2023 / News / Press / Publications

Edge of Humanity Magazine, Featured: July 25, 2024

Edge of Humanity Magazine Feature
“Capturing Urban Motion, Neon & Billboards Holgaramas”

I am thrilled to have my “holgaramas” featured today in the Edge of Humanity Magazine.  

From their website: “Edge of Humanity is an independent online platform with over 3,000 contributors (photographers, artists, poets and writers). The 10-year-old well rounded online magazine has published over 10,000 posts and 38,000 images. Our online platform is composed of a magazine, an art gallery, an art blog and a poetry blog. For more info on any of these options please contact the editor at jo@edgeofhumanity.com.”

Thanks to Joelcy Kay, Editor and Curator, for this unexpected feature.



 

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July 26, 2024
2023 / News / Press / Publications / Print Book

Book: Splash, Splatter, Splat

Book Available Now

In conjunction with my exhibit in December 2023, I have created a book to include many more spills than could be exhibited (122 images, 108 pages).

I have been photographing spills for over eight years now. Over time I’ve gotten better at noticing these found abstractions, sometimes quite tiny, and I’ve come to know the color/tonality I can pull from the raw image. As with much of my photography, the chosen subject would likely go unnoticed by people walking by.

These images all originated as Instagram posts. I have pulled out the best of the bunch and associated them to each other either as diptychs or triptychs. The paired/triad images were likely shot years apart.

Available on Amazon, Mixam, and Blurb; available in softcover and hardcover.

To preview on Blurb… Click image below:

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November 24, 2023
2023 / News / Solo Shows

Splash, Splatter, Splat: Dec 13, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024

Solo Show
Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC. 12/13/23 – 1/7/24.
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 14, 6 – 8 pm
Closing Reception: Sunday, January 7, 4 – 6 pm

Spills Diptych #2, Susan Bowen
 
I have been photographing spills for over eight years now. Over time I’ve gotten better at noticing these found abstractions, sometimes quite tiny, and I’ve come to know the color/tonality I can pull from the raw image. As with much of my photography, the chosen subject would likely go unnoticed by people walking by.

These images all originated as Instagram posts. I have pulled out the best of the bunch and associated them to each other either as diptychs or triptychs. The paired/triad images were likely shot years apart.

I hope you enjoy this exhibit of abstractions found spilled, splattered, or dripped right there on the street. Keep an eye out, you can find them too!

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.

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November 24, 2023
2023 / News / Press / Publications / Print Book

Book: Rounds Found Around

Book Available Now

I have also released a book related to my exhibit of February 2023, which includes many more round things (44 pages, 93 images) than could have been exhibited at Soho Photo Gallery at the time.

This is a selection of 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 in plan view (straight down). I’ve paired them as having something in common with their partner.

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 beauty and self-expression.

Available on Amazon and Blurb

To preview on Blurb… Click image below:

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November 21, 2023
2023 / News / Press / Publications

YourDailyPhotograph, Featured: Oct 16, 2023

YourDailyPhotograph Feature (daily email)
yourdailyphotograph.com, 10/16/2023.

I am thrilled to be featured today in the YourDailyPhotograph.com email, third photo down. Selected works of Soho Photo Gallery members are being presented in the Guest Curator section for a number of days.

From the announcement: “Congratulations. We are pleased to announce our curators have chosen your image for inclusion into YourDailyPhotograph.com. We select a very small percentage of photographs submitted… You’re in good company — in the recent past images from Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andreas Gursky, Richard Misrach, Andre Kertesz, Edward Burtynsky and other photography legends have appeared in YDP.”

From their website: “YourDailyPhotograph.com is a daily email sent to collectors of fine art photographs every day since May 5, 2012. Each morning our email is sent to international subscribers offering a few photographs for sale at a special price for just 24 hours or until the first collector contacts us to purchase. It’s free to subscribe at Shop.YourDailyPhotograph.com.”

Thanks to Daniel Miller and our contact person at Soho Photo, Alan Chimacoff.


 

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October 17, 2023
2023 / News / Press / Publications

The Pictorial List, Featured: June 23, 2023

The Pictorial List Feature (their website and Instragram)
thepictorial-list.com, Instagram: @thepictorial.list, 6/23/2023.

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!).

[If you have any trouble accessing the article it can also be read the pdf here]


 


 

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June 23, 2023
2023 / Awards / Proposals / News / Solo Shows

Break Away From Technology: Discovering the Creative Potential of Low-Fi Cameras with Susan Bowen, an APA Webinar: April 25, 2023, 7pm EST

Webinar on Zoom, Tuesday 4/25/2023, 7pm EST.

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.

DOWNLOAD THIS FILE:

Suggested Vendors_Products_Tips_ Holga Lecture Download

To get the document referred to in the webinar click on the download button above.

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April 19, 2023
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