Left to Right - Gallery Owner Hossein Farmani, Splashlight Studios Owner Benoit LaGarde and Cat Jimenez, Executive Director of Lucie Awards

On May 14, 2008, The Farmani Gallery opened its doors in DUMBO, New York to a packed house.  Farmani Gallery is originally based in Los Angeles, California and made the East Coast leap to a burgeoning photography community in time for the launch of the first annual New York Photo Festival.

Hossein Farmani, owner and founder said, “I am thrilled and excited to be a part of the New York Photography Community, and am overwhelmed by the support and turnout for our first show. It’s an exhilarating and refreshing time to open a new space, especially in DUMBO, where more and more galleries are opening their doors showing innovative new and vintage works. I look forward to showcasing the work of both well-known and emerging photographers in this exciting collective of gallery spaces.”

The gallery opened its doors by featuring the International Photography Awards Best of Show Portrait Edition, showing a sampling of winning images from the past 4 years of the competition (2004-2007).  Photographers included in this show are Matt Hoyle, Loretta Lux, Philp Gatward, Nadav Kander, Achim Lippoth, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Lauren Greenfield, Michael Grecco, Alex Telfer, Shannon McCook, Chris Frazier Smith, Andy Anderson, Klinko + Indrani, Gustavo Marx, Jim Fiscus, W. Brandon Voges, Clay Stang, Matthew Welch, Tomohide Ikeya, Paul Elledge, Ghada Khunji, Michael Crouser and Joyce Tenneson.

The show is a culmination of curated works by Anthony Bannon, Colin Westerbeck, Debra Weiss and Jeff Griffith.

Photographers in attendance were Michael Crouser, Joyce Tenneson, Gustavo Marx, Klinko + Indrani, Ghada Khunji, Lauren Greenfield and curator Debra Weiss.

 Farmani Gallery’s upcoming shows will feature the work of the late Dan Wynn, Mark Edward Harris and the 2008 International Photography Awards Best of Show.

For more information, please visit www.farmanigallery.com or call 718.578.4478.

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