Lawrence Wheatman, PatomacBridgePanography, digital photography, 2024
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Susan Bowen lives in New York City and is known for her overlapping multiple exposure panoramas, which she shoots with a plastic camera. In 2008, Bowen completed a 48’ public art mural for a school in New Haven, Connecticut, having previously created four murals for the Department of Transportation in Minnesota.
Bowen was profiled in Photo Techniques and Light Leaks magazines in 2007. Her work was published in Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, and she received an award in the Pilsner Urquell International Lucie Awards. In 2006 and 2010, respectively, Susan had four images featured in Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity, written by Michelle Bates. Her 23 solo shows have taken place in New York, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Reno, Dayton, San Marino, Lubbock, Georgia, and Tennessee. Bowen's more recent projects include a series on people walking and explorations of objects, spills, and other ephemeral things she finds on the street.
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Naphtali Visser's photographs are an extension of his work as a coach, and explore the themes of what it means to be human, questioning reality, surrender, and seeing love in even the darkest of places.
Visser's interest in photography (and art) blossomed in 1997. While in Hawaii on vacation, he shot several rolls of film each day, processed them in the evening, and had a photo critique every following morning with the owner of the camera shop. Since then, he has pursued fine art photography while being mentored by some rockstar photographers, worked as a semi-professional photographer, and has exhibited in the Griffin Museum in Massachusetts. He is currently working on publishing a book of photographs at night.
Lawrence Wheatman was born and raised in Washington Heights, Manhattan and attended public schools. Although college bound, his trajectory changed upon being expelled from high school without warning just three hours before graduation. (This was the Vietnam era, and apparently the speaking skills Wheatman employed to motivate students and faculty in anti-war and civil rights demonstrations were not appreciated by all.)
After hitch-hiking for three years throughout North America, Wheatman returned to New York City and launched "Cockroach Art," a seven-thousand square foot performance coffeehouse across from the Bitter End on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village. "The Art" traversed new ground in combining expression as diverse as rock, folk, country, bluegrass, blues, ballet, stand-up comedy and interactive light-sculpture in the same artistic space. Wheatman then performed with a number of bands of diverse musical genres in New York and Europe, and was produced by the late Felix Pappalardi (who also produced Cream, Eric Clapton, Leslie West, more).
The photographic experience came quite early to Wheatman in the many evenings with his father in a make-shift kitchen darkroom. He first began to embrace the power of the camera's eye in video (later photography) as a producer, director, camera operator and talent for music, fashion and commercial purposes. Gallery showings of his photographic work commenced in earnest in 1984.
Besides his activities as artist, Wheatman also does photo work in the more commercial aspects of the craft including many print covers, and is a teacher of photographic artist development at New York University since 1989. He uses this reality of multiplicity to make his choice to not specialize. The result of this is that he utilizes broad aspects of camera, film, darkroom, brush and computer.
Susan Bowen, Lights of Fremont,Golden Nugget, Digital C-Print, 2005
