The New York Photo Awards is honored to announce this year’s Jury:
CHAIRMAN – Daniel Power, CEO, powerHouse Books, and co-founder of the New York Photo Festival
Patrick Amsellem, Associate Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum
Anthony Bannon, Director, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film
Louise Clements, Senior Curator/Director, Format International Photography Festival
Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs, Museum of the City of New York
Christoph Gamper, VP Imaging Division, Datacolor, Italy
Kathy Grayson, Gallery Director, Deitch Projects
Leah Hamilton, Senior Creative Art Producer & Project Manager, Spike DDB
Walter Keller, Founder, Walter Keller Gallery, and Director, Scalo Publishing House
Irene Kromhout, Festival Coordinator, Noorderlicht International Photofestival
Josette Lata, Freelance Art Buyer
Daniel Power, CEO, powerHouse Books, and co-founder of the New York Photo Festival
Laura Serani, Artistic Director, Rencontres de Bamako, Mali, Africa
Lorna-Mary Webb, Company Manager, Rhubarb Rhubarb, Birmingham, UK
Patrick Amsellem, Associate Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum
Amsellem is the Associate Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum. He was formerly a curator at the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö, Sweden, where he organized the first Swedish exhibition of the work of Andreas Gursky and was part of the curatorial team that produced a major series of exhibitions under the leadership of Lars Nittve. He has written extensively about art for Sweden’s major newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and was also a critic for the Swedish daily newspaper Kvällposten and for Swedish Public Radio. Dr. Amsellem has taught at New York University and is the author of several exhibition catalogues. He received his M.A. and Ph. D. in Art History and Architectural History at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
Anthony Bannon, Director, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film
Bannon is the seventh director of George Eastman House, the International Museum of Photography and Film. Prior to his appointment in 1996, Bannon was Assistant Vice President of Cultural Affairs at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, the largest college in the State University System, and Director of its Burchfield Penney Art Center.
He has worked as a critic, filmmaker, and educator. His book, Photo Pictorialists of Buffalo, won the American Photographic Historical Society’s merit award. His writing on deafness won the Gallaudet University Award. His recent publications include essays on the photographer Steve McCurry, Diane Bush, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Roger Eberhard.
Louise Clements, Senior Curator/Director, Format International Photography Festival
Clements is the Senior Curator at QUAD, a new visual arts and media centre, Derby UK. She is also co-founder and Senior Curator/Director of FORMAT International Photography Festival that began in 2004. FORMAT is one of the UKs leading contemporary photography festivals whose biennial programme celebrates the best of contemporary photography and related media from all over the world.
She has produced several publications and has curated FORMAT festival editions that have to date worked with over 2000 photographers, including DOCUMENTARY MEMORY and PLACE (2005), TRANSFORM (2006), and PHOTOCINEMA (2009).
Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs, Museum of the City of New York
Corcoran is the Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York. There he is developing an exhibition program that strives to celebrate New York City’s heritage of diversity, opportunity and perpetual transformation. Mr. Corcoran is curator of the current exhibition Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks, Photograph’s by Joel Meyerowitz. He previously served as Assistant Curator of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY and as adjunct faculty of Ryerson University’s Masters Program in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management (Toronto, Ontario). Over the years he has organized a wide range of historical and contemporary photographic exhibitions.
Christoph Gamper, VP Imaging Division, Datacolor
Christoph Gamper is the Vice President of the Imaging Division for Datacolor, Italy. Gamper has color in his blood; his ancestors, the Probizer family, were dyers and operated Loden Dyeing Factory in Vinschgau, Italy. So, it’s no surprise that Gamper discovered his love for color and photography early in life. Today the passionate photographer is known primarily for his fine-art work and technical articles on digital color and photography, which have been featured in galleries and publications throughout Europe. Gamper is also the co-author, with Christoph Künne, of Color Management for Photographers (Addison-Wesley, 2007).
Kathy Grayson, Gallery Director, Deitch Projects
Grayson is responsible for managing many of the gallery’s relationships with younger artists. She is the co-editor with Jeffrey Deitch of Live Through This, and curated the group exhibition Trunk of Humors, which was presented at the gallery in October 2004. More recently, she co-curated the exhibition Panic Room with Jeffrey Deitch, which was presented at the Deste Foundation in Athens in 2006.
Leah Hamilton, Senior Creative Art Producer & Project Manager, Spike DDB
For the past 13 years Hamilton has been an Art Producer/Buyer for Spike Lee’s ad agency Spike DDB (a division of DDB Needham) as well as a freelance art buyer for several specialty shops in NYC. She has worked with photographers such as Piort Sikora, Marc Baptiste, Mathew Jordan Smith, Barron Claiborne, Kwaku Alston, Laurie Lyons, Philippe Salomon, Lyndon Wade, Sacha Waldman, Jim Fiscus, and fine artists like Kadir Nelson and Patrick Earl Barnes and Angelbert Metoyer among others. In 2007, she was listed by Fader as one of 50 emerging filmmakers to watch.
Walter Keller, Founder, Walter Keller Gallery, and Director, Scalo Publishing House
Walter Keller, born 1953and raised in Zurich, Switzerland. Studies in Zurich and
Berlin, then several years as assistant professor in the department of Eurpean
Ethnology at the University of Zurich. Co-founder of art magazine “Parkett”. In
1993 co-founder of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, president of the board of
foundation from 1997 until 2004. In 1993, Keller founded Scalo Publishing (active
until 2006). In 2007 for several months freelance for editions-gallery Lumas ,
alongside various book and exhibition projects in Switzerland and abroad
(Hasselblad book on Nan Goldin, latest book LifeTime by Jock Sturges). In
China/Shanghai Keller was the editor of a major book by photographer/artist Xiao
Hui. Member board of the board of foundation of the F+ F School for Arts and
Media-design in Zurich. From January until July 2008 Walter Keller
editor-in-chief of the German speaking culture and art magazine “DU”. In 2009
start-up for Elena Foster’s bookshop “Ivory Press” in Madrid and editor for a
book on non-oficial Russian art. 2010 gallerist (gallery Walter Keller,
www.kellerkunst.com), curator and writer in Zurich.
Irene Kromhout , Festival Coordinator, Noorderlicht International Photofestival
Kromhout joined Noorderlicht in 2002 and has been coordinating the Noorderlicht International Photofestival since 2005. Throughout the year she also organises educational projects, masterclasses, various events and international collaborations and exchanges for the Noorderlicht Projectbureau. Noorderlicht’s main focus on documentary photography and the thousands of photos she viewed over the years resulted in a profound appreciation of committed photographers who not only find relevant stories to tell, but also search for personal and significant ways to tell them and with that reflect on the medium itself.
Although working at Noorderlicht inspired her love for photography, Kromhout has a background in contemporay art. For four years now she has been a curator and artistic director at Arthouse SYB, an artist residency for development, experiment and analysis. She is currently working as chief-editor on it’s ten year jubilee publication.
Josette Lata, Freelance Art Buyer
Lata is a freelancer art buyer. She has 20 years experience as an art buyer. She was head art buyer at jwt, bartle bogle hegarty, tbwa chiat day and fallon mcelligott berlin. She currently freelances for various agencies throughout the world.
Daniel Power, CEO, powerHouse Books and co-founder of the New York Photo Festival
Power is the Founder and Publisher of the 2007 Lucie Award-winning publishing company powerHouse Books. He has done sales and marketing work for Aperture, Artforum, and Parkett. He co-founded Distributed Art Publishers in 1990 and started powerHouse Books in 1995. Power launched the powerHouse Gallery in 2003, and in 2006 he moved the gallery, bookstore, and publishing company into the powerHouse Arena. Since its founding, powerHouse Books has published and distributed more than 500 photographic and illustrated books. powerHouse Books also incorporates an artists’ agency and publishes a magazine.
Laura Serani, Artistic Director, Rencontres de Bamako, Mali, Africa
Serani is curator of exhibitions, and curator of editorial and audio-visual projects. At the moment she is artistic director of the Rencontres de Bamako African Biennal of photography in Mali, Africa ; and also curator of several projects for the Saison de la Turquie en France, for the Maison Européenne de la Photogaphie in Paris, and for the city of Reggio Emilia in Italy. She is artistic director for the international audio-visual project Territories de Fictions. In 2008 she was artistic director for the Mois de la Photo in Paris. In 2007 and 2008 she was curator of the SiFest of Savignano sul Rubicone, in Italy ; from 1985 to 2006 she was international director of the Fnac photo galleries worldwide, and director of the Fnac photo collection. From Paris, where she lives, she collaborates at international level with the major cultural institutions and festivals, as well as with several publishing houses.
Lorna-Mary Webb, Company Manager, Rhubarb Rhubarb, Birmingham, UK
Webb joined Rhubarb-Rhubarb in 2002 and is now the lynchpin which holds the International Review together and organises the team which supports all of Rhubarb’s events throughout the year. With a background in the events industry, she has now developed her skills in photography and the image world. She reviews work, gives talks and lectures,internationally,curates and produces exhibitions, organises and sits on various judging panels and a wide range of mentoring activities offered by the company, such as regional and international projects profiling the work of West Midlands photographers.
