Guest Room:
Mariama Attah

Guest Room aims to spark collaborations. That’s why Mariama Attah is teaming up with Daniel C. Blight in choosing the theme for this instalment. Daniel is a writer based in London. He works on various forms of the essay, fiction and poetry, and has written for 1000 Words, Aperture, Foam, frieze, The Guardian, Vogue Italia and more. His first book is entitled “The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization”. He is Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Historical & Critical Studies in Photography, School of Media, University of Brighton. The framework for submissions is:

“Bodies of Knowledge“

This pulls together their shared areas of interest of representation, empathy and overlooked communities, but can extend to how we come to “know” photography/images, and also calls for new types of knowledge to be created with respect to different ways of looking and seeing.

Selection

    • Donavon Smallwood, Languor, New York, USA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Donavon Smallwood, Languor, New York, USA, 2020
    • Jens Sundheim, NA 02/93, Ruhr University Bochum, DEU, 2008 | DER GREIF
      Jens Sundheim, NA 02/93, Ruhr University Bochum, DEU, 2008
    • Anne Lass, Low Season Pink, Bornholm, DNK, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Anne Lass, Low Season Pink, Bornholm, DNK, 2020
    • Anne Hollowday, The Waste Dress, New York, USA, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Anne Hollowday, The Waste Dress, New York, USA, 2019
    • Liu Xi, Echo 180714, Beijing, CHN, 2018 | DER GREIF
      Liu Xi, Echo 180714, Beijing, CHN, 2018
    • Nic Bezzina, Book, MC and high school student, Bangkok, THA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Nic Bezzina, Book, MC and high school student, Bangkok, THA, 2020
    • Alex Turner, 29 Humans (Smugglers) and 12 Horses, 1-Week Interval, Patagonia Mountains, AZ, USA, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Alex Turner, 29 Humans (Smugglers) and 12 Horses, 1-Week Interval, Patagonia Mountains, AZ, USA, 2019
    • Joel Jimenez, The Hands, Children’s Museum of Costa Rica, CRI, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Joel Jimenez, The Hands, Children’s Museum of Costa Rica, CRI, 2020
    • Alfonso de Gregorio, Kuwait Oil Fires in Baraka, KWT, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Alfonso de Gregorio, Kuwait Oil Fires in Baraka, KWT, 2019
    • Christiane Zschommler, The Path I, GBR, 2015 | DER GREIF
      Christiane Zschommler, The Path I, GBR, 2015
    • Vlad Brateanu, remapping body 10, Bucharest, ROU, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Vlad Brateanu, remapping body 10, Bucharest, ROU, 2020
    • Maria Mavropoulou, love at first sight, Athens, GRC, 2013 | DER GREIF
      Maria Mavropoulou, love at first sight, Athens, GRC, 2013
    • Renluka Maharaj, Susila, Colorado, USA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Renluka Maharaj, Susila, Colorado, USA, 2020
    • Irina Shkoda, Miserere, Moscow, RUS, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Irina Shkoda, Miserere, Moscow, RUS, 2020
    • Alan J. Wilkinson, Eddie, Sheffield, GBR, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Alan J. Wilkinson, Eddie, Sheffield, GBR, 2019
    • Bettina Koller, Wie kein Ei dem anderen, Munich, DEU, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Bettina Koller, Wie kein Ei dem anderen, Munich, DEU, 2020
    • Matthieu Croizier, Untitled, Lausanne, CHE, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Matthieu Croizier, Untitled, Lausanne, CHE, 2020
    • Louisa Boeszoermeny, Ged, Berlin, DEU, 2017 | DER GREIF
      Louisa Boeszoermeny, Ged, Berlin, DEU, 2017
    • Javier Clemente Martinez, Sumaj Orck’o (“Cerro Hermoso”)_01, Potosi, BOL, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Javier Clemente Martinez, Sumaj Orck’o (“Cerro Hermoso”)_01, Potosi, BOL, 2020
    • Jaakko Kahilaniemi, Mining Your Business #1, Orivesi, FIN, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Jaakko Kahilaniemi, Mining Your Business #1, Orivesi, FIN, 2020
    • Sergey Novikov & Max Sher, Samovar: the Weapon of the Weak, RUS, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Sergey Novikov & Max Sher, Samovar: the Weapon of the Weak, RUS, 2019
    • Ugo Woatzi, Bloom, Brussels, BEL, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Ugo Woatzi, Bloom, Brussels, BEL, 2020
    • Jillian Freyer, Two Generations, New England, USA, 2017 | DER GREIF
      Jillian Freyer, Two Generations, New England, USA, 2017
    • Monica Alcazar-Duarte, Here to be caught, London, UK, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Monica Alcazar-Duarte, Here to be caught, London, UK, 2020
    • Oliver Leu, Collage 06, Antwerp, BEL, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Oliver Leu, Collage 06, Antwerp, BEL, 2019
    • Tommaso Rada, Estamos na Luta, Januaria, BRA, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Tommaso Rada, Estamos na Luta, Januaria, BRA, 2019
    • Idona Asamoah Adutwum, Childhood Innovation, Hamburg, DEU, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Idona Asamoah Adutwum, Childhood Innovation, Hamburg, DEU, 2020
    • Anna Leigh Clem, Curious, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Anna Leigh Clem, Curious, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2020
    • Marzena Abrahamik, Hang in there, on 2 yrs 4 hrs 44 min of sleep, Chicago, USA, 2018 | DER GREIF
      Marzena Abrahamik, Hang in there, on 2 yrs 4 hrs 44 min of sleep, Chicago, USA, 2018
    • Aljohara Jeje, pəˈfɔːm(ə)ns triptych 01, Jeddah, SAU, 2018 | DER GREIF
      Aljohara Jeje, pəˈfɔːm(ə)ns triptych 01, Jeddah, SAU, 2018
    • Gloria Oyarzabal, POINTING HAND, Lagos, NGA, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Gloria Oyarzabal, POINTING HAND, Lagos, NGA, 2019
    • Holger Krischke, me|Michael Spengler, Berlin, DEU | DER GREIF
      Holger Krischke, me|Michael Spengler, Berlin, DEU
    • Sarah Pfohl, Osteogenesis Imperfecta Model No. 45, Indianapolis, USA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Sarah Pfohl, Osteogenesis Imperfecta Model No. 45, Indianapolis, USA, 2020
    • Wolfgang Feik, GOR-1, studio of Gertrude Oehm-Rudert, DEU, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Wolfgang Feik, GOR-1, studio of Gertrude Oehm-Rudert, DEU, 2020
    • Andrea Alkalay, Kutho Faceless Buddha, Mandalay, MMR, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Andrea Alkalay, Kutho Faceless Buddha, Mandalay, MMR, 2019
    • Huda Abdulmughni, Self portrait with x-ray, Kuwait, KWT | DER GREIF
      Huda Abdulmughni, Self portrait with x-ray, Kuwait, KWT
    • Souleymane Bachir Diaw, Tirer-és Ailleurs, After 12, Paris, FRA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Souleymane Bachir Diaw, Tirer-és Ailleurs, After 12, Paris, FRA, 2020
    • Vasilis Nikolopoulos, Today is my birthday 2, Amsterdam, NLD | DER GREIF
      Vasilis Nikolopoulos, Today is my birthday 2, Amsterdam, NLD
    • Zoe Aubry, Reproduction. Suture. — detail, FRA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Zoe Aubry, Reproduction. Suture. — detail, FRA, 2020
    • Felix Schoeppner, Orbits, Frankfurt, DEU, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Felix Schoeppner, Orbits, Frankfurt, DEU, 2020
    • Lee-Marie Sadek, Mother Milk 4, Paris, FRA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Lee-Marie Sadek, Mother Milk 4, Paris, FRA, 2020
    • Elin O’Hara Slavick, The Things Men Do To Each Other, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 2018 | DER GREIF
      Elin O’Hara Slavick, The Things Men Do To Each Other, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 2018
Mariam Attah | DER GREIF
Mariama Attah

Mariama Attah is a photography curator, editor and lecturer with a particular interest in overlooked visual histories, and using photography and visual culture to amplify under and misrepresented voices. Mariama is curator of Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. She was previously Assistant Editor of Foam Magazine. Prior to this, she was Curator of Photoworks, where was responsible for developing and curating programs and events including Brighton Photo Biennial and was Commissioning and Managing Editor of the yearly magazine Photoworks Annual.

DER GREIF
Daniel C. Blight

Daniel C. Blight is a writer, artist, teacher, and student based in London. He is the editor of The Image of Whiteness (SPBH Editions/Art on the Underground, 2019) and the author of the forthcoming Photography’s White Racial Frame (Bloomsbury, 2024). His visual work includes photography, drawing, and text, which parodies, humourises and critiques commonly consumed, sensed or technologised objects usually taken for granted, revealing the strange ways their meanings are bound up in social systems such as racial whiteness, exoticism, and bourgeois taste.