All images © Abram Deyo. Dead Elvis at a show in Chengdu.

Abram Deyo works in Beijing arranging tours of China for foreign rock bands, but he also happens to be a photographer. Deyo made these images during a recent tour by American performer Dead Elvis & His One Man Grave.

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Sabine. Seattle, WA. 2008. © Emiliano Granado

Emiliano Granado’s Time For Print is a series of portraits of aspiring models the photographer met through the online photography community Model Mayhem. “Time For Print” or “Test For Print” or “TFP,” as the communities refer to it, is the practice of unestablished models and photographers getting together for a shoot, each donating their time to further their portfolios. An exhibition of Granado’s series, which he calls “A study of beauty, sexuality and the compulsion to be seen in the Internet age,” opens tomorrow at EYELEVEL BQE in Brooklyn, NY. For more, visit Granado’s Web site for the project: http://www.projecttfp.com/

All Photos © Scott Conarroe. Bixby Creek Bridge, Big Sur CA, 2010

On March 3 an exhibition of Scott Conarroe’s “Shore” project, a series of landscape images exploring the coasts of North America, will open at Toronto’s Stephen Bulger Gallery and run through April 2. Notes Stephen Bulger Gallery, “Canada has the most expansive coastline on Earth; its boundary with the United States is the world’s longest non-militarized boarder. Together these two nations form a vast geo-cultural bloc that extends from polar extremes to the tropics, from sparse hinterlands to modern metropolises. [Conarroe's work] presents a study of North America on the cusp of a new climatic era. Cataclysmic weather and global social upheaval are anticipated, but for the time being they are seen as problems for others elsewhere. Conarroe’s photographs present the fading innocence of this idyll and a visual reference of the current state of the continent’s shorelines.” Conarroe has also traveled extensively in North America documenting the continent’s railway infrastructure. That series, “By Rail,” can be seen on his Web site, here.

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All Photos © Alexander Richter. Above: 50 Cent

In his career Alexander Richter has photographed some of the biggest personalities in hip-hop—from 50-Cent to the Clipse to EL-P and KRS One—for magazines and record labels. Several of Richter’s portraits are included in a new book, Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey (ARIA, 2011), a history of the music and culture that has captivated young people from cities to the suburbs all over the globe. To coincide with the release of the book, The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles is currently hosting an exhibition of the same name, which runs through May 4, 2011.

See more of Richter’s work here.

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All photos © Lynda Churilla. Above: Longboard Afternoon, Ditch Plains, 2010

Lynda Churilla’s atmospheric black and white photographs invoke thoughts of endless summers—a perfect salve for the January cold enveloping most of the country. Made in locales like Islamorada, Florida and Montauk, New York, where sun and waves are often the primary concerns of the day, her images show the beauty and energy of simpler pursuits. Churilla is exhibiting her work through February 20, 2011 at Robin Rice Gallery in New York City. (more…)