Events

Paris Photo 2009

Billed as the world’s leading event for photography, Paris Photo 2009 began yesterday, and runs through the weekend.

New York Photo Festival's 2009 Book Out Now!

The New York Photo Festival's annual for 2009 is now available. The book features  the highlights from the festival last May, including the photo contest's runners up in each category.

You can preview and purchase the book on Blurb.

Charity Focus: Help-Portrait

Photographers are using their flash bulbs to help those in need this holiday season.

Help-Portrait is a group that seeks to create a community between photographers and people who are struggling or down on their luck.

In their promotional video, one man exclaims that it was the first portrait ever taken of him outside of a mug shot. Another woman is in tears after seeing herself with her hair and makeup neatly arranged.

Kurt Vile and Big Star, Together At Last

Every once in a while, a concert bill will bridge the past and the present perfectly.

The Work of Allen Frame: A Journey in Idea and Actuality

Allen Frame captures unguarded moments of introspection lurking deep within the shadows of his photographs. Rarely showing a clear face, his photographs tell of stories that we may never fully comprehend.

The deep sigh of a darkened lover, a voyeur glimpsing into another life — his photographs dawdle on the body, the scene and the light but not the model's own intentions. 

Event: 28 Hours of Innovative Art

Free Virtual Photo Trade Show

PDN had so much fun at the PhotoPlus Expo they decided to throw a mini-expo online for free. That's right, keynote speakers and all - for free!

Complete with virtual booths where experts can answer your questions, six webcast panel discussions, and two keynote speakers, there is no excuse not to attend. All you have to do is point and click.

The event runs on December 2nd and 3rd from this site.

To register, click here.

PDN's own tech editor is billed as the first speaker, and the second is yet to be announced.

Living in a Post-MTV World, Now With WAY More NSFW Music Videos

Ever since MTV decided to recast itself as an overarching youth culture brand at the end of the 20th century, a lot of music video fans have been asking themselves:

What's going to happen to music videos?

New York Gallery Roundup: Where to Stare

This week in free wine and cheese, new photography exhibits abound.

Tonight, Mark Sink & Kristen Hatgi's exhibit debuts at the Robin Rice Gallery. The reception runs form 5:30-8:30 tonight and the exhibit is on display until December 20th. The photographs stand apart from many of those included in my normal roundup. At once beautiful and mysterious, these black and white photographs pull you into a dreamscape of 1920s inspired theatricality.

 

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