“I think it goes without saying that a major international photo festival in New York is long overdue,” said Frank Evers, managing director of the VII Photo Agency and one of the founders of the New York Photo Festival. Evers and other show organizers spoke at the Dumbo headquarters of powerHouse books; publisher Daniel Power is the other founder of the festival. Two Trees Management, which owns most of the real estate in Dumbo, is another supporter. (PDN is one of the festival’s media partners.)
Four main curators will each oversee a pavilion: British photographer Martin Parr; Kathy Ryan, picture editor of The New York Times Magazine; Lesley A. Martin, book publisher at the Aperture Foundation; and Tim Barber, former photo editor for Vice magazine and editor of tinyvices.com.
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