Program – TALKS AND EVENTS
TALKS & events
PHOTOFAIRS New York hosts a dynamic Talks Program convening a group of thought leaders in dialogue about issues and relevant topics within photography and new media. All talks are free to attend to fair ticket holders. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis. A number of talks, events and book signings will also be taking place at specific booths throughout the Fair.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 – VIP PREVIEW (invitation only)
2:30pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York Presents: Reimagining Patronage: Michi Jigarjian, Derrick Adams, and the Fusion of Leisure and Joy in Artistic Endeavors
Presented by Program Partner Baxter St Camera Club of NY, this captivating and enlightening talk will feature renowned artist facilitator president of Baxter St Camera Club NY and managing partner of the Rockaway Hotel, Michi Jigarjian, alongside visionary artist and founder of The Last Resort Artist Retreat, Derrick Adams. The pair will explore the transformative power of leisure and joy in their support of the arts. Drawing from their respective experiences, the conversation will delve into their innovative approaches to fostering creativity, community, and the pursuit of joy within the art world.
3:00pm | ARTIST ACTIVATION | TERN | Booth 139
Artist Tiffany Smith will be at TERN from 3-5pm to activate the interactive photo booth installation coinciding with her series Throned. Participants will be invited to activate the wicker peacock chair throne as a meditation space and create portraits within the set.
3:30pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
Jamaica Art Society Presents: Memories Don’t Leave Like People Do
Presented by Program Partner Jamaica Art Society, this conversation will be about memory, time, people and place with artists Simon Benjamin and Ania Freer, moderated by Jamaica Art Society founder Tiana Webb Evans.
4:30pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
For Freedoms Presents: Sustainable Community Building with the For Freedoms Fellows
Presented by For Freedoms, this conversation will feature artists who participated in the inaugural cohort of For Freedoms Fellows. The Fellowship program includes collaborative programs like Converse’s Hear Her Here, promoting the work of Black femme creatives, and Google’s Image Equity Fellowship, supporting early-career image-based creators of color in the US and the expansion of a more equitable field of fine art. Through these Fellowships, For Freedoms provides funding as well as training from the For Freedoms national network of artists and arts professionals. Artists Emanuel Hahn, Eric Hart Jr., and Da’Shaunae Marisa will be in conversation with For Freedoms co-founder and Dean of the Fellowship Program, Eric Gottesman, and will discuss their experiences within the program and working with For Freedoms, their artistic and commercial practices, and other recent and upcoming projects.
5:30pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
Visualizing Deities: Transculturation & Identity
This conversation between Cuban-American identical twin photography duo Elliot & Erick Jiménez and Maritza M. Lacayo, Assistant Curator of the Pérez Art Museum Miami will cover topics around Lucumí, a syncretic religion of Yoruba and Catholic beliefs commonly found in Cuban society.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
11:30am | BOOK SIGNING | FISHEYE GALLERY | BOOTH 320
Divine, Delphine Diallo
By engaging in intimate conversations with her subjects, Delphine removes the sense of vulnerability that often comes with being photographed. Working with body painters and jewelry and mask makers, Diallo also uses traditional mythology and spiritual symbols to empower her subjects. Her portraiture is all about connection and exchange. She believes women are deep beings and connects with them on an emotional level. The French-Senegalese photographer spends more time speaking with her subjects than photographing them.
12:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
OSMOS Presents: A Conversation with Catherine DeLattre and Rose Marasco
Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz, Director of OSMOS, will moderate a conversation between photographers Catherine DeLattre and Rose Marasco. This conversation will serve as the book launch of “Rose Marasco: At Home” (OSMOS Books, New York, 2023), a memoir and meditation on the history of photography from one of New England’s most respected artists. The book features Marasco’s short personal writings on topics ranging from artist residencies and iPhone photography to Catholic saints, the early death of her father, her first crush on a woman and teaching. Selections from five decades of Rose Marasco’s prolific photographic oeuvre are discussed in the texts by Tom McDonough, John Yau, Frank Gohlke, and Lucy Lippard, whose foreword situates Marasco as a key feminist voice among practitioners of vernacular photography.
1:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
TRANSFER Presents: Open Culture: Value Exchange in the Contemporary Art World
Kelani Nichole, Founder of TRANSFER and Jay Mollica, Director of Digital Engagement at PAMM discuss emergent forms of value exchange that are reshaping cultural infrastructure. They will talk about new formats for exhibition, conservation and appreciation of contemporary art in development, and highlight examples of emergent strategies for open culture that have inspired their work.
2:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
ICP Presents: Voidopolis – New Technology and the Photobook
How can emerging technologies bring new experiences to art-making, the photobook, and what it means to be human? Join Arts writer Charlotte Kent, Dante scholar and professor Arielle Saiber, and ICP faculty and photography, Alexey Yurenev to explore these questions, and more, through a conversation centered on Kat Mustatea’s first-of-its-kind augmented reality book, Voidopolis.
2:30pm | BOOK SIGNING | SASHA WOLF PROJECTS | BOOTH 253
Dark Waters, Kristine Potter
Dark Waters, Kristine Potter’s second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular imagination of “murder ballads” from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
3:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
Printed Matter, Inc Presents: Narratives in Print – Exploring the Latin American Photobook Landscape
This talk will be between Oswaldo Garcia of Gold Rain, Martha Naranjo Sandoval of Matarile Ediciones, and Carlos Loret De Mola of Los Sumergidos. The three will discuss their collaborative practices, questions of region and diaspora, and the stakes of self-publishing vis-a-vis self-representation. They’ll also touch upon the uniqueness of independent and small press publishing economies. Moderated by Sonel Breslav, Director of Fairs & Editions at Printed Matter.
3:30pm | TALK | GALERIE XII | BOOTH 150
Guilty Not Guilty, A Conversation with Vee Speers & Graham Howe
Graham Howe, curator and photo historian, has been investigating since the late 1960s the relationship between seeing and thinking. Based on Vee Speers new work that is presented as a world first on Galerie XII stand, the conversation will focus on the question of guilt: who is targeted, why are some people heavily sentenced for minor offenses and others not, the question of rehab and redemption; did you not ever do anything that is an offense?
4:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
Aperture Presents: Artist Dawoud Bey in Conversation with Aperture Senior Editor Denise Wolff
Denise Wolff and artist Dawoud Bey discuss his current projects and his conviction that “[w]e all have a role to play in being active and engaged citizens in our respective fields.” Elegy, a trilogy of Bey’s recent series that focus on landscape, history, and memory, including new work commissioned by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts accompanying a forthcoming solo exhibition, will be published this fall.
4:30pm | TALK | RICK WESTER FINE ART | BOOTH 236
Artist Talk with Amanda Marchand & Leah Sobsey
The artists will discuss the extensive research and development of their recreation of Emily Dickinson’s herbarium, a 19th century compendium of flowers she grew in her garden. Long before Dickinson was known as a poet she was an accomplished gardener, which heavily informed her writing. Produced in the anthrotype process of making images from plants’ pigments, they will discuss how the project evolved over the past two years and the creation of their “Chromotaxy” – their term for the work., Sen
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
11:30am | BOOK SIGNING | MOMENTUM | BOOTH 335
Obscure Sphere, Ole Marius Joergensen
This monograph is a collection of work by Ole Marius Joergensen The book takes you from 2014 to the present day and shows the artist’s dedication to the rural landscape. In the 9 different series presented, the artist examines the silence of the simple and peaceful rural world fading in favor of today’s complex societies that are concerned with instant gratification.
12:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York Presents: Photography & Materiality: A Conversation with Jil Weinstock, Elliott Jerome Brown JR, and Emma Safir
This roundtable discussion with Baxter St at the Camera Club NY Executive Director Jil Weinstock and Baxter St alumni lens-based artists Elliott Jerome Brown Jr and Emma Safir will explore how both artists have engaged with the medium of photography as a sculptural material in their work.
12:30pm | TALK | THE HULETT COLLECTION | BOOTH 250
Artist talk: Pieter Henket
The Dutch New York-based artist talks about his work. Henket is known for shooting the cover of Lady Gaga’s debut album The Fame, and photographing National Congolese acting out their mythologies in the Congo rainforest for the book Congo Tales published by Prestel Publishing in 2018.
1:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
CPW Presents: Early Impact – Three Emerging Photographers
Join artists Tommy Kha, Cheryl Mukherji, and Elias Williams for a discussion about their recent works, which engage issues of identity, place, and inheritance. They will also address the crucial role that financial and professional support from arts organizations has played early in their careers and their experiences as artists in residence at the CPW residency Woodstock AIR. Tommy Kha received the 2023 CPW Vision Award for Emerging Photographer. At this panel, CPW will also announce a major new arts award: The Saltzman Prize, a prize for emerging photographers. Created by Lisa Saltzman in honor of her parents, this annual prize will honor an emerging photographer with a $10,000 award, and give additional funds to CPW to support a solo exhibition of that photographer’s work at CPW’s galleries in Kingston, NY.
1:30pm | BOOK SIGNING | ELIJAH WHEAT | BOOTH 124
Big Fence; Dreamlands / Wastelands; Polaroid: The Missing Manual, Rhiannon Adam
Rhiannon Adam is the author of three books, Big Fence / Pitcairn Island (Blow Up. Press, 2021), Dreamlands / Wastelands (Jane & Jeremy, 2014), and her exhaustive resource on instant photography, Polaroid: The Missing Manual (Thames & Hudson, 2017, reprinted 2022).
2:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
Fotografiska Presents: Indigenous Futurity: Cara Romero and Amanda Hajjar
Fotografiska’s Director of Exhibitions, Amanda Hajjar, and renowned photographer, Cara Romero, delve into the artist’s playful and imaginative images bringing Indigenous knowledges, sciences, and culture in the 21st century to the forefront. Fotografiska will exhibit Romero’s work in their booth and in a subsequent installation at the museum at the end of PHOTOFAIRS New York.
2:30pm | BOOK SIGNING | WINSTON WÄCHTER | BOOTH 348
All the Colors I am Inside, Deb Achak
Join artist Deb Achak for a book signing in honor of her debut monograph, “All the Colors I Am Inside.” Achak reflects on our relationship with the soft, quiet voice of our intuition and the beauty of who we are under the surface.
3:00pm | ARTIST ACTIVATION | TERN | Booth 139
Artist Tiffany Smith will be at TERN from 3-5pm to activate the interactive photo booth installation coinciding with her series Throned. Participants will be invited to activate the wicker peacock chair throne as a meditation space and create portraits within the set.
3:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
Artwrld Presents: Artist Marco Brambilla in Conversation with Artwrld Artistic Director Nato Thompson
Multi-media artist Marco Brambilla and Artwrld’s Artistic Director Nato Thompson will discuss Brambilla’s artistic practice that recontextualizes popular and found imagery, as well as his pioneering use of digital imaging technologies in video installation and art. Marco Brambilla has collaborated with Artwrld to realize his first NFT collection, “The Orders,” which explores the three degrees of Freemasonry (Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason).
3:30pm | TALK | INSIDE-OUT | BOOTH 345
Booth Talk with Justin Dingwall
Justin Dingwall is a contemporary artist and commercial photographer. He is the creator of photographic series Albus; Fly by night; a seat at the table; The changing winds and rerouted. His art has been exhibited around the world and many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums, institutions and private collections. He is represented in Europe, Australia and South Africa.
4:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
Photography in the Age of NFTs: Redefining the Art World
In the past few years we have seen how NFTs and Web3 has entered the art world with rapidly speed and with several waves and changing role. How does the NFT impact the art world, any changing roles, and how can artists work with NFTs? These are some of the questions we would like to discuss with Amy Whitaker that is co-author of the book “The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy” and artist (Ni)cole Wilson, who’s artwork Ötzi is part of the book and shown here at the fair. The panel will be moderated by Diana Velasco, Artistic Director of MoNDA, Museum of Nordic Digital Art, Co-partner at Radar Contemporary, photographer and digital artist.
4:30pm | BOOK SIGNING | CLAMP | BOOTH 343
XXX: Aziz + Cucher 1992-2022, Aziz + Cucher
2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the artists’ collaboration, and to celebrate this milestone La Fábrica Editions (Madrid) and Gazelli Art House have published XXX: Aziz + Cucher 1992—2022. Covering their entire career, this monograph includes 130 full color reproductions of the work that they have created together since 1992. Included are essays by independent curator Agustin Perez Rubio and cultural critic Aruna D’Souza, along with a conversation with pioneering digital artist Lynn Hershman Leeson.
5:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
Dear Dave, magazine Presents: AI, Authorship, and the Future of Creativity
Authorship has been profoundly rattled by the mainstreaming of artificial intelligence and intellectual originality, of research, of authenticity and interpretation are challenged. Dear Dave, magazine editor Stephen Frailey speaks to artists Danielle Ezzo, Gregory Eddi Jones and Oliver Wasow to discuss AI as a creative implement, and how this subversive tool can be used to form a meaningful and innovative and unprecedented future.
5:30pm | TALK | LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES | BOOTH 304
Booth Talk with Chris Engman
Chris Engman’s work takes the human condition as its central theme and calls attention to our misperceptions: the gulf that exists between how we see and how we think we see – the inconstant and constructed nature of memory. It is a meditation on impermanence and the fact that not only existence but even the features of the physical world are temporal and will come to an end. Engman’s photographs are documentations of sculptures and installations but they are also records of actions and elaborate processes. In the Prospect and Refuge series, presented at PHOTOFAIRS New York, Engman returns to his roots with the use of imagery from nature, combining this with architectural imagery to bring the outdoors in and the indoors out. Adamrl
SunDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
12:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
Black Lunch Table Presents: The Meaning of Beauty – Black Portraiture as memory and Marvel in the Digital Age
Portraiture is a critical tool that informs historical narratives and supports the preservation of memory. Interpretation of these narratives is not static but dynamic—influenced by contemporary values, interests, and critical evaluation. Reflecting on the contributions of notable visual artists Carrie Mae Weems, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Ming Smith, and Marilyn Nance, among others housed in the Black Lunch Table archives, this conversation will explore the significance of portraiture as a site of cultural preservation, archival production, and collective memory in the digital age.
2:00pm | TALK | PROGRAM LOUNGE
photograph magazine Presents: A Conversation with Debi Cornwall & Lyle Rexer
Debi Cornwall discusses with photograph magazine contributor Lyle Rexer her shift from being a civil-rights attorney to being a photographer, and her documentary practice of indirection. Cornwall will also touch upon her first two books, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay, and Necessary Fictions, in addition to Model Citizens, the Prix Elysée-winning new project to be published in 2024. Rexer interviewed Cornwall for the September-October issue of photograph.
2:30pm | BOOK SIGNING | THROCKMORTON FINE ART | BOOTH 239
Flor Garduño
The artist will be giving a book signing and is open to questions, discussions and viewings of her portfolio.
3:30pm | TALK | INSIDE-OUT | BOOTH 345
Booth Talk with Justin Dingwal
Justin Dingwall is a contemporary artist and commercial photographer. He is the creator of photographic series Albus, Fly by night, a seat at the table, The changing winds and rerouted. His art has been exhibited around the world and many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums, institutions and private collections.
