5.20.2011

NICHOLAS VREELAND: "Return To The Roof of The World" Leica Gallery June 4th Last Day!

Circumambulation, Labrang Tashi Kyil, Amdo, Tibet
Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

Monks, Labrang Tashi Kyil, Amdo, Tibet
Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

(l) Novice Monk, Labrang Tashi Kyil, Amdo, Tibet, 2003.
(r) Senior Monk, Wato Monastery, 2003
Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

Debate, Sera Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet, 2003
Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

Guard Dog at the entrance to HH Dalai Lama's Birthplace, Takser, Tibet
Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

Nicholas Vreeland Exhibition
Leica Gallery • 670 Broadway • NYC

5.17.2011

JESSICA HINES: The New Yorker Magazine's 'Photo Booth'

Chapter 4, Untitled #56, The Beginning
Photograph (c) Jessica Hines


VOTE: Maasai Wildlife Conservation



VOTE to help this non-profit win a $50,000 grant

Ed Norton helps the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust preserve the people, plants, and animals coexisting on thousands of acres of wild African plains.

As U.S. director of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, Ed Norton’s helping the organization protect more than 280,000 acres of African plains, home to more than 1,000 of the world’s most unique plants and animals including lions, black rhinos and giraffes. The MWCT also helps provide healthcare, employment, and education to the local Maasai community that has shared the land for centuries

5.14.2011

NYPH11: Enrico Bossan Curates "Hope"

Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse, Ponte City, Johannesburg
Hope: between dream and reality curated by Enrico Bossan

Andrea Gjestvang, Greenland Disappearing Ice Age
Hope: between dream and reality curated by Enrico Bossan

Benjamin Lowy, iAfghanilandistan: Afghanistan by iPhone

Benjamin Lowy, iAfghanilandistan: Afghanistan by iPhone

Benjamin Lowy, iAfghanilandistan: Afghanistan by iPhone

"There is too much noise and too many photos that don't mean anything. We need to take a step backward and look conscientiously what surrounds us, being humble. Maybe we will rediscover the true sense of photography"–Enrico Bossan, Curator

Sunday, May 15 - last day!

Hope: between dream and reality
Curated by Enrico Bossan

"Hope: between dream and reality, features the work of young photographers who, in his words, “neither provide a faithful representation of reality nor create an illusion, but who have impressed me with their ability to capture the essential aspects of life.” Artists include Olivia Arthur, Clemence de Limburg, Matt Eich, Simona Ghizzoni, Andrea Gjestvang, Sean Lee, Margo Ovcharenko, Andy Spyra, Mikhael Subotzky, Ali Taptik and Peter van Agtmael." 81 Front Street, Dumbo

Multimedia Works
Curated by Elisabeth Biondi & Enrico Bossan
Artists CIA DE FOTO and Ben Lowy, and six viewing booths featuring work by various industry luminaries. 30 Washington Street, Dumbo

Elisabeth Biondi and Enrico Bossan
New York Photo Festival
Sunday, May 15 - last day!
81 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY

5.13.2011

MARTINE FOUGERON: NYPH11 Tête-à-Tête

Photographer Martine Fougeron and Curator Elisabeth Biondi
Photograph © Elizabeth Avedon

NYPH11 : Subjective/Objective Curated by Elisabeth Biondi
Martine Fougeron, Tête-à-Tête series

Tête-à-Tête, Photograph © Martine Fougeron

"Martine Fougeron's Tête-à-Tête project is a series of intimate portraits of the photographers two adolescent sons and their friends in New York and in France...The work explores adolescence as a liminal state, between childhood and adulthood, between feminine and masculine, and between innocence and a burgeoning self-identity."
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"Subjective/Objective argues that documentary photography today is remarkably vibrant and creatively thriving, despite the bleak financial picture and vanishing support from a publishing industry challenged by digital media. Biondi has selected photographers who refract reality through their own distinct visions, often venturing into a more personal visual language. Subjective/Objective includes Alejandro Chaskielberg, Stefano De Luigi, Carolyn Drake, Martine Fougeron, Balazs Gardi, Jessica Hines, Ethan Levitas, Irina Werning and A Yin."

A Must See Exhibition!
New York Photo Festival • thru May 15th only
81 Front Street • DUMBO Brooklyn NY

RUTH GRUBER: ICP Infinity Awards 2011

Ruth Gruber, Cornell Capa Award recipient, May 10, 2011
Photograph © Elizabeth Avedon

Refugees who had been on Exodus, 1947
Photograph © Ruth Gruber

La Lettre de la Photographie / Photo Image Inguilere

My tools were words and images and I could use those tools to show injustice –Ruth Gruber, recipient of the Cornell Capa Award

Ruth Gruber photographed as a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1944, while the war and holocaust raged, Gruber was sent on a covert mission by President Roosevelt to escort 1,000 refugee’s across the Atlantic to the U.S. When she took the stage to receive her award, now 100 years old, she also took everyone’s heart."
– La Lettre de la Photographie

5.12.2011

NYPH11: Elisabeth Biondi + Enrico Bossan Curate "Photography Now"

Irina Werning, Mi Pelo Largo Querido
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

A Yin, Mongolia Transformed
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Balazs Gardi, Basetrack: One-Eight
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi


Balazs Gardi, Basetrack: One-Eight
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Jessica Hines, My Brother's War
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi


Jessica Hines, My Brother's War
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Martine Fougeron, Tête-à-Tête
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi


New York Photo Festival 2011
81 Front Street - Dumbo - Brooklyn NY

PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: engaged, personal, and vital
Curated by Elisabeth Biondi and Enrico Bossan
"The state of documentary photography today"

Subjective/Objective, May 11 - 15
An Exhibition Curated by Elisabeth Biondi

"Subjective/Objective argues that documentary photography today is remarkably vibrant and creatively thriving, despite the bleak financial picture and vanishing support from a publishing industry challenged by digital media. Biondi has selected photographers who refract reality through their own distinct visions, often venturing into a more personal visual language. Subjective/Objective includes Alejandro Chaskielberg, Stefano De Luigi, Carolyn Drake, Martine Fougeron, Balazs Gardi, Jessica Hines, Ethan Levitas, Irina Werning and A Yin."

Hope: between dream and reality
Curated by Enrico Bossan
(not shown above)
"Hope: between dream and reality, features the work of young photographers who, in his words, “neither provide a faithful representation of reality nor create an illusion, but who have impressed me with their ability to capture the essential aspects of life.” Artists include Olivia Arthur, Clemence de Limburg, Matt Eich, Simona Ghizzoni, Andrea Gjestvang, Sean Lee, Margo Ovcharenko, Andy Spyra, Mikhael Subotzky, Ali Taptik and Peter van Agtmael."
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Multimedia works by artists CIA DE FOTO and Ben Lowy, and six viewing booths featuring work by various industry luminaries. 30 Washington St.

Also at NYPH11:

The FotoVisura Latin American Pavilion
111 Front Street

SlideLuck Pot Show XVI
Curated by Whitney Johnson
May 14, 5:30-10PM, 38 Water Str, Dumbo


Win-Initivative / Live-On Set Photo Shoots
Andrew Eccles, Sebastian Smith, Sarah Small, Brett Beyer, Gemma Fleming...
NYPH11 Festival Headquarters / 12-7 PM
1 Main Street - Dumbo - Brooklyn NY

Leica Booth: Borrow a Leica M9
Photo enthusiasts may borrow a Leica M9 digital rangefinder camera free up to four hours. Each day there's a set theme, challenging participants to capture the best photo that embodies that topic. Winners will receive a special Leica prize. Read more on LeicaRumors.com 1 Main Street - Dumbo

Martine Fougeron
May 14, 11AM, 38 Water St
Andy Adams
May 14, 1PM, 38 Water St
Jessica Hines Lecture
May 15, 11AM, 38 Water St


May 15, 4PM
An Intimate Screening and Discussion
Love and War Exhibition

Moderated by Adriana Teresa, Curator
The FotoVisura Pavilion 111 Front Street, Suite 212

5.09.2011

ICP INFINITY AWARDS: 2011

PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD: Adrees Latif
Marooned flood victims looking to escape grab the side bars of a hovering Army helicopter which arrived to distribute food supplies in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province August 7, 2010. The 2010 Pakistan floods left one-fifth of Pakistan, about the size of England, underwater and caused heavy destruction to property and infrastructure. The floods affected the lives of 20 million while killing nearly 2000. Photograph (c) Adrees Latif/Reuters

YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER AWARD: Peter Van Agtmael
A helicopter comes to land on an impromptu helipad built into the side of the mountain at the outpost of Aranas, Nuristan, Afghanistan, 2007. Photograph (c) Peter Van Agtmael/Magnum

PUBLICATION AWARD: Alec Soth
Charles, Vasa, Minnesota, 2002. Photograph (c) Alec Soth

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Elliott Erwitt
New York, 1974. Photograph (c) Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos

"ICP's Infinity Awards were inaugurated in 1985 to bring public attention to outstanding achievements in photography by honoring individuals with distinguished careers in the field and by identifying future luminaries."

5.08.2011

Happy Mothers Day!


My Mother, The Continental Divide, USA

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it
–Chinese Proverb

5.07.2011

NYC: Weekend Gallery Walk 5.7.11

Climax, 2010. Photograph (c) Lisa M. Robinson
KLOMPCHING Gallery, 111 Front Street, Brooklyn
Lisa M. Robinson: Oceana to June 10

Mouse, Hungary, 2004. Photograph (c) Monika Merva
CLAMPART Gallery, 531 West 25th
Monika Merva: City of Children to June 11

LEICA Gallery, 670 Broadway (at Bond St)
Photographs by Nicholas Vreeland t0 June 4
Khyongla Rato Rinpoche seeing his photograph in the current exhibition.
A must-see. Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland