Main Exhibition

Exhibition hours, 10am to 7pm, May 15-18.
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 Martin Parr, Kathy Ryan, Lesley A. Martin, and Tim Barber each bring their personal vision of the newest and most important trends in contemporary photography to the main pavilions of the New York Photo Festival. “The NYPH08 curators were selected for their decisive and innovative approaches to curating, editing, sequencing, and showcasing the varied work of the medium in ways that continually surprise and inspire those of us in the photography industry and the creative cultural public at large,” say New York Photo Festival Founders and Co-chairmen, Frank Evers and Daniel Power.

Images from New Typologies, Curated by Martin Parr
Location: Smack Mellon & Dumbo Arts Center.

Magnum Photographer Martin Parr’s exhibit, New Typologies, highlights the use of the photographic series as an attempt to bring order to the chaos around us. The show features the work of WassinkLundgren, Donovan Wylie, Jeffrey Milstein, Jan Banning, Sarah Pickering, Ananké Asseff, Michel Campeau, and Jan Kempenaers.

Photograph © Jan Kempenaers	Photograph © WassinkLundgren

Martin Parr was born in Epson, Surrey, in 1952 and studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic. Parr was the featured curator of the 2004 edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles. His monograph Martin Parr was published in 2002, accompanying a large retrospective of his work initiated by the Barbican Art Gallery in London. It has since been shown in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. Parr is also assembling an exhibition, “Parrworld,” curated by Thomas Weski for the Haus der Kunst in Munich, also opening in May 2008. This will show new work from Parr and his substantial print, objects, and photography book collections.

Images from Chisel, Curated by Kathy Ryan
Location: St. Ann's Warehouse

Kathy Ryan is the photo editor of The New York Times Magazine. She has pioneered combining fine art photography with journalism, commissioning photographers including Nan Goldin, Lee Friedlander, Taryn Simon, Ryan McGinley, Gregory Crewdson, Massimo Vitali, Thomas Struth, Paolo Pellegrin, Lynsey Addario, Gilles Peress, Eugene Richards, and Dan Winters.

Photograph © Horacio Salinas	Photograph © Roger Ballen

The photography in The Times Magazine has been recognized by numerous photography awards. Ryan has received a lifetime achievement award from the Griffin Museum, the Picture Editor of the Year award at the Visa Pour l' Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, and the Lucie award for Picture Editor of the Year. She has participated in many photo workshops, lectured widely, and mentored photography students. Through her commitment to blurring the boundaries between the photographic genres, she has championed an artistic and interpretive approach to documentary photography and expanded the language of editorial imagery.

Images from The Ubiquitous Image, Curated by Lesley A. Martin
Location: 76 Front Street Gallery

Lesley A. Martin, book publisher at the Aperture Foundation, reflects on the replication and reproduction of the photographic image in The Ubiquitous Image, focusing on how contemporary artists are using the seemingly limitless cache of disseminated images to create their own work. Artists include Joachim Schmid, Claudia Angelmaier, Marco Breuer, Penelope Umbrico, Harrell Fletcher, Natalie Czech, Curtis Mann, Robert Bowen, Peter Piller, and Useful Photography.

Photograph © Claudia Angelmaier	Installation © Penelope Umbrico  (photo credit: Hew Porter)

Lesley A. Martin is the publisher of the book program at the Aperture Foundation. She has edited over fifty photography publications, including: Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer; An-My Lê: Small Wars; Fandomania by Elena Dorfman; Shuffle by Christian Marclay; Paris – New York – Shanghai by Hans Eijkelboom, and Richard Misrach: On the Beach. Martin is also the coauthor of two volumes on design, Graphicscape: Tokyo and Graphicscape: New York; and a contributing author and editor of Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys.

Image from Various Photographs, Curated by Tim Barber
Location: 70 Front Street Gallery

Tim Barber—photographer, curator, publisher, and former photo editor for Vice magazine—brings together over 300 images in Various Photographs. The exhibit showcases a wide spectrum of works from well established to unknown photographers.

Photograph © Catherine Lutes

Originally from Amherst, Massachusetts, Barber studied photography in Vancouver, BC, before relocating to New York City. He currently runs the online gallery tinyvices.com, which has featured the work of hundreds of artists including Ryan McGinley, Richard Kern, Peter Sutherland, and Boogie. Its corresponding gallery installation, tinyvices, has toured all over the world, from Proyectos Monclova in Mexico City to colette in Paris, and continues to be an innovative showcase for new work.