The Fourth Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review

Sunday, May 4, 2008

10:30am-5:30pm
The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn

The premier conceptual publisher of art photography books and innovative illustrated books hosts its fourth annual Portfolio Review.

The powerHouse Portfolio Review is a platform for all levels of aspiring and professional photographers to present their body of work to be reviewed and critiqued by leading experts in the fields of photography, art, media, and advertising and to receive guidance and mentorship for future artistic and commercial career development. The previous Portfolio Reviews in 2005, 2006, and 2007 were an astounding success, with over 100 attendees and a 37-member panel of experts including a broad range of publishers, photo editors, commercial photography agents, gallery directors, photography critics, art book packagers, and designers.

The Fourth Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review is a one-day event to be held on Sunday, May 4, 2008, at the powerHouse Arena, located at 37 Main Street in the center of Brooklyn’s vibrant DUMBO neighborhood. Each attendee will be assigned five one-on-one reviews with members of our panel of renowned photography professionals. We will do our best to select your reviewers in accordance with your interests, as indicated on the registration form. Each review will last up to 20 minutes.

Registration is limited; please contact us soon. Registration form: CLICK HERE | http://www.powerHouseBooks.com/portfolioreview08/registration.pdf

For more information or if you have problems downloading the registration form, please contact Rebecca Stepler at rebecca@powerhousebooks.com.

Photographers love our reviews. Here’s what they have to say:

Kent Rogowski, author of Bears (powerHouse Books, 2007): “My first solo show in New York was a direct result of the powerHouse Portfolio Review. Don't miss this rare opportunity to personally meet with and show your work to a wide variety of industry professionals. You will get feedback and make connections that you can't get anywhere else.”

Barry Batinkoff: “My experience was invaluable! Thought-provoking insight for both creative and marketing processes.”

Santiago Studio: “The powerHouse Portfolio Review is most beneficial to photographers who want to create momentum for their work and work in progress. The critics are passionate about photography; it’s a great environment to be in.”

Leigh Van Duzer: “powerHouse did a great job of organizing the event to make sure it ran very smoothly. They even matched me up with reviewers that were more perfect for me than I even think that they knew.” See Leigh Van Duzer Photography blog for more.

Ron Diorio: “I don't think my time at the powerHouse Portfolio Review in 2006 could have gone any better. It introduced me to two reviewers who changed the direction of my fledgling career: Paula Gillen and Peter Hay Halpert. Paula's advice to "stop shooting and start editing" led me to a better understanding of my body of work. Peter was interested enough in my work to stay in touch after the review and this year gave me my first solo show at his gallery in Chelsea.”

Fourth Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review Line Up
CONFIRMED REVIEWERS as of February 13, 2007

Additional reviewers will be posted as invitations are accepted. Please check back regularly
for an updated list of the professionals who will be reviewing this year.

Kiki Bauer, Senior Book Designer, powerHouse Books

Bauer has designed or art directed over 40 books for powerHouse, including Grim Street by Mark Cohen and A Time Before Crack by Jamel Shabazz, both selected for Best Photo Books by Photo District News in 2005. She won and Art Director’s Club merit award in 2003 for John Coplans’ A Body. She is currently teaching a book design course in the Photography MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Naomi Beckwith, Assistant Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem

Prior to joining the Studio Museum, Beckwith was a project coordinator for BAMart at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a Helena Rubenstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and, most recently, the Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.

Natalie Bertaux, Consultant and Art Buyer for ad agencies including Anomaly, JWT, and MODCo Creative

Recent projects include a current HSBC campaign consisting of a guerilla around-the-world tour with Magnum photojournalists documenting cultural differences. Bertaux was formerly a photo agent at a portrait and documentary-based agency. There she represented such legendary photographers as Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, and Larry Sultan. Prior to that, she worked with creative directors on a variety of fashion campaigns, and with Helmut Newton on his ad campaigns.

Honore Brown, Assistant Picture Editor, The New Yorker

Brown regularly produces shoots for the “Goings On About Town” section of the magazine, and also produces shoots and conducts image research for the magazine’s cultural and fiction pieces. Previously, Brown managed the studio of photographer Max Vadukul.

Clinton Cargill, Associate Picture Editor, The New York Times Magazine

Lollion Chong, Editor, MTV Books

Chong has worked on a wide variety of pop-culture and music-related titles, including the New York Times bestseller The Heroin Diaries and VICE Books’ cult hit Dear Diary, as well as such illustrated and photography titles as Edie Factory Girl, TOYS: New Designs from the Art Toy Revolution, Misshapes, The World According to Pretty Toney, The Vice Photo Book, and the award-winning travel series MTV Travel Guides.

Craig Cohen, Associate Publisher, powerHouse Books

Yolanda Cuomo, Art Director, Designer, and Educator

Cuomo has collaborated for over two decades with visual and performing artists including Richard Avedon, Paul Simon, Twyla Tharp, Laurie Anderson, Gilles Peress, and Sylvia Plachy. Her studio designed and produced the worldwide exhibition and book Diane Arbus Revelations, the first major retrospective of Diane Arbus’ photography since 1974. Other notable book projects include Pre-Pop Warhol, September 11 by Magnum Photographers, Farewell to Bosnia: Gilles Peress, Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, Malaparte: A House Like Me, and Kenneth Cole: Footnotes.

Marissa Eller, Freelance Photo Editor, Marketing Department, The New York Times
Having worked in the photography industry for over 13 years, Eller has commissioned photographers for global ad campaigns, catalogues, and coffee table books while at Assouline Publishing and BBH US, a top-10 ad agency in the US and number one ad agency in the UK.

Nancy Eklund-Later, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Princeton Architectural Press

During her seven-year tenure, Eklund-Later has acquired, edited, and overseen design and production on books covering a wide spectrum of topics, including architecture, urbanism, landscape, fine art and vernacular photography, ephemera, graphic design, and book arts.

Larry Fink, Photographer

Fink has been a professional photographer for 45 years. The recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and two NEA grants, he has had one-man shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, amongst others. He shows regularly in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris. He has published seven books, and his work has appeared in top publications including Vanity Fair, W, GQ, Detour, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker. He has been teaching for 41 years, and has spent the last 16 years as a professor of photography at Bard College.

Michael Foley, Director, Foley Gallery

Foley has previously worked with the Fraenkel Gallery, the Howard Greenberg Gallery, and the Yancey Richardson Gallery. He has been a consultant for The Gap on several of their sponsored photography exhibits and has exhibited his own work in San Francisco, New York, and Italy.

Peter Hay Halpert, Director, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
Halpert is a collector, curator, author, and a contributing editor to American Photo magazine.

Jeana Hong, Business Manager and Shoot Producer, Laird + Partners

Hong has served as a photo producer for domestic and international advertising agencies such as Grey, Lloyd & Co, and Merkley + Partners. From 2000 to 2005, she served as head of photo production and art buying for Brooks Brothers advertising. Currently she is the business manager of shoot production for the boutique advertising agency Laird + Partners, with print and film clients including The Gap, Nautica, Donna Karan, Bottega Veneta, Estee Lauder, and Coty. She also serves as Development Director of the nonprofit photography organization Slideluck Potshow. Hong also served on the selection jury for the 2007 Santa Fe Center of Photography awards.

Sarah Hughes, Editorial Photo Agent, Getty Images/Reportage

Hughes assigns documentary and portrait photographers to stories with magazines and news outlets. Previously, she was a photo agent and editor at Corbis. Prior to entering the agency side of the industry, Hughes combined her background in documentary and fine arts and produced photography-based installation projects. She has exhibited and lectured extensively in Sweden; taught workshops and seminars on photography; and has reviewed photo exhibitions in New York.

Nancy Jo Iacoi, Director of Photography, Orchard photography agency

Iacoi represents photographers for commercial and editorial assignments. Formerly, Iacoi was the director of photography at Esquire.

Whitney Johnson, Associate Picture Editor, The New Yorker

Johnson is responsible for producing shoots and researching photographs for political, social, and international stories. Prior to joining the magazine, Johnson worked at the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network for over five years, researching and commissioning photographs for publications and coordinating a documentary photography exhibition and international grant competition. She holds a BA from Barnard College, and is pursuing a MA in American Studies, with a focus on photography and social change, at Columbia University.

Dan Leers, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art

Leers began at MoMA shortly after graduating from Columbia University with a Masters Degree in Modern Art History/Curatorial Studies, where he wrote about the intersection of art and advertising. Prior to his studies, Leers worked for the Department of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York. Some of the exhibitions on which he has worked include Magnum’s New Yorkers, Bruce Davidson: Subway, and We Skate Hardcore.

Joanna Lehan, Editor, Aperture

Previously, Lehan was the Assistant Curator at the International Center of Photography, where she organized ICP’s two Triennial exhibitions, Strangers in 2003 and Ecotopia in 2006. She has also worked as a freelance photo editor and researcher (Newsweek, The New Yorker) and as a freelance writer on photography.

Mary McClean, Art Researcher and Photo Editor, Random House

McClean specializes in book cover images for Vintage Books, Alfred A. Knopf, and many other major trade book publishers.

Nadja Masri, Bureau Chief/Photo Editor, New York, GEO magazine

Masri has been a portfolio reviewer, panelist, and juror on various occasions and has written articles on photography for German magazine Photonews. She teaches about telling, editing, and selling stories at ICP.

Michael Mazzeo, Director, Peer Gallery

Mazzeo’s gallery has provided exhibition opportunities for dozens of emerging and established photographers since opening its doors in Chelsea in October 2005. Michael has maintained a diverse teaching career, having served on the faculty of Parsons School for Design, New Jersey City University, and currently the School at ICP. He also leads workshops in wet-plate collodion photography and historic processes at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Peter’s Valley Craft Education Center, and at his Manhattan studio.

Janene Outlaw, Photo Editor, The New York Times’s,Thursday Style section.

Outlaw is also a photographer, producer and curator.

Susan Phear, Senior Associate Photo Editor, Vanity Fair

Phear has been a photo editor at other publications such as Real Simple, New York magazine, and YM.

Daniel Power, Publisher, powerHouse Books

Thomas Roma, Director of Photography, Columbia University

Roma has had two solo exhibitions at MoMA and ICP and is the author of eight books.

Sara Rosen, Publicity Director of powerHouse Books, Publisher of Miss Rosen Editions, Editor of powerHouse Magazine, and a curator at The powerHouse Arena. Miss Rosen Editions is a new imprint with powerHouse, focusing on contemporary urban culture and lifestyle with new books from Ricky Powell, Martha Cooper, Charlie Ahearn, Glenn O’Brien, Claw Money, Boogie, Hamburger Eyes, Kent Rogowski, and Ellen Jong, among others. powerHouse Magazine is a twice-yearly publication that uses group exhibitions Miss Rosen curates at powerHouse Arena as the springboard to further cultural exploration.

Alissa Schoenfeld, Director, Yossi Milo Gallery

Formerly of Pace/MacGill Gallery, Schoenfeld has been the Director of Yossi Milo Gallery for three years.

Michael Shulman, Director of Publishing and Multimedia, Magnum Photos

Shulman worked for the photo industry since 1993, originally at Archive Photos. Subsequently he has worked at Sygma, Liaison, and Getty Images.

Carol Squiers, Curator, International Center of Photography, New York

As Curator at the International Center of Photography, New York (2000–present), Squiers has organized a variety of exhibitions and co-curated the First and Second ICP Triennial Exhibitions of Photography and Video. Previously she was a curator of photography at P.S.1, the Institute for Art and Urban Resources (1980–1984). Squiers has written essays for a wide variety of publications, including Artforum, The New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Parkett, Art in America, and Aperture, as well as several books and catalogues.

Thom Vogel, Director/Partner, Bonni Benrubi Gallery

Bonni Benrubi Gallery specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary photography.

Formerly of the Southeast Museum of Photography, Vogel has been with the Bonni Benrubi Gallery for 14 years.

Dorothee Walliser, Publisher, Filipacchi Publishing

Filipacchi Publishing is the book publishing division of HFM. From 1999 to 2002 Walliser was in charge of the US division of Assouline, and prior to that she served as the editorial director of Editions du Collectionneur, Paris. There she launched Santa D’Orazio’s first book, A Private View, as well as books by David LaChapelle, Patrick Demarchelier, and Herb Ritts.

Registration & Fees

To register and make a reservation, print the form found at: http://www.powerHouseBooks.com/portfolioreview08/registration.pdf
and fax it to (212) 366-5247 or mail it to:

ATTN: Portfolio Review
powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Registration Fee:              

$300 | Before April 3, 2008
$350 | After April 3, 2008
$200 | Student Rate 
(With valid student ID — you must provide a valid and current Spring 2008 semester photo ID or a copy of your Spring 2008 class registration.)

Payment can be made by check, money order, or credit card. Please make all checks out to powerHouse Arena.

You will receive a confirmation email once your registration has been processed.

Application is nontransferable.

Registration is limited; please contact us soon.

Cancellation & Refunds

We offer a full refund less a $25 processing fee until April 3, 2008. No exceptions.

For further information or if you have trouble downloading the registration form, contact the event coordinator, Rebecca Stepler, by email: rebecca@powerHouseBooks.com

About powerHouse Books

Founded in 1995, powerHouse Books has collaborated with and published the work of many of today’s visionary photographers, art directors, writers, and cultural icons, including Patrick McMullan’s so8os: A Photographic Diary of a Decade and InTents; Jamel Shabazz’s A Time Before Crack and Back in the Days; Phil Stern: A Life’s Work, Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science; François Nars’ X-RAY and Makeup Your Mind; and books from Nike, Magnum Photos, Jeff Bridges, Joel Grey, Richard Misrach, Doug and Mike Starn, John Coplans, Helen Levitt, William Claxton, Greg Gorman, Ralph Gibson, Sam Shahid, and Fabien Baron, among others.