powerHouse Books, the premiere conceptual publisher of art photography and innovative illustrated books, proudly presents the powerHouse 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, and media, and to offer guidance and mentorship for future artistic and commercial career development.
The first powerHouse Portfolio Review was held on Sunday, February 20th, 2005 at the powerHouse Gallery, located at 68 Charlton Street (two blocks south of Houston, between Hudson and Varick). The Review was an astounding success, with 113 attendees and a 37-member *panel of experts. Each attendee was assigned four to five one-on-one reviews with members of our panel.
The second annual powerHouse Portfolio Review will be held in March of 2006. Please address inquiries to Susanne König.
PANEL OF EXPERTS for the Feb 2005 Review
Our panel of experts included the publisher and principals of powerHouse Books, a range of photo editors from Aperture to Vice, commercial photography agents, gallery directors, photography critics, and art book packagers and designers. To view the full list click here.
ABOUT POWERHOUSE BOOKS
Founded in 1995, powerHouse Books has collaborated and published the work of many of today’s visionary photographers, art directors, writers, and cultural icons including so8os: A Photographic Diary of a Decade and InTents by Patrick McMullan, Back in the Days by Jamel Shabazz, Phil Stern: A Life’s Work, Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science by Beastie Boys, Makeup Your Mind by François Nars, 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.
PANEL OF EXPERTS for the Feb 2005 Review
Tim Barber
Photo Editor, Vice magazine
Craig Cohen
Associate Publisher, powerHouse Books
Katie Constans
Photo Editor, TRACE magazine
Constans is also a creative consultant with the TRUE Agency, a specialized advertising and marketing shop.
Elizabeth Culbert
Associate Photo Editor, The New Yorker
Culbert is the editor of Robert Polidori's books Havana and Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl.
Yolanda Cuomo
Principal, Yolanda Cuomo Design
Cuomo is an experienced Art Director and previous winner of the 1990 Infinity Publication award from the International Center of Photography. Cuomo currently teaches at New York University, Parsons School of Design, and at the School of Visual Arts' graduate photography department. She has received awards from such professional organizations as the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Society of Publication Design (SPD) and The Art Director's Club.
Thierry Demont
President, Demont Photo Management
Demont represents a variety of commercial and fine art photographers, including William Claxton. He is a committee member of Kenro Izu's Friends of Photography and is on the board of ICP Focus Members.
Susan Enoch
Marketing Director, Harry N. Abrams
Enoch has previously worked as Sales & Marketing Director at The Monacelli Press.
Sasha Erwitt
Associate Photo Editor, Vanity Fair
Erwitt has also worked as a photo editor at YM magazine and as Associate Photo Editor at Self magazine.
Larry Fink
Fink is an acclaimed photojournalist and educator. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and is the author of The Forbidden Pictures, Social Graces, Runway, and Boxing.
Michael Foley
Director, Foley Gallery, New York
Foley has worked with the Fraenkel Gallery, the Howard Greenberg Gallery, and Yancey Richardson Gallery. He has been a consultant for The Gap, Inc. on several of their sponsored photography exhibits, and has exhibited his own work in San Francisco, New York, and Italy.
Alexander Galan
Communications Director and Editorial Board Member, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
D.A.P. represents more than two hundred commercial publishers, galleries, arts institutions, and museums that publish books on art and culture.
Marta Hallet
President and Publisher, Glitterati Incorporated
Glitterati Inc. is a publisher of illustrated books. Hallet has also worked as Vice President and Publisher of Rizzoli, Smithmark Publishers, and Collins Publishers (a division of HarperCollins).
Peter Hay Halpert
Private Dealer, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
Halpert is a collector, curator, and author, and a contributing editor to American Photo magazine.
W.M. Hunt
Director of Photography, Ricco/Maresca Gallery
Hunt is a New York–based collector, curator, and consultant.
Susanne König
Director, The powerHouse Gallery
Daniel Kunitz
U.S. Editor, ArtReview magazine
Kunitz is also a contributing editor to The Paris Review. He writes frequently on art and culture for numerous magazines, including Vanity Fair, Harper's, Details, and Slate. He is also co-curator of "The ArtReview 25: Emerging Artists in America," which will be on view at the Phillips, de Pury galleries from March 9 to March 24, 2005.
Mary Ann Livchak
Assistant Editor, Photograph magazine
From 1987 to 2001 Livchak was the photography book buyer for A Photographer’s Place, New York.
Lesley Martin
Executive Editor, Aperture Foundation Books Program
Tonya Martin
Photo Editor, Blender magazine.
Martin has also worked as photo editor at Bikini Magazine and Details.
Nadja Masri
New York Bureau Chief, Geo magazine
Masri has worked as a photo editor for Geo and various other European magazines.
Deborah Mauro
Art Director, American Photo magazine
Mauro, who has been American Photo’s Art Director for the past seven years, began her publishing career in the darkroom at ELLE magazine in 1986.
Jeff Mermelstein
Mermelstein is a photographer and teacher at ICP and the School of Visual Arts graduate photography program.
Mary McClean
Art Researcher and Photo Editor, Random House
McClean specializes in book cover images for Vintage Books, Alfred A. Knopf, and most other major trade book publishers.
Alison Morley
Former photo editor of The New York Times’ Sophisticated Traveler, Morley now leads the Photojournalism and Documentary Studies Program at ICP and is an independent editor.
Janene Outlaw
Associate Photo Editor, Fortune magazine
Robert Peacock
Peacock is an independent advisor and curator of photography and art. He has authored three published collections and is currently working on two books on documentary photography.
Kira Pollack
Deputy Photo Editor, The New York Times Magazine
Pollack was formerly Associate Photo Editor at The New Yorker from 1994 to 1998.
Daniel Power
Publisher, powerHouse Books
Hugo Reyes
International Syndications Manager, Cpi
In addition to international syndications for more than ten regions, Reyes is responsible for book projects, exhibitions, and events for CPi.
Thomas Roma
Director of Photography, Columbia University
As a photographer, Roma had two solo exhibitions at MoMA and ICP, New York and is the author of seven books.
Sara Rosen
Publicity Director, powerHouse Books
Bruce Silverstein
Bruce Silverstein, Bruce Silverstein Photography
David Strettell
Strettell is a freelance photographic consultant based in New York. He worked for Magnum Photos, where he was Editorial Director before establishing their Cultural Department, until 2004.
Yuko Uchikawa
Uchikawa is a book designer and has art directed books for large and independent publishers.
Clarence J. Williams , III
Williams is a Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist. He has received numerous awards, including the Times-Mirror Foundation's Journalist of the Year award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for domestic journalism, and Journalist of the Year from the National Assocation of Black Journalists. He has lectured and taught at a variety of workshops, schools, and colleges, and has worked as a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times.