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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

The latest finds from our community artists’ photobooks “In Focus” is a quarterly series of reviews in which we hunt down and peruse the worthy publications off the shelves of our community artists. Each month, Der Greif is selecting a set of photobooks from our talents’ pool. Compiled here are the most recent releases from our community artists Debmalya Ray Choudhuri, Sarah Mei Herman, Zoe ...

“Nothing that came from her hands was incomplete, she focused her care on every physical object in the world, and when I came to a party, I could tell right away whether she was there or not, because her shoes were always neatly stored in the shoe cabinet or in a corner next to the chaos of shoes of the rest. Her hands naturally created pleasure in their movements, there was tenderness towards ...

Inspiration comes to me from many different places – some obvious, others more unexpected. Photography, film, performance, sculpture, theatre, and literature all play a role. But I’m equally drawn to second-hand advertising websites like Marktplaats.nl, reality TV shows like “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo”, my observations on the street, in shops, and in other people’s homes. And then there’s the ...

The second edition of EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival reflects a growing need for deeper engagement with and understanding of photoculture The notion of embedded, invisible forces within photographs is both visceral and conceptual – shaped by the social, political, and infrastructural histories that have informed the medium’s evolution. Photography, as a fundamentally relational form, hinges on ...

In 2023, my father had to empty his apartment for renovations. It wasn’t his choice, but it ended up being a much-needed push to part with a significant amount of (excess) furniture. He had lived in that apartment for over forty years – a space filled with objects and memories from different phases of our lives: squatting with friends, my mother moving in, my brother and I growing up there, and ...

Hello dear readers, Let me tell you a little about my work and where my interests lie. It won’t be an adventurous tale – I haven’t traveled the world with a camera in hand, nor have I photographed strangers in far-off places. In fact, I’ve done quite the opposite. Photography, for me, is a way to zoom in on the everyday – to explore familiar spaces and seemingly banal objects that often ...