The latest photobooks picks by Der Greif “In Focus” is Der Greif’s photobook review series, spotlights our picks from the current open call for submissions and our community artists' most recent publications. This month, we bring out of our shelf Serhii Melnychenko’s book “Frontline Rolls: Photos, Letters & Artifacts from Ukrainian Soldiers,” a collaborative project extending from reportage to ...

On the outskirts of Frankfurt, within an ordinary industrial district, a quiet threshold opens once a week. For a brief span of time, a hidden world emerges between repair shops, office buildings, and a large meat-processing factory. What remains unnoticed during workdays becomes a place of gathering on Sundays, as people from many backgrounds arrive and the area begins to shift in rhythm and ...

The open call “Sisterhood in Practice,” launched for International Women’s Day, inviting artists to reflect on solidarity, process, and collective growth. While the online exhibition is running through April 8, we are extending this initiative and continuing our “Spread the Dialogue” series by bringing selected artists into conversation, creating a space where practices can meet, challenge one ...

Being born on Earth is, in itself, a big yet small event. The question, “Why does the moon follow us everywhere we go?”, which I first heard from my grandmother, has stayed with me. In fact, scientifically speaking, the moon does not follow us; its apparent stillness is an illusion. I began to see a similar parallax between human presence and land. Although land appears immovable, human ...

The material traces of liminal sites and the unpredictable hybrids of state power Images that circulate widely on social media play a decisive role in shaping how social and political realities are produced, perceived, and contested. Far from being neutral, these images contribute to the formation of cultural and territorial identities, reinforcing dominant narratives while also holding the ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe captured Florida perfectly in her 1873 sketches, “Palmetto Leaves”: “Florida, like a piece of embroidery, has two sides to it—one side all tag-rag and thrums, without order or position; and the other side showing flowers and arabesques and brilliant coloring.” As “Florida Boys” unfolds, I return to a question that remains at the heart of my work: how do you belong to a ...

The latest photobooks picks by Der Greif “In Focus” is Der Greif’s photobook review series, spotlights our picks from the current open call for submissions and our community artists most recent publications. This month, we are taking a closer look at “Colour Theory” by Max Pinckers and Victoria Gonzalez-Figueras and “Violent Images” edited by Eva Leitolf and Giulia Cordin.

Russian society is currently enduring a period of profound crisis. For the majority of the population, the ongoing war has been pushed into the background of everyday existence. Unlike the reality in Ukraine, the number of attacks on Russian cities remains minimal. This has granted the public a privileged position: the ability to ignore the war at stake and continue living within the narrow, ...

"The perspective brought to the table by Aukje is very special: senior in her role as radiologist, she is trained in listening with utmost care to any detail in medical images in order to formulate diagnoses, while just flying off as junior in the field of artistic photography after graduating from the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam. Her explorative and reflective nature as image interpreter is ...

Get to know the artists behind the Der Greif “Sisterhood in Practice” online exhibition for International Women’s Day Der Greif presents the launch of the online exhibition, “Sisterhood in Practice”, running from 8 March to 8 April, 2026 in honor of International Women’s Day. This special online exhibition endeavors to expand cultural comprehension and foster a more inclusive conversation within ...

Exploring the temporal and spatial dimensions of photography Curated by Oğuz Karakütük for Arter contemporary art museum in Istanbul, “I Need More Time” explores photography’s present-day context by positioning it as an intuitive and fluid form of expression shaped by individual perspectives. Der Greif is proud to highlight the achievements of our alumni in the group exhibition: Antony Cairns, ...

The first chapter of the project “I’ve Never Seen My Father Cry” here presented is “Homecoming,” an exploration of my father’s return to Congo after forty-six years of absence, a journey deeply marked by the contrast between his childhood memories and the reality of the country. After so many years, he expected to rediscover familiar places and sensations, but what he encountered was very ...

Beyond traditional photojournalism to understand Bosnia and Herzegovina’s post-war landscape Images that circulate widely on social media play a decisive role in shaping how social and political realities are produced, perceived, and contested. Far from being neutral, these images contribute to the formation of cultural and territorial identities, reinforcing dominant narratives while also ...

In my practice explore the lingering echoes of personal and collective histories through the tactile and transformative potential of material processes. My work addresses trauma, healing, addiction, race, masculinity, and identity, using materials like tobacco, alcohol, ash, baking soda, and maple syrup to examine the weight of past actions and how they persist in the present. These materials, ...

Each edition of Guest Room creates a dialogue between images and ideas, offering an evolving space for experimentation and reflection within contemporary photography. This Guest Room sees award-wining author and Harvard professor Sarah Lewis and photography historian Jessica Stark exploring the following thread: “When They See Us,” in honor of Ava DuVernay and Koyo Kouoh. "What does it mean to ...

“On many levels, the sessions with Anton have been dense, focused, and highly inspiring. He approaches 'Sunsetting 64 Megatons' from multiple angles, drawing on a profound understanding of industry gained from his bold career shift from engineering to documentary photography. This background allows him to move effortlessly between (visual) languages, differing logics, and fields of inquiry, ...

The latest finds from our community artists’ photobooks “In Focus” is a series of reviews in which we hunt down and peruse our favourite publications off the shelves of our community artists. This month, we are taking a closer look at "The Haunted – Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England," published by SPEEDWELL Contemporary and shared with us by its editor and one of the artists ...

"Working with Marc during two Face-to-Face sessions, I was struck by the clarity of his conceptual drive and his willingness to interrogate power structures through visual form. His project 'New Dawn' operates within what Lucy Soutter describes as expanded photography, where the photographic image is no longer confined to depiction but becomes sculptural, staged, and materially constructed. ...

Before February 24, 2022, I was a photographer, human rights activist, surfer, and freedom lover. Joining the army was the last thing I dreamed of. I’ve always hated hierarchies, careers, and orders. But that day changed everything. Like Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1960), I realized some decisions in a man’s life leave no room for choice if you want to keep your ...

The theme “Tomorrow is Today” of our current Der Greif Issue 18 triggered us to pick up this urgency, put out by its guest editor Hank Willis Thomas and to initiate a series of deeper conversations about taking progressive action in the now. Here is our first edition of “Spread the Dialogue”: the encounter on paper between MAryam Touzani and Mauro Macchioni, extended through a long conversation ...

This work is representative of my recent practice focusing on the intersectionality of Blackness and examinations of the past. I am fascinated by how those intersections persist and shape how we accept our identities. I am continually recontextualizing the Black image, embodying feeling through physicality, and reflecting on the present realities shaped by generational truths. My practice is ...

The Leipzig Photobook Festival reopens for its fifth edition at Halle 14 “Power drifts between what is visible and what is hidden,” state Sarker Protick and Donald Weber’s Der Greif Guest Room from fall 2025. Power settles into structures, interfaces, habits of seeing and unseeing. It determines who is visible and who is rendered peripheral, whose stories circulate and whose are quietly ...

In the wake of the 2001 Twin Towers and 2005 London attacks, Rome underwent a visible transformation. The city became heavily militarized, with soldiers stationed outside embassies, monuments, and metro stops. This shift didn't just alter urban traffic; it fundamentally restricted the right to photograph. The list of "sensitive locations" expanded, and surveillance intensified in public spaces ...

What will future cultures think of the scarred earth we leave behind? My long-term project, “Supernatural,” contrasts past iconography with the surreal conditions of the Anthropocene era. I imagine future archaeological discoveries and the potential narratives that could emerge about our civilization. I photograph the liminal spaces of the Anthropocene landscape, from the buffer zones between ...