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    Surreal Fables

    On the threshold of an impending Friday the 13th we reflect on the visual symbols, ancestral rituals, and communal tales that emerge from today’s image culture, serving as vital compasses to navigate fate, luck, and the spectral unseen. How can we dismantle and reconstruct fables, superstitions, and folklore for the contemporary moment, probing how belief systems emerge, transform, and endure? See and read more about each position here.

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      • Peter Franck, Untitled from the series "Still Waiting," 2026 | DER GREIF
        Peter Franck, Untitled from the series "Still Waiting," 2026
      • Eszter Sárkány, Untitled from the series "A bit more yellow, a bit more sour...," Hungary, 2026 | DER GREIF
        Eszter Sárkány, Untitled from the series "A bit more yellow, a bit more sour...," Hungary, 2026
      • Fiona Veronique, "I Tell Them What I Know" from the series "Guillemette," Norwich, UK, 2026 | DER GREIF
        Fiona Veronique, "I Tell Them What I Know" from the series "Guillemette," Norwich, UK, 2026
      • Hannah Guy, "House Without Bricks," from the series "In Light of Waking," Leeds, UK, 2026 | DER GREIF
        Hannah Guy, "House Without Bricks," from the series "In Light of Waking," Leeds, UK, 2026
      • Eda Demir, "tulutabak" from the series "threshold," Balıkesir, Turkey, 2024 | DER GREIF
        Eda Demir, "tulutabak" from the series "threshold," Balıkesir, Turkey, 2024
      • Eleana Konstantellos André, "The interview" from the series "Chupacabras," Mexico City, Mexico, 2021 | DER GREIF
        Eleana Konstantellos André, "The interview" from the series "Chupacabras," Mexico City, Mexico, 2021
      • Erli Grünzweil, "Hypervigilance II" from the series "Where Deer Fly and Stones Cry," Austria, 2026 | DER GREIF
        Erli Grünzweil, "Hypervigilance II" from the series "Where Deer Fly and Stones Cry," Austria, 2026
      • Aline Papenheim, Untitled from the series "In The Forest Behind My Father's House," Sauerland, Germany, 2026 | DER GREIF
        Aline Papenheim, Untitled from the series "In The Forest Behind My Father's House," Sauerland, Germany, 2026
      • Lisa Gervassi, Untitled from the series "Unseen Fragments Vol.I," 2026 | DER GREIF
        Lisa Gervassi, Untitled from the series "Unseen Fragments Vol.I," 2026
      • Renaud Morin, Untitled from the series "Geister," Appenzell Valley, Switzerland, 2025 | DER GREIF
        Renaud Morin, Untitled from the series "Geister," Appenzell Valley, Switzerland, 2025
      • Dev Dhunsi, Untitled from the series "Mixed (outtakes)," 2025 | DER GREIF
        Dev Dhunsi, Untitled from the series "Mixed (outtakes)," 2025
      • Briar Pine, Untitled from the series "Notions of Heaven," 2026 | DER GREIF
        Briar Pine, Untitled from the series "Notions of Heaven," 2026
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    Carolina Semprucci

    Carolina Semprucci is an Italian writer and editorial designer based in London. She is currently graphic designer and assistant editor at Der Greif. Working internationally across cultural and commercial projects, her practice combines photography, design for publishing, and writing. She holds a BA in Journalism and Publishing at the University of the Arts London, where her thesis project Retrospective was awarded the Wood Stephens Master Printer Award. Her published writing, focusing on the intersections of everyday photography, digital imagery, and new technologies, has appeared on PhMuseum’s Annual, Photography+, Gabble, and has been published by Kult Books. In her design practice, Semprucci has collaborated with a range of clients and organisations including ArtULTRA, the Future Justice Project, and The Justice Gap. Alongside working as a freelancer, she has previously taught on the Publishing course at the London College of Communication and is currently Writer in Residence at Photoworks.

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    Caroline von Courten

    Caroline von Courten is an essayist and theorist by inclination, and a curator and editor by profession. Based on a farm outside Munich, she is the Artistic Director of Der Greif, where she develops exhibitions, publications, research collaborations, and programs centered on photography. She also lectures in the Camera Arts BA program at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art, where she teaches and critically examines photographic theory, post-photography, and visual/network culture. Caroline previously served as Managing Editor at Foam Magazine and held curatorial positions at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Nederlands Fotomuseum. She co-developed the Dutch Doc Award, organized the satellite exhibition "Quickscan NL" in Shanghai during the World Expo, and financed her early studies by performing as a hairdresser on concert stages and working as an image editor for Mister Motley. In 2023, she completed her PhD at Leiden University with "The Photographic Surface – Between Substances and Spaces," a philosophical study of photography’s shifting materiality. Her writing has been published widely, including for Aperture, Foam Magazine, UNSEEN Magazine, and C/O Berlin, and she recently contributed to Foam’s 25th anniversary issue as one of its selected thoughtmakers. Caroline frequently moderates public programs and serves as an advisor and juror for major photography initiatives across Europe.

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    Francesca Hummler

    Francesca Hummler is a German-American artist, educator, and curator based between London and San Diego. She has been the Community Manager and Program Curator of Der Greif since 2022. In 2024, she launched Der Greif’s Face-to-Face program at Les Rencontres d’Arles, offering feedback sessions to photographers and culminating in a celebratory screening showcasing participants’ work. She also spearheaded a symposium on AI in Photography in collaboration with FOAM Magazine, Photoworks, and The Photographers’ Gallery during Paris Photo 2024. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Photography with distinction in 2022. Previously, she worked as an Educational Delivery Manager and Photography Tutor at Photofusion in London, where she curated exhibitions and led community-focused photography programs, combining teaching, curriculum development, and career support for underrepresented groups. She has actively participated as a portfolio reviewer for FORMAT25, Photo-Match at Fotofestiwal Łódź, Shutter Hub YEARBOOK, UWE Bristol Photography BA Degree Show, and Offspring Photo Meet. She has also taught at Poway Adult School and lectured as a guest tutor at Paperdrop Lab and Fachhochschule Dortmund, University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

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    Ilaria Sponda

    Ilaria Sponda is an independent art curator, editor and writer. She works at the intersection of art, visual culture and systems of distribution. She is currently co-curator at Fodoks and was recently curatorial assistant at Lothringer 13 Halle and Goethe Institut Athens, and Haus der Kunst München. She was active as an independent curator in Milan, focusing on practices rooted in post-disciplinary realities that reflect a world where installations behaves like images, images behave like objects and online life leaks into material life. She holds a MA in Culture Studies from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and her writing has been published in hus Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, NERO, Lampoon, Umbigo, Lynx Contemporary, as well as in catalogues and artist books. She has actively participated as a portfolio reviewer for Sarajevo Photography Festival and Leipzig Photobook Festival.