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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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Joanna Zylinska & Yanai Toister

Guest Room

Guest Room aims to spark collaboration and creative exchange. For this edition, Joanna Zylinska - an artist, writer, and professor of media philosophy and critical digital practice at King's College London - joins forces with Yanai Toister, an internationally exhibited artist whose practice centers on photography and conceptual art. Together, they present the framework for your submissions: ...


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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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Haohui Liu

Artist Feature

Daqing, the “Oil Capital of China,” stands as a testament to the relentless spirit of its people and the nation's journey. The name Daqing means Great Celebration and refers to the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China. My grandfather's photos from the 1960s offer an intimate look at the faces of Daqing, individuals who bore witness to the transformative boom following the ...


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In Focus: Photobooks by Colin Martinez, Zara Pfeifer, Benedetta Ristori and Vincent Forstenlechner

Articles

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 Colin Martinez, Zara Pfeifer, Benedetta Ristori ...


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Zeitgeist and Marketplace (Work in Progress)

Artist Blog by Haohui Liu

The picture material for the work came from social media where Londoners sell second-hand items or subletting rooms. Looking at the broad collection of belongings/rooms for sale/rent, images of the vendors appear to materialise. A student, selling a guitar and textbooks and another person offering whiskey and a designer leather jacket. Each image triggers Sophie Calle-esque voyeurism: who is the ...


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to cut the feet, to fit the shoes

Artist Blog by Haohui Liu

The name of this series is a Chinese idiom used to describe the fatality of the human condition. The photographer seeks to combat the anxiety of appearance conveyed by the mass media and what he calls the fetishism of merchandise “to let go of harsh self-recrimination and happily accept our own identity and uniqueness, fearlessly and delightfully.” This series takes the form of a handmade book, ...


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“Topiary” by Scott Van Kampen Wieling

Artist Blog by Ieva Maslinskaitė

Topiary, derived from the latin word topiarius, a creator of different areas through ornamental landscapes. A horticultural practice that refers towards a dialogue with a living sculpture formed by time, growth and small interventions that hold them in defined shapes. This notion of forming and being formed (wi)th(rough), a constant dialog of the material presence, is something that corresponds ...


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“space of a space reminiscing” by Ira Grünberger

Artist Blog by Ieva Maslinskaitė

Perhaps a house to grow up in is the framework for us being cast into the world. When returning to that house is no longer possible, it persists to live on within our imagination, haunting our dreams and beckoning us to revisit our past. When a house transforms, so does our memory. How do the materials that sustain our memories remember themselves? Can we re-inhabit a space through ...


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C/O Berlin presents “Protektorat” by Silvia Rosi, winner of the C/O Berlin Talent Award 2024

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“Protektorat” by Silvia Rosi opens today at C/O Berlin C/O Berlin Artist Talent Award 2024 winner Silvia Rosi, a past Guest Room collaborator, debuts her thought-provoking project Protektorat in her first solo exhibition in Germany, opening today at C/O Berlin in the Amerika Haus. Drawing upon archival materials housed in the National Archives of Togo, Rosi illuminates the pervasive spread of ...


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Unworlding Photography, an Excerpt From Sprouting-through

Artist Blog by Ieva Maslinskaitė

This text is an excerpt from a research publication called “Sprouting-through”, self-published in 2023. Written through the process of a seed, it touches upon the ambiguous nature of being more-than-human, art in the Anthropocene, artistic practice situated in-between self and other, human and non-human, inside and outside and other blurry boundaries. A mix of rooted thoughts and wilder ...


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Unworlded, Bewildered: On Image as an Ecosystem

Artist Blog by Ieva Maslinskaitė

Metal seed, industrial shell. Plants were observed, measured, and grown behind glass. Regulated. Patented, owned. Seeds modified in such a way that, after a single use, they are unable to reproduce. At the inception of photography, the cyanotype photographic process was used for a better understanding of plants by archiving their direct images. Algae, ferns in deep blue sea imprinted, revealing ...


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Ieva Maslinskaitė

Artist Feature

Pupa, a stage of a metamorphic insect’s life (such as a butterfly, a moth, or a bee), occurs between the larva and the imago. It is when an insect is enclosed in a cocoon or a protective covering and undergoes internal changes - in other words, a transformation - to reach a new stage. This project aims to treat photography as if it were in a pupa: in a stage of transition, temporality, and ...


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The Burden of Responsibility, and the Power of the Ocean

Artist Blog by Katya Bogachevskaya

I continue to talk about my ongoing project It’s Darkest Before the Dawn. After being denounced for my public anti-war stance in August 2022, I began experiencing nightmares. In these dreams, masked SWAT teams with machine guns burst into our flat and dragged me away in handcuffs amidst the screams of my children. The fear for their safety has haunted me ever since. Determined to secure a better ...


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Collaborators Corner: A land memorial on Occupied Territories of Palestine by Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzales

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“Anchor in the Landscape”: Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzales’ book capturing Palestinian identity through millenary olive trees The olive tree symbolizes Palestinian identity, culture, and resistance. It sustains the livelihoods of more than 100,000 Palestinian families, serves as a cornerstone of traditions and identities, and has long been a target of destruction and theft. Since 1967, ...


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Der Greif X MPB: Behind the Image with Marinos Tsagkarakis

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Der Greif in partnership with MPB presents Marinos Tsagkarakis, Guest Room Scholarship winner Der Greif and MPB introduce Marinos Tsagkarakis, who received our Guest Room scholarship from The Sustainable Darkroom & Tamsin Green, curators of our “New Grounds” Guest Room. Tsagkarakis’ selected image is an extract from the series “Strawberry Blue”, exploring the complex interactions between human ...


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The Past Grows Into the Present

Artist Blog by Katya Bogachevskaya

The photographs from my ongoing project It’s Darkest Before The Dawn can be described as subjective documentary photography. In the surrounding landscapes, I find reflections of my state and my thoughts on war, death, emigration, and the loss of home, creating a self-portrait even though I am not physically present as a subject in any of the images. However, it is impossible to discuss current ...


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Katya Bogachevskaya

Artist Feature

On 24 February 2022, my country, Russia, started a full-scale war in its neighbouring country, Ukraine, while concurrently intensifying repression against its own citizens. Because of my public anti-war stance, I began to receive threats and was eventually denounced. Fearing the increasing possibility of imprisonment and the harrowing chance that my young children would be left without a mother, ...


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I No Longer Dream Of Being a War Photographer

Artist Blog by Marcel Top

As a kid, I always had a camera in my hands. I remember going around and photographing everything I found interesting. Aged 12, I knew I wanted to become a photographer: not just any photographer, but a war photographer. I saw it as the noblest form of photography, one where the photographer is ready to sacrifice everything to report on things that matter. Travelling to places most people would ...


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Sara Hodges - The Perfect American Citizen

Artist Blog by Marcel Top

In 2020, after reading about a protester being arrested for what he had written online, I began researching mass surveillance in America. Due to a state-wide increase in protests, law enforcement was, for the first time, permitted to use facial recognition not only to identify protesters but also to track them through their social media activity. I started questioning whether surveillance ...


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Greif Alumni: Q&A with Farren van Wyk

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Farren van Wyk interrogates migration, ethnicity, colonialism and apartheid We periodically invite our alumni, artists we have featured in the past, to share their new work and projects with us. Farren van Wyk was part of Darius Himes & Ali Rajabi’s Guest Room “The Oneness in Humanity” in 2022. She participated with an image from her series "Die lewe is nie reg vir my nie,” her first project ...


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Reversed Surveillance - Making a Photobook

Artist Blog by Marcel Top

After coming across my project Reversed Surveillance on Instagram, Janne from Kult Books reached out to me about turning it into a book. Having seen his other work, I was eager to collaborate with him, and we began almost immediately. As the project was already complete, the main challenge was finding a balance between visualising in-depth research and showcasing the large volume of images. The ...


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