I got no business giving rundowns of any of the millions of decent things going on in NYC, but I’m bummed I can’t hustle myself up tonight for this one informal event. Spencer Platt, who won World Press Photo’s 2006 picture of the year, and a few of his friends are are putting on a slideshow of Iraq photos on a white wall at Jay and Walter streets around 9 p.m. He just put the word out on the Lightstalkers photojournalist forum, and says it’s an informal thing independent of the New York Photo Festival, “so bring some beer/wine and a critical eye.”
Platt got the World Press award for his picture of Lebanese twentysomethings in a red topdown driving through a bombed-out Beirut neighborhood. He’s also got a picture of a hotel bombing in a book by certain Medicine Agency bloggers, which I’m about a third of the way into, hooked on, and already feel like I been missing out for only getting to it now.
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May 19th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Thanks for checking the book, Rick. I was a NYPF on Sat and missed this posting. VII’s slideshow at Galapagos was so beyond anything I’ve ever seen. Wow. The entire fest was amazing…