Europäischer Monat der Fotografie Berlin - Artists (in alphabetic order)

Streeple

When you think were lost, were exploring. What you think is worthless, Im adoring. - Robbie Williams

Kunstraum Richard Sorge

Slava Mogutin: Arbat Kids - Moscow 2000
2000 © Slava Mogutin
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Kunstraum Richard Sorge is the setting for a photography exhibition that maps the complex area between empathy and exploitation, identification and voyeurism.

According to the Urban Dictionary, streeple denominates street people. The shows photographers view their subjects as protagonists, not models; they are chosen and documented for what they are, and not brought to play any kind of role. Photographed (or casted) in the streets, they (and we, the viewers) are made aware of their specialness.

Placed at the center of attention, the protagonists are drawn into a dialog with the photographer based on the gradual development of trust. At best, this process leads to empowerment: claiming the right to a face, as photographer J.Jackie Baier puts it, of those living on the fringes of society, and beyond.

Using mise-en-scène to make the real more truthful, the photographers show that there is posing involved in every photo, no matter how straight-up.

Theme

Urban Lifestyles

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Artist(s)

J. Jackie Baier, Alex Da Corte, Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek / Exactitudes, Versus Collective: Gihan Tubbeh, Musuk Nolte, Renzo Giraldo, Slava Mogutin