New York Photo Festival Opens

Luke Hayman and Shigeto Akiyama have designed the identity for the inaugural New York Photo Festival that opened last night with a raucous block party in Dumbo, Brooklyn before it takes over the neighborhood for the coming weekend. Local landmarks like the Tobacco Warehouse and St. Ann’s Warehouse have been transformed into “pavilions” for exhibitions of contemporary photography curated by the photographer Martin Parr; Lesley A. Martin, the publisher of Aperture Books; Kathy Ryan, the photo editor of the New York Times Magazine; and Tim Barber, the former photo editor of Vice. Amazingly it is the first international photography festival to be held in the U.S.