“The Swing”, by Rene and Radka, from the show “I am not sure I know what kind of a girl I am” curated by Jody Quon at the 2009 New York Photo Festival.

The New York Photo Festival opens today and runs through Sunday, May 17.

Photo by Camille Seaman. Seaman shot this photo on a storm-chasing trip last summer from central Texas through North Dakota. She used a Canon EOS 5D set at 1/60 sec., F.stop 5.6, ISO 160, with a 24mm f1.4 lens. Read about Seaman’s project “The Big Cloud” on PDN.

Seaman’s exhibit “The Last Iceberg” is on view at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica and OpenShutter Gallery in Durango, Colorado until May 30, 2009 and at Hoopers Gallery in London until July 3, 2009.

Photo by Irene Abdou of Germantown, MD. This infrared image is from her series “Alternate Reality.” Abdou writes:

“I haven’t converted any of my cameras to infrared—I used a visible light blocking filter on my camera lens.  Since the infrared blocking filter inside my Canon camera still allows a trickle of infrared light through, I could still take the photograph.  But in broad daylight, it required an exposure of 100 seconds at 400 ISO and f/10, which was perfect for capturing the wind blowing the palm fronds!”

“Got Sole” is from Meg Birnbaum’s project “Corn Dogs and Blue Ribbons,” a series she shot with plastic toy cameras at 14 summer fairs in New England over a two-year period. “The fairs have changed so little over the last century I felt that using toy cameras and black and white film were a good match for capturing these timeless activities,” writes Birnbaum in her artist’s statement. When I reviewed Meg’s portfolio at Photolucida last month, this image stood out. My first impulse was to feel sorry for the animal working in these conditions, but the subtle detail of the tender relationship between the elephant and it’s handler subverted that initial reaction.

Photos by Marco Breuer from the series “Part __ of __ Parts.” The project is running as the inaugural exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery’s new location at 520 W. 23rd Street in New York. Opening reception: Thursday, May 7, 6 – 8 pm.  From the gallery’s description of the show:

“Part __ of __ Parts is comprised of five distinct bodies of work, ranging from motion studies to recordings of early light sources. Breuer raises questions about time, materiality, and visual perception—themes that have been central to his long-time investigations in photography. The series play off each other and loop back conceptually and visually.

“For this exhibition, Breuer subjected photographic paper to a 12-gauge shotgun, one-time flashbulbs, and a modified turntable, among other tools. The resulting images are as raw as they are exquisite.”

All Photographs courtesy of Von Lintel Gallery and the artist (more…)