2008 Satellite Shows

The New York Photo Festival is pleased to announce the 2008 Satellite Shows. Each show will present new and never before exhibited work in one of the festival’s DUMBO spaces.

 Satellite Shows will be presented by (among others):

 Archive of Modern Conflict
Archive of Modern Conflict is based in London, UK. It began in the 1990s as a collection of  photographs documenting ordinary people’s experience of war but quickly expanded to take in other fields. Now it holds close to two million images encompassing many areas including nineteenth century photography, family snap albums, engineering record photography, early colour photography as well as the work of contemporary photographers. The pictures, albums and individual images come from all over the world–brought in, found in auctions, on the Internet, in markets, or from photo dealers. For their New York Photo Festival exhibition, the Archive of Modern Conflict will showcase recently acquired work by three emerging Chinese photographers: Fang Er whose work is a reaction to Beijing under construction, Lu Zhongguang who shows photographs of Red Army youth, and Liu Yiqing who portrays the new youth of Shanghai.  Logistical support in the production of this exhibition has been provided by Thomas Sauvin. 

Getty Images
Getty Images creates and distributes the world's best and broadest imagery collections, making them available in the most accessible and usable way -- 24 hours a day, every day. From contemporary creative imagery to news, sports, entertainment and archival imagery, our products are found each day in the full range of traditional and digital media worldwide.

Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein founded Getty Images in 1995 with the goal of turning a disjointed and fragmented stock photography market into a thriving, modernized industry able to meet the changing needs of visual communicators. Getty was the first company to license imagery via the web, moving the entire industry online.

Today, gettyimages.com serves an average of 3.2 billion thumbnails, 7.3 million visits and 4 million unique users in addition to an average of 175 million page views each month. Nearly 100 percent of the company’s visual content is delivered digitally.

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Photography will present six emerging artists who investigate the quirky, random, sometimes mundane aspects of their lives to create work which is simultaneously diaristic and universal. Organized by MoCP curators Natasha Egan and Karen Irvine, the exhibition includes work by Melissa Catanese, Jonathan Gitelson, Nate Larson, Jason Lazarus Ed Panar, and Stacia Yeapanis.

Founded by Columbia College Chicago in 1984 as the successor to the 1976 Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, the museum collaborates with artists, photographers, communities, and institutions locally, nationally, and internationally. As the leading photography museum in the Midwest, presenting projects and exhibitions and acquiring works that embrace a wide range of contemporary aesthetics and technologies, the museum offers students, educators, research specialists, and general audiences an intimate and comprehensive visual study center.

The Museum is committed to broadening the visual arts by constantly searching for new national and international talent to exhibit rather than simply following suit established by larger institutions. To this end, the museum’s programming guides the public to a greater understanding of thought-provoking contemporary photography as well as an appreciation for traditional work that has not yet received critical acclaim.

The Tierney Fellowship
The Tierney Fellowship was created in 2003 by The Tierney Family Foundation to support emerging artists in the field of photography. The primary goal of the Fellowship is to find tomorrow’s distinguished artists and leaders in the world of photography and assist them in overcoming the challenges that a photographer faces at the beginning of his or her career. The aim of the Fellowship is twofold: encouraging recipients to produce a new body of work and creating a global community of artists that will function as a crucial support network in an increasingly competitive field. The Fellowship supports the recipients both financially, by way of a cash grant, and technically, with mentorship and guidance from seasoned experts.  At the end of the one-year grant period, recipients are expected to present a new body of work. Fellows remain an important part of the Program after the conclusion of their Fellowship. Seminars and critiques are held throughout the year to facilitate interaction between all current and past recipients, encouraging discussion of their photography, work experience and lives as artists.

 VII Photo
VII is one of the most significant photo agencies at work today. The original members of VII are Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, and John Stanmeyer, and they were later joined by Lauren Greenfield (2002), Joachim Ladefoged (2005), and most recently Marcus Bleasdale and Franco Pagetti (2007). "VII @ DUMBO by HASTED HUNT" will be a 6 screen multi-media installation presenting the most exciting and provocative images from the past 18 months. Themes like War, Peace, Famine, Health, Poverty and Social Injustice from throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas will be rotated through in an ever-shifting order with long form photo essays and portfolios by the individual artists. The show will also include work by the VII Network photographers, a new division of VII with Eric Bouvet, Jessica Dimmock, Tividar Domaniczky, Balazs Gardi, Benjamin Lowy, Stephanie Sinclair and Donald Weber.