Stephen Bulger Gallery turns the last weeks of summer over to three young photographers with wildly different takes on spare time. At Leisure, the new exhibition, opens Thursday, July 26, with a reception for the artists from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.

In Jaret Belliveau's series, Dirt Squad, being a teenager is like playing soccer in a minefield. Over a three-year period, Belliveau followed the after school activities of a group whose life support systems seem to have vacated. Hanging out in an attic with a bottle of Jack Daniels, passed out in the attic, hanging out at night in a backyard, or a schoolyard, the kids seem to have slipped whatever moorings they might have had as youngsters. In one image with a skate boarder in the background, a shiny-haired girl is compressed into the lower right corner; her quiet smile and the limpid blue sky above throw the desperation palpable in the other images into hard relief.

Photographs, left to right: Untitled, 2005 by Jaret Belliveau; Apartment Pool, Vancouver, 2003 by Scott Connarroe; Phu-tay-ho, 2006 by Marco Bohr. Photographs copyright the artists, courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery.

Marco Bohr, known for portraiture, has photographed people in the landscape, often at historic pilgrimage sites. In one, a lone hiker on Mt. Croach Patrick, a sacred site in Ireland since pagan times, stares into the distance. At Phy-tay-ho Temple, in Vietnam, visitors seen from behind look toward the horizon. The tourists in these scenes, and others in the exhibition, whether in pairs or in groups of pairs, seem isolated from one another and disconnected from the landscape they've traveled far to see.

Scott Conarroe photographs at dusk or dawn, making long exposures that create a tremendous amount of pictorial information that comes together in beautiful images of mostly banal places. In Bus Tracks, yellow school busses are randomly parked near concrete warehouse buildings. Three sets of train tracks swoop towards a gleaming horizon broken by a church spire. Shot from a high vantage point, the top fifth of the image is laced by a trio of power lines. The photograph, a lesson in classical composition, has the atmospheric quality of a memory deliberately recalled at leisure.

At Leisure runs through September 1, 2007. All images in the exhibition can be seen on the Stephen Bulger Gallery website.