The New York Photo Festivalis pleased to invite you to Book Soup: A Photography Panel Discussion and Book Signing Event
Thursday , May 15, 2008 Panel Discussion : 8–9pm
Tickets for this event can be purchased at www.newyorkphotofestival.com
St Ann’s Warehouse
38 Water Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Book Signing: 9–10pm
The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
To kick off the evening programming for the New York Photo Festival, co-founder Daniel Power, CEO of powerHouse Books, will lead
an 8pm panel discussion at St. Ann’s Warehouse with six of powerHouse Books’ most acclaimed authors to discuss the future of photography
book publishing.
Featured panelists joining Power include: Harry Benson, author of RFK: A Photographer’s Journal, discussing the future of photography and classic canons; Leora Kahn, author of the Lucie Award-winning collection Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan and the forthcoming fall 2008 release Child Soldiers, discussing the power of photojournalism to affect sentiment; Joseph Rodríguez, author of East Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A., Juvenile, Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico, and the upcoming fall 2008 release Still Here: Stories After Katrina, speaking on the power of documentary photography to change attitudes; Slava Mogutin, author of Lost Boys and NYC Go-Go, revealing how improvised situations can document an imaginary reality; Brian Finke, author of Flight Attendants, discussing how improvised situations can document areality; and Jamel Shabazz, author of Back in the Days, Seconds of My Life, A Time Before Crack, and The Last Sunday in June, speaking on how street photography can document a time and place.
