I am thrilled to be the feature today on The Pictorial List website, and as their Instagram post of the day. The quite lengthy feature article is about my “holgaramas”, insight into my doing of them and such. It also includes a number of those overlapping multiple exposure images on view.
If you make it to the bottom of the page there is a link to my Pictorial List portfolio, which shows more recent work.
I am grateful to Karen Ghostlaw Pomarico for the article and Melanie Meggs for help more in the background (and maybe other staff I don’t know about!).
I gave a webinar sponsored by the New York chapter of APA (American Photographic Artists) on Tuesday, April 25 at 7pm EST (New York time). I will be showing my best “holgaramas” (overlapping multiple exposures, long in format, shot with a Holga camera). For newbies… the Holga is a plastic film camera with no controls (1 f-stop, 1shutter speed) that has a cult following. So as well as showing my work, I will be explaining the overlapping technique, give you some tips, and tell you where to buy stuff.
To get the document referred to in the webinar click on the download button above.
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Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC. 3/15-4/2/2023. Reception: Thursday, March 16, 6 – 8 pm.
This was my first exhibited print, which was accepted into Soho Photo Gallery’s annual national photography competition exactly 20 years ago!
Interesting note: When I submitted to the competition I submitted slides I took of contact prints… as at that point I had not yet made my first print (well since college anyway). And I was accepted.
The print I ultimately made for the exhibition was this gelatin-silver print done using an 8×10 enlarger.
This was amongst my first overlapping exposure Holga pictures, a Times Square image shot for a four-week class at the New School (where I was first introduced to the Holga).
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Solo Show Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC. 2/8 – 3/5/2023. Reception: Thursday, February 9, 6 – 8 pm.
For the past few years I’ve been exclusively showing my work via Instagram and more recently the European (and better) equivalent called Vero True Social. I’ve shot and posted almost daily during these years and further refined my photographic eye. A Vero friend, Yvonne Gorman, describes my work this way: “[Susan] specializes in taking abstract snippets of urban life and can create something very interesting, even beautiful, out of everyday sights that most people would walk straight past! I love that and am secretly really pleased that I’ve found someone else who likes to take abstract photos of quirky things I might very well take a shot of too!”
Artist Statement: This exhibit is a selection of 20 images shot on my morning walks, primarily in the East Village where I live. They were originally posted on my Instagram feed, 2015 to the present. Most of my Instagram shots are of objects, spills, and other things found on the street. This selection are images are categorized by their graphic nature and round shape. They are all presented viewing straight down. I’ve paired them as having something in common with their partner. I’ve also presented them in groupings of 4, 2, and 3.
Most of the subjects in my various “looking down” series are ephemeral in nature… that what I am shooting will likely be gone or changed at any moment. I enjoy the element of chance in my work; I never know what I will find. To me few subjects are out of bounds; what might be considered trash to others is for me an opportunity for self-expression and the surprise of unexpected beauty.
I am actually more on Vero these days than Instagram. You can find me here: vero.co/susanbowenphoto. Sign up to follow me. I have also re-joined Soho Photo Gallery, so an exhibit is coming soon.
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A Celebration of Soho Photo Gallery’s 50th Anniversary
Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC. 8/18 – 9/11/2022. Opening Reception: Thursday August 18, 6 – 8 pm. Closing Reception: Sunday September 11, 2 – 5 pm.
People Walking #3380
People Walking #4985
I will be exhibiting 2 pieces from my New York Walking series: “Shot at various busy street corners in New York City, I like to record the swirl of activity around me. The vantage point is low; I am often sitting on the ground with a small tripod and rapidly capturing people as they walk by.”
This will be a gallery-wide group show of New York City images, celebrating Soho Photo Gallery’s 50th anniversary.
Show Statement: “Picturing New York”
[still to come]
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People Walking #3380
People Walking #4985