© Gillian Laub / Courtesy Bonni Benrubi gallery, “grandpa eating lunch”.

Summer officially starts today, and to mark the occasion, we invited some readers to submit images that evoke the feeling and spirit of the season. Featured here is a selection of the images we received. The photographers include Gillian Laub, Gabriela Herman, Wayne Lawrence, Isa Leshko, Markel Redondo, Jennifer Loeber, Ryan Heffernan, Noah Webb, Inga Hendrickson, and Pascal Shirley.

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© Ryan Heffernan.

Storm clouds swirl around the Capitol building on a stormy spring afternoon in Washington, DC. Ryan Heffernan is one of the PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers for 2011. To see more of his work visit http://www.ryanheffernan.com/.

All Photos © Gianni Giosue.

Gianni Giosue spent over two weeks in the North East of Japan to document the consequences of the gigantic Tsunami which swept away hundreds of kilometers of coast line. Buildings were destroyed, roads stripped, lives were lost and precious memories from inside the houses, like photographs of loved ones, stolen for ever. Gianni Giosue is a European photographer based in Tokyo and covers social issues around the world. Recently he was awarded a ‘Coup de Coeur’ nomination at the 2010 “VISA Pour L’ Image” Photojournalism Festival for his work “One year in Russia”. To see more of Giosue’s work click here
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All Photos © Risaku Suzuki/ Christophe Guye Galerie.

Bidding winter farewell and welcoming spring, Risaku Suzuki‘s (*1963, Japan) first European solo exhibition, Yuki – Sakura, at the Christophe Guye Galerie in Zurich presents photographs from various series of works focusing on the enticing, emblematically Japanese subjects such as the cherry blossoms. Suzuki‘s show coincides with the Sakura Celebration, one of the most popular spring events in Japan. Like the annual festival, Suzuki’s images celebrate tradition, renewal, and the inevitable passage of time from one season to the next. To see more of Suzuki‘s work click here.

- courtesy of Christophe Guye Galerie.

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All photos © Matt Sartain. Above: Levitation.

California based photographer Matt Sartain concepts, shoots, retouches and often styles his own work which is influenced by his love of storytelling.  He has been published in The New York Times Magazine and in the pages of PDN as part of the PIX Digital Imaging contest. He lives and works in a floating home on the San Francisco bay. See how Sartain composites the image above, in the Anatomy of a Shot. To see more of Sartain’s work click here.

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