Leo Rubinfien is one of photography's great travelers, and his pictures are rich with the beauty of life on the road. These images are less about exotic, faraway places and more about the shared landscapes of in-between places: the railway compartment, the aircraft cabin, the airport terminal, tourists at a celebrated monument, or the luminous mixture of sun, water and air that a passenger glimpses through an airplane window. Included in the exhibition are a selection of the artist's most recent photographs, some of which are published in Blind Spot #19. In these images of billboards and signs we sense his fascination with their combination of ugliness and beauty and the dreams of youth, wealth and love that they convey. Continue → Inside The Live Reptile Tent surveys a decade of work by Jeff Brouws, images that capture the vibrant energy of carnivals when in operation, and their melancholic stillness when deserted, bereft of the crowds upon which they thrive. As a teenager, Jeff Brouws would hitchhike from his family home in Daly City, California, to Whitney's Playland-at-the-Beach. He now revists his early passion for carnivals in his photographs: futurist architecture, pulsing neon signs, ghostly silhouettes, bizarre sideshows, and serpentine roller coasters. Continue →