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Aaron Stern

Guest Room

Der Greif has invited artist, curator, and author Aaron Stern to curate a Guest Room. Stern is the owner and co-founder of the curatorial service A Medium Format. For this edition of Guest Room, he has chosen the theme “Interiors” for your submissions. "Interiors are often used by artists to explore memory, identity and the passage of time. Use this theme to submit or make pictures that exhibit ...


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Jessica Haye & Clark Hsiao

Artist Feature

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 ...


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Der Greif X FUTURES: 3 questions to Rosa Lacavalla

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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. ...


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Note 2.

Artist Blog by Mehrdad Mirzaie

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 ...


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Note 1.

Artist Blog by Mehrdad Mirzaie

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 This distinction has become central to my practice, allowing me to work more closely with archives, found images, and historical documents.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 ...


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Mehrdad Mirzaie

Artist Feature

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 ...


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Let’s Look Back Today

Artist Blog by Berk Kır

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 ...


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The Weight of the World Overflowing From the Bathtub

Artist Blog by Berk Kır

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 ...


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Der Greif X MPB: Behind the Image with Murat Kahya

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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 ...


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An Interpretation of an Archive: Images Displaced From Their Subject

Artist Blog by Berk Kır

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 ...


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The Object That Wears the Gaze

Artist Blog by Berk Kır

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 ...


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Berk Kır

Artist Feature

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 ...


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Greif Alumni: Q&A with Lukas Städler

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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 ...


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Celluloid Collage

Artist Blog by Yolanda Y. Liou

Tim Grabham (AKA iloobia) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist who has independently produced still and moving image work for over 30 years. Comprising of short film, animation, photography and installations, as well as documentary and long-form features, his work has been presented internationally at cinemas, festivals, TV online and in galleries. Ongoing interests in his work include ...


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Constellation

Artist Blog by Yolanda Y. Liou

They gather, five souls woven in light, a sisterhood etched in stars. Each a luminous thread, they dance, they dream, they rise - an eternal constellation. “The more we connected through our bodies and our skin, the more this sensation emerged: acceptance as an extension of feminine qualities - a gentle yet profound strength rooted in the understanding that we are enough, just as we are, through ...


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In Focus: Photobooks by Fabio Barile, Yoshi Kametani, Kyler Zeleny, Abeer Aref, Ibi Ibrahim and Thana Faroq

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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 Fabio Barile, Yoshi Kametani, Tyler Zeleny, and a ...


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Self-Developed Analogue

Artist Blog by Yolanda Y. Liou

I began the process of developing black and white analogue film in July 2018 and colour analogue film in August 2020. Using a film developing kit in my bathroom, I’m interested in inviting imperfection and unpredictability into the image-making process, allowing the materiality of the film to coexist with the photographic image. I also deliberately soak the film rolls in various fluids causing ...


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Finding Order in Chaos

Artist Blog by Yolanda Y. Liou

Making collage is a way for me to decompress my brain when I feel overwhelmed. I started this process organically by taking elements from my own photography. It’s an intuitive process, with no specific intention or purpose, simply being spontaneous in the moment. I knew it was soothing for me, but I didn’t know why. Only until last year when I got diagnosed with Adult ADHD, it started making ...


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Yolanda Y. Liou

Artist Feature

Thank You For Playing With Me dives into researching the concept of modern beauty, documenting portraits of Enam Ewura Adjoa Asiama and Vanessa Russell from 2019 to 2022. This project is an intimate record of that journey. I do not want anybody to feel the way I felt. Growing up in Taiwan, the pressure to conform to a standard beauty in Asia was relentless and it took a toll on me physically ...


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This Is Also Me

Artist Blog by David Steinberg

About a year ago, I began a new project that originated with a major life change, which was having our baby. She is now one, and since just before she was born, I began making pictures which meant to primarily quell or reveal the anxieties I have about becoming, and now being, a parent. The focus in the series is explicitly not her, though she exists around the periphery, but it is more about me ...


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Lightboxes

Artist Blog by David Steinberg

In 2023 I was fortunate to have a solo exhibition at Reminders Photography Stronghold in Tokyo, which is run by Yumi Goto. We worked together to curate my work for the show, and it was here that I was first able to utilize the big lightboxes. I think of the lightboxes as a further attempt at abstraction of the landscape. And so I chose three images that represent satellite imagery. They play ...


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Der Greif X Münchner Kammerspiele: “Auf nach Woanders” exhibition at Munich city theatre

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A photo exhibition in collaboration with Der Greif kicks off Münchner Kammerspiele 2024/2025 season “Auf nach Woanders” ("Off to Elsewhere") is the title of the 2024/25 season of the Münchner Kammerspiele, which was inaugurated on September 14th with a photo exhibition in their foyer at Therese-Giehse-Halle. “Auf nach Woanders” stems from the call opened by Der Greif to its worldwide community ...


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Heterotopia

Artist Blog by David Steinberg

“For the real scandal of Galileo’s work lay not so much in his discovery, or rediscovery, that the earth revolved around the sun, but in his constitution of an infinite, and infinitely open space.” - Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias Heterotopias are real places and other spaces, they are layered and often mirroring what is outside. Foucault often describes them as ...


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Subjective Vision

Artist Blog by David Steinberg

Images of faces preoccupied with the telescope seem to be performances. Though in other ways, the person also seems to have left their body altogether. One’s face contorts or responds, exclaims, or mirrors the object of their gaze. We sit here on Earth, in the same place as moments earlier, but when gazing at the sun we have also been transported nearly 93 million miles away. In two places at ...


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David Steinberg

Artist Feature

Ouroboros, a term which refers to the intertwining makeup of the universe, sets the cosmos as a stage to locate the margins of our perception. This work of photography and installation portrays a repetitive loop between looking towards outer space and attempting to understand our planet. I pair images of people, scientific tools, and interiors, alongside images of abstracted landscapes of earth ...


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Attempting to Authenticate

Artist Blog by Bruno Silva

I am currently working on a project that I did last August as part of an artistic residency called “No Ritmo do Lugar” (In the Rhythm of the Place) in Elvas - south of Portugal. In addition to the challenge of photographing in unknown territory that I have no memory of, it was enriching to work around the theme of the “Border” in a free and comprehensive way. Elvas borders Spain and its natural ...


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Acrylic Afternoons

Artist Blog by Bruno Silva

Whenever I think of the beach or the sea, my memories are divided into three layers: The first is childhood: the endless vacations, the long days and naps in tents, the half-awake state, the wind whipping the drying towels and the voices: the mothers warning their children, the street vendors and, of course, the sadness of the high tides during the day and, of course, the last day at the beach ...


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What to spot at Unseen 2024

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Unseen Photo Fair will once again transform the iconic Westergas site into a captivating hub: here’s a preview Unseen Photo Fair returns for its twelfth edition at Westergas in Amsterdam, with “a truly global perspective on the latest developments in contemporary photography again,” Founding Director Roderick van der Lee says. Der Greif is thrilled to explore some of our community artists that ...


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