Mission Possible in the big apple

 
Photography In New York, the 1st International Photo Festival NYPH08 showed trends. Our photographer was there. 
Photography is one of the most present media of our time. In the USA, little attention has been paid to this fact to date. In New York, the home of many passionate and influential photographers, this shortcoming has finally been corrected.
The 1st New York International Photo Festival NYPH08 took place in Dumbo, a pretty Brooklyn neighborhood of disused factory buildings on the banks of the East River between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. It was curated by Magnum photographer Martin Parr and photo editor Kathy Ryan from the New York Times Magazine, among others. They created independent compilations of works by international photographers. The focus was on the future of photography and the discovery of new, bold and emotional visual languages.
There were many well-known names, Alexandra Boulat for example. The reportage photographer, who died last year, was represented with her impressive works from the Far East. Horacio Salinas, the crazy still-life photographer from New York, was there with his burst car tires. Wassink Lundgren with "Empty bottles". The Dutch duo placed plastic bottles on the streets of China and photographed people picking them up again.
The festival was a lot of fun with such ideas and attracted well over a hundred thousand visitors. The NYPH will take place for the second time next year: same town, same place.
Iris Stutz