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DER GREIF

Der Greif is an award-winning platform for contemporary photography that champions diverse voices and emerging talent. We use crowdsourcing to create accessible entry points for visual artists, photographers and image makers worldwide, breaking down barriers to participation in the art world.

Through our unique approach, Der Greif is the primary platform for our global community to create visibility, support with network and financial resources, at a career stage where other organizations can't provide our level of support.

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New Issue: Der Greif 17 — One Day Soon by Torbjørn Rødland

Our guest-editing artist Torbjørn Rødland wanted to see the medium of photography opened up and pushed forward through the rise of generative AI. Around 1.500 image makers from all over the world responded to the open call and Rødland selected and beautifully sequenced the ninety photographs in this issue.

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Felix Hoffmann, Mona Schubert & Marit Lena Herrmann

Guest Room

Guest Room aims to inspire collaboration and creative exchange. In this edition, we welcome a trio of curators from FOTO ARSENAL WIEN: Marit Lena Herrmann, Mona Schubert and Felix Hoffmann. Together, they proposed the theme "Messy". "In a world that celebrates perfection and control, we’re shifting our focus to the raw, the chaotic, the unfiltered. Unlike order, messiness ...


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Get your hands on our latest Poster Publication!

Based on our collaboration with Münchner Kammerspiele, 40 artists have been selected by Çagla Ilk. Since part of the collaboration was showing it in the public space, we are offering all 40 images as folded posters, to make them shine in your home.

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Sara Bensaltana

Artist Feature

面影, omokage (n.) from japanese: looks, vestiges, a trace of something or someone that remains even after they have disappeared or passed away. A reflection or reminder of the past. 面; mask, face, features, surface. 影; shadow, silhouette, phantom. Photographs marked by silver damage and images of abandoned shrines, of landscapes where the sacred lingers, skeletal ruins, houses caught in ...


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Image Consulting with Der Greif Studio | DER GREIF

Explore Der Greif Face-to-Face, our dynamic educational program designed to support artists at all stages, whether they’re seeking in-depth guidance on long-term projects or quick, constructive feedback on their portfolios.

Julia Bohle

Artist Feature

Aftermath is a photographic series that explores fragility, resilience, and the silence that follows chaos. Set in a frozen, desolate landscape, the images trace a solitary walk through the night, where the stark contrasts of black and white reflect an emotional state of isolation, memory, and slow transformation. The world appears frozen in time-shadows stretching over icy streets, reflections ...


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Hellerau Photography Award 2025: Q&A with Jo Bradford on her solo show at FOTOFORUM Dresden

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Jo Bradford's intimate and powerful photographic project, "If Not Now, When," has been awarded the 2025 Solo Satellite Exhibition Prize at the prestigious PORTRAITS - Hellerau Photography Award, through Der Greif's Guest Room curated by Martin Morgenstern, Sandra Buschow, and Christina Töpfer under the evocative theme "Echoes of Truth." Bradford's work resonates deeply with this theme, exploring ...


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Visule Kabunda

Artist Feature

Staying In is a meditation on home, grief, and belonging. It is an intimate photographic inquiry shaped by my movement between Zambia, Botswana, and South Africa. Through a series of black-and-white images, I explore the cyclical nature of grief and healing, and the ways memory becomes embedded in landscapes, relationships, and silence. When I lost my mother in 2017, my sense of home changed ...


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Arina Starykh

Artist Feature

As a visual artist working with nudity and portraying women of different ages, I often encounter a recurring hesitation: whether or not to show the face. Many of the women I photograph are comfortable revealing their bodies — the texture of their skin, their curves, folds, scars — but only if their facial identity remains concealed. I respect this choice, even if I sometimes feel a deep desire to ...


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Viviana Bonura

Artist Feature

One of the emotional conflicts shared by those who live on an island is the struggle of living with the idea that you can’t take the island out of the islander, meaning the feeling of being in a world apart, and at the same time the awareness that no one exists alone, so we are not islands. My ongoing research retraces and attempts to understand my experience as a native person from an island ...


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Edward Gia

Artist Feature

Living in the Land of What Matters explores memory, belonging, and the emotional terrain shaped by my Ecuadorian-Mexican American identity. Rooted in family archives and intergenerational histories, my work addresses migration and identity through intimate gestures and material investigations. Themes of absence, longing, and care emerge through evolving visual narratives that blend both fiction ...


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Joshua Chuang & Barney Kulok

Guest Room

Guest Room aims to inspire collaboration and creative exchange. In this edition, Gagosian Director of Photography Joshua Chuang, partners with American artist and photographer Barney Kulok. Together, they explored the theme "Close Call". “A ‘close call’ is commonly understood as a narrow escape, often interchangeable with the term ‘near miss.’ For our open call, we’re expanding this definition ...


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Alessandra Baragiotta

Artist Feature

I grew up in an environment where interior design and architecture magazines transformed the places I lived in, but my family did not have a house of their own. As we constantly moved, embracing a home, adapting to its spaces, its textures and colors, became a process that I had to repeat more often than I expected. We were constantly faced with having to build a home, aspiring to the illusion of ...


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Fiona Davhana

Artist Feature

Muvhili a si Tsimbii delves into motherhood's profound mental and physical shifts, specifically postnatal experiences. Using my body as an intimate lens, I depict the lasting impacts of pregnancy and the insidious nature of postnatal depression, which often leads to neglected mental well-being and subsequent physical consequences. My creative process is deeply personal, primarily through ...


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Der Greif Artist Feature Award at Fotofestiwal Łódź 2025: Q&A with Davide Sartori

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“They say the shape of our eyes, other things I wouldn’t know” is a poetic investigation of intimacy, intergenerational trauma, and the father-son gaze Our Community Manager and Program curator recently had the pleasure of reviewing portfolios at this year’s Fotofestiwal in Łódź, Poland. She selected Davide Sartori for our Der Greif Artist Feature Award, recognizing the poignant sensitivity and ...


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Ceremony and reflection: “Documentary in Flux. Revisiting C/O Berlin Talent Award”

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A celebration of twenty-five years of C/O Berlin and nearly twenty years of the C/O Berlin Talent Award Celebrating their twenty-fifth birthday, C/O Berlin is pleased to present the exhibition “Documentary in Flux. Revisiting the C/O Berlin Talent Award”. Running until September 16, 2025, this group exhibition sheds light on the transformation of documentary strategies in the contemporary ...


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Jo. Trujillo Argüelles & María Santoyo

Guest Room

Guest Room aims to inspire collaboration and creative exchange. In this edition, Jo. Trujillo Argüelles, former Director of the Centro de la Imagen, partners with María Santoyo, director of PHotoESPAÑA. "What (Dis)Appears" is the theme they chose for this edition of Guest Room. "What do you overlook when you look? And what do we miss together? Why does it remain unseen? As in the darkroom, ...


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PHotoESPAÑA manifests the need to photograph, after all

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PHotoESPAÑA launches its twenty-eighth edition, depicting photography as a crucial right This year, opening the twenty-eight edition of PHotoESPAÑA, Director María Santoyo says the programme argues for asserting “our right to photograph, now more than ever” to create evidence for the now and future references. The renowned Spanish photography festival brings together the work of nearly four ...


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Der Greif X MPB: Behind the Image with Ramón Miranda Beltrán

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Der Greif in partnership with MPB presents Ramón Miranda Beltrán, Guest Room Scholarship winner Der Greif and MPB introduce Ramón Miranda Beltrán, scholarship recipient from our Guest Room “Sounds of Resistance", curated by KJ Abudu. Beltrán merges conceptual rigor with material experimentation, often transferring photographic images onto concrete surfaces to create what he calls “photographic ...


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Open Call:
Guest Room: Sarker Protick and Donald Weber

Guest Room fosters collaboration and sparks creative exchange. For this edition, photographer and visual artist Sarker Protick joins forces with photographer and Aalto University associate professor Donald Weber to explore the following theme:

"Architectures of Power"

We invite series that treat photography not only as expression, but also as method and evidence.

Deadline: September 26 at 11:59 PM CET

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Katy Hundertmark & Valeria Posada-Villada

Guest Room

Guest Room aims to inspire collaboration and creative exchange. In this edition, Katy Hundertmark, Managing Editor of Foam Magazine as well as Curator at Foam Museum, partners with Valeria Posada-Villada, Photography Curator at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam - a museum dedicated to world cultures. Their Guest Room theme is "The Ties That Bind". "Can photography help us feel closer to one another? Our ...


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"Pictures on a Journey": A Der Greif interactive installation at Various Others

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As part of the first Various Others “Unconference” at Bayerischer Hof in Munich – a gathering of curators, artists, and thinkers exploring forms of inclusion, agency, and change in the art world – Der Greif was invited to contribute a public intervention that responded to the themes and setting of the convening. We chose to explore what it means to share and to send – to offer something of ...


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Der Greif X MPB: Behind the Image with Anya Tsaruk

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Der Greif in partnership with MPB presents Anya Tsaruk, Guest Room Scholarship winner Der Greif and MPB introduce Anya Tsaruk, scholarship recipient from our Guest Room “Echoes of Truth", curated by Martin Morgenstern, Sandra Buschow & Christina Töpfer. Tsaruk is a Ukrainian photographer based in Berlin, whose work delves into themes of identity, trauma, migration, and community, particularly in ...


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Der Greif Artist Feature Award at FORMAT25: Q&A with Jenna Garrett

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Jenna Garrett’s “Teeth of the Wolf”: nationalism and mythmaking in American culture Der Greif Community Manager recently had the pleasure of reviewing portfolios at this year’s FORMAT Festival in Derby. She selected Jenna Garrett for our Der Greif Artist Feature Award, recognizing the outstanding quality of her “Teeth of the Wolf” series. Garrett, the Spectrum Imaging Award winner for ...


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Iris Sikking & Fleurie Kloostra

Guest Room

Guest Room aims to inspire collaboration and creative exchange. In this edition, Iris Sikking, curator of photography at Fotomuseum Den Haag, partnered with Fleurie Kloostra, curator at Melkweg Expo - an exhibition space dedicated to contemporary photography and a platform for emerging artists in the heart of Amsterdam. Together, they chose the theme "Dynamic Perspective". “The times we live in ...


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Beyond Authorship: Creativity as Exchange

Artist Blog by Ben Millar Cole

In my last post, I wrote about the creative mental act—Turing’s idea that creativity might not reside within a single person or machine, rather in the interaction between them. I find it a helpful way to think about art-making with AI, while also gesturing toward a broader shift in perspective. In her book “AI Art”, Joanna Zylinska frames this as part of a post-humanist approach to art-making. ...


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The Creative Mental Act

Artist Blog by Ben Millar Cole

What if creativity isn’t something we possess, but something that emerges ‘between’ things? That question has been on my mind since reading “Ways of Being” by James Bridle (2022) —a book that reframes intelligence as something not bound to human minds, rather it is distributed across relationships, environments and systems. In one passage, Bridle revisits Alan Turing’s reflections on machine ...


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Between Computation and Craft

Artist Blog by Ben Millar Cole

My studio walls tell the story of a fifteen-year obsession with lenticular prints—those ridged, satisfyingly tactile objects that transform as you tilt them or move past them. What began as a casual interest evolved into a serious collection that now exceeds 200 pieces that I have sourced from flea markets, gift shops and specialty dealers on eBay. Sometimes, we collect without knowing why. ...


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After Wall

Artist Blog by Ben Millar Cole

In 1993, Jeff Wall meticulously reworked Hokusai's famous woodblock print, spending over a year orchestrating actors and stitching together 50 photographs to create “A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai)”. Three decades later, AI image generators can create variations of Wall's composition in seconds. In my series “After Wall”, balanced arrangements of individuals are transformed into organic, ...


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Ben Millar Cole

Artist Feature

Before the flood of Midjourney dreamscapes and perfectly plausible deep fakes, there was a more modest—I think more magical—introduction to AI's creative potential. Much of that early enchantment came through Janelle Shane's blog AI Weirdness, born in 2016, which explores ‘the strange and sometimes unsettling ways machine learning gets things wrong.’ Shane's experiments often begin with small ...


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