My lens-based practice unfolds across writing, observation, performance, archival strategies, and long-term collaboration to examine questions about the intersections of photography, labor, gender, memory, and landscape. Recurring throughout my work is an engagement with environments in flux and inherited visual narratives, real and imagined landscapes, where the personal intersects with broader ...

“What we carry back” is an ongoing body of work that traces memory through the physical remains of my family's archive. Centred on my grandmother's ancestral home in Tamil Nadu, in India, the project brings together contemporary colour photographs made on medium-format film with family albums, handwritten records, and vernacular photographs preserved across generations. I approach my family ...

In Rojava, in north-eastern Syria, a decade-long revolution has placed women at its centre. Driven by a passion for freedom, it treats the liberation of women and the liberation of the land as inseparable – two sides of the same coin – and is rooted in direct democracy and self-governance. This commitment is evident throughout the region, from municipalities and civil councils to agricultural ...

A disclosure of resilience reminding us of the possibilities of carrying on even through hardship. Running until October 25, the 12th edition of BredaPhoto is a wholehearted celebration of resilience. Titled “Our Songs Came Through”, this year’s festival takes its name from the words of Indigenous poet Joy Harjo: “When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through.” The ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are shifting our understanding of the photographer as an image-maker. Algorithms increasingly shape how images are produced, perceived, and circulated, while billions of photographs stored in the cloud depend on vast physical infrastructures. Photography appears increasingly immaterial, yet its existence has never depended on more matter. “Metanoia” ...

Notes from “The Grave” essay, Eash’s new work on asserting Indigenous sovereignty as active protest 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 ...

Matlalcuéyetl is a dormant volcano in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico, located within Nahua and Yuhmu territories. At its base lies a coniferous forest that has been devastated by illegal logging for decades. The ecosystem’s imbalance and rising temperatures have led to an increase in the population of the bark beetle (“Dendroctonus mexicanus”), which causes trees to die. The Ministry of the ...

This series of images is part of a larger body of work, titled “Fieldnotes on How Roots Flourish Without Soil”. Originally, the form of overlapping images was going to express some of the inherited cycles one encounters within the inner city. The trajectory of the project was redirected after a tumultuous eighteen months of loss. It transformed into an ode to the lives of gone-too-soon-friends: ...

Get to know the artists behind the Der Greif “(Not) Food Porn: From Feed to Culture” online exhibition Today is the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste and we’re launching this months’ Pulse online exhibition “(Not) Food Porn: From Feed to Culture”. Bringing together eleven positions, we question how food is perceived across visual culture as the fetish or fascination for "food ...

In today’s visual culture, "food porn" has transformed how we perceive, desire, and celebrate what we eat. Highly stylized imagery exposes abundance, perfection, and excess, even as opposing social media trends lean into raw, unedited food aesthetics. Yet behind these mediated images lies a stark reality: massive global food waste and rapidly shifting cultural relationships to sustenance. On ...

The Uncomfortable Legacy of Representing Appalachia “In Focus” is Der Greif’s photobook review series, spotlighting our picks from the current open call for submissions and our community artists' publications. This month’s pick is Stacy Kranitz’s new photobook, "Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down," published by Terrible Baby and Éditions Images Vevey. If I had to say I’m from anywhere, ...

“Ecos” (Spanish for ‘echoes’) is a long-term visual project that explores the relationship between the female body and natural landscapes within a Latin American patriarchal framework. I think of violent experiences inflicted on the body as earthquakes, events that break foundations and leave deep fissures. After a rupture, new paths appear. The terrain changes, and so does the identity shaped by ...

Guest Room is a format that fosters collaboration and sparks creative exchange. For this edition, Associate Director of Light Work Whitney Hubbs and lens-based artist and lecturer Jermaine Francis propose the theme "Photography Unbound”. "This Guest Room approaches the photographic medium as an unstable site of friction and a 'conditional object' that refuses to sit still as bound by specific ...

“A Kind of Gold” is an ongoing project rooted in my own coming of age in a unified Germany. The series reflects on the experience of a generation shaped by a national culture of remembrance, now confronting its emerging limitations. At its core, memory is neither fixed nor owned; it is a conversation without end, orienting us in time and space and drawing us toward each other. What we choose to ...

A constellation of photographic perspectives on today's world as a collective narrative The PhMuseum Days international photography festival is a relatively new but vibrant hub for contemporary photography. It was initiated in Italy in 2021 by Giuseppe Oliverio as a real-life extension of the homonymous digital platform, PhMuseum. Held in Bologna, the epicentre of the “Viaggio in Italia” ...

In her photographic work, Tamara Eckhardt turns her lens toward social margins and minorities, drawn in particular to people standing at the threshold of adulthood. She has long been fascinated by how someone still coming into their own manages to raise a small child, often under circumstances that are anything but easy. For her series “Vom plötzlichen Erwachsenwerden” (“Of Suddenly Growing ...

I wake up encapsulated by darkness; the sea has pulled me in so deep that life on the surface feels like a dream. I’m completely alone; everyone I hold love for, whose presence I touched, all my life’s passersby seem unreal to me now. As if I were never there, as if I were a consciousness only, hovering above, loving them desperately while they couldn't see me. I keep pushing and struggling to ...

A conversation on the ways images act and condition our perception of reality 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 ...

The rapid expansion of digital visuality continues to redefine our everyday lives, challenging our ability to separate conventional reality from an increasingly synthetic landscape. “Front End” addresses this contemporary dilemma, functioning as a conceptual training ground that prompts a more conscious reception of the digital images that flood our screens and shape our perception. A ...

Although originating in South America, the potato is, peculiarly, deeply intertwined with German identity. Inconspicuous, misshapen, and persistently underestimated, “Solanum tuberosum” captured my fascination precisely because of these humble, unpretentious qualities. Driven by this curiosity, I embarked on an immersive, year-long photographic research project dedicated to the humble tuber: ...

Get to know the artists behind the Der Greif “Quiet Hours” online exhibition confronting loss, memory, and healing after dark Der Greif presents the launch of the online exhibition, “Quiet Hours: Nighttime and Grief”, timed in honor of National Grief Awareness Day. When the sun sets and daily noise fades, quiet hours amplify our deepest reflections. This curated collection brings together twelve ...

The quiet hours of nighttime create a poetic space lit only by artificial streetlights, soft twilight, or absolute darkness amplifying our deepest reflections. In honor of National Grief Awareness day in the US, "Quiet Hours: Nighttime & Grief" assemble twelve artists who use the canvas of nighttime to process loss, transition, and emotional survival. Grief manifests in infinite ways. Across ...

The latest photobook picks by Der Greif “In Focus” is Der Greif’s photobook review series, spotlighting our picks from the current open call for submissions and our community artists' publications. This month, the focus is on “Someday I will lose you” by Minh-An Pham and “My Mother’s Tender Script” by Asiya Al. Sharabi. Both artists turn to ordinary evidence to explore maternal bonds and ...

“Keikai keiho! Kaiho da!” My Korean grandmother was born in Japan during the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea. She would occasionally talk in her sleep in Japanese. These words occasionally surfaced in my grandmother's sleep, articulated with the precision of someone wide awake. Only recently, after coming across my grandparents’ atomic bomb victim registration certificates, did I ...

Tell me exactly what this room smelled like to you – oil, incense, candles? Cigarettes? Like gasoline in your nose and a scented candle. And the way the strangers' bodies smelled. That was the most terrifying part for me… the rest was rather pleasant. There was the taste of fresh fruit, the smell of the sea, Mother Nature, which is destructive in itself. My heroine... capable of giving so much ...