Pastime, a photography exhibit of recent works by Ken Ashton, Jason Falchook, Michael Itkoff, Kate MacDonnell, Carlos Charlie Perez, Christopher Sims, and Noelle K. Tan, will be shown in the Project Space concurrent with Darfur/Darfur in the Front Gallery.

Pastime unites imagery of leisure, amusement, and ritual depicted by contemporary American photographers in a variety of environments. For the exhibition, seven photographers share carefully composed images of distinct points-of-view:

Noelle K. Tan’s ethereal, saturated black photograph of a playground at night from the “untitled series” lends mystery and contrast to Jason Falchook’s rich, color and detail saturated image of a broken bleacher in front of a textured, dilapidated structure.

Editor for the New York based Daylight Magazine, Michael Itkoff brings two images from his new series on American demolition derbies titled “wrecked.” An excerpt from Christopher Sims' exhibition ““Home Fronts: The Pretend Villages of Talatha and Braggistan” shares a captivating photograph of simulated Iraqi and Afghan villages on the training grounds of U.S. Army bases in North Carolina and Louisiana. His image of a hand drawn lamp embellished with the label jihad point to training innuendo and an increasing descriptive display of paranoid war games. Prior to beginning the series, Sims worked as a photo archivist at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. In 2008, he completed his M.F.A. at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is currently teaching at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Cooper Union graduate and Florida native Carlos Charlie Perez presents “September was it", a sharp, seductive large-scale work juxtaposing leisure and our nation’s end of innocence. Ken Ashton shares new work from Milan and Kate MacDonnell shares new work from the East Coast.

October 24 - December 6, 2008 in the Project Space

Pastime, a photography exhibit of recent works by Ken Ashton, Jason Falchook, Michael Itkoff, Kate MacDonnell, Carlos Charlie Perez, Christopher Sims, and Noelle K. Tan, unites imagery of leisure, amusement, and ritual depicted by contemporary American photographers in a variety of environments.