Content Partnership With New York Photo Review

Media Partners, New York Photo Review (NYPR) and the International Center for Photography, are happy to announce the publication of a series of articles exploring photography's past, present, and future. Written by NYPR editor Barbara Confino, the articles will be co-published on both the NYPR and ICP websites.  Subjects will include experts on scientific photography at one end of the spectrum and prominent poets on the other. To highlight the diversity of approaches taken to photography, the medium will be treated in a variety of styles—from the factual and objective to the subjective and imaginative.

Major themes to be addressed include the old/new face of technological change and the presence of the photography medium in so many areas of contemporary life. Upcoming articles will feature profiles of prominent/distinguished members of the photo world, including gallerist Deborah Bell, New York Historical Society Curator Marilyn Kushner, and Chief Curator Photography at MoMA, Quentin Bajac, in a two-part interview.  The editors hope to create an ongoing archive of relevant and insightful material of value to the entire photographic community.

BARBARA CONFINO is a writer and visual artist working in video, sound, text, stills, and the web. Her preferred forms are mixed-media installations and artists’ books. Her work has been featured in the Brooklyn Museum's ground-breaking show, Digital Printmaking Now, and is housed in such collections as the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the British Museum Library, the Staatsbibliotek of Berlin and the National Film Board of Canada. Her video,HUM, has been seen in concert in New York's Symphony Space. She was Artist-in-Residence at Polytechnic University and is currently at work on the Genetic Wars, a complex piece exploring the future consequences of cloning and hybridization. She is Managing Editor of the New York Photo Review where she writes about the current photography scene. Other writings on art and digital culture have been published in such periodicals as The Village Voice, CITIWEEK, the Christian Science Monitor, ArtsCanada and Travel and Leisure. She lives in New York City where she exhibits regularly and teaches at the International Center for Photography and CUNY's New York City College of Technology.