Last night in DUMBO 5 teams of photographers, stylists, makeup artists, and models converged on the water between 2 bridges at Smack Mellon gallery space to compete in the first ever Dewar’s Master-Disaster PHTHRD: Photography Duel.

Teams had 2 hours to create images for 3 briefs: Dialogue, Character, and Inspiration. Host Richie Rich gave a summary of the action while the clock ticked down to zero and the crowd danced to music by Telekinetic Kat & Lefty aka Single Life from Turntable Lab.

In about 24 hours Phil Toledano, Nate “Igor” Smith, Alison Grippo, Kate & Camilla, and Leo Zacharias will hand in their images to LVHRD so you may vote for the winner on LVHRD.ORG. Voting begins next Monday, July 30th.

Thank you to LVHRD annual partner Dewar’s, Veer, Surface Magazine, Sapporo, Fred Water, and Turntable Lab for making PHTHRD one of our most successful events to date.

Updates to follow shortly…currently we must use our teeth and pure grit to strap ladders and generators to a pickup truck for a return run to Home Depot on Coney Island.

UPDATE: PHTHRD photos on flickr: pictures of people taking pictures of people taking pictures to the Nth degree, mild nudity, Randy’s magic red slippers, lip biting and tongue kissing. Ohyoucrazy has a good set.