I will be participating in the Gowanus Open Studio Tour, October 17-18, 12 to 6 pm, in a borrowed space at 301 Douglass St., Brooklyn, NY 11217 (between 3rd and 4th Avenues). It is only a few blocks north of the Union Street stop of the R train.

I will be showing a lot of new work, in addition to your old Holga favorites. Over the past year I have expanded on my “People Walking” series and have started a theme of ground pictures…. which includes “Street Abstractions” (abstract images of the ground, painterly in nature), and “Nature Out of Context”, which is close-ups of leaves and such on the sidewalk.

I have also been posting these types of pictures on Instagram (instagram.com/susanbowenfoto) on an almost daily basis.

It is a bit hard to find me on the online map (below is a detail). If walking up Douglass from 4th Avenue, I’m on the right 3/4 of the way up the block towards 3rd Avenue (just shy of the Brooklyn Music Factory and Gowanus Arts banners). I’m on the ground floor just inside the garage door.

Union Street and the R train are 2 blocks south of the detail shown. The streets go Union, Sackett, Degraw, Douglass. Hope to see you there!

Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC. 9/9 – 10/3/2015.
Reception: Thursday, September 10, 6 – 8 pm.

 

 
Group show upstairs on the topic of monuments and temples. I exhibited two images: ‘War Memorial and DePew Fountain’ and ‘Monument Circle and State House’.

 
This is a slide show in video format. The sounds were recorded at Times Square on Friday, March 20, 2015. The images are from February and March… during a record-breaking cold winter here in NYC. This is my first experience as a “sound engineer”! Subject-wise this is a continuation of my “people walking” theme.

The images were shot with me moving towards my subject as they move towards me. Technically that is a bit tricky. I shoot with most automatic features turned off (to make the camera maximally responsive), and I pre-focus the camera. I shoot too fast to really compose or to know what I’m getting; I have auto review turned off. So I’m carrying over the chance and surprise aspects of my Holga work to my newer digital way of working.

The video is 2 minutes long. I hope you enjoy it.

Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC, 212-226-8571, 5/15-5/18/2015.
Reception: Friday, May 15, 6 – 8 pm.

I will be participating in Soho Photo’s second Affordable Photography Fair, Friday May 15 – Monday May 18, 2015.

All prints in the bins at the rear of the gallery will be priced at $100 each (with sizes up to 16×20). Prints will be matted.

Hours for the Fair are:
Friday: 1pm – 8pm
Saturday: 1pm – 6pm
Sunday: 1pm – 6pm
Monday: 1pm – 6pm

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Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC. 10/8-11/1/2014.
Reception: Tuesday, November 7, 6 – 8 pm.

 

 
Gallery-wide show on the topic of the NYC Subways. My show is called ‘Transit Transitions’.

From the artist statement: “I was drawn to NYC by the fast pace of a city always in motion. I love riding the subways. My work is about motion; trains and people coming and going are good subjects for my overlapping panorama technique. Using a plastic camera, the long images are created by only partially advancing the film; the overlapping occurs in the film itself. These mostly unplanned juxtapositions capture my experience and at the same time have an identity all their own.”