For the first time, the European Month of Photography, Berlin, offers a portfolio viewing, to take place at the Berlinische Galerie as the conclusion of the festival on November 24 and 25, 2012. Selected emerging photographers can present their works ...

On the occasion of his exhibition "MULTIPLE I - self-portraits with the Camera Obscura" at Pflüger68 Ono Ludwig offers Workshops on construction and photographing with the Camera Obscura.

The goal of portrait photography is to bring out the characteristic essence of the subject. How was the man, the woman or the child portrayed – objectively, naturally or dramatically? What message did the model or the photographer want to ...

In 1952, the photographer Fritz Tiedemann documented Fruchtstrasse in Berlin between Ostbahnhof und Stalinallee in the form of a sequence of building façades. This is the source material for the new photographic and literary project Berlin, Fruchtstrasse am 27. März ...

Was das Foto verschweigt (‘what photos don’t say’) is the title of a sculpture by Bogomir Ecker, whose intention is to reveal the deficiencies of the medium photography. Meanwhile Ecker presents his passionately collected historic photographs in a double exhibition ...

For the conclusion of the festival, a Portfolio Review is taking place at the Berlinische Galerie on the weekend of 24 and 25 Novembers 2012, and the public award ceremony and finissage of the festival on Sunday at 6 pm. ...

The twelve photographers exhibited come from eight different countries. For some of them, Berlin was only a stopover, for others, a place to work for a time. Others still are long-time residents. These outsiders have not one, but twelve perspectives ...

Un-posed is a group of Polish photographers whose work documents all aspects of day-to-day life. Established in 2011, the group has exhibited its work in the Leica Gallery in Warsaw and published in a dozen of magazines in Poland, Russia, ...

Galerie Berinson presents Moses Nappelbaum, the most important portrait photographer of Soviet Russia. The exhibition comprises more than 50 rare original prints – including portraits of Vladimir Tatlin, Anna Akhmatova, Sergei Eisenstein, Maxim Gorki, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lion Feuchtwanger. Nappelbaum’s ...

In 2012, during the 5th European Month of Photography, Kicken Berlin will show a survey of the photographic work of the important German photography curator and historian Janos Frecot. As the founder and long-time director of the photography collection at ...

Ballet, burlesque, kitsch and tattoos – the visual universe of Anna Kott is baroque, melancholy, cheerful and bright all at once. Strength and weakness, physical confidence and embarrassment, grace and awkwardness are the contradictions she captures in her pictures. The ...

Dennis Hopper (1936 – 2010) was an artist, director and actor. He always had his camera with him: in the car, on film sets, at parties, in studios and galleries. After his death, 400 vintage photographs from the 1960s were ...

On 27 March, 1952, Fritz Tiedemann photographed Fruchtstrasse in Berlin between Ostbahnhof and Stalinallee for the municipal government of East Berlin. He documented the condition of the buildings in the form of a façade elevations seven years after the end ...

In his photo reportage, the Bosnian Nihad Nino Pušija from Sarajevo offers a new realistic view of the ethnic minority he belongs to, the Roma. While other photographers generally focus on the Roma’s impoverishment and hardship, and above all on ...

The spectrum Photogalerie in Hanover, founded in 1972, dedicated its first exhibition to the photographer Hein Gorny (1904 – 1967). Forty years later, Collection Regard has created an exhibition on the exhibition with photographs by Hein Gorny and Heinrich Riebesehl, ...

The Berlinische Galerie presents the first exhibition in the world to take a comprehensive look at art photography in the GDR. Key questions are: Was art photography ever free under authoritarian East German conditions? And how did art photography change ...

The road to democratisation in Tunisia is rough and rocky. The aims of the January 2011 rebellion, such as the introduction of personal liberties, is proving more difficult than anticipated. The revolution is not over yet. The exhibition Bright Future ...

Michael Lange’s project Wald: Landschaften der Erinnerung (Forest: Landscapes of Remembrance) was created in the forests of Germany over a period of three years. The photographs reflect the artist’s experiences of landscapes in twilight. They manifest the fact that ‘landscapes ...

‘I wanted to get to know the people who reveal my inner life with their pictures.’ Anita Neugebauer (born in 1916 in Berlin) studied photography at the Contempora – Lehrateliers für neue Werkkunst in Berlin in the 1930s. She is ...

In the framework of the European project distURBANces, the Month of Photography presents works by the French artist Thibault Brunet in the Computerspielemuseum (Computer Game Museum) Berlin. Brunet deals with the topic of reality and the imitation of reality by ...

In Transit takes up the challenge of comprehending photography as a documentary, artistic and political description of the world and presenting it as a participatory project in a public in-transit room at the Ostkreuz railway station. Jaana Prüss situates ‘the ...

The exhibition Cairo. Open City tells two stories. The first reports on the political and social upheaval of a young generation, which began on 25 January 2011 with the mass protests on Tahrir Square in Cairo and continues until today. ...

In his exhibition Georgia on My Mind, Jörg Rubbert shows the southern state from an unusual perspective. Far away from the boom town of Atlanta, in central and southern Georgia, people live according to another, slower rhythm. Georgia has suffered ...

Tony Binder does not use photos to take possession of reality for later transcription into paintings, as photographers and artists of his time commonly did. The photo helps him comprehend a little known reality and, like all seekers, he is ...

Since 2009, the Berlin photographer Ono Ludwig has been exploring the creative potential of the camera obscura. He continues to create playful and sometimes unsettling self-portraits today in continuously developing series. As a result of the camera obscura’s long exposure ...

In 1909, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863 – 1944) set out on a journey to capture all of Russia in colour for Czar Nicholas II. One of the pioneers of colour photography, Prokudin-Gorskii systematically documented the ...

Since the early 1990s, the photographer Michael Wesely has been inventing and refining techniques using extremely long exposures to take uniquely compelling photographs. Using filters and an aperture that is very small, yet common with professional camera lenses, he is ...

The sculptor Auguste Rodin said that if he had created his walking statue John the Baptist based on snapshot photography, it ‘would present the bizarre appearance of a man suddenly stricken with paralysis and petrified’. Wesely’s photographs achieve the opposite ...

Dark streets, silhouetted buildings and figures: At a first glance the nighttime urban scenes illuminated by single streetlights seem to portray the very same location. Only on a closer look do the differences become visible. As often happens in a ...

Un-posed is a group of Polish photographers whose work documents all aspects of day-to-day life. Established in 2011, the group has exhibited its work in the Leica Gallery in Warsaw and published in a dozen of magazines in Poland, Russia, ...

Gallery TAIK is proud to present Elina Brotherus’s most recent photographs from the series Artists at Work. Brotherus once again uses herself as the principal model in her pictures. However, in contrast to her previous works she uses her role ...

Bettina Rheims says she wants to see and show people as they see themselves. In keeping with this philosophy, and with an awareness of the social importance of the topic, Rheims has once again worked with transgender people. She has ...

As in her previous works, Carina Linge draws on the allegorical iconography of the Renaissance and the Baroque, yet at the same time she refers to the present. Impressions, shadows and the residual heat of people or things are depicted ...

Since 1994, Stéphane Couturier has been exhibiting a series of works that paved the way for his work titled Archéologie Urbaine (Urban Archaeology). He photographs the city as a living, multifaceted organism removed from any poetry, nostalgia or exoticism. His ...

Snowbound streets, buildings and abandoned cars, a dirty snowman standing forlorn in a garden. But interiors too, and portraits of people in their homes, at work, in cafés and at parties. For his series Vinter (Winter), Lars Tunbjörk travelled through ...

The twelve photographers exhibited come from eight different countries. For some of them, Berlin was only a stopover, for others, a place to work for a time. Others still are long-time residents. These outsiders have not one, but twelve perspectives ...

Every year, over 30,000 exchange students leave Germany to broaden their horizons and make themselves competitive. They are usually sixteen or seventeen years old and thus still in search of their own identity and their mooring in the world. Open ...

The ubiquity of the portrait in the age of the Internet raises the question of its meaning and expression again in a radical way, since every creative and technically savvy individual can produce a self-portrait today and publish it online. ...

A glowing future, today almost past; although offline still radioactive for incomprehensible spans of time to come: a look into the abyss of time is demanded of us, a look that rocked geology around 1800 – the creation of the ...

What connects these artists is their search for unusual perspectives. Imre Kinszki (1901 – 1945) is considered one of the most consistent champions of New Objectivity among Hungarian artists. In search of his own pictorial language, he discovered the simple ...

The exhibition Verborgenes (The Concealed) presents works by ten photographers from Latin America who were selected by the curators Alejandro Castellote and Juan Antonio Molina at the invitation of the Instituto Cervantes. The selection process took place in 2009 as ...

Werner David Feist (1909 – 1998) gained recognition mainly as a result of his experimental photography during his time as a student at the Bauhaus (1927 – 1930). These photos are unique documents of life at the Bauhaus, and at ...

People come and are given space to present themselves. Some allow themselves be enticed or seduced, others test themselves and reinvent themselves. Each individual shows just as much of himself or herself as he or she truly wants. What happens ...

Björn Siebert calls his works Remakes. They are reconstructions, that is, faithful re-enactments, of amateur photos from the depths of the World Wide Web. Piece by piece in painstaking research, he assembles what in the found image was a chance ...

New York, Hanoi, Tarkovo, Mila 23 2007 – 2011: Annual street photography workshop in New York accompanied by studio visits and lectures by renowned local artists and a final exhibition in Berlin. Direction: Thomas Keller and Todd Weinstein. 2011: Documentation ...

Stephen Mooney is a photographer, poet and filmmaker from the UK and has lived in Berlin since 2004. In Jahrhundertwinter (Winter of the Century) Mooney documents one of Berlin’s hardest winters on record and the terrible transient beauty of a ...

In 1970, thousands of music enthusiasts flocked to the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn in the hope of a German Woodstock. But incessant rain and storms prevented some of the famous bands on the bill from appearing. The presence of ...

The Frenchman Stéphane Duroy was born in Bizerte (Tunisia) in 1948 and lives in Paris. He initially worked predominantly as a press photographer, and as a member of the photo agency VU shot extensive reportages for Die Zeit, Stern and ...

The group exhibition I am not interested in Reality presents five international photographers who work with reflections, scenes and reconstructions of reality, free of documentary impulses. Departing from contemporary visual habits and media worlds, they offer new looks at the ...

Prostitutes, the sacred and the night create a tense atmosphere around the photographs in this exhibition. At a young age the American artist Jerry Berndt (*1943) acquired a sensitivity to the lonely and despairing aspects of the demimonde. This sensitivity ...

Much has been written about the Vietnamese who came to Germany. Research has focused on ‘contract workers’ in the GDR; on Vietnamese children who were to be trained as the new socialist elite; and on boat people who fled from ...

The West Berlin of the 1970s and ’80s – Kreuzberg, the Wall, dereliction. Many of those who lived here had no other choice. The ruins of war, the struggle for survival, brief moments of happiness and permanent breakdowns. Old-age poverty, ...

How do people live? How do friends and strangers live? How do I live myself? These are questions that Naomi Schenck has asked since her childhood. Questions with which she scours the globe for film locations – real places where ...

A look at art photography in general and at Hannah Höch in particular reveal a complexity that is transformed by the artistic eye and goes far beyond mere seeing. The participating artists present insights into many facets of their work ...

Throughout history people have been influenced by external events and behaviour – due to war, economic and religious influences or mass migration. We notice fashion and lifestyle trends set and followed by our children, neighbours, colleagues and friends. We adopt ...

A series of sixty-five collodion prints is the subject of an exhibition about taking photographs as a practice of regional history in the 1920s. The photos were created during walking tours that the amateur photographers Bruno Stephan, Werner Köhler and ...

In early 1962, when Heinrich Heidersberger (1906 – 2006) had just taken up residence in ‘Volkswagen City’, the first Italian workers arrived in Wolfsburg. At the time Heidersberger was at work on the book project Wolfsburg – Bilder einer jungen ...