About a year and a half ago, I embarked on a new collaborative practice with artist Janne Punkari, rooted in shared authorship. While I have worked with my daughters and niece for over a decade - and occasionally with other artists, of course - this is the first time I’ve engaged in a process where creative ownership is fully shared from start to finish. Together, we developed a method for ...

VERY CORE was an art installation at the Hippolyte Gallery in Helsinki, where a large photographic portrait framed in sky-blue, a 1970 Californian psychedelic poster and chair-like beings greeted visitors. VERY CORE draws inspiration from “The Ambassadors” (1533) by Hans Holbein the Younger, a painting that has long captivated me for its meditation on knowledge, mortality, and the elusive nature ...

More-than-human beings have been a central focus in my practice for several years. My previous works have explored various animal species - dogs, pigs, fish, insects, and birds - through installations that combine photography, video, performance, and sound. While it’s true that animals may never see my work, the goal has always been to shift human perspectives. I’m not here to preach or ...

A worldwide celebration of Der Greif Issue 17 “One Day Soon” guest edited by Torbjørn Rødland Two weeks, four magazine launches, a symposium, a lecture, a pop-up exhibition, a party, and so many great meetings, conversations, and good times with our community - thanks to everyone who participated! These events celebrated the release of Der Greif Issue 17, guest edited by Torbjørn Rødland, an ...

With my newest photobook Otherworld, I invite you into a realm where the fragile boundaries between the known and the unknown, the real and the imagined, dissolve. Otherworld is an exploration into a precarious state between daydream and unrest. It intertwines the imaginary with the every day through its selection of photographs ranging from analog snapshots to staged and digitally altered ...

Plasticenta envisions an alternative future where all life forms on Earth coexist, reimagining playful alliances across species and dissolving existing hierarchies. It portrays a surreal world where organisms blend seamlessly, fostering new kinships between human and non-human, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate - a vision of interconnected existence beyond current divides. The title, ...

I had a small crisis after finishing university. Even tho I had jobs and all, it was still like half of my life was empty again and I didn’t know how to fill the gap. I also moved to Berlin and struggled with trying to build up another life in a different city because Berlin is not so easy to get in. So I gave myself a task. I wanted to shoot every day of 2024 one picture. Even on the lamest days ...

I adore spending time at the studio, with each person you shoot it’s a different vibe and if you like the people you’re shooting it seems like hanging out but it’s also work, I find that thought very appealing. I have my own studio, which I am keeping even tho I don’t constantly spend time in Vienna, I just want to have the feeling that my photography has a home.  The aspect of studio ...

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 Luca Iovino, Melanie Schoeniger, Kincső Bede and ...

This series (for which I don’t have a name yet) tells the story of a Roma community in the heart of my hometown Belgrade, where people live in makeshift homes under tough conditions. Unfortunately, illegal dumping from the city adds to their struggles, making lives for them and their children very unhealthy. I met my friend Demuš a few years ago, and he introduced me to his community. Through my ...

In the course of RAY Triennial of Photography in Frankfurt (2024) I presented my exhibition, I want to scream so much but my vocal cords are chronically inflamed on the main theme of ECHOES. My interpretation of an echo was mainly communication and my series looks at the different "echoes" we experience in society and relationships. Through my images, I explore e.g. the urgent message of ...

The term 'sympathetic magic' was first used by James Frazer in the field of cultural anthropology. He defined it as a basic type of magic based on the idea that an analogous action should produce an analogous effect. Jan Lutyski says that translating this term was really tricky for the translators. They decided to use it anyway because it was already accepted in Polish and other languages at the ...

I had the pleasure of documenting Aleksandra Przybysz's performance. I photographed in intervals of a few seconds. I later chose single frames thinking of the artist's eating of the tea mushroom as an act of oral pleasure, something sexual. A body melted at the temperature of the stomach. This portion of the work consists of a sequence of seven photographs in which I eat SCOBY I have ...

Tobias Kappel “inthein” as a quest for a hybrid visual language between analogue and digital systems We periodically invite our alumni, artists we have featured in the past, to share their new work and projects with us. Tobias Kappel was among the artists selected by Robert Morat in his Guest Room back in 2015. A Berlin-based artist, Kappel explores the translation processes between different ...

Brief introduction, Punto de Fuga is an experimental platform for photography books. I had the pleasure of having my book In Praise of Shadow reviewed by Laura Carbonell, for which I thank her very much! On puntodefugabogota.com you can find this review as well as many others. In Praise of Shadow is Tomasz Kawecki’s most recent photographic project. Utilizing his distinct approach to the ...