© Mark Seliger

Mark Seliger’s elegiac nude study is a meditation through slow looking that speaks metaphorically of the eternal themes of love and death. Paying homage to Seliger’s forebears Brandt, Kertesz, Hosoe, and Penn, the nuanced tones of the platinum palladium convey the rich textures of his sensibilities. Seliger’s work will be on display with the Steven Kasher Gallery at the AIPAD Photography Show New York, March 17-20, 2011, at the Park Avenue Armory.- AIPAD. To see more of Seliger’s work click here.

© Carrie Levy

Carrie Levy, New York based photographer and photo editor, has her third solo show with Daniel Cooney Fine Art opening today on February 17th. Levy says, “Being a female artist and the authority behind this work, I chose solely male subjects in order to enhance the submissive nature of the imagery.
You Before All questions the line that separates pain from pleasure. The work magnifies how in the moment it is hard to decipher between these two very different emotions. Both are intense, but are very much the opposite of another. The aim in this body of work is to ask the viewer to uncover which one of these emotions is behind a single frame and where he or she is more sympathetic.”  To see more of Levy’s work click here.

© Herb Ritts Foundation, Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. Above: Philip Seymour Hoffman 1, Los Angeles, 1999.

The late Herb Ritts, one of the most influential photographers of the Nineties by PDN readers, is being celebrated this fall with two retrospectives. “Herb Ritts: Twenty-Five Years,” an exhibition of his fashion photographs and portraits from the late Seventies until his death in 2002, is on view at Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles until December 4. Also, Rizzoli has just published his biography, Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour, edited by friend, colleague and Vogue art director Charles Churchward.
Warning: Some of the photos below contain nudity.

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© Jeff Bark. Lucifer Falls. Plate IV, 2010.

Lucifer Falls is an exhibit of Jeff Bark’s new body of work opening at the Haster Hunt Kraeutler Gallery on September 9th and through October 16, 2010. The series of photographs of waterfalls is a departure from his earlier series for which he constructed elaborate sets in the studio. See more of Jeff Bark’s work here.

All Images © Diego Huerta. Corregidora in Monterey.

On July 1st, the State of Nuevo Leon, México, woke up devastated by hurricane Alex brutal force. Hurricane Alex was the first tropical storm that hit the north of the country on 2010. It’s strength and devastation became a catastrophe in the State of Nuevo Leon. Thousands of people lost their homes and entire cities were under water. Nobody was prepared for what happened next, as it kept raining. Rivers overflowed causing rescuers to take longer than expected to help those stuck in high risk zones.

Diego Huerta is a photographer based in Monterrey, México. View more of his images here.

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