PDN asked a number of attendees what they would remember about the festival, which took place June 9–11 in Charlottesville, VA. Curated by New York Times Magazine director of photography Kathy Ryan and VII The Magazine editor Scott Thode, the festival provided photographers and photo industry professionals a number of insights courtesy of the featured artists, as well as a chance to meet with peers and make new connections.

Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » LOOK3 2011 Recap: Photographers and Other Fest-Goers Discuss the Highlights

Link: New York Photo Festival » Interview with Benjamin Lowy @ NYPH’11

New York Photo Awards 2011 – General Category Winners from New York Photo Festival on Vimeo.

New York Photo Awards 2011 – Student Category Winners from New York Photo Festival on Vimeo.

Link: New York Photo Festival » New York Photo Awards 2011- Winning Entries

“There are no more discoveries to be made,” Elisabeth Biondi tells me on the opening night of the fourth annual New York Photo Festival.  “Anyone can take a picture now, so it’s forced documentary photographers to have a more personalized vision.”

Link: PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: 2011 New York Photo Festival Turns Focus on Photojournalism – LightBox

Categorizing photography is controversial. For example, the category of ‘photojournalism’, in my opinion, is an exceedingly narrow definition. It traditionally demanded that photography be defined as close to events as they unfolded avoiding interpretation. When I started working with GEO in the 70’s, it meant something extremely narrow and factual, and today we might, perhaps, call it ’hard news’. It was then solely defined in terms of factual parameters. Magnum photographers were the exception to the rule. They each saw the world with their own eyes.

I believe that now, a more interpretative, personal photography is seen in documentary photography. For example, we have chosen 5 images by Richard Mosse, still lives of the borders in the American side of Mexico. They are, without doubt, documentary photographs. Alongside Richard we show Shaul Schwarz’s work. He worked extensively on ‘Narcos’ in Mexico. Shaul’s work is hardcore journalistic, yet he has a unified vision in his documentary photography. At the New York Photo Festival, these two photographers will be exhibited side by side in one room to show how they are close in terms of subject yet radically different in terms of their visual interpretation.

Documentary Photography nowadays is more inclusive than exclusive, and it can go from portraiture to fine art to landscape and still life. There definitely is room for interpretation. Some people see it with a much narrower perspective. In my opinion, a photographer is documenting events in a broad sense. It can go from merely showing what is there to interpreting it in a highly personalized way.

Link: New York Photo Festival » Elisabeth Biondi In Conversation with Adriana Teresa, FotoVisura

Andy Adams is the founder and editor of FlakPhoto.com. Larissa Leclair is an independent photography writer, curator, and collector, and founder of the Indie Photobook Library. Together, Larissa and Andy curated 100 Portraits—100 Photographers: Selections from the FlakPhoto.com Archive, a projection which will be featured during NYPH 2011.

Link: New York Photo Festival » Andy Adams & Larissa Leclair In Conversation with Adriana Teresa

Adriana Teresa: What would you say is the most significant progression in photography today?
Kira Pollack: Speed. In the digital world, the speed and the demand for speed that stories need to be communicated—and published—is astronomical. The most critical thing that we can do as editors is to be as thoughtful as possible in response to that speed. We need to get the images published as quickly as possible, but with journalistic integrity.

Link: New York Photo Festival » Kira Pollack in Conversation with Adriana Teresa

Of this series ‘Last Meals‘, he writes, ‘The series visually documents the face and last meal of convicted killers. I created this project to explore the interesting and unique relationship humans have with food and used the last meal as a metaphor to raise questions about the death penalty. In 2010 this photo essay traveled to Singapore to be shown in the Singapore Fringe Festival: Art and the Law. Ironically, Singapore has an extremely strict death penalty stance and I was informed that it is part of school curriculum to watch an execution take place. This is an ongoing project and I am currently researching publishers to make this into a photo book’.

Link: Art & Photography: Jonathon Kambouris | Feature Shoot

For three years, Andrea Star Reese, a former filmmaker, has been photographing homeless people living in West Harlem. Her first project, “The Urban Cave,” will be exhibited at Visa pour l’Image, the international festival of photojournalism held in Perpignan, France, beginning Aug. 28. James Estrin met with Ms. Reese, 58, in New York, where she lives. Their conversation has been edited and condensed for space.

Link: Finding Community in the Shadows – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com

New York Photo Awards 2010 from Sam Barzilay on Vimeo.

Link: The New York Photo Festival | The Future of Contemporary Photography

I happen to think there was a wide-range of photography represented and far more surprises than one would find in most publications. There are photo festivals that focus on much more traditional documentary work but that’s not what the New York Photo Festival is trying to do.

Link: A Photo Student › Quick Thoughts on NY Photo Festival

The 3D “coverage” is being executed by DUMBO resident Martin Lenclos. Lenclos creates 3D online experiences of actual events, through the interplay of photos and video interviews, all set in an evocative 3D representation of the event’s environment. Soon after an event begins, a virtual version is launched, which those interested can then visit and explore, both contemporaneous with those attending the event live, or at any point thereafter. The rendered 3D world immerses visitors in the environment of the event, and vastly expands the number of people who can experience it.

via: Martin Lenclos