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 ...

Der Greif introduces Rosa Lacavalla, one of the talents nominated for FUTURES in 2024 Rosa Lacavalla has joined FUTURES this year with two projects selected by Der Greif: "Sana Sana" and "La festa dell'equatore". What they have in common is a transformative character that unfolds through the power of a personal narrative that becomes a channel for exploring cultural intersections and migrations. ...

I have been practicing photography for many years, and about six years ago, I began transitioning from taking photos to making images. This distinction has become central to my practice, allowing me to work more closely with archives, found images, and historical documents. This shift has expanded my process, enabling deeper engagement with historical images and offering new ways to reflect on ...

My practice is characterized by working with a diverse array of historical images, whether through the curation of new archives or the reinterpretation of existing ones. I firmly believe in the transformative power of historical imagery to inform the present and shape the future. By scrutinizing images of the past and the thoughts they evoke, I aim to challenge conventional interpretations of ...

As a young professional at 27, I have been exploring myself and the world through photography for about 13 years. The reflex of looking back is a way of remembering photography’s emergence and widespread use. Today, as I reflect on my 27 years, I have prepared a selection of photographs taken since I was 14. Along with this post going live, I will have already started the setup for my new ...

I have become a person who experiences life based on the existence of my emotions. Trying to see my own feelings in different ways is what brought me closer to portrait photography. In this series, I try to write about my current feelings in water through images by exposing the notes I took in my handwriting onto the photographs I took in the bathtub. "I always think of life as a space of ...

Der Greif in partnership with MPB presents Murat Kahaya, recipient of the Guest Room Scholarship Der Greif introduces the Guest Room Scholarship awardee, Murat Kahya, who was selected by Guest Room curators Christiane Monarchi and Eva Eicker. In the context of the given theme "Wortbildsalat / word-image-salad," Kahya's featured image from the series "Seesaw" contributes to the collective ...

When I think about photography, I believe that before I create any image, I observe the world through the lens of all the experiences my embodied being has accumulated. However, another possibility lies in the sustainability of images and their ability to renew themselves. As the subject of the photograph, as an artist, I can choose to revisit the same image with new experiences and insights ...

Photography takes shape in my life as an experience of grasping, transforming, expanding outward, or withdrawing inward through the camera, which has become an extension of my body in the context of my passionate relationship with seeing. It has been approximately 10 months since I opened my solo exhibition in Istanbul this past January. During this time, I’ve been reflecting on the exhibition ...

Using contemporary terminology, the series You Have a Place Above My Head, which the artist has been developing since 2019, explores the potential sexuality of everyday objects discovered during walks in Istanbul."Genre painting, in the literature of art history, is defined as productions realized on canvas with paint, presenting everyday life shaped in domestic settings to the viewer. The series ...

Greif Alumnus Lukas Städler reflects on his photographic practice and current exhibition at Fotografiska Berlin We periodically invite our alumni, artists we have featured in the past, to share their new work and projects with us. Lukas Städler was among the artists selected for Der Greif X Grisebach “New Positions” Online Photography Auction. His pursuit of contemporary aesthetics through ...