I am happy to be headed to Houston in March to participate in the portfolio reviews at Fotofest 2016 Biennial.

From the Fotofest website: “A place where photographic artists, arts professionals, collectors, and colleagues network, collaborate, share ideas, and establish life-long connections. The 2016 Meeting Place will connect 120 international decision-makers, with over 400 artists, over 16 days. The FotoFest Meeting Place is the largest event of its kind in the world.”

I will be showing my work to 20 reviewers from around the world, and I will be participating in an “Evenings with the Artists Open Portfolio Night” in downtown Houston at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel, 400 Dallas Street, Houston, TX from 7 – 9 pm.

Wish me luck!

Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC. 12/2/15 – 1/2/2016.
Reception: Tuesday, December 1, 6 – 8 pm.

 
I have two pieces in a group show on the topic of dogs; there will also be five concurrent solo shows on the same topic.

Atlantic Gallery, 548 West 28th St., Suite 540, NYC. 12/1-12/2015.
Reception: Thursday, December 3, 6 – 8 pm.

A small works show sponsored by PWP (Professional Women Photographers). I have two photographs in this exhibit. All work is reasonably priced.

“Color, by definition, is present in every color photograph but it is not always what the image is primarily about. When one first looks at a photograph, something in particular usually grabs the viewer’s attention. It may be light and shadow, texture, content or composition. In this show, it is color that takes center stage.

There are various ways in which color can be paramount in a photograph. It can define a mood and elicit an emotion from the viewer. It can highlight or isolate a particular subject. And, by fanciful alteration or exaggeration, color can turn the ordinary into something magical.

For this small works show, we are showcasing images that are defined by their exceptional or unusual use of color.”

 
In case you missed me in the Gowanus studio tour you have a second chance! I will be participating in the Park Slope Windsor Terrace Open Studio Tour, November 7 – 8 (12 – 6 pm)… save the dates. I will be exhibiting at 374 14th Street, Brooklyn 11215 (corner of 7th Avenue), second floor, not in my usual downstairs space (but in the same building).

As indicated before, 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.

The closest subway stop is the Seventh Avenue stop of the F train. If you exit at the wrong end (Eighth Ave) just go downhill one block, and then go 5 blocks south to 14th Street.

Hope to see you there!

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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