Below is the list of esteemed reviewers for the 10th annual powerHouse Portfolio Review that will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2014. For bios on each of our reviewers, scroll down or click each name.
Reviewers are subject to change, and we'll continue to add more, so please keep checking back. Expect around 25-30 reviewers total.
Lindsay Blatt - Photo Editor, The New York Times
Siobhan Bohnacker - Photo Editor, The New Yorker
Todd Bradway - Director of Title Acquisitions, ARTBOOK | D.A.P.
Bonnie Briant - Designer, Yolanda Cuomo Design
Bill Cramer - Founder & CEO, Wonderful Machine
Tanner Curtis - Associate Photo Editor, TIME.com
Claartje van Dijk - Research Associate, Collections, International Center of Photography
Sarah Foster - Senior Creative Content Manager, Getty Images
Stephen Frailey - Editor, Dear Dave magazine
Tamsen Greene - Director, Jack Shainman Gallery
Jeana Hong - Owner & Senior Art Buyer, Anthology Productions
Vanessa Kramer Hallett - Senior Director & Worldwide Head, Photographs, Phillips
Liz Lapp - Curator, Shutterstock, Inc.
Matthew Leifheit - Photo Editor, VICE Magazine
Will Luckman - Managing Editor, powerHouse Books
Sarah Maltais - Agent, Levine / Leavitt
Barbara Moreira - Gallery Manager, Hasted Kraeutler
Rebecca Ney - Photo Editor, People Magazine
Ken Pao - Content and Community Editor, ImageBrief
Daniel Power - CEO, NYPH & powerHouse Books
David Rosenberg - Editor, Slate Magazine's Behold
Darnell Scott - Managing Director, Judy Casey Inc. & The Garden Party
Michael Shulman - Director of Publishing, Magnum Photos
Corinne Tapia - Director, Sous Les Etoiles
Tess Vinnedge - Assistant Director, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Walker Waugh - Director, Yancey Richardson Gallery
Reviewer Bios
Lindsay Blatt
is a Photo Editor at The New York Times. She earned a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute, and was honored with their Outstanding Merit in Photography award. The Brooklyn Arts Council offered Lindsay a grant in support of her large-format photo essay, "Repair & Shine," documenting Brooklyn's shoe repairmen. As a photo editor, she has worked at Channel 13, Vogue, Newsweek, UNICEF, and Foreign Affairs. Her documentary film Herd In Iceland is currently winning awards on the festival circuit, and she also owns Archerfish, a full-service video production company.
Siobhan Bohnacker
Photo Editor, The New Yorker
Prior to working as a photo editor at The New Yorker, Siobhan Bohnacker worked as a freelance photo editor at The New York Times Magazine and as in-house producer for portrait photographer, Platon. At Platon's, Siobhan worked with Chronicle Books and Apple on the publication of Platon's volume Power and the accompanying app, and she collaborated with The New Yorker and Human Rights Watch on award-winning portfolios. She consulted The International Center of Photography on independent artist books for their 2013 Triennial, A Different Kind of Order and has organized exhibitions at Matthew Marks Gallery (New York), Colette (Paris), The New York Historical Society and Lincoln Center. Siobhan holds a BFA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art, London (UK).
Todd Bradway
Director of Title Acquisitions, ARTBOOK | D.A.P.
Todd Bradway has worked in illustrated book publishing for nearly twenty years. He is currently director of title acquisitions at ARTBOOK | D.A.P., where over the past seven years he has has helped find distribution for hundreds of visual books in North America. In addition, he currently oversees ARTBOOK | D.A.P.'s in house publishing program, which has originated projects on the work of esteemed artists and photographers such as Lee Friedlander, Phillipe Halsman, Jasper Johns, Antonio Lopez, Mike Mandel, Joel Sternfeld, and Larry Sultan.
Bonnie Briant
Designer, Yoland Cuomo Design
Bonnie Briant works as a photographer and graphic designer. Down These Mean Streets, which she designed in 2012 for photographer Will Steacy, was shortlisted for Aperture's First Photo Book Award and named one of Photo Eye‚Äö Books of the Year. She also does work for the record label UNO! NYC, Abrams, Cafe Integral and Istanbul Eats, among others. Her photographs have been featured on NPR, FotoVisura, The New York Photo Awards and National Geographic blog. Briant graduated from the Photo and Imaging Department at NYU‚Äö Tisch School of the Arts and currently lives in Brooklyn.
Bill Cramer
Founder & CEO, Wonderful Machine
Bill Cramer is the founder of Wonderful Machine, a directory of high-quality photographers aimed at commercial and editorial clients worldwide. Bill began his career as a photojournalist in 1985, stringing for the Associated Press and The New York Times. He assisted prominent photographers, including a year with fashion photographer Steven Meisel. Since then, he has concentrated his efforts on shooting environmental portraits for editorial, corporate and advertising clients. Bill has received a number of industry awards, and has been included in Communication Arts Photography Annual three times. Seeing an opportunity to "build a better mousetrap," Bill created Wonderful Machine in 2007 as a "source book on steroids." In addition to promoting photographers, his 15 staff members help them with photo editing, design, estimating and shoot production.
Tanner Curtis
Associate Photo Editor, TIME.com
Tanner Curtis joined TIME.com in 2013 as an associate photo editor with a focus on domestic news, politics and sports. A native of Kentucky, he holds a bachelor's degree in Photojournalism from Western Kentucky University. Previously, Curtis worked as a photo editor at the New York Daily News and as a photographer for several newspapers in the United States.
Claartje van Dijk
Research Associate, Collections, International Center of Photography
Claartje van Dijk is the research associate, Collections, at the International Center of Photography, New York. At ICP she conducts research on the historical and contemporary objects in the museum's photography collection, which consists of over 100,000 photographs, and contributes regularly to Fans in a Flashbulb, the ICP Collections blog. For ICP, she coordinated the traveling exhibition Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris and provided research assistance for the exhibition Susan Meiselas: In History. A past nominator for the ICP Infinity Awards, she studied art history and museum studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Sarah Foster
Senior Creative Content Manager, Getty Images
Sarah Foster works as the senior creative content manager at Getty Images, based in New York. She has been with Getty in various capacities for 16 years, starting with The Image Bank and working in research, sales, and then the Creative department as the company and the stock industry have evolved. She manages a global team of editors, working collaboratively with Getty contributors and art directors on creative shoot development, image selection, and content curation for the Getty Images house collections.
Stephen Frailey
Editor, Dear Dave magazine
Stephen Frailey is the editor in chief of Dear Dave magazine, a thrice-yearly magazine of photography and writing that he founded in 2007. He has received two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in photography and an Aaron Siskind Foundation Grant. He has been a visiting artist at the Donald Judd Foundation. He was the Director of the photography program at the Milton Avery graduate school of the arts at Bard College from 1998 to 2004, and has been the Chair of the Photography Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York since 1998. Frailey founded the Auction for Photographic Education in Afghanistan to create a photography department at Kabul University in 2003. He also founded the Graduate MPS Department of Fashion Photography at SVA in 2010, the only program of its kind. He is on the advisory board of the Tierney fellowship foundation as well as a Senior support specialist for the Fulbright Foundation. Stephen Frailey was named one of the 100 most important people in photography by American Photo magazine in 2005.
Tamsen Greene
Director, Jack Shainman Gallery
Tamsen Greene has been the director of Jack Shainman Gallery in New York since 2010. Previously, she was a curatorial assistant for 10,000 Lives, the 2010 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea curated by Massimiliano Gioni. She was an Associate at Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY, from 2004-2009. She has written extensively for several publications including Modern Painters and artinfo.com. She graduated with a B.A. from Barnard College in 2004 and is based in Long Island City, New York.
Jeana Hong
Owner & Senior Art Buyer, Anthology Productions
Jeana Hong currently owns and is the senior art buyer for Anthology Productions which produces ad and TV campaigns for clients such as Nautica, Macy's, Naturalizer, and Napapijri. She formerly worked for the TV and print ad agency, ByrdBarlage, and consults in creative marketing and photographer business development. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has produced print, web and TV advertising campaigns for fashion and luxury brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Samsung, Nautica, NBC Universal, Coty Fragrances and The Gap; and for celebrities Gwen Stefani, Halle Berry, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Fergie. She possesses over a decade of hands-on experience in art buying and creative services on the client, ad agency, and photographer ends. Jeana headed the creative production department for Brooks Brothers' internal advertising division for four years and served as Business Manager of Shoot Production at the NYC ad agency, Laird + Partners.
Vanessa Kramer Hallett
Senior Director & Worldwide Head, Photographs, Phillips
Since joining Phillips‚Äö Photographs department in 2005, Vanessa, named director and worldwide head of Photographs in 2010, has led her international team to the forefront of the international Photographs market. Featured in the Art + Auction December 2011 Power Issue for her achievements, Vanessa tenure at the Photographs department has been steadfastly defined by the successful introduction of emerging photographers to the secondary market and the setting of numerous world auction records for classic and contemporary photographers. Previously, she was at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA and worked in Client Services at Sotheby. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University in Art History and a post-graduate degree in American Fine and Decorative Arts from the Sotheby Institute of Art.
Liz Lapp
Curator, Shutterstock, Inc.
Liz Lapp is the curator for Shutterstock and the co-founder of Finch & Ada, a contemporary fine arts collaborative, working with international artists and companies including, Dolly Faibyshev, Robert Otto Epstein, Ruben Natal-San Miguel and Uprise Art. Mrs. Lapp has over 13 years of experience in visual arts and marketing and graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has managed creative advertising accounts for The Clorox Company and served as the director and curator at the New York location of The Farmani Gallery, with a focus on fine art photography. She has juried on Photolucida Critical Mass, The International Photography Awards and The Lucie Awards. Lapp has reviewed portfolios for PSPF PhotoPlus, ASMP New York, powerHouse, New York Photo Festival and has also contributed as a writer to PDN, PDNedu, and The ASMP National Bulletin.
Matthew Leifheit
Photo Editor, VICE Magazine
Matthew Leifheit is the photo editor of VICE Magazine. In addition to contributing articles to Art Fag City and TIME Magazine's Lightbox blog, Leifheit self-publishes MATTE Magazine, a platform for established and emerging artists that has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art library in New York.
Will Luckman
Managing Editor, powerHouse Books
Will Luckman is the managing editor at powerHouse Books. In his five years with the company he has played a major role in the acquisition of new projects while also shaping and organizing the content of each in an effort to make beautiful, engaging, clear, and marketable books.
Sarah Maltais
Agent, Levine / Leavitt
Sarah Maltais is an agent at Levine / Leavitt, one of the world's leading independent artist management agencies. She currently represents an exceptional roster of photographers including Danny Clinch, Nick Meek, Laziz Hamani, Marcel Christ, Peter Funch, and TrujilloPaumier. She has promoted and produced for photographers Alexei Hay, Svend Lindbaek and Jimmy Williams and worked on casting for the designers threeASFOUR, Thom Browne, Yigal Azrou and CFDA Fashion Incubator designers.
Barbara Moreira
Gallery Manager, Hasted Kraeutler
Barbara Moreira manages Hasted Kraeutler, a contemporary art gallery committed to the representation of established artists from around the world, working in all mediums. The gallery works in an advisory capacity with new and experienced collectors, museums and institutions. Founded in 2005 in a third floor space on West 20th Street, the gallery is now located in a large ground floor space at 537 West 24th Street, in the heart of New York's Chelsea art district.
The gallery represents Jeff Bark, Michael Benson, Nick Brandt, Marc Dennis, Kim Dong Yoo, Awol Erizku, Pierre Gonnord, Julian Faulhaber, Andreas Gefeller, Jean-Paul Goude, Nathan Harger, Erwin Olaf, Martin Schoeller, Michael Thompson, Paolo Ventura, Albert Watson, and Kwang Young Chun. These artists constitute the range of contemporary artistic practice, working with the genres of narrative, landscape, still life, portraiture, conceptualism and abstraction.
Rebecca Ney
Photo Editor, People Magazine
Rebecca Ney is a photo editor at People Magazine. She previously worked as the photo editor at Art + Auction and Modern Painters
Ken Pao
Content and Community Editor, ImageBrief
Ken Pao is the content and community editor at ImageBrief, a platform which allows photographers to license their images directly to advertising agencies, publishers and corporate clients all over the world. ImageBrief is one of the fastest growing, innovative, completely curated companies in this space, amassing high volumes of quality content and contributors daily. Ken oversees the curation of all content and contributors to the site as well as growing the community of quality, commercial photographers, currently at 9000. Ken's career as a successful beauty and fashion photographer has provided a strong understanding of commercial clients' requirements, and an eye for sourcing the perfect image. As a photographer for 8 years (and counting), Ken has been published internationally in magazines such as Elle, Harper's Bazaar and L'Officiel, and commercially with clients such as Sephora, Target, CoverGirl, MAC, and L'Oreal. His work has allowed him access to shoot with top name talent including Arlenis Sosa, Aymeline Valade and Soo Joo Park and create demand in the lucrative, but often elusive, Asian publishing market. Ken has taught commercial photography courses at the Miami Ad School and the New York Film Academy.
Daniel Power
CEO, NYPH & powerHouse Books
Daniel Power is a founder and the director of the New York Photo Festival, established in 2008, and is the CEO of powerHouse Cultural Entertainment, Inc., which encompasses powerHouse Books (est. 1995) and related initiatives, including The POWERHOUSE Arena (2006), powerHouse Packaging & Supply (2011), and most recently POW! (2013) powerHouse's children's book imprint.
David Rosenberg
Editor, Slate Magazine's Behold
David Rosenberg is the editor of Slate Magazine's photo blog Behold. He started his career at Sygma in the late 90s and has since worked as a photography producer, director and editor for a wide range of publications and organizations including Rolling Stone, TENNIS Magazine, Us Weekly and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Rosenberg has extensive international experience producing shoots for fashion, portrait, documentary and still-life photography. He is an avid photographer and enjoys discovering and working with both new and established photographers.
Darnell Scott
Managing Director, Judy Casey Inc. & The Garden Party
Darnell Scott is the managing director of the art department and also oversees all social media promotion and publicity at creative management powerhouse, Judy Casey Inc. and its sister company, The Garden Party. Darnell handles all agency promotion for their stable of artists, as well as curating the artists' work that engages with clients world wide including Target, Sony, Virgin Mobile, Bergdorf Goodman, Mary Kay, and countless other brands, celebrities, and publications.
Michael Shulman
Director of Publishing, Magnum Photos
Michael Shulman has worked in the photo industry since 1993 and has been director of publishing at Magnum Photos since 2002. He has worked as a consultant on many diverse book, CD, and film projects, including Bob Dylan's Together Through Life CD and video, the new book Dennis Stock: American Cool, published by Reel Art Press, Freedom Riders for WGBH, The Architect & the Painter: the Creative Lives of Charles & Ray Eames for PBS, Love, Marilyn, Silicon Valley for PBS, and with all major publishers, including Abrams, Random House, St. Martin's Press, Penguin and HarperCollins. A native New Yorker, Michael lives in Washington Heights, NYC.
Corinne Tapia
Director, Sous Les Etoiles
Corinne Tapia is the director at Sous Les Etoiles in New York and has been involved in the photography world as a collector and consultant for the last 20 years. Tapia also collaborates in portfolio reviews with Photolucida, ICP, and Les Rencontres d'Arles. She has initiated artist exchange programs with international photo galleries, and recently shifted focus to contemporary Japanese photography with several thematic exhibitions of Japanese photographers in partnership with Gallery 21 in Tokyo. A member of the TOKYO-GA commissioner's board in Japan, Ms. Tapia spearheads the selection committee and programming schedule for the 2013 Tokyo Museum of Photography exhibition's U.S. delegation.
Tess Vinnedge
Assistant Director, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Tess Vinnedge is the assistant director at the Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, and works with artists Elliott Erwitt, Lalla Essaydi, Sebastiaan Bremer, Sally Mann and Abelardo Morell. Prior to working at Houk she was a freelance documentary photographer. Originally from California, Tess studied at Bennington College in Vermont, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Walker Waugh
Director, Yancey Richardson Gallery
Walker Waugh is the director of Yancey Richardson Gallery, specializing in contemporary fine art photography. The gallery represents a range of emerging, mid-career, and 20th century photographers, including Zanele Muholi, Andrew Moore, and Sebastiao Salgado, among many others. Waugh previously co-founded and was the director of WORK Gallery, a red tin shack on the Red Hook, Brooklyn waterfront dedicated to emerging artists working across all mediums. He also works as an independent curator and writer. Waugh has a BA from Williams College and is originally from the Flint Hills of Kansas.