Black Power by Hank Willis Thomas

The third annual New York Photo Festival (NYPH) Kicks off today!

This year the festival features Aperture Presents, a series of panel discussions at St. Ann’s Warehouse, curated by Aperture’s editors. Panels will take place each day from 4:30-5:20 p.m.

The first panel taking place this afternoon will feature artists Justine Reyes, Brian Ulrich, and Hank Willis Thomas presenting their work and experiences securing funding, reviews, fellowships, and grants.

Tomorrow Aperture will bring together Amy Elkins, co-founder of Women in Photography; Ariel Shanberg, executive director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock; and Amy Yenkin, director of Open Society Institute, to offer insight on how artists can better benefit from the various opportunities available to them.

In addition Aperture will present a conversation with photographer Eirik Johnson (whose series of photographs Sawdust Mountain is currently on view at Aperture) and picture editor of Orion magazine, Jason Houston. The four day panel series will conclude with an artist’s talk by 2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize runner-up and emerging artist Jowhara AlSaud.

Emerging Artists’ Support Systems, Part 1
The Artist’s Perspective: Justine Reyes, Brian Ulrich, Hank Willis Thomas
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Emerging Artist’s Support Systems, Part 2
Funds, Fellowships and Reviews
Friday, May 14, 2010

Sawdust Mountain: Eirik Johnson and Jason Houston in Conversation
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Time Frames: An Artist’s Talk with Jowhara AlSaud
Sunday, May 16, 2010

NYPH 10
May 13th – 16th, 2010
St. Anne’s Warehouse
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, New York

VERSUS a show curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel of ArtMostFierce, will open at Hous Projects this Thursday, January 7, 6:30-10:30 pm featuring Brian Ulrich, Jen Davis, Eric Ogden, Hank Willis Thomas, Amy Elkins, and Michael Wolf among others.

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 7, 6:30-10:30 pm

Exhibition on View: January 7-March 8, 2010

Hous Projects

31 Howard Street, 2nd Floor                                                                                                                New York, New York

Brendan, Brooklyn, NY. 2008 Amy Elkins

You may have seen photographer and WIP co-founder Amy Elkins speak on behalf of her initiative Women In Photography at Aperture’s recent Spotlight Discussion panel. If not go to Aperture/Live, view here!

Her ongoing series Wallflower investigates and confronts some of the cultural grounds underlying gender, opting to focus on the beauty, sensitivity and vulnerabilities found in a sex that has long been held to masculine expectations and stereotypes. For Elkins these portraits remain a personal and psychological delving into the other, finding the mannerisms of male role models in her personal life endlessly fascinating.

Opening Reception: Wallflower

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 23 at 6:00-8 p.m.

YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York NY 10011

Robin Schwartz

Women in Photography

Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 6:30 PM

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York

Join Aperture’s Educational Programs Manager, Laurel Ptak, as she moderates a conversation about Women in Photography, a new online venue showcasing work by contemporary female photographers. Tuesday’s panel includes the site’s co-founders Cara Phillips and Amy Elkins, alongside noted contributing photographers Robin Schwartz and Elinor Carucci.

Robin Schwartz is one of the featured artists in the upcoming Aperture series Tinyvices. She is known for her imaginative photographs of her daughter, Amelia, interacting with exotic animals. Schwartz says, “photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary…Amelia and I play out our eccentricities in worlds where she and animals not only co-exist, but also interact.” Learn more about Robin Schwartz here.

Elinor Carucci was featured in Aperture magazine issue 182. She was born in Israel but now resides in New York. Her autobiographical work has been exhibited internationally and she notes, “it was photography that allowed me to be able to step away, to see what was going on, even what is about to happen.” Learn more about Elinor Carucci here.