The evening was marked by a one-of-a-kind book and multimedia presentation from Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, author of The Book of Ice. Accompanied by Adrianna Mateo on violin, Miller treated the crowd to some very special compositions in between stories about his trip to Antarctica. He also touched on everything from the remix culture we live in to how he turns visual and environmental elements into new sonic arrangements.

Stay tuned for a very special additional programming announcement for tomorrow…

The New York Photo Festival is thrilled to announce the appointment of Presentation Partner ImageBrief, a new Australian-based online initiative connecting image buyers (designers, ad agencies, creative departments) with professional photographers. The company is launching its U.S. presence at the New York Photo Festival, where company founder Simon Moss will be on hand to deliver a keynote address and several photographer tutorials throughout the festival. The New York Photo Festival debut follows successful launches in Sydney, London, and Capetown.

Designed to transform the way images are discovered and licensed online, ImageBrief simplifies the process of  finding the right shot for a campaign—making the search easier, faster, and more intelligent, while giving buyers greater budget control and eliminating page upon page of stock photo searches and guesstimating meta tags.  The buyer instead posts a brief outlining image content needed, the budget, timeframe, and license term, and photographers submit work directly.

“Our agency and publishing customers love the ease of licensing images via ImageBrief,” according to CEO Simon Moss. “Less than a month after expanding into London, we’re finding creatives in one of the world’s most heralded creative cities are embracing the model over the traditional stock libraries, and have started briefing their image needs via ImageBrief”.

“They’re finding fresh, unique shots which haven’t been seen before, and because they can define their budget and usage terms upfront, they are in complete control of the process.”

Photographers are accepted by ImageBrief based on the strength of their portfolio, ensuring a high standard of image quality. With a global network of several thousand photographers—and more participating everyday—the content available to buyers continues to deepen and expand; ImageBrief has contributing photographers from 102 countries, and briefs are posted from across the globe as creatives discover a more efficient and controllable method of securing a brief’s image on budget and on time.

ImageBrief was recognised earlier this year by Australia’s leading business magazine, BRW, as one of the ten start-ups to watch.

Holy cow was this massive. Over 6600 submissions, reviewed by 20 top photo industry professionals, split into two aesthetic sides….a massive sorting and evaluating system that has brought to the top of the list incredible examples of what’s being done in Documentary, Fine Art, Advertising and Book making right now.

What did our esteemed jurors think? Just your everyday NYPH participant awesomeness!

“Overall, the quality of the Documentary Series submissions was especially strong. It is encouraging to see so much in-depth, personally directed work on such a wide variety of issues. It demonstrates that in the age of Facebook, documentary photographers are as determined as ever to pay deep attention to a single issue and return to it over many months or years to get to the essence of the subject.” – Glenn Ruga, NYPH’12 Curator; Founder of SocialDocumentary.net; and Executive Director at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University

“I was particularly impressed with the originality and creative vision of the student book and multimedia submissions. It’s great to know that craft and passion are alive and well…” –Michael Shulamn, Director of Publishing, Magnum Photos

“It’s been really great to see all this work, the range and strength of it was impressive,…Of particular interest, there was a lot of great documentary photography, by both professionals and students. I hope to get to work with some of them in the near future.” –Mark Murrmann, Photo Editor, Mother Jones

“I was impressed with the variety of subjects that were explored this year, and the quality with which these subjects were captured. Storytelling was at an all time high, and even old topics seemed to have a new twist.” –Deb Archambault, Senior Art Producer, BBH Global

The level was so profound this year that several artists were ranked for achievements in multiple categories; in some instances by different teams of jurors. Where multiple top rankings exist, notations will be made to your exhibiting pieces noting the dual citation; your strongest ranking will be invited for exhibition.

We are still researching a few contacts for image pieces listed at the end of this Notice of Invitation; everyone will be contacted directly by email over the next 24 hours regarding title, category and deadline for artwork receipt.

If your name is on this list, congratulations, your work has been accepted to the New York Photo Festival for the inaugural Invitational Exhibition to take place May 16-20; you must now prepare to send your finished work to the exhibit location OR have your files sent to our official festival partner photo lab SLE for printing, and mounting and framing partner L2 (if you wish mounted); see details at end of this post. 

We will be announcing a summer-long initiative at the festival regarding an expanded presentation of the Invitational, so if your name is not on this list, stay tuned to the NYPH’12 web site for further developments.

CONGRATULATIONS:

*Multimedia winners will be announced at the end of this week.

WHAT TO DO NEXT:

1) to send your work directly to exhibition site; please make arrangements for return postage if you want your work returned:
Nina Mendez Marti
New York Photo Festival
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
tel 347-853-7447 x135
email Nina.M@NYPHotofestival.com

2) Printing: If you need help producing your work for the exhibition: we have set up a partnership with Sous Les Etoiles (www.souslesetoiles.net)—one of the top professional photo labs in New York—to provide exceptional print quality at a discounted price. If you would like more information, please feel free to contact Paula Bollers (paula@souslesetoiles.net) who can discuss production options and costs in more detail, as well as coordinate the delivery to L2 of your prints for exceptional mounting and framing options (below).

3) Mounting: Should you have your work printed at Sous Les Etoiles OR you wish to you have your self-printed work mounted or framed, send to:
L2 FINE ART MOUNTING AND FRAMING
337 East 89th Street, Brooklyn NY 11236
ATT:   LESLIE SAMET leslie@L2mounting.com  t. 718-346-6666

Runners-up and Winners will be exhibited at POWERHOUSE ARENA in Dumbo, Brooklyn, during the famous and world renowned Dumbo Arts Festival, with reported attendance of over 200,000 art aficionados over three days, September 28-30. Some of the prizes to be awarded: commercial gallery exhibition and representation; agency representation; stock agency feature; digital short eBook; commercial book contracts.

An expanded jury pool from New York Photo Festival Invitational will select runners-ups and finalists; winners will be announced at a special presentation during the festival. For more information and to particulate, see www.NYPH.at/Awards.

Thanks again to everyone that submitted to the inaugural New York Photo Festival Invitational! Judges are now making their selections.

We also want to send out a big thanks to everyone that helped us get the word out about the Invitational!

The quality and breadth is such that we may have to extend this portion of the New York Photo Festival this summer! I will know more as I emerge from the jury tables over this coming weekend, watch this space for updates, and of course, follow our fast-breaking news updates on our Twitter account (@NYPHotoFestival), and our facebook page.

–Daniel Power