Day two of the New York Photo Festival brought rain, wind, and throngs of industry people from around the world to Brooklyn's Dumbo. Battling gusts that flipped umbrellas inside out, visitors explored the four main exhibitions and numerous satellite shows presenting some of the most innovative image making being done today.

From 11:00 am onward, presentations by Harrell Fletcher, Jeffrey Millstein, Donovan Wylie, Stephen Gill, Katherine Walkoff, Laurel Ptak, Tim Barber and Jen Bekman, among others, attracted capacity crowds to St. Ann's Warehouse.

Above: Festival guests get down with photography books and more.

The day's work of looking, learning and networking continued into the night as the festival's co-founders Daniel Power and Frank Evers once again welcomed visitors to powerHouse Arena for refreshments and dance music. With special areas for signed books by festival participants, and publishers powerHouse Books, Aperture Books and Schaden Books, a feeding frenzy ensued.

Left to right: Craig Cohen (r), Vice President and Associate Publisher of powerhouse Books with photographer Eidur Snorri (l) and his son; Jassim Ahmad of Reuters with Monica Allende and Iain MacDougall of The Sunday Times of London magazine; photographer Jessica Todd Harper and friend; festival co-founder and Founder/Publisher of powerHouse Books, Daniel Power. All photos: Peggy Roalf

If anyone reading this installment of DART doubts the future of photography books in the digital age, just take the F train to Brooklyn -- you have two more days to see for yourself! The New York Photo Festival runs through Sunday May 18. For directions, a calendar of events and to order tickets online, please visit the website.

Correction: The May 13th edition, India: The Home and the World, erroneously quoted India's population as 1.3 billion. That's actually China's 2008 population figure; India is currently home to just 1.1 billion.

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