Photographer Debbie Grossman's My Pie Town.

My Pie Town reworks and re-imagines a body of images originally photographed by Russell Lee for the United States Farm Security Administration in 1940. Using Photoshop to modify Lee's pictures, I have created an imaginary, parallel world - a Pie Town populated exclusively by women. "Because the images of Lee's time in Pie Town are available in high resolution form from the Library of Congress, I was able to get close to Lee's images on a pixel level. For me, working with photographs and editing them so closely in Photoshop is a kind of an intimate act (...) I've begun to think of Photoshop itself as my medium - I'm fascinated by the fact that it shares qualities with both photography and drawing. This work creates something that reads as a photograph, and is infinitely reproducible like a photograph, but at the same time depends heavily upon the intervention of my hand."
My Pie Town is currently on exhibition at (the amazing) Julie Saul Gallery, NY until May 21st.
debbiegrossman.com

Stephanie De Rouge. In Your Fridge Series.

Stephanie De Rouge is a NY based photographer.
stephaniederouge.com

Fred Herzog. Photographer. German. Canada.

Fred Herzog was born in Germany, emigrating to Canada in 1952. He has been active in Vancouver's art scene for more than forty years. He worked as a medical photographer from 1957 to 1990, as associate director of the UBC Department of Biomedical Communication, and also taught at Simon Fraser University. During that time he participated in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery and UBC Fine Arts Gallery. His passion for photography resulted in a large body of work depicting Vancouver during the postwar era, at a time when capitalism and consumer culture was burgeoning.

Fred’s work was produced on Kodachrome, a colour slide film that was difficult to work with in a spontaneous fashion. His use of colour was unusual in the 1950s and 60s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery.
Read this interesting interview on Fred HERE.

Carril Bici. Photographer. Toronto.

Featuring a combination of photography and found objects, Carril Bici enthusiastically celebrates the spirit of DIY innovation and Cuban expressions of the bicycle.

Global Bike Project Trip Route:
01. We flew into Varadero. It's pretty much just a strip of big state-run resorts, and a small town-center. Turns out, most of the Cubans that work in the hotels commute in form the neighbouring city of Cardenas. People said Cardenas was the official "City of Bikes".

02. Cardenas was probably the most amazing place we stayed the whole 10 days we were in Cuba. Imagine a very poor city, decaying wood and stone facades on every street, no tall buildings. the critical thing was: good roads. this solid network of hard, flat concrete allows Cardenas to support a population of 150,000 - and well over 100,000 bicycles.

03. We got a tip to head down to Santa Clara, apparently it was home to a bike-centric university and training program for young cyclists looking to join the national team. When we got there, we discovered the art university was just across the road from a military university, and figured we wouldn't push our luck traipsing around snapping photos of soon-to-be officers.

04. After deciding to pass through Santa Clara, the town of Remedios seemed like a good consolation destination. We actually found it so agreeable, we ended up staying for a few extra days. It was definitely the most rural place we stayed, and most of our days were spent tracking down and interviewing some very old, and very interesting bike mechanics, or shooting pictures of field workers and other people that used bikes in different ways to make a living.

05. Next, we made the big road trip to Havana for a total change of scenery. It was like a 5-hour teleport that took us form one Cuban bike extreme to another. People in the big city definitely use bikes differently. There were hardly any bikes on the road that weren't bici-taxis, and all the cars definitely made it much more difficult to get around.

Carril is currently exhibiting this series at LE GALLERY 1183 Dundas St. W. Toronto until May 22nd 2011.
globalbikeproject.com