If you’re wanting to check out the NYPH (May 12-16) via the internets like myself, James Pomerantz AKA A Photo Student looks to be our man on the ground this year:
http://www.aphotostudent.com
http://twitter.com/aphotostudent
Let us know in the comments if anyone else is covering it online.
UPDATE:
I’ve always wondered why the festival seems so out of touch with the photo community that I exist in. […]I always come looking for surprises and leave feeling strangely unmoved. How great would it be if everywhere you looked as you walked around photography hit you right between the eyes?
via Stellazine:
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Internets? How many do you see?
@Whathe Say,
it’s a series of tubes
@A Photo Editor,
Awesome, had to laugh! The pursuit of perfection has it’s price doesn’t it?
Hi Rob,
Thanks for the plug, much appreciated. (Un)fortunately, I have a paid shoot tomorrow so I won’t be at the festival. I wish I were doing a better job of filling Hetherington’s shoes!
jp
Stella’s comments echo my own feelings. It’s New York City for Dogssake. Hit me with something. Change it up.
Ciao Rob,
I was part of the finalists at NYPH.
The show was a total disaster, presenters had no idea what was going on, names were lost, people left outside the presentation due to technical difficulties and most of all the actual slideshow of the nominees and the winners did not happen due to…who knows what.
Half of the crowed left half way thru the show…
It was an embarrassing night!
cheers
Academic photography has nothing to do with making good pictures.
hi-
I just posted my coverage up from thursday night, take a look: http://www.gabrielaherman.com/blog
Unfortunately I have to agree with Stella. Each year I’ve gone with an open mind hoping to see inspirational photography. Each year I’ve been a little more underwhelmed. Of course everyone has their own ideas about these things but this year seemed overly conceptual, gimmicky even, with a lack of true beauty. I was also a finalist in The Awards a couple of years ago. I duly paid extra to attend the Awards ceremony. There was a lot of talk by a host of people presenting the prizes thanking various people for making it possible. A mere handful of images were projected on the screen. My image didn’t appear on the screen , on the web site, in the catalogue or anywhere else making me wonder what was the point of having any finalists. The whole thing was very anti-climactic and didn’t feel like any kind of celebration. It’s great that the organizers have put this event together as NYC really should have a photography festival but people from all over the world are looking to this event and so far it’s been something of a disappointment. As for photo contests, there are hundreds of them out there and a lot of them come across as money making vehicles. Photographers have to be very careful in choosing which ones to enter and which are a waste of time and money. Let’s hope next year’s festival is a resounding success!
It was embarrassing presentation. I haven’t seen anything like that since high school. NYPH lost all credibility in my opinion, and come on, $400 for portfolio review? Really? NYPH is a new PDN.
Just wrapped up the New York Photo Festival 3D coverage.
Discover what the curators and attendees of this year’s festival have to say.
Follow the link to the NY Photo Festival’s homepage, scroll down the page and click on the box that says “Coverage NYPH 10 in 3D” http://www.nyphotofestival.com
It was sad. I really think that the NY photo scene has lost its way. So much of it is really about making rent. PDN, PowerHouse, NYPH, most of the smaller mags.
This is the worst festival I have ever attended. I came with excitement and left completely disappointed and angry that I wasted my time. Poorly planned, boring presentations (we walked out of several), cheaply hung exhibitions, scant turnout etc…The entire event felt very amateurish. The photo world presented this weekend feels really lost.
@Alice Port, You should come see MOPLA next year if you want to see bad…
I didn’t attend this year as I was out of town, but it sounds like all the problems from last year were the same this year, nobody learned from the mistakes and criticism.
I feel many times like a disenfranchised photographer. The arrogance, egos, self importance, ignorance, crumbling editorial system, etc. is all hard to take. I prefer to keep a low profile, create my work and go about my business, slowly the right people take notice and I build my relationships one at a time.
It sounds like the NYPH is not engendering any successful community building. I’m biding my time until the playhouse gets torn down and the real spirit of photography can express itself in all the new opportunities out there.
[…] at A Photo Editor, most of the comments are negative: “…this year seemed overly conceptual, gimmicky […]
The awards presentation was an embarrassing disaster after a prolonged delay, bizarre speeches by presenters and crippling technical problems.
Then, instead of being apologetic excuses were given and the night trudged forward with billowing talk of glorious careers and scripted praise for the festival’s 3rd year.
And what’s up with showing photo books on stands within a few feet of an active bar just to have staff confront those who look at them while holding a drink? What did they think was going to happen?
Then there was the posh VIP room.
But should all this really surprise given an industry that persistently fails to be considerate of their audience, often puts promotion before common sense and suffers from unnecessary exclusivity?
In the end the event was eye opening only in that it made clear just how blindly entrenched in their own world so much of the NY photography establishment is.
so glad i did not go to see all the tragically hip rich kids drowning in their own self importance…. you kids better make sure your parents are going to give you an inheritance because your really going to need it when you hit 40
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