“A pesar de las ausencias entreveo siempre luces veders (Glimpses of green lights flicker amidst the absence)”, 2011.  © Pablo Soria

Florida-based photographer Pablo Soria uses created his series, “Nocturnal” through long exposures of the night sky in his homeland, San Miguel de Tucumán in Argentina. He uses the darkened night sky as a means to “draw out” his compositions. Through the manipulation of light, he renders the familiar unfamiliar and presents the viewer with images referencing his memory of place.

“Nocturnal” is currently on view a the Schneider Gallery in Chicago through June 29. Also on view is “Fathom and Fray” by Caleb Charland.

“Emily Landau,” 1981  © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Courtesy of The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie

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“Ice Cream.” © Brian Callaway. Grand prize winner of PDN Faces 2012 in the Professional: Babies/Children category.

The deadline for PDN’s Faces Photo Contest 2013 is approaching. Folks can enter their work in a variety of categories: animal portraits, commercial/editorial/assignment, personal work, babies/children and self portraits. The grand-prize winner receives on-campus photography workshops from Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, CO. Not too shabby!

© Dave Lauridsen. Winner of PDN Faces 2012 in the Professional: Commercial/Editorial/Assignment category.

© Sarah Lim. Winner of PDN Faces 2012 in the Amateur: Personal Work category.

 © Jesse Ditmar. First place winner of PDN Faces 2012 in the Professional: Personal category.

“Self-portrait with Donovan at 4 a.m.” © Joe Toreno. First place winner in the Professional: Self Portraits category.

“White Swirl,” 2013 © Yvette Meltzer

“Multiple Exposures” showcases work by members of a critique group hosted by Chicago fine art photographer Jane Fulton Alt. The exhibition ranges from dramatic studies of nature to scenes of contemporary urban life. Curated by Alt and Lelde Kalmite, artists include Jane Fulton Alt, Susan Annable, Ilze Arajs, Nelson Armour, Art Fox, Mary Rafferty, Alan Leder, Janet Mesic-Mackie, Yvette Meltzer, Neil Spinner and Jessica Tampas.

“Multiple Exposures” opens today, Friday, May 17th with an opening reception from 7-10PM at the Bridgeport Art Center (BAC) in Chicago and runs through June 14, 2013.

“Talking to Ants 3.”  All Images © Stephen Gill, courtesy of the artist

The exhibition, “Best Before End,” by the British photographer Stephen Gill incorporates a number of photographic series that Gill made in and around the London Borough of Hackney over the past fourteen years. His processes include burying photographs, making exuberant flower collages, placing objects inside the camera so that their traces could be encapsulated within the film emulsion thus adding confusion of scale. Gill’s most recent series, entitled “Best Before End,” resulted from part processing negatives in energy drinks, bringing forth the most fantastic, abstract and vibrantly coloured works that somehow reflect the intensity of modern inner city life.

This exhibition opens at the Foam Gallery in Amsterdam May 17 and runs through July 14, 2013.

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