I participated in the New York Photo Festival for the second year in row and it's second year in existence. The New York Photo Festival was founded in January 2007 by Frank Evers and Daniel Power in an effort to establish a world-class photo festival in the United States dedicated to the "Future of Contemporary Photography". Unlike other festivals which focus more on established masters of photography or previously produced works, the New York Photo Festival is focused on providing a platform for discovering contemporary photography through an intellectual presentation of ideas and previously unseen work.
Two of my images from Nicaragua were shown at the New York Photo Festival in Powerhouse Books in a slideshow format and one of the curators of the show even sent me an email with photographs of my images exhibited. See below.
Dear Photographer,
Congratulations! Your images were shown at the NYPH ’09 festival yesterday. Enclosed you will find installation views of your images as they appeared on the festival’s screen.
The festival is enjoying great crowds. The organisers are all grateful for your participation in this global project. Thank you again for enriching the visual experience of festival goers.
Sincerely,
William A. Ewing
Curator
New York Photo Festival ‘09
Director, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
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After 3 days of photography exhibits and lectures, two exhibits stood out the most to me as they allowed me to reflect on my passions for youth, the Spanish language, and marrying the written word with the visual image.
American Youth by the photographers of Redux Pictures launched their book and exhibit at the NYPH. A project I would have loved to have participated in had I know about it prior. Having worked with, photographed, and mentored youth how to photograph themselves for the past ten years, the photographs really hit home. It was interesting to see a solid collection of photographs of youth by a variety of photographers with different styles. In each photograph, I thought to myself, how would I have taken picture? How would the youth in the photographs have photographed themselves?
The other exhibit which I found mysteriously beautiful and omnious was titled “Tu/Mi Placer” which showed diptychs with images by Luis González Palma with words in Spanish by Graciela de Oliveira. The first line of the text was always ‘NO SERA’ followed by a statement reflecting the logic of an imbalanced relationship. The viewer read the pieces as if they were in their ophthalmologists office taking an eye exam, blinded by love.
