Friday, September 11 – Pictures That Provoke: Getty Images Celebrates Photographic Legacy
Thursday, September 17 – An Evening with The New York Times Lens Blog
Presented by New York Times Lens Blog
Join The New York Times’ Lens blog for a night of projections featuring photographers from around the world. We’ve gone through our archives to curate a selection of some of our favorite work featured on Lens, including photos by Whitney Curtis, Eli Reed, Ernesto Bazan, Nancy Borowick, Phil Knott, Martha Cooper, Joni Sternbach and New York Times staff photographers.
Friday, September 18 – PBS’ POV (Point of View)
Presented by PBS
Featuring Angy Rivera
Angy Rivera grew up in the United States with a secret that threatened to upend her life: She was undocumented. At 24, Rivera became an activist for undocumented youth with a popular advice blog and a YouTube channel boasting more than 27,000 views. Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie), premiering on PBS’s POV series on Sept. 21st, tells her story.
Join POV for a sneak-preview of the film and a conversation with Angy, Mikaela Shwer, the director, Lauren Burke, co-founder and executive director of Atlas: DIY, moderated by Katia Maguire, producer at Quiet Pictures and director of Jessica Gonzales vs. the USA. You’ll also see a selection of short indie docs, including Paraíso, about three immigrant window cleaners who risk their lives every day rappelling down some of Chicago’s tallest skyscrapers, as well as animated shorts from renowned oral history project, StoryCorps. Come get an inside look at PBS’s POV series!
Speakers:
Angy Rivera – featured in Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie)
Mikaela Shwer – director of Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie)
Lauren Burke – co-founder and executive director of Atlas: DIY
Katia Maguire – producer at Quiet Pictures and director of Jessica Gonzales vs. the USA
Aubrey Gallegos – community engagement and education manager at POV
Emma Dessau – senior producer, POV digital
Trailers:
Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie) trailer
POV season trailer
Saturday, September 19 – An Evening with National Geographic
Presented by National Geographic
Featuring Stephanie Sinclair, Katie Orlinsky, Robert Clark and Ed Kashi
Celebrate photography and storytelling with National Geographic on September 19th at the Photoville Beer Garden. The evening will begin with photos and videos from the past 127 years—up to the most recent stories from National Geographic and their digital platforms including News, Your Shot, and Proof. Hear from National Geographic photographers Stephanie Sinclair, Katie Orlinsky, Robert Clark and Ed Kashi. Director of Photography Sarah Leen serves as Master of Ceremonies.
National Geographic believes in the power of science, exploration and storytelling to change the world.
PhotoShelter Professional Development Conference
Daytime Programming
Education Day
Day-Time Events
Photoville’s Daytime Programming features something for everyone! Join us for a series of engaging panel discussions in the Photoville Pavilion, for several hands-on bring-your-own-camera workshops, on Photoville Walking Tours with photo-world superstars, for family-friendly drop-in photo activities in the Activity Tent and so much more!
Night-Time Events
About Photoville
PHOTOVILLE – New York City’s FREE premier photo destination produced by United Photo Industries – is a modular venue built from re-purposed shipping containers.
By creating a physical platform for photographers of all stripes to come together and interact, Photoville provides a unique opportunity to engage with a diverse audience – a veritable cross-section of the world photographic community.
Print Swap
Science and Tech Expo
The 2015 EyeEm Festival Afterparty Presented in partnership Photoville NYC
A one-night-only party celebrating photography, from Brooklyn to Berlin and beyond. Join us for an after party in conjunction with The 2015 EyeEm Photography Festival. Be among the first to see the winners and finalists of The 2015 EyeEm Awards, the world’s largest photography competition curated out of more than 200,000 submissions by photographers in over 150 countries. Together, EyeEm will transform Villain, a 19th century textile factory in Williamsburg, into a warehouse party with smooth beats by Berlin’s finest DJs.
Hope to see you all there after our Beer Garden event at Photoville – we can’t wait to get our groove on!
Free entry with RSVP or Photoville Orange Wrist band!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-20i5-eyeem-photography-festival-tickets-17919877837
Chromatic Aberration
Presented by Instagram
Featuring james marshall : dalek
Continual exploration of color, shape, space, dimension, and light.
Dark Heights
Presented by United Photo Industries
Images shot on assignment for Harper’s Magazine
Featuring Ben Lowy
The Sochi Olympics was for me – and, quite separately, the world – a transition.
After years of covering conflict and hard news, I found my professional career taking a turn to sports and features. For the world, the Sochi Olympics seemed to embolden Russian president Putin to throw his political clout behind an invasion of Crimea. Where, incidentally, an earlier war in the 1850s marked the birth of modern-day photojournalism.
My client, Harper’s Magazine, asked me to cover the Olympics in a unique way, to visualize the games in a way others weren’t. Much of that involved me trying to spy new angles, to see the sports and athletes as compositional elements, to see their movements less as competition and more as a grand ballet. It was a brilliantly creative practice that I am honored to have been awarded.
Benjamin Lowy is award winning photographer based in New York City. He received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and began his career covering the Iraq War in 2003. Since then he has covered major stories worldwide. In 2004 Lowy attended the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass, he was named in Photo District News 30 and his images of Iraq were chosen by PDN as some of the most iconic of the 21st century. Lowy has received awards from World Press Photo, POYi, PDN, Communication Arts, American Photography, and the Society for Publication Design. Lowy has been a finalist for the Oskar Barnak Award, a finalist in Critical Mass, included in Magenta Flash Forward 2007, as well as the OSI Moving Walls 16 exhibit. His work from Iraq, Darfur, and Afghanistan have been collected into several gallery and museum shows, and shown at the Tate Modern, SF MOMA, Houston Center for Photography, Invalides, and Arles. His work from Darfur appeared in the SAVE DARFUR media campaign.
In 2011 Lowy’s Iraq | Perspectives work was selected by William Eggleston to win the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. The book is currently available and in stores now.
In 2012, Lowy was awarded the Magnum Foundation Emergency fund to continue his work in Libya. In the same year, he received the International Center of Photography (ICP) Infinity Award for Photojournalism.
In 2014, at the age of 35, Lowy received a Distiguished Alumni Award from Washington University in St Louis.
Lowy is based in New York City. He is currently represented by Reportage by Getty Images.
The Geography of Youth
Featuring Morrigan McCarthy and Alan Winslow
We became interested in documenting the Millennial generation because we wanted to give our peers an opportunity to speak for themselves. We traveled mostly by bicycle from Alaska to Argentina, then in a loop around Europe and Morocco interviewing Millennials about their lives and making their portraits. After sustaining a knee injury in 2013 we traveled by camper-car 14,000 miles around the United States continuing the project.
In the spring of 2013 we opened The Geography of Youth to online submissions. We invited people born between 1980 and 1995 to upload a self-portrait and answer the same twelve interview questions that we asked hundreds of Millennials around the world.
The portraits and interviews have now been assembled into an interactive public art show. It is our hope that these images and words will spark dialogue about our global generation, our challenges, and our triumphs.
Morrigan McCarthy is a photographer who enjoys the way images can tell a complex story. Morrigan studied poetry and dance at Connecticut College and documentary photography at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She was selected as the 2012 Maine Visual Arts Fellow and attended the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2007 where she won an award for outstanding work. She is based in Brooklyn, New York where she works as a freelance photographer.
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Alan Winslow is a photographer and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He has spent the past six years alternating between freelance work and long-term, grant-funded projects that become public artwork. Alan teaches photography at The Maine Media Workshops and Brooklyn Central. Alan regularly tempts the Gods by consuming unnatural quantities of street food.
When You’re Smiling
Presented by Smile Train
When You’re Smiling is an interactive installation, created by international children’s charity Smile Train, where you can sing a line from the classic song to raise awareness of and support for children with clefts in developing countries.
Smile Train is an international children’s charity with a sustainable approach to a single, solvable problem: cleft lip and palate. Millions of children in developing countries with unrepaired clefts live in shame, but more importantly, have difficulty eating, breathing and speaking. Cleft repair surgery is simple, and the transformation is immediate. Smile Train’s sustainable model provides training and funding to empower local doctors in 85+ developing countries to provide 100% free cleft repair surgery in their own communities. To learn more about how Smile Train’s sustainable approach means donations have both an immediate and long-term impact, please visit smiletrain.org.
After Dark
Friday September 19, 7:30 – 10:00pm
When the sun sets everything changes, and anything goes. Shadows, and strangers, lurk, and new perspectives abound. On this night, we’ll give credence to the true stories that flourish only in darkness.
Meet Your Maker
Saturday September 20, 7:30 – 10:00pm
DIY culture is everywhere, from reality shows about interior designers gone wild to the wonders of the artisanal mayonnaise craze. But makers are bigger and bolder than the trendy labels we stick to them. We’ll uncover the stories to prove it.
Camera Obscura
Sunday September 21, 7:00 – 8:00pm
Technology is f$%#ing berserk. And it’s especially so when you stop and think about the ways we record stories these days: Smart phone cameras in every kid’s hand. Google Glasses accessorized with skinny jeans and suit jackets. GoPros strapped to surfboards and desk chairs. Quadcopters cruising, and capturing, the abyss. On this night, Narratively celebrates the impact of technology on storytelling and takes a hard look at where we’ve gone, and where we’re headed.
SLIDELUCK NYC XVIII – Secrets
Friday September 26, 7:00 – 10:00pm
The theme for SLIDELUCK NYC XVIII is “Secrets.” Artists are invited to submit work that explores notions of deception, revelation, confessions and wishes. The show will be curated by Gideon Jacobs, Creative Director of Magnum Photos, and Matthew Leifheit, Photo Editor at VICE Magazine.
To submit, please follow this link: http://slideluck.com/photoville-ii/
The submission deadline is Friday, August 26th.
We Are Warriors
Saturday September 27, 7:30 – 10:00pm
From a nail-biting narrative on the battlefield of Syria to a profile of a peace-loving pizzaiolo who’s fighting for his right to sling pies, we’ll introduce the audience to the complex flavors of real-life warrior.
Throwback Thursday
Sunday September 28, 6:30 – 8:30pm
Stories, like a stick of butter left out on the counter, change dramatically over time. But unlike a fine wine, they don’t always get better with age. Here, Narratively looks at several tales of “then and now,” from a photojournalist who caught up with her subject thirty years later to an unbelievable occurrence that happened just last year, exploring the complexities and impact of Father Time.
People of the Horse
Supported by National Geographic Magazine
Curated by Sarah Leen
Featuring Erika Larsen
I travelled to many locations in the western United States to learn about the significance of the horse in Native American culture. The arrival of horse transformed the culture. They allowed tribes to hunt more buffalo than ever before. They tipped the balance of power in favor of mounted warriors and they became prized as wealth. For Native Americans today, horses endure as an emblem of tradition and a source of pride, pageantry, and healing.
Erika Larsen uses photography, video and writing to learn
intimately about people and cultures that maintain strong connections with nature.
She has been working as a fine art and documentary photographer since 2000 and is a member of Redux Pictures.
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Sarah Leen is the Director of Photography for the National Geographic Society. For nearly 20 years prior she worked as a freelance photographer publishing 16 stories in the magazine until she joined the staff as a Senior Photo Editor in 2004.
In 2010 Leen was the curator of the National Geographic’s exhibit Water is Life at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, in 2011 she curated Beyond the Photograph at the National Geographic Society headquarters in 2011 and in 2013 curated The Power of Photography: National Geographic 125 Years at the Annenberg Space.
Leen graduated with a BA in Fine Arts in 1974 from the University of Missouri, Columbia and continued with graduate studies at the Missouri School of Journalism. Leen was the College Photography of the Year in 1979 and worked as a staff photographer for both the Topeka Capital Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer until 1982. She published 16 stories in the National Geographic magazine as a photographer.
Leen has won numerous awards for her photography in the Pictures of the Year (POYi) and the World Press Photos competition. In 2007 and 2008 she won first place Magazine Picture Editing Portfolio from POYi and second place in 2011.
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National Geographic magazine, a journal of the non-profit National Geographic Society, is dedicated to the advancement of science, education, and the spread of knowledge throughout the world. Each month we distribute over ten million magazines, in thirty-two languages, to 170 countries. Our global readership approaches 40 million.
Photo Stand-Ins
Presented by United Photo Industries, and Photos.com by Getty Images
Who doesn’t love a photo stand-in? And who doesn’t love music?
So when you put some of the most iconic images of our most famous musicians together and add YOU – it’s just magic!
We are so honored to have been able to access the amazing and diverse image archive of Photos.com* to create these photo stand-ins you see dispersed throughout the Photoville grounds. So step up and get your photo taken, and let’s rock n’ roll!
*All of the images used for the Photo Stand-In are available to purchase (without holes) at photos.com
Mimage-Matic Features
Featuring Ed Kimball
The Yellow Trailer Art Gallery is Ed Kimball’s transportable cinema trailer and serves as a mobile art installation platform that has recently featured super 8 motion pictures and digital video projections. Kimball’s experimental films, called Mimage-Matic Features, explore the rich visual possibilities of multiple imaging and 3D projections in the context of the trailer’s unique viewing environment.
A recent regular at Brooklyn art and film festival events, including Photoville 2012, The DUMBO Arts Festival 2012, and TropFest 2013, Kimball’s micro cinema trailer has been shown widely in the New York City area. Kimball’s film work was selected at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival 2013 in the avant-garde group. He is a visual arts graduate of Bard College and Columbia University’s School of the Arts MFA program.
3:00 – 3:45 (Fri Sept 19) Conversation:
Essential Marketing Tips for
Photographers with Zero Time
Presented by PhotoShelter
Featuring Anna Dickson and Andrew Fingerman
Let’s face it—every time you spend time on the web today, you’ll find millions of people screaming “Hey, look at me!” The battle for attention rages on, yet developing your own marketing plan when you don’t have an extra five minutes is not exactly easy. But don’t fear. Andrew Fingerman, CEO of PhotoShelter and Anna Dickson, Photo Editor at The Huffington Post, will discuss essential marketing tips for the multi-tasking photographer on-the-go who wants to find the best recipe to attract and engage the right audience online and turn them into loyal clients.
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Register here:
While these seminars do not require advanced signup, seating is first come first serve so we highly recommend that you reserve your spot in advance!
This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Andrew Fingerman is the Chief Executive Officer of PhotoShelter. Before becoming CEO, Andrew led marketing at PhotoShelter for five years, where he pioneered the company’s photographer education efforts, resulting in a thriving library of free downloadable photography business guides and resources to help photographers and agencies grow. Prior to PhotoShelter, Andrew was a Senior Product Manager with OPEN, the small business team at American Express, handling customer marketing, as well also holding a variety of other marketing and strategy roles. Andrew holds an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, and a BA from University of Michigan.
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Anna Dickson is the Photography Director for The Huffington Post. Her prior experience includes overseeing photography for 850 radio station websites at iHeartRadio and producing photography for various events including the iHeartRadio Music Festival. She has worked for several print magazines, including Guitar World Magazine, Popular Photography and Rolling Stone.
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PhotoShelter helps people and organizations who are passionate about their photos do more with them. From creating beautiful websites and securely backing up their best images to building an audience and selling photos online, PhotoShelter is trusted by over 80,000 enthusiasts, freelancers, and established pros worldwide. What sets us apart are over 100 professional-grade features and cutting-edge technology that we’ve evolved with photographers in mind since 2005. With PhotoShelter, any photographer can take their online presence to the next level — and get back to doing the shooting they love to do.
4:00 – 4:45 (Fri Sept 19) Panel Discussion:
Raising Money for Your Photo Project
Presented by PhotoShelter
Featuring Laura Roumanos, Alan Winslow, Morrigan McCarthy, Dianne Debicella, Joni Sternbach
Many aspiring and professional photographers alike share a passion for storytelling. But with long-term projects can come real expenses like travel, gear, and even multi-media costs that aren’t easy to pay for with a limited budget. The good news is there’s a long list of non-profit, crowdfunding platforms, and federations that award grants and help pay for inspiring photography projects like yours. In this panel, hear from organizations like Photoville who can help fund your stories, plus photographers like Joni Sternbach and the Restless Collective who have successfully turned to third parties to raise money. Plus, get tips on how to craft a proposal and pitch your idea!
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Register here:
While these seminars do not require advanced signup, seating is first come first serve so we highly recommend that you reserve your spot in advance!
This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Originally from Sydney, Australia – where she graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts – Laura Roumanos worked as a Producer and Arts Administrator before moving to NYC, to join the Manhattan Theatre Club. She then worked at St. Ann’s Warehouse as the General Manager, producing and presenting international theatre, music and art events. Most recently Laura has worked as the Senior Producer of Creative Time and also as a Producer at the World Science Festival. Laura is currently working at United Photo Industries as executive producer and co-founder of Photoville, while consulting, managing, and producing numerous theatrical shows and events throughout New York.
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Alan Winslow is a photographer and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He has spent the past six years alternating between freelance work and long-term, grant-funded projects that become public artwork, including The Geography of Youth. Alan teaches photography at The Maine Media Workshops and Brooklyn Central. Alan regularly tempts the Gods by consuming unnatural quantities of street food. He is co-founder and member of the Restless Collective.
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Morrigan McCarthy is a photographer who enjoys the way images can tell complex stories. Morrigan studied poetry and dance at Connecticut College and documentary photography at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She was selected as the 2012 Maine Visual Arts Fellow and attended the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop in 2007 where she won an award for outstanding work. She has spent the better part of the last six years traveling for long-term projects including The Geography of Youth, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York where she works as a freelance photographer and co-founding member of the Restless Collective.
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Dianne Debicella is the Senior Program Director for Fiscal Sponsorship at Fractured Atlas. Dianne helps over 3,500 sponsored artists and emerging organizations, representing all artistic disciplines, finding funding and other resources to support their work. Since 2006, she has led the program to become one of the largest art fiscal sponsorship programs in the country with an annual budget of $17 million. Dianne is the co-founder of Brooklyn Community Supported Art + Design (CSA+D) and serves on the steering committee of the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors. She received her B.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art and her M.P.A. from Pratt Institute’s Arts and Cultural Management program.
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Joni Sternbach was born in the Bronx, New York. She graduated from New York University/International Center of Photography with an M.A. in Photography. She was part of the adjunct faculty at New York University, and currently lectures at Cooper Union, ICP, and The Center for Alternative Photography. Sternbach uses early photographic processes to create contemporary landscapes and portraits. Sternbach’s solo exhibition, SurfLand, was featured at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, along with her first monograph published by PhotoLucida. Her work is included in many collections, including The Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, and Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. She is the recipient of several grants including the Clarence John Laughlin award and NYFA.”
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PhotoShelter helps people and organizations who are passionate about their photos do more with them. From creating beautiful websites and securely backing up their best images to building an audience and selling photos online, PhotoShelter is trusted by over 80,000 enthusiasts, freelancers, and established pros worldwide. What sets us apart are over 100 professional-grade features and cutting-edge technology that we’ve evolved with photographers in mind since 2005. With PhotoShelter, any photographer can take their online presence to the next level — and get back to doing the shooting they love to do.
5:00 – 5:45 (Fri Sept 19) Conversation:
Fashion Photographer
Meets Photo Editor:
A Love Story
Presented by Photoshelter
Featuring Melissa Rodwell, Eryka Clayton
If there were an award for coolest fashion photographer, Melissa Rodwell might just take the cake. As a trailblazing fashion photographer and educator, Melissa joins Eryka Clayton, the photo editor at The Collective Magazine, to offer a behind-the-scenes look at how photographers and their editors work closely together to map out and execute stellar ideas. If you’re an aspiring fashion photographer, also find out from Melissa and Eryka how to market yourself better, break into the field, and attract your dream fashion clients.
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Register here:
While these seminars do not require advanced signup, seating is first come first serve so we highly recommend that you reserve your spot in advance!
This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
After graduating from the Art Center College of Design, Melissa Rodwell embarked on a globe-spanning career as a fashion photographer, photographing for Ralph Lauren, Nike, Coca Cola, Honda, and Dell Computers. Her editorial assignments have led to her being published in Harpers Bazaar, Kurv, Jimon, Flaunt, and Men, Genlux, and Playboy. Simultaneously, Melissa Rodwell has had numerous solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Sydney, Los Angeles, and Miami. In 2012, Melissa released the DVD Fashion Photography Exposed and the following year started Breed, an educational website for emerging and aspiring fashion photographers.
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Eryka Clayton has been successfully working in the fashion industry since the mid-nineties as a brand consultant, creative director, producer, fashion show director, editor, and stylist. With her extensive skill set and creative vision she has been instrumental in building successful multinational brands from scratch and helping artists and actors define their image. Her career has taken her across the world and she is currently based in New York, where she consults innovative entrepreneurs, artists, and creatives to successfully achieve their visions, styles, and serves as the Editor and Fashion Director of The Collective Magazine.
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PhotoShelter helps people and organizations who are passionate about their photos do more with them. From creating beautiful websites and securely backing up their best images to building an audience and selling photos online, PhotoShelter is trusted by over 80,000 enthusiasts, freelancers, and established pros worldwide. What sets us apart are over 100 professional-grade features and cutting-edge technology that we’ve evolved with photographers in mind since 2005. With PhotoShelter, any photographer can take their online presence to the next level — and get back to doing the shooting they love to do.
6:00 – 7:30 (Fri Sept 19) Panel Discussion:
Photo Poland:
Contemporary Polish Photography
Presented by Lodz Fotofestiwal
Featuring Adam Panczuk, Rafal Milach, Kacper Kowalski, Krzysztof Candrowicz and Rafal Lochowski
Photo Poland – Contemporary Polish Photography is an exhibition showcasing contemporary Polish photography. The talk will begin with a slideshow presenting a selection of 10 contemporary Polish photographers. This will be followed by a panel discussion with photographers Rafal Milach, Adam Panczuk and Kacper Kowalski, who discussing their work and the current state of Polish photography.
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Register here:
While these seminars do not require advanced signup, seating is first come first serve so we highly recommend that you reserve your spot in advance!
This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Adam Panczuk is a Warsaw based photographer. He originally graduated from the University of Economics and only later came to study photography at the Multimedia Communications Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. Travelling to create his work, he is always on the look out for subjects that interest him. His ability to tell gripping yet intimate stories with his work has won him many prestigious awards. Adam is member of Sputnik Photos.
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Rafal Milach is a photographer and book artist based in Warsaw. He graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland and Institute for Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic, where he also currently lectures. Since completing his degree he has received grants from Magnum Foundation, Polish Ministry of Culture, and European Cultural Foundation. He has also won several awards, including World Press Photo, Picture of the Year International, Magnum Expression Awards, and New York Photo Festival awards.
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Kacper Kowalski is an aerial photographer based in Gdynia. He graduated from the Technical University of Gdańsk with a degree in architecture. After having worked in architecture for four years, he decided to devote himself entirely photography. Trained as a pilot, he takes aerial photographs of natural and urban environments of his native Poland. His work has won him several awards including World Press Photo, Picture of the Year International, and the Sony World Photography Award. His first photography book, Side Effects, was published earlier this year.
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Krzysztof Candrowicz is a founder and director of the International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Foundation of Visual Education and Lodz Art Center. As a director of the festival, in 2004 he established a network of 30 European festivals of photography, called Photo Festival Union. Krzysztof Candrowicz is also working as a guest curator and visiting lecturer in numerous organizations, museums, schools and festivals in Europe and worldwide. In January 2014 he became artistic director of Hamburg Triennial of Photography.
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Rafal Lochowski is a founder and director of Leica Gallery in Warsaw, leading gallery of contemporary photography in Poland. Along with others, in 2012 he established Leica Galleries Network, currently associating 12 galleries worldwide. He also represents internationally the Polish artists.
Leica Gallery Warsaw organizes around 10 exhibitions every year plus several shows abroad. The program focuses on polish contemporary photography, originating from document, taking up 70% of the exhibition time. The remaining 30% is reserved for artists from abroad – shows have included Elliott Erwitt, Jan Grarup, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Jacob Aue Sobol, Thomas Hoepker, and Vivian Maier, amongst others.
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Fotofestiwal was born in 2001 as one of the first photographic events in Poland. Since then, the photographic industry and the ways in which cultural events are organized have changed drastically, and Fotofestiwal has developed alongside these changes. It provides a space for various forms of photography and a forum for discussion on contemporary art and society, whilst we also aim to search for alternative methods for talking about and presenting photography. Most importantly it is a place of meetings.
6:00 – 7:30 (Fri Sept 19) Peer Review:
PhotoShelter’s Peer Review Happy Hour
Presented by PhotoShelter
Bring your portfolio, book or iPad, grab a beer, and get ready to get and give some unbiased feedback on your and your peers’ portfolios in this informal peer portfolio review event hosted by PhotoShelter. Think of it as a portfolio review without the pressure of being in front of a potential buyer – or like speed dating for photographers! You’ll give your feedback on a few portfolios, you’ll get some on yours, and we guarantee you’ll walk away with some new ideas – and feel good about helping out fellow photographers. What’s better than that? The event takes place in the Photoville Beer Garden – and the first drink is on us!
Register here:
While these seminars do not require advanced signup, seating is first come first serve so we highly recommend that you reserve your spot in advance!
This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
PhotoShelter helps people and organizations who are passionate about their photos do more with them. From creating beautiful websites and securely backing up their best images to building an audience and selling photos online, PhotoShelter is trusted by over 80,000 enthusiasts, freelancers, and established pros worldwide. What sets us apart are over 100 professional-grade features and cutting-edge technology that we’ve evolved with photographers in mind since 2005. With PhotoShelter, any photographer can take their online presence to the next level — and get back to doing the shooting they love to do.
12:00 – 12:45 (Sat Sept 20) Conversation:
How to Grow Your Business Through Instagram
Presented by PhotoShelter
Featuring Chris Ozer, Sam Horine and Allen Murabayashi
If you want to grow your network, a platform like Instagram can be a game changer. But is brand awareness the only juice you can squeeze from that lemon? Not anymore. In this panel, learn how photographers are using Instagram to draw in clients and land paying gigs, plus discover how brands are turning to photographers on Instagram to reach new audiences.
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Register here:
While these seminars do not require advanced signup, seating is first come first serve so we highly recommend that you reserve your spot in advance!
This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Chris Ozer embraced photography in 2009 as a much-needed creative outlet, having moved away from a career in jazz piano. His distinctive brand of light-flooded landscapes and timeless portraits constantly drives him on his search for the perfect photo. Chris’s work has been featured by the International Center of Photography, and is part of the permanent collection in the Museum of the City of New York.
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Sam Horine is a photographer and educator based in New York. He’s a regular explorer of forgotten, abandoned and under-appreciated places and a contributor to NY Magazine, Time Out New York, The Village Voice and Gothamist. He also serves as an instructor at NYU, teaching classes on digital photography. Sam’s work has been published by The New York Times, Frieze, Art Forum, and Rolling Stone, amongst others. He has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions, most recently raising over $20k for hurricane Sandy relief at the Foley. His Instagram account was recently voted best in NYC by the Village Voice.
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Allen Murabayashi is an avid photographer and frequently speaks on how photographers can use online marketing to grow their businesses. Before PhotoShelter, Allen served as a founding employee and Senior Vice President of Engineering at HotJobs.com, where he assisted in the company’s massive growth from a 4-person start-up to a publicly-held company with over 675 employees. He oversaw a staff of 50 engineers, and was responsible for the development of HotJobs.com, Softshoe, and a number of internal applications. Allen graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor’s degree in Music with distinction in the major. Allen flosses daily.
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PhotoShelter helps people and organizations who are passionate about their photos do more with them. From creating beautiful websites and securely backing up their best images to building an audience and selling photos online, PhotoShelter is trusted by over 80,000 enthusiasts, freelancers, and established pros worldwide. What sets us apart are over 100 professional-grade features and cutting-edge technology that we’ve evolved with photographers in mind since 2005. With PhotoShelter, any photographer can take their online presence to the next level — and get back to doing the shooting they love to do.
12:00 – 1:30 (Sat Sept 20) Workshop:
How to Make Anything into a Camera
Presented by International Center of Photography
Featuring Liz Sales
This workshop takes a quick look at the history, theory, and practice of pinhole photography with an emphasis on the technical relationship between camera-making and image formation. Each participant will leave with a camera (made from one of several objects provided), an image made by that camera, and an understanding of how to make a camera out of anything at all.
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While these seminars do not require advanced signup, seating is first come first serve so we highly recommend that you reserve your spot in advance!
This presentation will take place in the Photoville Workshops Area
Liz Sales is an artist, writer, and educator with an MFA from the ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, with an ICP Director’s Fellowship. Her background in motion picture endorses her work, which deals primarily with the relationship between technology and perception. Liz is a Contributing Editor at Conveyor Magazine and both a Faculty and Staff member at the International Center of Photography. She lives and works in New York City.
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The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to the practice and understanding of photography and the reproduced image in all its forms. Through our exhibitions, educational programs, and community outreach, we offer an open forum for dialogue about the role images play in our culture. Since our founding, we have presented more than 500 exhibitions and offered thousands of classes, providing instruction at every level. ICP is a center where photographers and artists, students and scholars can create and interpret the world of the image within our comprehensive educational facilities and archive.
1:00 – 1:45 (Sat Sept 20) Conversation:
A Conversation with Robert Clark
Presented by PhotoShelter
Featuring Robert Clark and Kurt Mutchler
In this very special interview, we sit down with internationally renowned photographer Robert Clark to learn how he launched his career and grew his business to what it is today. Also hear the stories behind some of Robert’s most memorable photographs and assignments, including the iconic photos he took on 9/11. For photographers looking to begin their careers or those feeling “stuck”, we’ll also get Robert’s tips to set yourself apart and get work. Bring your questions
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This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Robert Clark is a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn, New York City and works with the world’s leading magazines and major publishing houses, as well as on cutting edge advertising campaigns. His work has won numerous international awards, graced the pages and covers of magazines such as Time, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, Stern, French Geo, US News and World Report. Discover, and has appeared on more than 40 book covers. During his fifteen-year association with National Geographic Magazine, Clark has photographed over 30 stories. The article, “Was Darwin Wrong?”, earned the National Magazine award for best essay in 2005.
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Kurt Mutchler has worked at National Geographic magazine since 1994, producing more than 120 stories and 25 cover stories. During this time he has held many positions—photo editor, deputy director of photography and director of photography. Currently, he is the senior photo editor for science. He is a former adjunct professor at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, D.C., where he taught photojournalism. Prior to joining the magazine, he was the photo and graphics editor of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Kurt graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University. – See more at: http://www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com/experts/kurt-mutchler/detail#sthash.mtOZ4cbx.dpuf
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PhotoShelter helps people and organizations who are passionate about their photos do more with them. From creating beautiful websites and securely backing up their best images to building an audience and selling photos online, PhotoShelter is trusted by over 80,000 enthusiasts, freelancers, and established pros worldwide. What sets us apart are over 100 professional-grade features and cutting-edge technology that we’ve evolved with photographers in mind since 2005. With PhotoShelter, any photographer can take their online presence to the next level — and get back to doing the shooting they love to do.
2:00 – 3:30 (Sat Sept 20) Workshop:
What is a Book?
Presented by Oranbeg Press
Featuring John M. O’Toole, Colin Todd, and Varvara Mikushkina
Is there a certain formula that you must follow in order for a book to be a book? In this workshop Several Artists who have been published by Oranbeg Press have donated the use of their work for you to be the editor. We have prepared several “book ready” packets that will have a selection of prints for you to create/design/sequence your own edition of 1 photo book for you to take home. Oranbeg press will showcase examples of finish books from its catalog.
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John M. O’Toole is a photographer and bookmaker living in Brooklyn. He graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Photography in 2011. He works as a digital photography technician in the Photography Department at Pratt. He has exhibited work in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Italy, England, Ireland and Finland. He is also the editor-in-chief and founder of Oranbeg Press.
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Colin Todd
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Varvara Mikushkina
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Oranbeg Press is an independent publisher based in Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY. Oranbeg’s books are a mixture of artist created zines, photobooks, online media, and collaborative works. Our main goal is to promote the idea of “what is a book?” We use a variety of printing methods, unconventional materials and ideas in bookmaking to further this growing dialogue.
2:00 – 2:45 (Sat Sept 20) Conversation:
Law School 101
for Photographers
Presented by PhotoShelter
Featuring Bill Cramer and Kristine Hsu
Navigating copyright, contracts, model and property releases can be a daunting task, especially if you don’t know where to begin. We know you’ve got questions, so Bill Cramer, Founder and CEO of Wonderful Machine will sit down with Kristine Hsu of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts to tackle topics head on and help you make the best decisions for your photography business. Learn tips to keep your work safe from infringement, find out what questions to ask before signing a contract, plus learn why model and property releases are always a must-have. Bring your questions!
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This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Bill Cramer is founder and CEO of Wonderful Machine, a curated directory of professional photographers, serving commercial and editorial clients worldwide. He is also a photographer in his own right, specializing in environmental portraiture for a wide range of corporate, editorial and advertising clients including Forbes, BBDO, Comcast and Accenture.
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Kristine Hsu is a Volunteer Lawyer for the Arts Staff Attorney, actively involved with VLA’s legal services and education programs. She also regularly counsels VLA artist and arts organization members. Ms. Hsu joined VLA as a legal fellow in August 2012 and served as the pro bono coordinator prior to becoming a full-time staff member. Ms. Hsu holds a Bachelor of Arts from New York University and a law degree from the George Washington University Law School, where she was the Managing Editor of the Federal Circuit Bar Journal, and worked in the GWU Small Business & Community Economic Development Clinic.
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PhotoShelter helps people and organizations who are passionate about their photos do more with them. From creating beautiful websites and securely backing up their best images to building an audience and selling photos online, PhotoShelter is trusted by over 80,000 enthusiasts, freelancers, and established pros worldwide. What sets us apart are over 100 professional-grade features and cutting-edge technology that we’ve evolved with photographers in mind since 2005. With PhotoShelter, any photographer can take their online presence to the next level — and get back to doing the shooting they love to do.
3:00 – 4:00 (Sat Sept 20) Conversation:
Fearless Genius:
The Digital Revolution in
Silicon Valley 1985-2000
Featuring Doug Menuez
Doug Menuez will discuss his latest book – “Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000. Shooting behind the scenes at the leading technological innovators of the digital era for over a decade, Doug’s account provides a visual history of the Silicon Valley technology boom. Gaining unprecedented access to Steve Jobs and over 70 of his most famous counterparts, he was able to document how they created today’s digital world. The growth of transformational technology during this singular era has led to the creation of more jobs and wealth than any time in human history. And Menuez was there, witness to a global revolution.
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Documentary photographer Doug Menuez once stood at the North Pole, crossed the Sahara, had tea with Svetlana Stalin and held a chunk of Einstein’s brain. Quitting his blues band in 1981, he began his career freelancing for Time, LIFE, amongst other publications. He’s published four books, and has won numerous awards. He has done a range of advertising campaigns including Nikon and Microsoft, and his archives were recently acquired by Stanford University. His project, Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000 was published in May 2014 by Simon & Schuster/Atria Books and is currently a touring exhibition.
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Kristina Feliciano is the creative director of Stockland Martel, a New York–based agency representing photographers and stylists. Her job requires being a brand journalist, ideas person, strategist, and creative decision-maker all in one. She is also an artist who works in collage and photography for her own pleasure, and genuinely admires the photographers who put themselves out there in pursuit of a career doing what they love.
4:00 – 5:30 (Sat Sept 20) Workshop:
Thought Bubble to Exhibition:
Turning an Idea into a Reality
Presented by Chris Bartlett
This interactive workshop will address the challenges of earning a living as a photographer, whilst at the same time doing work that has meaning and social relevance. Participants are encouraged to bring in project ideas to discuss and brainstorm on execution strategies. Chris will also talk about his career as a commercial still life photographer in the fashion world, as well as his documentary human rights projects. He will be discussing the challenges of managing both and the unexpected places where they overlap.
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Chris Bartlett is a documentary human rights photographer, shooting portraiture. His portraits of Iraqi detainees currently on show at Photoville, first gained recognition as part of Moving Walls 15 at the Open Society Foundation. Chris is currently working on a series of portraits of political dissidents and former political prisoners in Burma. Chris is also a commercial still life photographer working primarily in fashion, beauty, and luxury goods. Chris has been published in virtually all the major fashion publications including Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. His commercial clients include Diane Von Furstenberg, Tory Burch, and Kate Spade amongst others.
4:15 – 5:15 (Sat Sept 20) Conversation:
War Porn and Other Dutch
Photobook Collaborations
Featuring Christoph Bangert and Teun van de Heijden
Dutch photo book designer Teun van der Heijden discusses his collaborations with photographers on a variety of photo books, including Belgian Autumn by Jan Rosseel, Interrogations by Donald Weber, and Black Passport by Stanley Greene.
The book War Porn is his latest project with photojournalist Christoph Bangert. Christoph will join him onstage to discuss their collaborative process – how they came to produce this book and their thought process along the way.
The talk will be followed by a book signing of War Porn.
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Christoph Bangert is a German based freelance photojournalist covering international political events and conflicts. He has worked in Palestine, Japan, Nigeria and Indonesia, and also extensively covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times and other publications. He has won awards from World Press Photo and POYi amongst others, and participated in the Joop Swart Masterclass.
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Teun van de Heijden is an award-winning designer and founder of Dutch design agency Heijdens Karwei. Often collaborating with photographers, the photobooks he has designed include Belgian Autumn by Jan Rosseel, Interrogations by Donald Weber, and Black Passport by Stanley Greene. For over ten years Teun van der Heijden has also designed the World Press Photo yearbooks and exhibitions. He regularly lectures at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Art Academy St. Joost in Breda and teaches workshops in Italy, Estonia, Angola, Nigeria and the US.
5:30 – 7:30 (Sat Sept 20) Book Signing:
Daylight Books Fall 2014
Pre-Launch Signing
Presented by Daylight
Featuring Linda Troeller, Marion Schneider, Robert Shults, Elaine Mayes, E. Brady Robinson, Hiroshi Watanabe and Wyatt Gallery
Please join us for a pre-launch book signing for Daylight’s Fall 2014 titles including Linda Troeller & Marion Schneider – Orgasm; Robert Shults – The Superlative Light; Elaine Mayes – Recently; Wyatt Gallery – #SANDY; E. Brady Robinson – Art Desks; and Hiroshi Watanabe – The Day the Dam Collapses. The artists will be present to chat, answer questions and sign books.
This event takes place in the Photoville Beer Garden.
Photographer and educator Robert Shults is based in Austin, Texas. He studied photography in Central America, and has traveled and photographed extensively throughout Latin America, Britain, and the United States. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Print Center, Coastal Arts League Museum, and The Camera Club of New York. He is a 2008 recipient of the Prix de la Photographie – Paris as well as a B&W Magazine Merit Award, and he has been published in WIRED, Smithsonian, and The New York Times, amongst others. From 2007 to 2010, he taught photography at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Marion Schneider is a scholar, ethnographer, and spa entrepreneur living in the state of Thuringia in Germany. She is the co-author, along with photographer Linda Troeller, of the acclaimed 1998 volume The Erotic Lives of Women (Scalo, 1998) that paved the way for her second book project with Troeller, Orgasm: Photographs and Interviews (Daylight, 2014). Schneider’s interest in exploring female sexuality originates from her work as an ethnographer and historian. She is the co-owner of Toskanaworld, a renowned group of spas and hotels in Germany that offer preventative and rehabilitative therapies.
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Hiroshi Watanabe is a Japanese photographer based in California. He graduated from Department of Photography, College of Art, at Nihon University. He moved to Los Angeles after graduation and became involved in the production of TV commercials, eventually working as a producer. In 1995 his passion for photography rekindled, and since then he has traveled extensively, photographing what he finds intriguing at that time and place. His work has been published around the world, and has been exhibited in many galleries across the United States and Japan.
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Elaine Mayes is a fine arts and documentary photographer who has been working with camera produced images since 1960. She received a BA in Art from Stanford University and studied photography and painting at the California School of Fine Arts. Her photographs have been exhibited at a variety of institutions including MOMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She has also published several books, including When I Dance, and Ki ‘i No Hawai’i. Currently she lives in Upstate, New York and is producing books and portfolios from her archives while also creating new work.
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Linda Troeller is an award-winning photographer based in New York. Her acclaimed book Chelsea Hotel: An Artist’s Memoir was exhibited at the F/Stop Photography Festival in Germany; the University of the Arts in Philadelphia; and the Melkweg Gallery and Coda Museum in The Netherlands. She also published Healing Waters with Aperture and Spa Journeys with powerHouse Books. She has co-authored two books with Marion Schneider –Erotic Lives of Women (Scalo, 1998) and Orgasm: Photographs and Interviews (Daylight, 2014). Troeller’s photographs are part of several collections including the University of Texas, Austin and the Smithsonian Museum.
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E. Brady Robinson received her BFA in photography from The Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and her MFA in photography from Cranbrook Art Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally at Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Civilian Art Projects, FotoWeekDC and Atlanta Celebrates Photography. Select collections include: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Orlando Museum of Art and Spanish Cultural Center in Santo Domingo, DR. Robinson is represented by Addison/Ripley Fine Art in Washington, DC. She has compiled her work on her recently launched website www.art-desks.com.
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Wyatt Gallery, a person not a place, received his BFA from NYU Tisch School of The Arts. He’s a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship, PDN 30 & Rising Stars, 25 Under 25 Up-and-Coming American Photographers and his photographs are in major collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the George Eastman House, and were featured in Moving Walls 19 at George Soros’ Open Society. His work has been featured in Esquire, Mother Jones, The New York Times, amongst others. His books raise awareness and donate 100% royalties to communities affected by natural disasters. Gallery is currently working on his next book Jewish Treasures of the Caribbean. www.wyattgallery.com
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Daylight is a non-profit organization dedicated to publishing art and photography books. By exploring the documentary mode along with the more conceptual concerns of fine-art, Daylight’s uniquely collectible publications work to revitalize the relationship between art, photography, and the world-at-large.
5:30 – 7:30 (Sat Sept 20) Artist Talk:
Storytelling @ MediaStorm
Presented by MediaStorm
Featuring Brian Storm
Brian Storm will be presenting about digital storytelling and the cinematic narrative. Discussing work by his production company MediaStorm, he will emphasize how storytelling continues to evolve as a result of technological innovations and an expanding media space. The digital age gives filmmakers, documentary photographers and photojournalists extraordinary and unprecedented new ways to tell stories.
Listen to the Talk!
Listen to the Talk! (Continued…)
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Brian Storm is the founder and executive producer of the award-winning multimedia production studio MediaStorm based in Brooklyn, New York.
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MediaStorm is an award-winning film production and interactive design studio whose work gives voice and meaning to the most pressing issues of our time. Our stories clarify complex issues, humanize statistics, and inspire audiences to take action on issues that matter.
12:00 -1:30 (Sun Sept 21) Workshop:
CYANOTYPES:
Blue Photographic Prints from Sunlight
Presented by Penumbra Foundation
Featuring Tricia Rosenkilde and Robert A. Schaefer
In 1842 Sir John Herschel decided that the Daguerreotype, the first photographic printing process, was too expensive, difficult and potentially lethal. Thus, he invented in that year the printing process to which he gave the name Cyanotype. It produced a monochromatic Prussian blue photographic print on inexpensive materials such as paper or cloth.
The Penumbra Foundation | Center for Alternative Photography will offer an introduction workshop to the Cyanotype Process. Participants of the workshop will be given a piece of paper pre-coated with the Cyanotype synthesizer on which they will place small objects (also supplied) before putting this assembly in sunlight. After the exposure, the paper will then be developed in a tray of tap water. This workshop is especially designed to introduce children to the Cyanotype Process; however, adults are certainly welcome to participate. Materials are provided, though small, transparent and/or translucent objects may be brought to the workshop as well as black and white negatives up to 5″ x 7″.
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Robert A. Schaefer began his photography career while studying and getting his MA Degree (Diplom Ingenieur) at the Technische Universität of Munich, Germany. With exhibitions in Munich, Frankfurt, Hannover, Hamburg, Paris and Graz, he moved to New York in 1981 where he began working with alternative printing processes from the 19th Century including the Van Dyke Process. This summer, he will spend an entire month at the Can Serrat Artist Colony outside Barcelona, Spain to produce a new body of Van Dykes and Cyanotypes. Schaefer currently teaches various photography courses at New York University, and the Domeischel Gallery in New York City handles his work.
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Born in New Jersey, Tricia Rosenkilde studied at Rutgers University where she received a BFA in painting and Art History in 1983. Her initial studies in painting transformed into an interest in photography when she spent a period of several years traveling and living in Europe, Australia and India. She is currently based in New York City, where she works as a freelance photographer and has taught alternative processes at Parsons School of Design and the Center for Alternative Photography.
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The Penumbra Foundation is a non-profit photographic arts and education organization devoted to offering a complete curriculum from the inception of photography in 1839 to the present digital age. Our goal is to be a comprehensive resource for photographers at any level; artists, students, professionals, historians, researchers, conservationists and curators who want to learn, practice, and research these photographic arts and processes. We also endeavor to continue to publicize the impact photography has had and continues to have on culture, history and the arts.
6:00 – 7:30 (Sat Sept 20) Workshop:
Building Fine Art Portfolios
Presented by Soho Photo Gallery
Featuring Sandra Carrion and Lois Youmans
Building an artist’s portfolio is a very personal journey. Selecting, editing, sequencing and presentation are key ingredients for assembling your body/bodies of work. Sandra and Lois will walk you through the process in an interactive presentation. You need different portfolios for different venues. For example submitting work to a gallery is not the same as entering a portfolio for a competition. Online galleries have specific instructions and are not the same as a portfolio for admission to a school program or grant proposal.
Examples of different approaches will be presented and a list of resources will be distributed to attending participants. Time will be allotted for questions and answers.
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Sandra Carrion’s photography has been recognized for its innovation and artistry throughout her career. Using techniques both traditional and contemporary, Sandra meticulously strives to reinvent her approach discovering underlying worlds hidden in what we walk past everyday. She is a photographer untethered, allowing only her eye to dictate what tumbles through her lens. She served as director of Soho Photo Gallery and is the creator of the International Krappy Kamera Competition and Exhibition. Sandra is a founding member of fotofoto Gallery and 9 East Contemporary Art Guild, both in Huntington, NY. She is currently teaching photography at Nassau Community College. She is co-owner of Image Factory Workshops, dedicated to experimental photography techniques.
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Lois Youmans’ photography is rooted in the exploration of the human condition, very often using damaged antique dolls to metaphorically illustrate her concepts. She uses a variety of alternative techniques in her work that reflect her love of antique processes. Her work has been shown internationally, with several solo exhibitions in New York, Italy, and Korea. She is a founding member and past president of fotofoto gallery in Huntington, NY. She is also a member of 9 East Contemporary Art Guild in Huntington, and Soho Photo Gallery in Manhattan. Youmans holds an MFA degree from Long Island University and is currently teaching photography at several Long Island colleges.
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Soho Photo Gallery, a cooperative membership organization, seeks to promote appreciation of photography as a fine art. For 43 years it has worked toward this goal in a variety of ways, the most important is exhibiting photography in its large gallery space in Tribeca. Showing work from artists throughout the United States as well as Europe, Asia, North and Latin America, we share our passion with a worldwide membership and audience. The gallery prides itself for its community outreach program; over the years it has presented photography exhibitions with community organizations including Broadway Cares, Shoot4Change, the Haitian Cultural Center, and the Josephine Herrick Project for Returning Veterans. Soho Photo is the creator of the famous Krappy Kamera Competition and exhibition. We also feature our other competitions for Alternative Processes, a Small Works Competition, and a National Competition open to all types of photography.
6:00 – 7:30 Workshop
Freelancers Guide
12:00 – 1:00 (Sun Sept 21) Panel Discussion:
Portfolio reviews, an insider’s look
Featuring Manjari Sharma and Ariel Shanberg in conversation with Stephen Mallon
Moderated by Stephen Mallon, artist Manjari Sharma and Ariel Shanberg, (Executive Director of the Woodstock Center of Photography) discuss portfolio reviews on how to get as much out of the review circuit as possible. This is not a common sense discussion, this is a talk from both sides of the table about how much business gets done at the bar and at the event vs your actual review. What’s the biggest thing you learned from a review? What’s the worst promo you’ve seen? What about follow ups? How long does an artist need to wait before reaching out again?
Listen to the recording of the Talk at Photoville.
Download their Portfolio Review Cheat Sheet here.
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This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Manjari Sharma is a photographer whose work explores personal mythology, representation, and experience. Manjari was born and raised in Mumbai, India and is based in Brooklyn. Her work has been featured in publications including Los Angeles Times, New York Times Blog, Monocle, Life, CNN, and Wired, amongst others. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Los Angeles and Spain, amongst others. Manjari was awarded The CENTER’s Curator’s Choice Award 2014 and her work was selected as honorable mention for the Santa Fe Prize in 2012. She is represented by ClampArt, New York and Richard Levy Gallery, New Mexico.
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Ariel Shanberg is executive director of Center of Photography at Woodstock, having originally joined the 501c organisation in 1999. He has curated many exhibitions at CPW, as well as at other venues including Light Factory, and the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. Shanberg served as a panelist for the New York Photo Festival Awards, the National Endowment for the Arts and Media Alliance’s Media Action Grant, amongst others, and a reviewer at regional & national SPE conferences, FotoFest, Portfolio Review Russia, and Rhubarb Rhubarb. He has contributed essays for various publications, including Aspect: The Chronicle for New Media Art, Contact Sheet, European Photography, and Exposure.
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Stephen Mallon is a photographer whose work focuses on construction sites, machinery and engineering. He has been commissioned by and his work featured online and in print for numerous outlets, including New York Magazine, Wired, GQ, Feature Shoot, PDN, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune, amongst others. His work has been exhibited widely, including during several photo festivals. Mallon’s work has been honored by Communication Arts, Photo District News, the New York Photo Festival, the Lucie Awards, Woodstock Film Festival, Look 3 Festival and the Bristol Biennial. Stephen is represented by Front Room Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
1:30 – 2:30 (Sun Sept 21) Panel Discussion:
The Everyday Movement and the Uphill
Battle Against Media Stereotypes
Presented by The Everyday Projects
Featuring Stephen Mayes, Peter DiCampo, Nana Kofi Acquah, Tina Remiz, Oscar Durand, Kiana Hayeri, Shin Woong-jae and Ruddy Roye
Since the @everydayafrica feed launched on Instagram two years ago, the concept has grown into a global movement of photographers using daily-life imagery to fight stereotypes on a community, city, country, or continent level: from @everydaybronx to @everydayasia, from @everydaylatinamerica to @everydayiran, from @everydayusa to @everydayeasterneurope, and dozens more.
@everydayafrica co-founder Peter DiCampo will give a brief presentation on the origins of the project, its education and online initiatives, an overview of the movement’s growth, and photographs from many of the Everyday Instagram feeds — then the founders of various Everyday projects will engage in a panel discussion on visual media stereotypes in their respective regions and their personal motivations and methods for adapting the Everyday model.
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This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Stephen Mayes for over twenty-five years has managed the work and careers of top-level photographers and artists in areas as diverse as art, fashion, photojournalism and commercial photography. As creative director, CEO and ambassador for the medium of photography, he has written successful business plans and reshaped operations for American, Asian and European imaging companies. Often described as a “futurist” Stephen has broadcast, taught and written extensively about the ethics and practice of photography. www.stephenmayes.co
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Peter DiCampo is a documentary photographer whose goal is to contribute his work to a dialogue on international development. He launched his freelance career while working as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Ghana. He has won several grants and honors, including from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, POYi, and World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass. His work has been published by National Geographic, TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many others. Peter is co-creator of Everyday Africa, an Instagram based project focused on daily-life images from across the continent to refute stereotypical media images.
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After six years in advertising, and winning multiple awards every single year, Nana Kofi Acquah (Everyday Africa) quit as Executive Creative Director of TBWA\Ghana, to pursue the less glamorous life of a photographer. He has so far worked for Corporates, NGOs and magazines across most of subsaharan Africa. He’s a Tedx speaker on Education, an award winning blogger and one of the most famous African photographers on Instagram, where he’s aptly known as @africashowboy. Nana’s clients include Hershey’s, Novartis, Vlisco, Nestle, Orica, Time Magazine, Forbes, The Financial Times, Geo France, Getty Images, Philips, Nike and a lot of non-profit organisations.
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Tina Remiz (Everyday Eastern Europe) is a documentary storyteller and visual artist of Latvian origin, currently based in the UK. She graduated from BA Photographic Arts at the University of Westminster in 2012, and currently works as a freelance photographer, specialising in reportage and portraiture. Both Remiz’s visual and written work has appeared in numerous national and international publications and has been exhibited in the UK and abroad. A lot of her personal work is concerned with the issues of migration and cultural identity, as Remiz reflect on my personal experience of growing up in the post-Soviet Latvia and immigrating to the West in late teens. Remiz is a founder of @EverydayEasternEurope project.
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Peruvian photojournalist Oscar Durand (Everyday Latin America) discovered visual storytelling by accident, while studying industrial engineering in Lima, Peru. He then moved to the United States where he launched his freelance career. Having a natural curiosity for people and places, in photojournalism Oscar found his ideal tool to explore the world. A graduate of the photojournalism program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Oscar focuses on social issues in Latin America working in photo and video with editorial clients and non-profit organizations. He is currently based in Lima, Peru.
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Kiana Hayeri (Everyday Middle East) was born in Iran in 1988. Moving to Canada while she was still a teenager, photography soon became her preferred way to bridge the communication gap faced in a new country with a new language and culture. Half way through her last year of university, Kiana put her life in a backpack and in search of her ‘home,’ started a nomad life. With a keen interest in documentary projects, she aims to use her camera to tell stories, with a social message. She is presently based out of Tehran, Iran.
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Shin Woong-jae (Everyday Asia) was born in Seoul, South Korea, and he graduated from School of the International Center of Photography, and he was awarded the ICP’s Director Fellowship during his Documentary and Photojournalism course in 2012. After finishing an internship at VII Photo in 2012, he started his career focusing on human rights issues and conflicts of urbanization in social landscape. His clients include The Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, and GQ Korea among others. He is also a contributing writer for PhotoDot Magazine of South Korea. He recently won the 2014 Rita K. Hillman Foundation Grant, and is participating in Eddie Adams Workshop XXVII.
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The Everyday Projects are a network of global collaborations — photographers revealing daily life in all its forms, the world over, through mobile photography shared on Instagram and other social media. The common goal is to transcend visual stereotypes of our respective regions, while celebrating global commonalities. The first project, Everyday Africa, launched in 2012 and is nearing 100,000 followers on Instagram at time of writing. 2014 saw the spread of a worldwide movement, with the launch of dozens of Everyday projects based on continents, countries, cities, and communities across the globe. Members of the original Everyday Africa project have also been involved in education, teaching photography and leading discussions on media stereotypes in classrooms in Chicago, the Bronx, and Sri Lanka, where students were encouraged to adapt their own Everyday feeds and tell their own localized stories.
2:00 – 3:30 (Sun Sept 21) Workshop:
Make Your Own Film Movie
with the Lomokino Camera
Presented by Lomography
Featuring Juan Hoyos and Stephanie Murano
The Lomokino camera is the only 35mm movie camera that allows you to create and share your own short movies. Learn more about the history of the film movies, how to load and use this camera, and how to create and shoot your own movies.
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This presentation will take place in the Photoville Workshops Area
Juan Hoyos is a New York based graphic designer and photographer. He has been an International Brand Ambassador for Lomography since 2010.
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Stephanie Murano is a Brooklyn based photographer and lover of adventure. Stephanie is constantly seeking her next story.
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Pictures are what Lomography is all about. Nothing compares to the feeling of visually diving into a pool of shining, new, sweet-smelling Lomographs. My pictures, your pictures, pictures of the world, pictures of fleeting moments, secret passions, boring, brou-ha, left toes, blurred nothings. Simply everything. Lomography collects, treasures and presents all of this.
3:00 – 4:00 (Sun Sept 21) Panel Discussion:
Personal Projects:
Long-term Commitment
Featuring Stella Kramer, Julie Grahame, Catherine Chalmers, Andi Schreiber and Marvi Lacar
Meet three photographers who are successfully executing personal projects. Marvi Lacar will talk about her project concerning mental illness, Andi Schreiber will talk about her series “Pretty, Please,” exploring middle-age in a youth-obsessed culture, and Catherine Chalmers looks at bugs, most recently working with leaf cutter ants in Costa Rica. They will present their work, discuss the long-term commitments involved and take questions afterwards.
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This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Stella Kramer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor and creative strategist based in New York City who works with photographers to help them shape their portfolios and websites, plan marketing campaigns, and see their work in a new light. Stella has worked for major publications, including The New York Times, People magazine, Sports Illustrated and Newsweek. While at The New York Times, Stella was part of the team that won both the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She also curates, teaches, reviews portfolios and blogs about photography.
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Julie Grahame is the publisher of aCurator, a full-screen photography website/magazine, and the aCurator blog, named one of the top 20 photography blogs by Life.com. Julie also represents the Estate of Yousuf Karsh for licensing, judges photography competitions worldwide, and writes for Emerging Photographer Magazine. In a previous life, she ran the Retna photo agency.
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Catherine Chalmers holds a B.S. in Engineering from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London. She has exhibited her artwork around the world, including MoMA P.S.1, New York; MassMoca, North Adams; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunsthalle Vienna; MOCA Taipei; among others. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, ArtNews, Artforum and on PBS, CNN, and BBC, amongst others. Her work has been published twice by Aperture, Food Chane (2000) and American Cockroach (2004). Her video “Safari” won Best Experimental Short at SXSW Film Festival in 2008. In 2010 Chalmers received at Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Andi Schreiber is a fine art and documentary photographer. A lifelong New Yorker, Andi was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island and currently lives in suburban Westchester County with her husband and sons. In her prior life she was a photojournalist and also worked as a magazine and newspaper picture editor in New York City. In 2013 Andi was a Critical Mass finalist and her photographs were recently exhibited at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been featured on the New York Times Lens Blog, Slate France, Feature Shoot and The Huffington Post.
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Marvi Lacar was born in the Philippines and moved to the US at the age of 15, starting her career as a photojournalist in 2004. Lacar has been recognized by Photo Levallois, Communication Arts, American Photography, Photo District News and received various other honors for her stills and video work. Lacar’s work on Female Genital Mutilation and early marriage in Kenya was her impetus for creating a collaborative platform for storytelling and self-expression. She is the founder of 1in20, an online venue meant to inspire candid conversations concerning mental illness. She is a contract curator for Facebook Paper and edits for various other clients.
3:00 – 4:30 (Sun Sept 21) Special Event:
PI_LTR:
On Building a Canon
Presented by Critical Practices Inc
Featuring Oliver Wasow
PI_LTR (Public Interface LaTableRonde) The PI-LTR format brings together 30 participants – some invited, some not – to engage in a public discussion concerning contemporary cultural conditions. Each participant will be given The Rules of the Game: PI-LTR (available/distributed at the Fair), which describe the standard practices for this program. Space is limited to 25 invited participants and 5 drop-ins.
This conversation will be audio recorded and made available on criticalpractices.org A transcription will be made available to all participants.
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This special event will take place in Photoville.
Oliver Wasow, (Prompter) born in Madison, WI in 1960 and currently resides in Rhinebeck, NY. Over the past 30 years he has engaged with the art world as an artist, gallery owner, educator and curator. Recently he has been experimenting with collapsing all of the above into the space of social media.
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CPI, founded in 2010 and incorporated in 2012, was established to support the emergence and development of new practices within the field of cultural production. We believe that the producers of critical culture are a community whose needs for peer discourse and engagement are underserved by current institutional conventions. Operating outside of normative institutional and marketplace models, CPI uses the common objectives, goals, and concerns of a diverse community of producers as its point of departure for programming. Our intent is to create a dynamic network and platform for the diverse points of view necessary to shape and sustain critical, theoretical, and artistic practices.
4:00 – 5:30 (Sun Sept 21) Workshop:
The Lowdown on Lenses
Presented by BKC
There’s a reason many top photographers will recommend you “buy the best glass you can afford.” It’s a simple matter of physics, and higher-quality lenses do make a noticeable difference in getting sharper, cleaner images with less distortion and richer colors. If you’re ready to move on from your kit lens but find the number of lens options dizzying, read on.
In this 90 minute seminar we’ll introduce you to the wonderful world of glass. Get the skinny on focal lengths, the differences between zooms and primes, and creatively controlling depth of field. We’ll discuss lenses from super-wide angle to telephoto, what’s up with that crop factor, how to achieve that cinematic background blur (bokeh), and which lenses provide the most bang for the buck. You’ll also get tips on what to look for when buying a new and used lens, so you can upgrade with confidence.
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BKC is a photo, video and creative education center located in the heart of Dumbo, Brooklyn. Our basic philosophy is simple: cut the crap. We’re founded upon the idea of learning by doing, whether it’s hands-on classes in studio lighting, a workshop on shooting HD Video for Youtube, unleashing the potential of Lightroom or just how to use your DSLR, our smart and simple approach and awesome teachers will help you learn something new, build on your creativity, and expand your goals.
The BKC team of experienced educators, artists, curators and creative professionals is totally dedicated to providing you with smart, no-nonsense instruction and creating an encouraging environment for everyday New Yorkers to learn a skill, confidently progress in their practice, or unearth a hidden talent. We keep classes at a price you can afford, and offer plenty of nights and weekend sessions for working folks. Never stop learning.
4:30 – 5:30 (Sun Sept 21) Conversation:
Land, Labor, Work
Featuring Matt Black and Alejandro Cartagena
Matt Black documents the changing human relationship to food, farming, and the environment. His work on contemporary rural life in the agricultural empire of his native Central California led him to the indigenous farming communities in the Mixteca region of southern Mexico, and their collapse from environmental degradation and migration.
Alejandro Cartagena documents the development of suburbs and the invisible consequences of this 21st century Mexican progress, where the rapid construction of houses outweighs the development of a social infrastructure. His project Car Poolers shows the lack of proper public transportation, which forces workers to commute hours from new housing developments in northern Mexico to the wealthy southern Monterrey suburbs.
The two bodies of photography are long-term investigations into the shifting relationship between people and land and the role that available work and the labor force plays in structuring communities. They explore the ecosystem of rural, suburban and urban spaces, how people change land in the name of progress and how that in turn affects their daily lives.
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The conversation will be followed by a book signing of Alejandro Cartagena’s Carpoolers.
Matt Black currently has an exhibition on view at Anastasia Photo.
Matt Black – From Clouds to Dust, September 12 – October 19, Anastasia Photo, 166 Orchard St.
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This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Alejandro Cartagena lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues in the Latin-American region. Over the course of his career he has received several awards including the Photolucida Critical Mass book awards and PYOi amongst others. His work has been shown internationally, including at GuatePhoto festival in Guatemala City, FOTOFEST in Houston Texas, and UNSEEN by FOAM in Amsterdam. Alejandro’s work has been published in magazines and newspapers such as Newsweek, Le Monde, and the New York Times. His book Suburbia Mexicana was published by Photolucida and Daylight books in 2011.
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A native of rural California, Matt Black (b 1970) grew up in a small town in the Central Valley, a vast agricultural area in the heart of the state. He began taking photographs at a young age and worked as a newspaper photographer while in his teens. His work has been honored by the World Press Photo Foundation, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation, Pictures of the Year International, the Center for Cultural Innovation, and others. His exhibition “From Clouds to Dust,” is on view at Anastasia Photo through October 19th.
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Natasha Iskander, Associate Professor of Public Policy, conducts research on labor migration and economic development, on labor mobilization and its relationship to workforce development, and on processes of institutional innovation and organizational learning. Her recent award-wining book, entitled Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico (Cornell University Press: 2010), examines how the governments of Mexico and Morocco elaborated policies to build a link between labor emigration and local economic development. Natasha Iskander received her PhD in Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds a Masters in City Planning from MIT, and a BA in Cultural Studies from Stanford University. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked for several years in non-profits in Egypt and the United States on issues of urban development, micro credit and community health planning. She has also worked as a community activist and migrant labor organizer.
6:00 – 7:30 (Sun Sept 21) Panel Discussion:
Land Grabbing:
Raising Awareness with Multimedia
Presented by Blue Chalk Media & The University of Virginia, with the participation of Human Rights Watch, Grassroots International, Why Hunger.
Featuring Alfredo Bini, Greg Moyer, Iain Levine, Paolo D’Odorico, and Saulo Araujo
A panel of leading experts in the field will address land grabbing as a complex international and environmental phenomenon.
Lately there have often been shortcomings in providing in depth coverage for stories like this because, due to space restrictions on the traditional media outlets, even more often the articles have focused only on specific aspects rather than the phenomenon as a whole. In spite of these limits, how can photography and multimedia be used as a tool for raising awareness?
Conveying in-depth information and analysis about controversial issues requires time and long-term research in an age when the public’s attention level is dwindling and increasingly focused on breaking news and sound bytes.
Using land grabbing as a case study, photographer Alfredo Bini and media executive Greg Moyer meet with non-profit organizations and researchers to discuss the potential for issue-based multimedia storytelling.
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This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Alfredo Bini is a free-lance photojournalist. His work, which is published by the major international media, is often used as debating material during conferences, television programs and festivals. It has also been exhibited and projected in museums, galleries and universities. He works on editorial and corporate assignments and is represented by the French agency Cosmos Photo.
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Greg Moyer is an award-winning Senior Media Executive with extensive international experience who has operated in senior positions across the television and digital media industries and has worked with esteemed brands such as Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, VOOM HD, Fine Living Network and Food Network both domestically and internationally. Most recently he has founded a new visual communications company called Blue Chalk Media based in Brooklyn, NY.
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Iain Levine is the Program Director at Human Rights Watch. In January 2012 HRW published a report that examines the first year of Gambella’s (Ethiopia) villagization program. It details the involuntary nature of the transfers, loss of livelihoods, deteriorating food situation, and ongoing abuses by the armed forces against the affected people. Many of the areas from which people are being moved are slated for leasing by the government for commercial agricultural development.
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Paolo D’Odorico is a professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, who has recently written and published papers on the effects of land grabbing on water and food security in areas targeted by large scale land acquisitions. His work focuses on eco-hydrology, soil erosion, water use for food production, and desertification, with field research in Southern Africa and North America.
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Saulo Araujo is the Director of the Global Movements Program at WhyHunger. He works to promote initiatives for food sovereignty and agroecology by identifying resources and network opportunities that will strengthen the work of grassroots organizations and social movements. He works with urban and rural families in the US and abroad. He has served as the Latin America Program Coordinator for Grassroots International, and as consultant to international funders, such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.”
6:00 – 7:30 (Sun Sept 21) Workshop:
Developing Your Composition Skills
Presented by International Center of Photography
Featuring Anja Hitzenberger
This workshop is for photographers who want to refine and develop their composition skills. Through image analysis we discuss — among others — lines, movement, light, shadow, colors—and possibly people—in the environment.
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Anja Hitzenberger is a photographer, filmmaker and educator whose work focuses on the body and its relationship to architecture and space, as well as themes relating to food and how people eat. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows, in film festivals, and on theater stages throughout Europe, the United States, South America and Asia. She studied at the International Center of Photography (ICP full-time program), where she is now on the faculty. Anja enjoys teaching students from different nationalities, and has taught workshops in China, Denmark and the Czech Republic.
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The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to the practice and understanding of photography and the reproduced image in all its forms. Through our exhibitions, educational programs, and community outreach, we offer an open forum for dialogue about the role images play in our culture. Since our founding, we have presented more than 700 exhibitions and offered thousands of classes, providing instruction at every level. ICP is a center where photographers and artists, students and scholars can create and interpret the world of the image within our comprehensive educational facilities and archive.
6:00 – 7:30 (Friday Sept 26) Talk:
Photographers’ Sketchbooks
Presented by Thames & Hudson
Featuring Stephen McLaren, Bryan Formhals, Graham MacIndoe, Christophe Agou, Yoshi and Tamara Kametani
Photographers’ Sketchbooks celebrates the creative processes of the modern photographic era, in which blogs and Instagram streams function alongside analog albums and contact sheets, and the traditional notebook takes the form of Polaroid studies, smartphone pictures, found photography, experimental image-making, and self-published photo-zines. In this panel discussion, the authors will discuss the book with contributors from the book, focusing on insights, tips and anecdotes, and giving us a glimpse of how photographers turn their photo-diaries into the projects we see in galleries, photobooks and via online platforms.
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Stephen McLaren is a photographer, writer, and curator based in San Francisco. He is the co-author (with Sophie Howarth) of Street Photography Now.
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Bryan Formhals is a New York based photographer and writer. He is founding editor of LPV Magazine and Photographs on the Brain, as well as Content Strategist for B&H Photo.
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Graham MacIndoe
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Christophe Agou
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IPG Project (Yoshi and Tamara Kametani)
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Thames & Hudson: The world’s great publisher of illustrated books on art, architecture, design, fashion, archaeology and history.
6:00 – 7:00 (Fri Sept 26) Artist Talk:
For the Love of Books:
Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down
Presented by Many Voices
Featuring Eugene Richards
The Arkansas Delta has been called the soul of the South, a place ruled by race, a forgotten place. Eugene Richards first went to the Delta as a volunteer social worker in 1969. It was a year after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a time when cotton, religion, prejudice, and poverty characterized most people’s lives. Over the years Richards would keep returning. Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Dowm speaks then of remembrance and change, of struggle and privation, of loving and loss.
In his presentation, Richards will show excerpts from earlier self-published works, among them Dorchester Days (1978), a study of the inner city neighborhood where he was born, and War is Personal (2010), a chronicle of the consequences of the Iraq War. He will then discuss the motivations, struggles, and joy of creating his deeply personal new book.
The presentation will be followed by a book signing of Red Ball of the Sun Slipping Down.
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This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Eugene Richards is a photographer, writer, and documentary filmmaker who has authored seventeen books, the most recent being “The Blue Room” (Phaidon, 2010), “War Is Personal” (Many Voices Press, 2010), and “Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down” (Many Voices Press, 2014). Among numerous honors, Richards has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for coverage of the disadvantaged.
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Many Voices is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3), non-profit organization, founded with the intent of producing books and films on contemporary social issues.
12:00 – 1:30 (Sat Sept 27) Workshop:
CYANOTYPES:
Blue Photographic Prints from Sunlight
Presented by Penumbra Foundation
Featuring Tricia Rosenkilde and Robert A. Schaefer
In 1842 Sir John Herschel decided that the Daguerreotype, the first photographic printing process, was too expensive, difficult and potentially lethal. Thus, he invented in that year the printing process to which he gave the name Cyanotype. It produced a monochromatic Prussian blue photographic print on inexpensive materials such as paper or cloth.
The Penumbra Foundation | Center for Alternative Photography will offer an introduction workshop to the Cyanotype Process. Participants of the workshop will be given a piece of paper pre-coated with the Cyanotype synthesizer on which they will place small objects (also supplied) before putting this assembly in sunlight. After the exposure, the paper will then be developed in a tray of tap water. This workshop is especially designed to introduce children to the Cyanotype Process; however, adults are certainly welcome to participate. Materials are provided, though small, transparent and/or translucent objects may be brought to the workshop as well as black and white negatives up to 5″ x 7″.
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Robert A. Schaefer began his photography career while studying and getting his MA Degree (Diplom Ingenieur) at the Technische Universität of Munich, Germany. With exhibitions in Munich, Frankfurt, Hannover, Hamburg, Paris and Graz, he moved to New York in 1981 where he began working with alternative printing processes from the 19th Century including the Van Dyke Process. This summer, he will spend an entire month at the Can Serrat Artist Colony outside Barcelona, Spain to produce a new body of Van Dykes and Cyanotypes. Schaefer currently teaches various photography courses at New York University, and the Domeischel Gallery in New York City handles his work.
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Born in New Jersey, Tricia Rosenkilde studied at Rutgers University where she received a BFA in painting and Art History in 1983. Her initial studies in painting transformed into an interest in photography when she spent a period of several years traveling and living in Europe, Australia and India. She is currently based in New York City, where she works as a freelance photographer and has taught alternative processes at Parsons School of Design and the Center for Alternative Photography.
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The Penumbra Foundation is a non-profit photographic arts and education organization devoted to offering a complete curriculum from the inception of photography in 1839 to the present digital age. Our goal is to be a comprehensive resource for photographers at any level; artists, students, professionals, historians, researchers, conservationists and curators who want to learn, practice, and research these photographic arts and processes. We also endeavor to continue to publicize the impact photography has had and continues to have on culture, history and the arts.
12:30 – 1:30 (Sept 27) Artist Talk:
Sophie Gamand: Wet Dog Portraits
Presented by WPO and SWPA
Featuring Sophie Gamand and Bill Hunt
Sophie Gamand will be discussing her portrait series about wet dogs, which recently won the Sony World Photography Award, her thought process behind it and how she actually shot these quirky portraits of our furry friends.
Sophie explains, “The word “pet” has been referred to as “the indulged child”, as early as the 15th Century. A big city like New York, a place not primarily designed for animals, seems to emphasize the idea that the nature of our favorite companions has been engineered to fit the human lifestyle. Are dogs still animals? Or are they the new children of a human community that grows increasingly disconnected? In many cases, dogs are social anchors and sometimes replace spouses, children, friends. They have become the center of the home, around which everything – and sometimes everyone – revolves. Has this special treatment influenced the way dogs behave and interact with humans? Has our codependent relationship to dogs changed their nature? Moreover, what does this bond reveal about our own social challenges and solitude?”
Next to discussing her latest series, which gained such recognition, she will also be talk about how she got to that point, winning the Sony Award and getting a book deal, so listen up for some tips on how to advance your career.
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Sophie Gamand is a French fine-art photographer living and working in Brooklyn. Her photography explores the contemporary dynamics in the relationship between dogs and people. She won the prestigious Sony World Photography Portraiture award in 2014 for her acclaimed series Wet Dog and is currently working on her first book.
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The World Photography Organisation (WPO) supports professional, amateur and student photography, lending a global platform for the industry to communicate, congregate and showcase current trends in all genres of photography. Within the WPO portfolio are the Sony World Photography Awards, Student Focus, The Magazine and the most recent addition, Photo Shanghai.
2:00 – 3:00 (Sat Sept 27) Panel Discussion:
Hyphenated:
First and Second Generation American
Photographers in Conversation
Presented by Visionaries
Curated by Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel (Sri Lankan-American)
Featuring Adama Delphine Fawundu (Sierra Leonean-American), Pete Pin (Cambodian-American) and Keisha Scarville (Guyanese-American)
Visionaries is excited to return to Photoville this year to present Hyphenated, featuring first and second generation American photographers who explore themes of identity, memory, home and belonging through their work. As new Americans, these artists often live in multiple worlds. With their unique insider-outsider access and perspective, they represent and probe their own past and present — bridging the gap between geographically separated but historically connected communities. Rather than having their stories told to them, these artists imagine the spaces in between, narrating the “Hyphenated” experience in the first person.
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This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Adama Delphine Fawundu is a Sierra Leonean-American fine artist and educator born in Brooklyn, NY to a mother from Equatorial Guinea and a father from Sierra Leone, West Africa. Her latest series Deconstructing SHE examines the theory of social constructivism in the development of identity. What impact do post-Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and postcolonial societies have on the development of social constructs such as “race,” “gender,” and “class?” How valid are these constructs as reflected in personal identity? Through this performance art series of still and silent monologues, Fawundu transforms herself into various personalities as she delves into this investigation of self and society.
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Pete Pin is a Brooklyn-based Cambodian-American photographer. Born in the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the border of Cambodia and Thailand following the Cambodian Killing Fields and raised in California as a first generation refugee, he uses his work to explore the legacy of the Killing Fields in the Cambodian-American diaspora. For the past four years, he has been photographing in Cambodian communities across the U.S., with the aim of using photography to create generational dialogue through community engagement and collaborative storytelling. Pin is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the International Center of Photography.
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Keisha Scarville self identifies as a first generation Guyanese-American-Brooklynite. She photographs her family and common everyday objects in order to investigate issues surrounding identity and memory. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Studio Museum of Harlem, Rush Arts Gallery, Bric Arts Media House, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. In addition, her work has appeared in Transition Magazine, Nueva Luz, Photo District News.edu, ARC Magazine, Time, Vibe, Nylon, and The New York Times where her work has also received critical review. Currently, Keisha is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography.
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Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel is a filmmaker and photographer whose projects connect personal stories to larger themes of migration, identity and movement as activism. Her company, Fine Grain Films, recently completed Claiming Our Voice, a film about South Asian domestic workers in New York. She has worked on several documentary films for PBS Frontline, Independent Lens, POV and BBC. In addition to creating her own work, she presents artists through her nomadic series, Visionaries. She is the Associate Director of Anastasia Photo, a gallery specializing in documentary photography and photojournalism. Samuel studied anthropology and photography at New York University and received her Master of International Affairs from Columbia University with a focus on media and economic development.
2:00 – 3:30 (Sat Sept 27) Workshop:
Approaches to Portrait Photography
Presented by Dirk Anschütz
Featuring Dirk Anschütz
This workshop will explore different approaches to portrait photography. We will cover different aspects from the philosophical to the practical. It will include discussions and hands-on demonstrations of several different ways to set up and execute a portrait session.
During the first half of the workshop we will look at and discuss portraits shot by a variety of photographers. Whilst in the second half you will get a chance to try out some different approaches, with a variety of set up shoots.
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Dirk Anschütz is an award winning fine art and commercial photographer, specializing in portraiture and sports. His clients include Time, Der Spiegel, ESPN The Magazine, Stern, Bravo, Adidas, and BMW. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows. He lives with his family in New York and plays soccer for the Grand Street Wanderers.
3:30 – 4:30 (Sat Sept 27) Panel:
Testament: Chris Hondros
Presented by Chris Hondros Fund
Featuring Sandy Ciric, Francisco Bernasconi, Mario Tama and Todd Heisler
As a photographer working in the world’s most difficult and dangerous places, Chris Hondros had the distinctive ability to connect his viewers with people embroiled in far-flung and sometimes obscure conflicts. He recognized the shared humanity among those affected by war, regardless of culture or beliefs, and he was determined to share their challenges to the wider world in the hope of provoking thought, raising awareness, and fostering understanding. Directors of the Chris Hondros Fund and co-editors of Testament, a collection of Hondros’s writing and photography which was published this year will discuss Hondros’s life and work.
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This presentation will take place in the Photoville Talk Area – located at the storefront of One Brooklyn Bridge Park at corner of Joralemon Street & Furman Street.
Sandy Ciric is the Director of Photography at Getty Images News for the Americas, where she coordinates coverage for Getty’s news wire service. She was a member of the initial team of photographers and editors that helped guide Getty Images’ entry into the editorial market. Prior to her work at Getty Images, Sandy held various positions at the Gamma Liaison photo agency, including manager of the news editing division. Sandy also consults on book projects and exhibitions, and most recently co-edited Testament. She is a graduate of Tufts University and Columbia University, where she earned a masters degree in political science.
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Francisco Bernasconi is currently the Vice President for Getty Images’ News where he manages a staff of award-winning photojournalists who capture the defining moments around the globe.
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Mario Tama was a freelancer for the Washington Post and Agence France-Press, before joining Getty Images as a staff photographer in 2001 and has since covered global events including September 11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the funeral of Pope John Paul II and Hurricane Katrina. His work on Baghdad’s orphans was exhibited at Visa Pour L’Image in France and his photographs from Hurricane Katrina were featured in National Geographic, Newsweek and newspapers worldwide. In 2008 he was nominated for an Emmy for his documentary work on Coney Island and won Cliff Edom’s New America Award for his work in New Orleans, amongst numerous other honors.
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Todd Heisler is a staff photographer for The New York Times. Prior to the New York Times, Heisler was staff at the Rocky Mountain News where he was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for “Final Salute,” a series of photographs, taken over the course of a year, profiling the funerals of Marines who died in the war. Images from “Final Salute” also won a first prize in the World Press Photo awards, first place in newspaper feature photography for theNational Headliner Awards[ and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for the “Community Service Photojournalism” category.
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The Chris Hondros Fund was founded in April 2011 in honor of photojournalist Chris Hondros, who was killed April 20, 2011 on assignment in Misurata, Libya. Hondros, a senior staff photographer with Getty Images since 2000, has covered most of the world’s conflicts since the late 1990s, including those in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
The Fund seeks to continue and preserve Hondros’s distinctive ability to bring a visual history of shared human experiences into the public eye. To this end, the Fund supports and advances the work of photojournalists who espouse Hondros’ legacy and vision, and raises awareness and educates the public of the issues facing photojournalists reporting from conflict-areas around the world.
