I adore spending time at the studio, with each person you shoot it’s a different vibe and if you like the people you’re shooting it seems like hanging out but it’s also work, I find that thought very appealing. I have my own studio, which I am keeping even tho I don’t constantly spend time in Vienna, I just want to have the feeling that my photography has a home.  The aspect of studio ...

This series (for which I don’t have a name yet) tells the story of a Roma community in the heart of my hometown Belgrade, where people live in makeshift homes under tough conditions. Unfortunately, illegal dumping from the city adds to their struggles, making lives for them and their children very unhealthy. I met my friend Demuš a few years ago, and he introduced me to his community. Through my ...

In the course of RAY Triennial of Photography in Frankfurt (2024) I presented my exhibition, I want to scream so much but my vocal cords are chronically inflamed on the main theme of ECHOES. My interpretation of an echo was mainly communication and my series looks at the different "echoes" we experience in society and relationships. Through my images, I explore e.g. the urgent message of ...

The term 'sympathetic magic' was first used by James Frazer in the field of cultural anthropology. He defined it as a basic type of magic based on the idea that an analogous action should produce an analogous effect. Jan Lutyski says that translating this term was really tricky for the translators. They decided to use it anyway because it was already accepted in Polish and other languages at the ...

I had the pleasure of documenting Aleksandra Przybysz's performance. I photographed in intervals of a few seconds. I later chose single frames thinking of the artist's eating of the tea mushroom as an act of oral pleasure, something sexual. A body melted at the temperature of the stomach. This portion of the work consists of a sequence of seven photographs in which I eat SCOBY I have ...

Tobias Kappel “inthein” as a quest for a hybrid visual language between analogue and digital systems We periodically invite our alumni, artists we have featured in the past, to share their new work and projects with us. Tobias Kappel was among the artists selected by Robert Morat in his Guest Room back in 2015. A Berlin-based artist, Kappel explores the translation processes between different ...

Brief introduction, Punto de Fuga is an experimental platform for photography books. I had the pleasure of having my book In Praise of Shadow reviewed by Laura Carbonell, for which I thank her very much! On puntodefugabogota.com you can find this review as well as many others. In Praise of Shadow is Tomasz Kawecki’s most recent photographic project. Utilizing his distinct approach to the ...

Can the darkness be embraced? In his book Dark Ecology, Timothy Morton proposes that we settle in the darkness. lt is deemed the only way out of the catastrophic vision of the Anthropocene, and one that gives hope for a new world to be built. Artist Tomasz Kawecki, placing a snake devouring its taił - the Ouroboros - at the beginning of his book, follows Morton's thought and invites us to enter ...

There is a wandering native to the photographic practice. Intractable, it matters not if the displacement of self is either overtly romantic or harshly inconvenient: it affords or penalizes by the same suspension of time within the life of the practitioner. Not all that is seen between the islands of documentation merits observation and it is this elusive and unpredictable manner that interests ...

Paris Photo Fair is back from November 7 and returns to the iconic Grand Palais For its 27th edition, Paris Photo will return to the Grand Palais from November 7 to 10, 2024. The event will feature a dynamic program that showcases the diversity and vibrancy of both historic and contemporary photography. This prestigious photography fair, directed by Florence Bourgeois, will showcase an ...

Der Greif in partnership with MPB presents Kincső Bede, recipient of the Guest Room Scholarship Der Greif introduces the Michael Famighetti’s Guest Room Scholarship awardee Kincső Bede. She is a Romanian visual artist based between Budapest and Covasna and currently represented by TOBE Gallery, with which she is participating in Paris Photo Fair these days. She was selected for Guest Room “Super ...

“Horror Boréale” by Anne-Françoise Hivert for Le Monde M Magazine, October 2023. Translated from the original French. For ten years, American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz has been documenting the upheavals caused by global warming. Particularly at the North Pole, where the impact of human activity is more visible than anywhere else. Between declining glaciers and industrial settings, his ...

We must resist, in no small measure, the temptation to ignore or prescribe to the future the responsibility that rests solely within ourselves. Where a cheap plane ticket is bought when a train would do, an active choice has been made. When fast fashion and disposable income become the resource for personal and artistic expression, ego outstrips reason. If excessive consumerism in food, material, ...

When I was a boy my mother took me to the Museum of Natural History in New York City. It was the closest thing to traveling we could do. There was a room with two floors and suspended from the ceiling in the dark, a 1:1 plexiglass model of a blue whale. The largest animal known ever to have existed. I’d lay on the floor and look up for quite some time. On the train home, I’d compare its size to ...

Jaou Biennial: art, resistance and reconstruction through moving images and photography The timing of this year’s Jaou Biennial could not be more significant. As Tunisia wrestles with the rise of an authoritarian turn in politics, the biennial’s focus on “resistance as the deepest form of love”, in Lina Lazaar’s words, feels necessary. Taking over the city of Tunis, the biennial takes over ...

“Auf nach Woanders” opens up to worlds “elsewhere” Monochrome documentary, brightly staged shots, imaginative and fanciful images - the photographs selected by Çağla Ilk have very different approaches. What they have in common is a singularity of vision(s) rooted in the diversity of the contexts from which they derive. "Behind every photograph is its performative and transformative power to ...

Der Greif 17: "One Day Soon," guest-edited by Torbjørn Rødland Curiosity, criticality, artifice and reverence for the natural world appear throughout Torbjørn Rødland’s work and often in the same image, forging links between twentieth-century art photography and twenty-first-century approaches to image-making. For Issue 17, Der Greif and Rødland launched an open call titled "One Day Soon," ...

Most Serene Republic was born out of our early morning visits to the Huntington Gardens, a spectacularly well-maintained and impressive collection of plants from all over the world, and not too far from our home in Los Angeles. The morning walks started as a simple search for something calm amidst the overwhelming “everything” of daily news, and the photographs were initially an attempt to ...

This project documenting our daughter, Bela, over her school years is at its core, simply a portrait - a very long term one, with some themes and ideas that may resonate out from the capture of one person's everyday life, but the more we think about it, the more “portrait” is the right word. Because the photographs cover almost fifteen years of a highly changeable period in a young life, we are ...

We have been making hand-bound journals of our photographs for quite some time - usually of personal work, sometimes based on a specific time and place, but more often on having compiled a volume of work that we want to contextualize or corral into a meaningful collection. When we started putting together our most recent journal, the idea of examining our own fragmented and reimagined story ...

Der Greif introduces Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen, one of the talents nominated for FUTURES in 2024 Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen (b. 1994) is a self-taught photographer and film director from Odense, Denmark. She explores the intersection of science and art. Although formally trained as a medical doctor, her artworks serve as small experiments that visualize and interpret the human body, psyche, and the ...

"If Earth had an intergalactic symbol, surely it must be water." We came across this statement while doing research for an ongoing project we're calling Hydromap. Coming from drought-prone Southern California, where water and its use are both personal and political, we've been photographing water in its various forms, seeking out the origins and terminals of the flow of the waterways of our ...

The Salton Sea is a bizarre and captivating inland sea; it is also a cautionary tale about human-made environmental disasters and unintended consequences. In this way, it has always felt like an avatar for something much larger (maybe even for all of the world’s oceans and seas) than its actual physical footprint. The Sea has come and gone over the long stretches of geological time. It had been ...

Since December 2022, I have been working on the Tasvir Archive in collaboration with fellow Iranian scholar and artist, Sara Abbaspour. This is an extensive, nonprofit project focused on the history of image-based art and photographic practices in Iran. The archive gathers critical information on Iranian photographers, image-based artists, scholarly articles, and analyses. (The project is ...

I have a deep appreciation for literature, letters, quotes, and short writings by others. They continually feed my mind as I work with archives. At times, a poem or personal letter sparks the beginning of a new piece, linking individual and collective memories. These texts often help me reflect on abstract experiences I have not personally lived. “Words fade in the face of a hidden ...