| Satellite Exhibitions
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 collection of photographs documenting ordinary people’s experience of war but quickly expanded to take on other fields. Now it holds close to two million images encompassing many areas including nineteenth-century photography, family snap albums, engineering record photography, and early color 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.
EU Women. An exhibition from Atelier Reflexe and Cobertura Photo. EU Women is a sociological study about women in Europe. In our post-modern society, a woman’s image is a subject that is present in our daily lives, in advertising and mass entertainment, and through the analysis of its social evolution. EU Women shows a radical vision, where the mingling of fantasy, impertinence and commitment are reflected in visual accounts in reaction to the time we live in. EU Women groups together a selection of budding artists and those who are internationally renown who will be promoting young photographers of different nationalities and origins. Main Artists Véronique Bourgoin (FR) Selection of young Photographers from Cobertura Photo (Spain) and Atelier Reflexe (France) Manuela Böhme (Germany)
Foam Magazine Foam Magazine is a distinctive international photography magazine published by Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and communication bureau Vandejong .
Isabelle Hayeur - Nuits américaines With support from 511 Projects & the Office of Cultural Services of the Délégation générale du Québec. Nuits américaines is an ongoing series of large-scale photomontages by Canadian artist Isabelle Hayeur. These images present a constructed reality to the viewer that contextualizes our progression towards globalization, a process that is continuously reshaping our inhabited environments. Although fictitious, these contrived settings are incredibly lifelike in their presentation and execution, confronting the viewer with the growing economic disparities and social divisions in our culture, gentrification, contemporary forms of segregation (such as free trade zones or gated communities), and the eradication of nature and rural areas due to urban sprawl. We are witnessing this transition—politically, economically, socially—on a global scale; however, the effects of these changes manifest themselves most destructively in our local communities. In her scenes, Hayeur likens these gradual changes to the transition between day and night, and uses twilight to suggest the many losses stemming from this evolution. In these photographs, Hayeur depicts the devastating consequences of a society suffering from mounting social inequalities and a crumbling infrastructure, ultimately leaving the viewer to question our progress as a society.
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.
Nigel Parry Nigel Parry began his photographic career in 1988. His images of famed cultural and political figures have appeared in W, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, In Style, Newsweek, The Sunday Times of London, and Elle. His work has also been exhibited nternationally at various art galleries and museums. He has received the European Magazine Award, the Award of Excellence from the American Society of Newspaper Design, and accolades from Communication Arts, American Photography, and PDN, among others. His books Sharp (powerHouse Books, 2000), Precious (powerHouse Books, 2004), and Blunt (powerHouse Books, 2006) have all received worldwide acclaim. Parry lives in New York and is represented by Creative Photographers Inc.
Portraiture 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. The company frequently receives industry recognition for both its photography and its business accomplishments. In 2005, American Photo Magazine acknowledged the company’s commitment to the photography industry, naming Getty Images’ co-founders Jonathan Klein and Mark Getty as number one of “The 100 Most Important People in Photography."
The Singled Person Six photographers show six different living spaces on six projectors, each presenting a distinct view of the life of the single person. Recurrent, familiar moments are summarized, displaced, connected, or just pass by the observer in pictures or series. The exhibition uses an associative visual language to offer a collection of subtle and personal presentations of reality. The contributors include Morten Andersen, Kai Bornhöft, Thorsten Kirchhoff, Peer Kugler, André Lützen, and Andreas Pein.
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. Tierney Fellows 2007 Rian Dundon graduated from New York University with a B.F.A. in Photography and Imaging and since 2005 he has been living in Hunan, China, making photographs. He writes and photographs regularly for Pacific News Service. Rian is represented by Atlas Press Photo in New York. Rian goal was to document human narratives, the stories of a generation working to resolve their interest in their parents’ history and in Western culture. Theirs is a culture struggling with poverty and punk rock, with mahjong and homosexuality, with arranged marriages and a newfound academia. Lisa Elmaleh bears a great affinity for history and historical photographic processes. Lisa received the Silas Rhodes scholarship to attend the School of Visual Arts, and graduated in 2007 with honors. Upon graduating, Lisa received the 2007 Tierney Fellowship, which has allowed her to take several road trips across America in search of her personal narratives. She travels with an antiquated 8x10 camera and a portable wet plate darkroom, losing her way on back roads, and finding familiarity in the unfamiliar landscape. Lisa is a current recipient of the 2008 Camera Club Darkroom Residency. Joshua Lutz, ‘MEADOWLANDS’. The Meadowlands has grown up without guidance. It is this loneliness and solitude that brings Joshua back year after year. These disparate images tell different stories, like songs on an album they build upon each other. Joshua received his MFA from Bard College/The International Center of Photography. In 2008 his first monograph Meadowlands will be published by Powerhouse Books. Lea Bertucci is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, video, installation and sound. The emphasis of her work lies in the creative description of space, whether through light, movement or sound. She is a 2007 Tierney Fellow and holds a degree in Photography from Bard College. She is one third of the experimental music trio TwistyCat and enjoys the intersection of obsolete and emerging technology in art. Thomas Bangsted received a MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2007. He is currently working with large format color photography on a personal project. Ray Klimek grew up Northeastern Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelors degree from Wilkes University in 1978 and earned a Masters degree in English and American Literature from Rutgers University in 1987. He taught English composition and and literature at Rutgers for twenty years prior to enrolling in the General Studies program at ICP in 2001. In 2002 he received a Puffin Foundation grant to pursue a project on the coalfields of Pennsylvania. In 2004 he received an ICP/Tierney Foundation grant which enabled him to visit South Wales to work on the series, “Welsh Tips.” During his stay in 2005 he was a visiting artist at the University of Wales Newport. His work has been exhibited at the Daniel Cooney Gallery, the School of ICP , the Hogar Collection, the Sordoni Gallery at Wilkes University, the GPF Gallery, South Wales and the University of Glamorgan . In 2006 he received his MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts. He has just accepted an Assistant Professor at Ohio University.
Tierra de Mudos The exhibition Tierra de Mudos introduces the photographic work of Victor Vazquez. Exploring the present issue of immigration, the artist re-interprets the process as one of dislocation, meeting, displacement, and the tension created between the established and the newcomer. In this series, the artist photographed found objects on a coastal, rural or urban ground, including parks, fields and beach sand that have been placed, moved or incorporated to the environment. These objects replace people and act as metaphors of gender and culture. Many times, Vazquez deliberately alters the object as an act of invasion, assimilation and acculturation in order to break its uniformity and create tension. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Victor Vazquez began his artistic career after completing a Bachellors' degree with two concentrations in psychology and sociology at the prestigious University of Puerto Rico in 19674. Vazquez continued on to graduate school where he studied Education and Comparative Religion at the New York University. Vazquez attended The School of Visual Arts and completed courses at the Maine Photographic Workshop. The artist has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in Puerto Rico and internationally, including, The Lima Art Museum in Peru, The Art Gallery of The American Society in New York, The Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in Washington D.C., The Ponce Museum of Art in Puerto Rico; The Havana Biennal in Cuba; FotoFest in Houston, Texas; Documenta in Kassel, Alemania, amongst other. His work is part of numerous collections including those in The Museum of Modern Art in Latin America in Washington D.C., The Ponce Museum of Art, El Centro Adriana Teresa Hernández moved to New York from Puerto Rico in 2005, and graduated from the School of Visual Arts, Department of Photography in May 2007, where she had the privilege to study under fine art printer Sid Kaplan, Photo Editor William Nabers, photographer Elinor Carucci, and Stephen Frailey. During her studies, she completed internships at Silverstein Photography, Harpers Bazaar, and Rolling Stone Magazine; she also worked as a personal assistant to Sylvia Plachy, Suzanne Opton, and Donna Ferrato, all of whom had a profound effect on the young artist. In May 2007, Adriana Teresa began working at The powerHouse Arena, the culmination of which was her first signature exhibition Song of Myself, consisting of nine photographers (Sylvia Plachy, Charles Harbutt, Joan Liftin, Rebecca Norris Webb, Suzanne Opton, Alex Webb, Naho Kubota, Lucille Fornasieri Gold, and Jeff Jacobson) chosen for the emotional resonance in their work as a visual response to Walt Whitman's famed first verse in the poem of the same title. In addition to photographing, traveling and curating other exhibitions in Puerto Rico and New York, she is editing a documentary film for photographer Lauri Lyons.
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.
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