received a BFA in photography at the College of Art in Atlanta. Ethridge's images emanate from his direct experience of the world. His focus is multiple and restless as he works to capture the vivid and intimate details of his various locales. In so doing, he moves freely among the classic genres of the photographic medium—portrait, landscape, and still life. Ethridge's work has recently been exhibited at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: MOCA, Los Angeles: ICA, Boston and gallery exhibitions at Barbara Gladstone, Brussels and Rathole, Tokyo. His work has been featured in Vice magazine, Blind Spot, A magazine and i-D. Recent monographs include Rockaway, NY (2008) and Farewell Horse (2009). Ethridge will be included in the exhibition "New Photography 2010" at MOMA, New York.

Collier Schorr attended the School of the Visual Arts, New York. Best known for her portraits of adolescent men and women, Schorr's pictures often blend photographic realism with elements of fiction and youthful fantasy. Schorr's work was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2003 International Center for Photography Triennial. Schorr has exhibited her work at venues such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Villa Romana; Florance, Italy, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, and Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany. Working with SteidlMack, Schorr has published the monographs Jens F., Neighbors, There I Was, and Blumen. In June 2010 Schorr's work will be the subject of a retrospective exhibition titled "German Face" at the Museu Coleccao Berardo, Lisbon Portugal in conjunction with this summer's PhotoEspana, and will travel to CoCA Kronika in Bytom, Poland for the Ars Cameralis Festival in November 2010.

Primary Information is a non-profit organization formed in 2006 by James Hoff and Miriam Katzeff with the mission to publish and distribute artists' books and artists' writings. It is the firm belief of the founders that publications are essential to contemporary and historic artistic practice as they are more accessible than the conventional museum or gallery exhibition, which can only reach a finite number of people.

Gil Blank is a photographer and a frequent writer on the social, political, and historical contexts of current photographic practices. He has served as a contributing editor of photographic criticism for Art On Paper, Issue, and Whitewall magazines, and was a founding editor of Influence, an independently published magazine devoted to contemporary image-making. His writing regularly appears in monographs, including Freischwimmer, by Wolfgang Tillmans (2005), and White Planet, Black Heart, by Torbjorn Rodland (2006), as well as in surveys such as In Numbers: Serial Artist Editions, 1955–2008 (2009) and Words Without Pictures, commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Aperture, 2010).

X INITIATIVE: BRING YOUR OWN ART (BYOA)

Yesterday the one year experiment called the X INITIATIVE ended with a marathon 24 hour art show. BRING YOUR OWN ART (BYOA) began at 11 am on February 3rd and continued, doors open until February 4th officially closing at 11 am with all work left in the building would become trash if not picked up. This process reminded me of the closing event for the Miami space The House. They lost their lease to a group of condo developers and for their closing event everyone was asked to put a piece of art up that would be destroyed with the building.

I arrived at after dinner to put up a handful of my Black Sun Project images with a mini project called "10 Suns for 2010." The space was a busy workshop with a mix of artists friends and viewers all roaming around and enjoying the spectacle. The first floor had a rotating open stage where bands and musicians could sign up for time slots. The second and third floors of the space were reserved for artwork.

I had learned of this event via Jerry Saltz and his popular Facebook page. During the evening the New York Magazine art critic roamed the floors of the gallery offering free on the spot critiques. After I walked through the two floors and installed my images I was able to talk with him. We discussed my work and the event itself. He was very approachable in person and you could tell he was enjoying the interaction and the event.

The diversity of work was amazing. It would have been very hard to curate a show like this but this event was more then sum of the work on its walls. It was a show for the ages. This crowd-sourced art / performance / Relational Aesthetic was an experiential tour-de-force.

I placed my Black Sun pictures in spaces next to work that I thought they worked well with. Take a look at the installation pictures below. Also, if your work is in any of the pictures please let me know and I will make a caption and link to your website.

Here is the aftermath of the event when I picked up my work: