THE NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL 2010

THE NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL 2010
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Event-Organizer:
The New York Photo Festival (NYPH)
Event-Headline:
THE NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL 2010
Event-Start-Date:
Wed, 2010-05-12
Event-End-Date:
Sun, 2010-05-16
Event-Description:
THE NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL 2010
TO TAKE PLACE MAY 12‹16

Curated by Vince Aletti, Erik Kessels, Fred Ritchin and
Lou Reed

Three Years In, Organizers Have Succeeded AT Creating
the U.S.¹s First International-Level Photography Festival

The New York Photo Festival (NYPH) grew out of a simple and stark conundrum:
New York City, the world¹s capital of photography, had no major photography
festival. In fact, there was no American counterpart to the prestigious
festivals of Europe. To fill the void, Daniel Power of powerHouse Books and
Frank Evers, then the managing director of VII Photo Agency‹both based in
the creative hotbed of DUMBO, Brooklyn‹founded the New York Photo Festival
in 2008. After debuting to international acclaim, the festival grew in 2009,
in spite of the recession. The increasing success, especially given the
circumstances, has affirmed the vital demand for the New York Photo
Festival, as well as its staying power. The third annual festival will take
place May 12‹16, 2010 with expanded programming, more locations across the
city, and extended hours.

To help create NYPH¹10, Power, Evers, and Festival Director Sam Barzilay
have selected four world-class curators to bring their personal visions of
the most provocative and intriguing developments in contemporary photography
to the event¹s main pavilions: Vince Aletti, Erik Kessels, Fred Ritchin, and
Lou Reed. The curators¹ exhibitions will be announced soon.

The New York Photo Festival has become not only an essential destination for
photo professionals, amateurs and students from around the world, but also a
favorite event of art and culture aficionados. The programming includes
exhibitions, panel discussions, artists¹ stage presentations, slideshows and
accompanied projections, in addition to seminars and workshops.

As before, the main festival sites will be in the Brooklyn waterfront
community of DUMBO. However, this year, for the first time, events and
pre-festival activities will also take place in other parts of the city. The
festival organizers will offer free public admission to select exhibitions
in the main pavilions and reduced ticket prices for events. Exhibitions will
be open daily from 12:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M.

As they have throughout the New York Photo Festival¹s first years, Two Trees
Management is once again acting as a major sponsor of the initiative,
providing sites and funding for festival programming.

About the NYPH¹10 Curators

Vince Aletti reviews photography exhibitions for The New Yorker's Goings On
About Town section and writes a regular column about photo books for
Photograph. He is the winner of the 2005 Infinity Award in writing from the
International Center of Photography, where he is currently an adjunct
curator. Aletti co-curated "Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now" with
Carol Squiers and is the curator of "This Is Not a Fashion Photograph," both
at ICP; he and Squiers worked together on ³Richard Avedon Fashion,² the
museum's summer 2009 exhibition, as well as on the catalog published by
Abrams.

Male, a book of photographs and other artwork from Aletti¹s personal
collection, was published by PPP Editions at the end of 2008. The Disco
Files 1973-78: New York¹s Underground, Week by Week, a compilation of record
reviews and club scene roundups by Aletti, was released by DJHistory.com in
2009.

Erik Kessels is a photography curator, writer, and picture anthropologist,
and a founding partner and creative director of KesselsKramer, an
independent, international communications agency located in Amsterdam. He
has curated exhibitions such as ³Loving Your Pictures² at the Centraal
Museum Utrecht, The Netherlands and at Les Rencontres d¹Arles Photographie,
France, and has published several books of his images‹including the In
Almost Every Picture series. Since 2000, he has been one of the editors of
the alternative photography magazine Useful Photography.

Kessels is an editorial contributor for both BON International and Identity
Matters, and he has lectured at the D&AD President¹s Lecture and at several
international design conferences in Singapore, Goa, Toronto, and Bangkok. He
has taught communication at Hallo© in Amsterdam and photography at the
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also in Amsterdam. In 2008 he was an artist in
residence for the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, where he curated a
celebration of amateurism. For the opening of the world¹s first graphic
design museum, in Breda, Erik organized an exhibition entitled ³The European
Championship of Graphic Design.² For the DVD art project Loud & Clear he
worked with artists such as Marlene Dumas and Candice Breitz. Kessels has
made commercial work for national and international clients such as Nike,
Diesel, J&B Whisky, Oxfam International, Ben Mobile, and the Hans Brinker
Budget Hotel, and has won an Effie, and the Cannes Press Lion (silver) for
Ad Agency of the Year and Ad Director of the Year.

Fred Ritchin is professor of Photography & Imaging at New York University¹s
Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of After Photography (W. W.
Norton, 2009) and In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography
(Aperture, 1990), and has co-authored books such as An Uncertain Grace: The
Photographs of Sebastião Salgado (Aperture, 1990), In Our Time: The World As
Seen by Magnum Photographers (W. W. Norton, 1989), and Mexico Through
Foreign Eyes: Photographs, 1850 1990 (W. W. Norton, 1993). His essays have
appeared in many other books, including Picture Imperfect by Kent Klich and
Under Fire: Great Photographers and Writers in Vietnam by Catherine Leroy.
Currently he is working on a new book, Outside the Frame, concerning
contemporary imagery and social change.

Ritchin is also director of PixelPress, an organization that has created
websites, books, and exhibitions that promote human rights and documentary
experimentation. He is the former picture editor of The New York Times
Magazine and Horizon magazine, former executive editor of Camera Arts
magazine, and the founding director of the Photojournalism and Documentary
Photography fulltime educational program at the International Center of
Photography. Ritchin was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in public service
by The New York Times for the 1996 website, ³Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to
Peace,² which he co-created with photographer Gilles Peress. He also created
the first multimedia version of the daily New York Times in 1994. Ritchin
lectures and conducts workshops internationally on new and documentary
media.

Lou Reed is a playwright, poet, musician, and photographer whose photographs
have been exhibited worldwide. His third photography book, Romanticism, will
be released later this year on Edition 7L. He was named a Chevalier de
l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and is the
recipient of numerous other awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 1996 and is a founding member of the legendary band, the
Velvet Underground.

Reed released his first suite of electronic meditation music, Hudson River
Wind Meditations, on the Sounds True label in 2007. In late 2008 Reed
released a new album of live electronic music called Lou Reed's Metal
Machine Trio: The Creation of The Universe, which inspired two
extraordinarily well-received performances by the MM3 in New York, in April
of 2009. In December of 2006, Lou Reed premiered the live staging of his
masterwork Berlin at St. Ann¹s Warehouse in DUMBO, Brooklyn; the performance
was filmed by Academy Award-nominated director and artist Julian Schnabel.
Currently Reed is working on several projects including a collaboration with
artist Lorenzo Mattiotti on a graphic novel based on his album, The Raven; a
book of essays on Chen Tai Chi called The Art of the Straight Line, which is
slated for release in 2009; and continues to co-host a weekly radio show
with producer Hal Willner called The New York Shuffle.

About the New York Photo Festival

Designed to be an American counterpart and thematic successor to the
prestigious European photo festivals Les Rencontres d¹Arles, PHotoEspaña,
and Visa pour l¹Image, the New York Photo Festival creates an international
atmosphere of inspiring visual installations, professional and aficionado
fellowship and camaraderie, and news-worthy staged presentations, awards
ceremonies, and symposia over the course of four-and-a-half days during the
busiest photography month in New York City.

The festival was founded by Daniel Power and Frank Evers. The inaugural NYPH
(May 14 18, 2008) proved an astounding success, with over 15,000 tickets
sold, 2,500 industry professionals and artists, 1,000 members of the
international press, packed seating for all day and evening programming
events at St. Ann¹s Warehouse (450 capacity), 20 countries represented in
curated and satellite pavilions, 85,000 clicked site visits, 47,000 blog
posts, 2.5 million unique visits to www.nyphotofestival.com, 49 media
partners, and over 3,000 submissions from 87 countries for the New York
Photo Awards (www.newyorkphotoawards.com)
The New York Photo Festival 2009 (May 13-17, 2009) was bigger in all
respects.

The New York Photo Festival is headquartered in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.
Press Contact: Blake Zidell at Blake Zidell & Associates,
718.643.9052 or blake@blakezidell.com.

Event-Contact:
www.newyorkphotoawards.com