2008 Events Calendar

May 14th, 2008 8pm Opening Festivities at The powerHouse Arena
Festival Ticket with evening programming pass required,
NOTE = Access is subject to maximum capacity limitations of 600.

Sneak Peak May 14th, 2008 8pm - 9pm only
Festival Ticket with evening programming pass required,

Festival Exhibition hours, 10am to 7pm, Thursday May 15th - Sunday May 18th, 2008.
All events at St. Anne's Warehouse unless otherwise noted (view map).

Note, we are pleased to announce the participation of the Aperture Foundation as our featured programming partner (view here).

	Thursday, May 15th	Friday, May 16th	Saturday,May 17th	Sunday, May 18th
Daytime Progamming
11-12PM	Featured artist talk, Roger Ballen	Featured artist talk, Harell Fletcher	AIPAD Collectors Panel	NYPH Press Announcement
12-1PM	Break	Break	Break	Break
1-1:45PM	Featured artist talk, Ananké Asseff	Featured artist talk, Jeffrey Milstein	Featured artist talk, Wassink Lundgren	Future of Photography panel featuring Marloes Krijnen, Kathy Ryan & Romain Lacroix
2-2:45PM	Featured artist talk, Jan Banning	Featured artist talk, Donovan Wylie	Featured artist talk, Julian Faulhaber	Featured artist talk, Penelope Umbrico
3-3:45PM	Featured artist talk, Jan Kampenaers	Featured artist talk, Stephen Gill	Featured artist talk, Simon Norfolk	Featured artist talk, Joachim Schmid
4-4:45PM	Featured artist talk, Michel Campeau	Featured artist talk, Katherine Wolkoff	Featured artist talk, Robert Bowen	Featured artist talk, Curtis Mann
5-6PM	Aperture Presents: In Conversation: Martin Parr & Erik Kessels	Aperture Presents: Curating 2.0, a panel featuring Tim Barber, Jen Bekman & Laurel Ptak	Aperture Presents: The Secret Life of Images featuring Lesley Martin, Joachim Schmid & Penelope Umbrico	Aperture Presents: Picturing Iraq featuring Nina Berman, Vicki Goldberg & Claire Beckett
6:15-7PM	Featured artist talk, Sarah Pickering	Featured artist talk, Alejandra Laviada	Featured artist talk, Natalie Czech	Featured artist talk, Raphael Dallaporta
	Thursday, May 15th	Friday, May 16th	Saturday,May 17th	Sunday, May 18th
Evening Programming
7:15-8PM			Rum-bamba *	End of Festival – Exhibitions close
8PM	Book Soup: Photographer and the Book	New York Photo Awards Ceremony	PHOTO/FILM Photographers moving into film. Short films by: Rineke Dijkstra's "Annemeik" (4 minutes) Lauren Greenfield's "kids + money" (32 minutes) Roger Ballen's "Momento Mori" (14 minutes) Carter Smith's "Bug Crush" (37 minutes) Danny Roew's "Dog Lovers" (5 minutes)
9PM+	PowerHouse  Arena Book signing and shindig	New York Photo Awards After - Party

*7-10pm, May 17, Rum-bamba, RUMS OF PUERTO RICO salutes the New York Photo Festival Reception at 81 Front Street

Other events

New York VII Seminar (a three-day photojournalism seminar)

VII Seminar Dumbo
May 16th - 18th from 8am to 1pm each day
Klitgord Auditorium
New York City Technical College
285 Jay Street (in downtown Brooklyn - Jay Street Station on the F train)

Friday, May 16th, 2008
9am - Ron Haviv, VII Photographer presentation
10:30am - Antonin Kratochvil, VII Photographer presentation
11:30am - Franco Pagetti, VII Photographer presentation
12:30am - Donald Weber, VII Network Photographer presentation
1:00pm - Balazs Gardi, VII Network Photographer presentation

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
8am - Christopher Morris, VII Photographer presentation
11am - Eric Bouvet, VII Network Photographer presentation
11:30am - Simon Norfolk, Special Guest Appearance
12:30pm - Lauren Greenfield, VII Photographer presentation

Sunday, May 18th, 2008
8am - Joachim Ladefoged, VII Photographer presentation
9am - John Stanmeyer, VII Photographer presentation
10:30am - Ben Lowy, VII Network photographer presentation
11am - Stephanie Sinclair, VII Network photographer presentation
11:30am - Marcus Bleasdale, VII Photographer presentation
12:30am - James Nachtwey, VII Photographer presentation

Book Soup
A Photography Panel Discussion and Book Signing Event

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Panel Discussion: 8–9pm
St Ann’s Warehouse
38 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Book Signing: 9–10pm
The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

To kick off the evening programming for the New York Photo Festival, co-founder Daniel Power, CEO of powerHouse Books, will lead a panel discussion with five of powerHouse Books’ most acclaimed authors to discussing the future of photography book publishing. Featured authors joining Power for the 8pm conversation at St. Ann’s Warehouse include:

Harry Benson, author of R.F.K.: A Photographer’s Journal, discussing the future of photography and classic canons.
Leora Kahn, author of the Lucie Award-winning collection Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan and the forthcoming fall 2008 release Child Soldiers, discussing the power of photojournalism to affect sentiment;
Joseph Rodriguez, author of East Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A., Juvenile, Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico, and the upcoming fall 2008 release Still Here: Stories After Katrina, speaking on the power of documentary photography to change attitudes;
Slava Mogutin, author of Lost Boys and NYC Go-Go, revealing how improvised situations can document an imaginary reality;
Brian Finke, author of Flight Attendants, discussing how improvised situations can document a reality;
Jamel Shabazz, author of Back in the Days, Seconds of My Life, A Time Before Crack, and The Last Sunday in June, speaking on how street photography can document a time and place.

Following the panel discussion, there will be a book signing extravaganza at The powerHouse Arena at 9pm with authors including:

Lili Almog, Roger Ballen, Juliana Beasley, Harry Benson, Kevin Bubriski, Julia Calfee, Vivian Cherry, Livia Corona, Valdir Cruz, Lalla Essaydi, Larry Fink, Brian Finke, Ron Galella, Stephen Gill, Arlene Gottfried, Christopher Griffith, John Gruen, Alice Harris, David Alan Harvey, Henry Horenstein, Ellen Jong, Leora Kahn, Seth Kushner & Anthony LaSala, Christopher LaMarca, WassinkLundgren, Jeff Mermelstein, Slava Mogutin, Rachel Papo, Martin Parr, Nigel Parry, Mark Peterson, Thomas Roma, Steve Schapiro, Joachim Schmid, Jamel Shabazz, The Snorri Bros., Michael Spano, Peter Sutherland, Linda Troeller, Victor Vazquez, Veronique Vial, Nathaniel Welch, and David Yellen.