all Festivaled out

So, the Festival is over I am exhausted but visually satisfied. I had tons of fun and I will write some more about the highlights next week. You can read the list of award winners here. Congratulations to all the winners and especially to Amy Stein for reppin' SVA in the Canon G9 winner's circle.

New York Photo Awards, 2008 Nominees

Over the next, few days leading up to the festival on the 14th I hope to complete this compilation of portfolio websites for yours and my photographic surfing pleasure. If you have any comments of portfolio suggestions, requests for additions and or removals please email or comment in this post’s comment section.

2008 Nominees

Multimedia Photo / Audio Ed Kashi Jessica Dimmock Vincent Baillais Multimedia Video / Audio Anthony Fuller Brenda Ann Kennealy Christine Gatti Marcus Bleasdale Michele Borzoni Patrick Brown Shannon Ghannam Advertising - Series Chase Jarvis Flynn Larsen John Offenbach Marilyn Minter Marlene Marino Matt Hoyle or is it this guy Matt Hoyle Nigel Parry Raul Krebs Shi Xiaofan Simone Lewis Advertising - Single Carol Friedman David Harriman Dominik Sklarzyk Jason Bell Jill Greenberg Joel Redman Minori Murakami Paul Elledge Editorial - Series Alex Tehrani Balazs Gardi Benny Snyder Brent Stirton Christopher Morris Danny Wilcox Frazier Donald Weber Ed Kashi Elliott Erwitt Espen Rasmussen Jan Banning Marcin Łobaczewski Marlene Marino Michele Borzoni Moises Saman Myriam Abdelaziz Nigel Parry Paolo Pellegrin Paula Bronstein Sally Peterson Tivadar Domaniczky Yuri Kozyrev Editorial - Single Alana Cundy Benjamin Rusnak Benny Snyder Bob Bovin Chenoa Maxwell David Black Deirdre Brennan Ed Kashi Filippo Mutani Francesco Tonelli Igor Stevanovic Larry Louie Lyle Owerko Maciej Nabrdalik Marc Yankus Marcin Łobaczewski Sarah Bones Tanit Sakakini

Personal work / fine art - Series Aaron Hobson Adam Bell Andres Gonzalez Anthony Blasko Bill Armstrong Borkur Sigthorsson Christian Patterson Edgar Martins Erica Mcdonald Greg Merhar Gregg LeFevre Harold Glit Kyoko Hamada Lamia Maria Abillama Leslie Sokolow Loretta Rae Keith Mark W. Mann Martine Fougeron Michael Corridore Santiago Mostyn Will Steacy Personal work/ fine art - Single Andrea Sohler Cesar Lechowick Filippo Mutani Gabriela Herman Jessica Todd Harper Juliana Beasley Marc Yankus Matthew Weston Melanie Einzig Noah Greenberg Paulo Roberto Rob Hann Shannon Fagan Sian Kennedy Sinisa Vlajkovic Tanit Sakakini Ugnius Gelguda Willamain Somma Photography Book Amy Stein Anders Birch Ashley Gilbertson Christoph Bangert Christian Marclay Danny Wilcox Frazier Edmund Clark Jessica Dimmock Jessica Todd Harper Jill Greenberg Jim Reed Joan Villaplana Johnny Miller KayLynn Deveney Lisa M. Robinson Martine Fougeron Matthew Monteith Michael Cogliantry Naho Kubota Paolo Pellegrin Pierre Crocquet Romain Blanquart

Student Categories Student Editorial - Series Christina Clusiau Jesse Slotterback Monique Jaques Steph Plourde-Simard Tobias Kruse Tzu Cheng Liu Student Editorial - Single Alexander Gilfillan Joannie Lafrenière Kevin Kunishi Laurent Peter Markus Linderoth Paul Patrick Borhaug Tiana Markova-Gold Toni Greaves Student Personal work/ fine art - Series Adam Rose Anna Skladmann Annie Thornton Brett Bell Bruno Quinquet Christina Clusiau Christina Tisi-Kramer Daniel Holfeld Jason Reblando Katarina Wos Kelly Heck Laura Glabman Lisa Cook Rick Odell Satomi Shirai Sheila Griffin Tobias Kruse Veilhan Clemence Yanwu YUAN Student Personal work/ fine art - Single Alana Celii Andy Tew Becky Holladay Douglas Emery Emily Burke Harlan Erskine Jasper Sanidad Jill Cole John Sloan Josephine Friedrich Kelci McIntosh Lara Wechsler Lisa Albert Maki Ueno Michael Ott Rhea Karam Rhian Walters Ruthie Shapiro Steve Coleman Tzvetana Tchakarova Student Photography Book Bryan Lear Collin LaFleche Emily Burke Tiana Markova-Gold

2008 New York Photo Award Nominee

Harlan Erskine, “Guest Bedroom. Vero Beach, Florida” 30" x 24" © 2007

The image above was my submission to the Student Personal work / fine art - Single category that is now a nominated work.

From the events Press Release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The New York Photo Festival is pleased to announce the Nominees for the New York Photo Awards View the Nominees at  www.newyorkphotoawards.com Friday, May 16, 2008 Awards Begin at 8pm St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn After Party Begins at 9:30pm The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn Sponsored by PhotoShelter Inc. Music by DJ Disco Wiz Drinks Courtesy of Stella Artois Tickets available at www.newyorkphotofestival.com/tickets.html The nominees for New York Photo Awards have just been announced! View the list at www.newyorkphotoawards.com The New York Photo Festival invites you to celebrate the work of the Winners and Honorable Mentions of the inaugural New York Photo Awards. The New York Photo Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, May 16 at 8pm.  Selected works of the Winners and Honorable Mentions will be presented on the big screen before a packed audience of industry luminaries. Sixteen major awards will be publicly presented to the Award Winners, and thirty-two artists will receive Honorable Mention certificates. One Award and two Honorable Mention certificates will be presented in each of the following categories: Editorial (series/single), Personal Work/ Unpublished/ Fine Art (series/single), Advertising (series/single), Books, Multimedia (photo/audio and video/audio), and in each of the Student categories: Editorial (series/single), Personal Work/ Unpublished/ Fine Art (series/single), Books, and Multimedia (photo/audio and video/audio). Each category winner will also receive a Canon PowerShot G9 Digital Camera, courtesy of Canon USA. Located in the St. Ann’s Theater, designed to accommodate 500 persons, the ceremony will feature guest speakers, a/v projections of winning works, presentation of the awards and subsequent acceptance speeches. Award Presenters include: Tim Barber (tinyvices.com and New York Photo Festival curator), Michelle Bogre (Parsons New School for Design), David Friend (Vanity Fair), photographer Lauren Greenfield, Bill Hunt (Hasted Hunt Gallery), Meagan Keane (PhotoShelter), Charlie Melcher (Melcher Media), Alison Morley  (International Center of Photography), Jules Naudet (Hachette Filipacchi), Evan Nisselson (Digital Railroad), Jody Quon (New York magazine), David Schonauer (American Photo), Mary Virginia Swanson (Marketing Consultant and Educator), Lauren Wendle (PDN), and the festival founders and co-chairmen, Frank Evers of VII Photo Agency and Daniel Power of powerHouse Books. The New York Photo Awards After Party will be located at The powerHouse Arena and will begin at 9:30pm. Classic soul tunes courtesy of the legendary DJ Disco Wiz. Drinks will be served. Admission to the Awards Ceremony and After-Party is included in the Evening Programming ticket. About the New York Photo Awards: A new international, annual competition launched during the New York Photo Festival, the New York Photo Awards, will honor talented photographers from all over the world whose exceptional work breaks new grounds visually, intellectually and aesthetically. The Awards will give those visual artists the opportunity to reach key decision makers in the photographic community and the editorial, fine art and fashion worlds. All Award Winners and Honorable Mentions will enjoy unprecedented visibility for their work. In addition to the New York Photo Awards ceremony, their work will be showcased on the New York Photo Awards and New York Photo Festival websites, and published in leading photo magazines. These artists are also automatically eligible for inclusion in a beautifully produced New York Photo Awards Annual by powerHouse Books. The Annual will be published in November 2008. Jury: The Chairwoman of the jury is Elisabeth Biondi (The New Yorker). The members of the jury are: Bill Hunt (Hasted Hunt Gallery), Jody Quon (New York magazine), Benjamin Trigano (M + B Gallery), and Charlie Melcher (Melcher Media) from the New York Photo Festival Advisory Board, photographer Lauren Greenfield, Tim Barber (of tinyvices.com, and New York Photo Festival curator), and the festival's founders and co-chairmen: Frank Evers of VII Photo Agency and Daniel Power of powerHouse Books. A separate set of jurors from the multimedia industry will judge submissions in the Multimedia category, including the Snorri Bros. (famed Sprint commercial directors), Bjarke Myrthu (Magnum In Motion), Meredith Birkett (MSNBC) and Greg Clayman (MTV), as well as Lauren Greenfield, Frank Evers, and Daniel Power. As part of PhotoShelter Inc.’s sponsorship of the event, the PhotoShelter Personal Archive will be used to store each photographer’s images, distribute galleries to jury members, support the process of filtering and the ultimate selection of winning images.  The Personal Archive is PhotoShelter’s solution that allows photographers to archive, organize, distribute and sell their images online with powerfull tools including slideshows, lightboxes, ecommerce capabilities, and website customization. DJ Disco Wiz, (born Luis Cedeño), is credited with being the first Latino DJ in Hip-Hop music. Wiz teamed up with Casanova Fly (Grandmaster Caz), to form the Mighty Force crew in the mid-70s in the Bronx. Wiz is also credited for being the first DJ to create a "mixed plate" in 1977 (hip-hop’s first mixed dub recording) when he and Caz combined sound bites, special effects and paused beats. The creator of The Hip-Hop Meets Spoken Wordz Series, a hip-hop and poetry performance series that gives a voice to up and coming Latino talent in New York City, Wiz has performed as a poet at the Apollo Theater and the landmark Nuyorican Poets Cafe. A major contributor to the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, Wiz is also a board member of the Universal Federation for the Preservation of Hip Hop Culture, chaired by Afrika Bambaataa of the Universal Zulu Nation. At present time Wiz is co-authoring his memoirs with Simon & Schuster author Ivan Sanchez. The book is titled, It’s Just Begun: The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip-Hop’s First Latino DJ.

For more information, please contact Sara Rosen, Publicity Director New York Photo Festival, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: 212-604-9074 x105, Fax: 212-366-5247 email: sara[at]nyphotofestival.com

Tonight!!! William Greiner opening at Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Loungers
Noac, 1995, Digital C-Type Print, Signed & Numbered Verso

I am exhausted, spent and still unfinished with my final projects for the School year but I have to go to this for a bit tonight. I'm looking forward to seeing the final images in printed form. So far, I have only viewed Greiner's work on his website and his blog.

FALLEN PARADISE — William Greiner
May 1 — June 27

OPENING RECEPTION: May 1, 6pm — 8pm

This is the underbelly of pre-Katrina New Orleans. Greiner presents an image of a city that was already devastated, by neglect and abandonment, long before natural disaster struck. His imaging of New Orleans' urban vernacular is perceptively pictured through a carefully constructed use of color, form and content.

William Greiner's modus operandi is the American Color Tradition — the snapshot that isn't. Here, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. The seemingly objective actuality of the city, its banality, its ordinary everyday impression, is transformed into a vista of flush saturated palettes of color. Born, raised and (until Katrina) living and working in the city, New Orleans has always been an importnt source of inspiration for Greiner's work.

Here, a decade of looking and picturing his immediate environment, is brought together and displayed for the first time. Fallen Paradise is a celebration of apparent incidental imagery that is, of course, abound in formal devices — frame, vantage point, shape and line. Although there exists an autobiographical subtext, Greiner is most successful in compelling us to also look, not just at his city, but at the photograph itself. Whilst the importance of his subject does not disappear, these images function as photographic artifact — at once, they are observation and cultural object.

William Geiner lives and works in Baton Roughe, Louisiana.

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

111 Front Street, Suite 206
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Miami Basel to Brooklyn and then straight into finals...

I have been meaning to write about Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 here since I got back on Monday but I have been neck deep in finals so that will have to wait until Wednesday. I will however post a interesting interview I just happened upon (see above).

Miami to Brooklyn

No, I am not talking about the electro song but it will be part of the sound track as I move.

So, as some of you already know... I have finally thrown in the towel and I am leaving Miami and Crispin Porter + Bogusky where I have worked as a Photographer for the past year and a half and before that a Digital Artist for 3 years and I am going back to School to pursue a MFA in Photography from School of Visual Arts. It is very hard leaving a place with so many great people and great memories attached to it but I have been itching to do this for some time now and I can't wait to get started.

I have to thank SVA Graduate Photography AlumsAmy Stein and Matthew Baum for their advise and insight.

Stay classy Miami I will miss you but I will be back regularly. Now back to packing...