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Guest Room aims to spark collaboration. Simon Baker, Director of the MEP (Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris), is teaming up with his colleague Aden Vincendeau.

Together, they have developed the following framework for your submissions: "Happy accidents: embracing mistakes".

An aesthetic effect for some, and proof of a lack of technical knowledge for others, the photographic mistakes are a compelling alternative way of understanding the medium in all its diverse aspects from making photographic images, to exhibiting and publishing them. Scarcely considered during the second half of the 19th century, photographic faults gradually acquired a certain notoriety at the beginning of the 20th century when surrealists like Man Ray found a new way of reading and using the ‘ghosts’ in Eugene Atget’s images of old Paris. From Man Ray’s Atget to Daido Moriyama’s epic collection of ‘errors’ Farewell Photography, accepting and embracing involuntary faults has long since established itself as a deliberate way of making new and surprising aesthetic effects. "Happy Accidents: Embracing Mistakes" is interested in all manner of new and original ways of accepting things that happened by accident to become the basis of new works.

Selection

    • Yuan Yao, Nami in front of Mt. Fuji, Fuji, JPN, 2018 | DER GREIF
      Yuan Yao, Nami in front of Mt. Fuji, Fuji, JPN, 2018
    • Pavel Bukreev, Yellow on white, Moscow, RUS, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Pavel Bukreev, Yellow on white, Moscow, RUS, 2021
    • Holger Krischke, me|Amélie Graef, Rheine, DEU | DER GREIF
      Holger Krischke, me|Amélie Graef, Rheine, DEU
    • Alparslan Kabasakal, 2022 02 07 negativ scan glasscratches, Berlin, DEU, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Alparslan Kabasakal, 2022 02 07 negativ scan glasscratches, Berlin, DEU, 2022
    • Tommaso Sacconi, Error PB17-1, New York, USA, 2017 | DER GREIF
      Tommaso Sacconi, Error PB17-1, New York, USA, 2017
    • Mathis Benestebe, Ventricule gauche, 1, Toulouse, FRA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Mathis Benestebe, Ventricule gauche, 1, Toulouse, FRA, 2023
    • Mateusz Woźniak, Smoke, Władzimirowo, POL, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Mateusz Woźniak, Smoke, Władzimirowo, POL, 2021
    • Masha Wysocka, Truth is Stranger Than Fiction, HUN, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Masha Wysocka, Truth is Stranger Than Fiction, HUN, 2021
    • Sophie Sherwood, 53, Pyranees, FRA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Sophie Sherwood, 53, Pyranees, FRA, 2020
    • Ivo von Renner, Die photographische Beichte eines Voyeurs, Öffenliches Küssen als Positionierung in der Gruppe, Hamburg, DEU, 1979 | DER GREIF
      Ivo von Renner, Die photographische Beichte eines Voyeurs, Öffenliches Küssen als Positionierung in der Gruppe, Hamburg, DEU, 1979
    • Jill Waterman, New Year's 1985, London, England: British Bobbies in a Shaving Creme Fight, London, GBR, 1984 | DER GREIF
      Jill Waterman, New Year's 1985, London, England: British Bobbies in a Shaving Creme Fight, London, GBR, 1984
    • Lisa Pram, Tener un Cuerpo 05, ESP, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Lisa Pram, Tener un Cuerpo 05, ESP, 2023
    • Justyna Wierzchowiecka, no title, Havana, CUB | DER GREIF
      Justyna Wierzchowiecka, no title, Havana, CUB
    • Aurelia Casse, v friendship 5, Paris, FRA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Aurelia Casse, v friendship 5, Paris, FRA, 2023
    • Alina Maria Frieske, Untitled (Fruits), Berlin, DEU, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Alina Maria Frieske, Untitled (Fruits), Berlin, DEU, 2019
    • Valentin Degnieau, Sans Titre 4, FRA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Valentin Degnieau, Sans Titre 4, FRA, 2023
    • Nicolas Reinhart, Pansies / Love-in-Idleness, 441-45420, Wolfen, DEU 2021 | DER GREIF
      Nicolas Reinhart, Pansies / Love-in-Idleness, 441-45420, Wolfen, DEU 2021
    • Carson D. Brown, Keeping Up With My Nephew 02, Holland, Michigan, USA | DER GREIF
      Carson D. Brown, Keeping Up With My Nephew 02, Holland, Michigan, USA
    • Milja Laurila, Un problème feminin, Helsinki, FIN  | DER GREIF
      Milja Laurila, Un problème feminin, Helsinki, FIN
    • Anna TIhanyi, Split, Budapest, HUN, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Anna TIhanyi, Split, Budapest, HUN, 2019
    • Madeleine Brunnmeier, Sekundenschlaf, Berlin, DEU, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Madeleine Brunnmeier, Sekundenschlaf, Berlin, DEU, 2020
    • Yolanda Y. Liou, Omari, London, GBR | DER GREIF
      Yolanda Y. Liou, Omari, London, GBR
    • Maik Gräf, Bed Vienna 1, Vienna, AUT, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Maik Gräf, Bed Vienna 1, Vienna, AUT, 2023
    • Saxon Baird, untitled, California, USA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Saxon Baird, untitled, California, USA, 2022
    • Sophie Ellen, Distorted Bodies, Suffolk, GBR, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Sophie Ellen, Distorted Bodies, Suffolk, GBR, 2023
    • Aga Piasecka, Constructed Landscapes 4, Gdańsk, POL, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Aga Piasecka, Constructed Landscapes 4, Gdańsk, POL, 2020
    • Damian Ucieda Cortes, Untitled, Glasgow, GBR, 2018 | DER GREIF
      Damian Ucieda Cortes, Untitled, Glasgow, GBR, 2018
    • Ela Polkowska, When Objects Are Always Similar, Krakow, POL | DER GREIF
      Ela Polkowska, When Objects Are Always Similar, Krakow, POL
    • Elie Monferier, MONFERIER Elie Sanctuaire 3, Lourdes, FRA | DER GREIF
      Elie Monferier, MONFERIER Elie Sanctuaire 3, Lourdes, FRA
    • Diana Fedoriaka, Digitalization, Kyiv, UKR, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Diana Fedoriaka, Digitalization, Kyiv, UKR, 2020
    • Haohui Liu, Image (13), Daqing, CHN, 1963 | DER GREIF
      Haohui Liu, Image (13), Daqing, CHN, 1963
    • Odysseas Tsompanoglou, Dusan, Varkiza, GRC | DER GREIF
      Odysseas Tsompanoglou, Dusan, Varkiza, GRC
    • Edoardo De Ruggiero, EDEN FILM 09, Paris, FRA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Edoardo De Ruggiero, EDEN FILM 09, Paris, FRA, 2023
    • Federico “Monty” Kaplan, The girl, Berlin, DEU, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Federico “Monty” Kaplan, The girl, Berlin, DEU, 2019
    • Seif Kousmate, WAHA 2, Tighmert, MAR | DER GREIF
      Seif Kousmate, WAHA 2, Tighmert, MAR
    • Lynne Breitfeller, After the Fire: Water Damaged, Self Portrait, New Jersey, USA, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Lynne Breitfeller, After the Fire: Water Damaged, Self Portrait, New Jersey, USA, 2021
    • Lorena Articardi, Eat Sand / Sand, Video Still 002, Montevideo, URY, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Lorena Articardi, Eat Sand / Sand, Video Still 002, Montevideo, URY, 2020
    • Julie van der Vaart, Black Cloud 03, BEL, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Julie van der Vaart, Black Cloud 03, BEL, 2022
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