Susan Bowen

Susan Bowen is a photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York and is known for her panoramic-style multiple exposures, which she shoots with a plastic camera.

My work is about color, shapes, and motion. The intense pace and vitality of the urban setting excites me; I like to shoot fast and furiously, to be totally immersed, and to be swept up in, and along with, the tide of the moment. Wherever I am, I am either shooting people that are in motion or I myself am in movement around my subject. I will stalk my subjects, be they a swarm of gesturing humans or abstract shapes of color and light.

Created by only partially advancing the film between exposures, these mostly unplanned juxtapositions capture my experience of a particular time and place and at the same time have an identity all their own.

In 2007 Susan was published in Photo Techniques and Light Leaks magazines, and she won first place in SohoPhoto 2007. In 2006 she was awarded public art projects in Minnesota and New Haven, CT, and she had four images published in Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity a book by Michelle Bates. Her twelve solo/2-person shows have been in New York, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Reno, Dayton, San Marino, Lubbock, and Tennessee. Susan has been in 90 group shows in the past five years, including ones at the Safe-T, Nelson Hancock, and Sideshow galleries in Brooklyn, the Photographic Center NW in Seattle, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO. In 2004 she won an award at SNAP 04 National Juried Photo Exhibition; she has been a finalist for public art projects in Iowa, Tampa, and Indianapolis. Susan is also a computer programmer by trade.,