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From Elisabeth Biondi's Subjective/Objective. Mi Pelo Largo Querido, a story shot in Argentina by Irina Werning. From Elisabeth Biondi's Subjective/Objective.Irina Werning by [TIME Photo Department](https://time.com/author/time-photo-department/) ## TIME Photo Department May 12, 2011 6:25 PM UTC _Curated by photo editor Elisabeth Biondi and photojournalist Enrico Bossan, the five-day event aims to highlight the changing state of documentary photography._ _more_ Post updated May 14, 2011. On Thursday night, the NYPH celebrated _Under the Bridge: Projections of a Revolution_, which spotlighted photos and videos from the recent revolutions in North Africa. Attendees gathered to hear music from DJ Awesome Tapes from Africa and see images projected onto the archway under the Manhattan Bridge. A silence fell over the crowd when the slide show stopped to honor Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, two photojournalists who were killed on April 20 while photographing the conflict in Libya. “There are no more discoveries to be made,” Elisabeth Biondi tells me on the opening night of the fourth annual New York Photo Festival. “Anyone can take a picture now, so it’s forced documentary photographers to have a more personalized vision.” It’s that changing state of photojournalism that’s the theme of this year’s festival, which runs through May 15 in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. Founded in 2008 by powerHouse Books publisher Daniel Power and former managing editor of VII Photo Agency Frank Evers, the five-day event will showcase more than 3,000 photographs displayed in several warehouse spaces, as well as multimedia shows and artist lectures. But the main exhibitions, curated by Biondi and photojournalist Enrico Bossan, are presented under a shared theme, _PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: engaged, personal, and vital_. Biondi’s looked at thousands of photos throughout her decades-long career as a photo editor (she left the New Yorker this March after a 15-year tenure). But the variety and strength of photojournalism sparked her interest anew when she was judging a photography awards show last year in London. “This sort of dichotomy between the really creative output being so strong and, on the other hand, the economic climate being so dire, struck me,” she says. “I thought, ‘How did these photographers get there?’ because we knew that assignments are rare these days.” Her portion of the exhibit, called _Subjective/Objective_, features the work of 10 photographers on issues ranging from the urbanization of Mongolia’s schools to post-traumatic stress disorder. Meanwhile, Bossan’s show, _Hope: between dream and reality_, also surveys a host of issues, among them the Bosnia genocide and Mexico’s drug war. But the exhibit is focused on a group of young photographers Bossan has followed for nearly five years. “The young generation today is just in time with what’s happening around the world,” he says. “What I like about them is how they push to change the ideals of photography.” And for those young photographers who want to change—or at least shift—the art form, Biondi says there’s no better time than the present. “Creatively, the rules are no longer that strict about documentary photography. The borders have been widened and photographers can have their own voice much more than they were ever allowed traditionally.” — Reporting by Feifei Sun. Produced by Vaughn Wallace. _More information on schedules, exhibitions and lectures is available on_ [_the Festival’s homepage_](http://www.newyorkphotofestival.com/site/?)_._ _Exhibition Hours:_ _Wednesday, May 11 – 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m._ _Thursday, May 12 – 12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m._ _Friday, May 13 – 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m._ _Saturday, May 14 – 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m._ _Sunday, May 15 – 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m._  Mi Pelo Largo Querido, a story shot in Argentina by Irina Werning. From Elisabeth Biondi's Subjective/Objective. Irina Werning  Odd Days, a project on eating disorders by Simona Ghizzoni. From Enrico Bossan's Hope: Between Dream and Reality. Simona Ghizzoni  Nada Que Declarar, a project looking for traces of people crossing the border illegally, by Richard Mosse. From Elisabeth Biondi's Subjective/Objective. Richard Mosse  Ponte City, an extensive body of work documenting a single apartment building in Johannesburg, South Africa, by Mikhael Subotsky and Patrick Waterhouse. From Enrico Bossan's Hope: Between Dream and Reality. Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse  Carry Me Ohio, a series documenting Southeastern Ohio, by Matt Eich. From Enrico Bossan's Hope: Between Dream and Reality. Matt Eich  Hermitage. From Enrico Bossan's Hope: Between Dream and Reality. Margo Ovcharenko  A senior couple reads an Egyptian newspaper overseeing the protests against Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak on Tahrir square. Joao Pina  Wild Pigeon, from the road connecting Yarkand to Hotan in China. From Elisabeth Biondi's Subjective/Objective. Carolyn Drake  Potocari, Bosnia: The graveyard in Potocari for the victims of the genocide in Bosnia. From Enrico Bossan's Hope: Between Dream and Reality. Andy Spyra  The High Tide, a series in moonlight documenting the people of the Paraná River Delta. From Elisabeth Biondi's Subjective/Objective. 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