Portfolio Review

Since 2005 Emily Adams has worked for PHotoEspaña, Madrid’s International Photography and Visual Arts Festival. She was initially the Coordinator of Educational and Professional Programs, later became Exhibitions Manager, and is currently the Director of the PHotoEspañaMaster’s programme in photography for PIC.A International Centre Alcobendas PHotoEspaña.
Emily Adams received a BA in art history in Mexico City, graduating with a thesis on the historiography of Mexican photography, and worked at the Centro de la Imagen in Lima, Peru, a public institution dedicated to the promotion of Latin American photography. She has taught at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, Centro de la Imagen, Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo in Oaxaca, Mexico, Centro Nacional de las Artes CONARTE in Monterrey, Mexico, and has participated in the portfolio reviews at the Rencontres d’Arles, Mission Jeunes Artistes in Toulouse, Savignano Immagini Festival, Thessaloniki Photography Festival and FotoFest.

Interested in:

seeing all work independent of the subject, genre, or technique

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers

http://www.phe.es/

Roland Angst studied architecture, sociology, and graphic design in Berlin, Frankfurt, and New York. He then worked on a freelance basis and became a partner in a Munich-based graphic design agency specialized in corporate and book design. In 2009, he founded the gallery and eponymous publisher only photography in Berlin.

Interested in:

unique and contemporary ideas, concepts with a deeper reach, good handicraft.

Not interested in:

self-reflections, poverty tourism, bad copies and versions of things we’ve all seen.

Categories:

Publishing house, Gallery

http://www.only-photography.com/

Michael Apel completed his studies in political science at Marburg University. As a newcomer to the field, he worked in a variety of photo agencies in Frankfurt am Main until 2000, when he began acting as photo editor for a number of different weekly and monthly magazines. He worked for the publishing group Handelsblatt until 2006, where he was responsible for the Telebörse and DM-Euro as well as the Euro in Frankfurt am Main, and for Junge Karriere in Düsseldorf, among other things. He has been working for chrismon (Hansisches Druck- und Verlagshaus) since 2006, where he is chiefly responsible for the magazine and the homepage.

Interested in:

Photo essays and portrait photography; projects with a focus on people.

Not interested in:

abstract and/or artistic photography.

Categories:

Newspaper

http://chrismon.evangelisch.de/

Pavel Banka is an artist-photographer. In 2002 he co-founded
FOTOGRAF Magazine and has been editor-in-chief since that time. FOTOGRAF is a semi-annual, comprehensive 120-page magazine publishing the work of photographers and other artists working in photography and related arts, with two language versions (Czech/English). Each issue is focused on one common theme and features a wide range of both emerging and established Czech and international artists. An electronic version of FOTOGRAF Magazine was recently launched for tablet computers.
The FOTOGRAF Gallery was founded in 2009 in central Prague and the FOTOGRAF Festival, an annual photo festival based in Prague, started in 2011. All of these activities are open for artists working in the field of photography and related media. FOTOGRAF Platform is an umbrella organisation encompassing all three parts of the program – magazine, gallery and festival. Pavel Banka was a FOTOGRAF Platform co-founder and currently a chairperson of the organisation.

Interested in:

Seeing work that is personal, innovative and attempts to open the range of photography towards a perspective of contemporary art. There are no restrictions for the subject of work; only the originality and the freshness is important. Pavel Banka looks forward to seeing the artists who will bring a new vision into the contemporary photography art scene.

Offer:

Innovative work might be published in FOTOGRAF Magazine.

Categories:

Festival makers, Newspaper, Gallery

http://pavelbanka.com/

Alexa Becker studied European art history and Romance philology at Heidelberg University. She has worked for Kehrer Verlag since 2006 as acquisitions editor in the area of acquisitions and program organization. She advises young artists and photographers in the planning of their publications; at Kehrer, she initiated the series Trouvés, which presents handmade, individual photographic objects. Alexa Becker is a regular portfolio reviewer for the photo festivals in Arles, Houston, Paris, and Portland, and frequently takes part in juries.

Interested in:

unique photographic positions.

Not interested in:

works with a mainly commercial direction.

Categories:

Publishing house

http://www.kehrerverlag.com/

Reinout van den Bergh studied photography and audiovisual design at the St Joost Academy for Visual Arts Breda, the Netherlands. Since 1982 he has worked from Breda as freelance photographer and audiovisual designer. In this capacity he has travelled through Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the USA, and Latin America. Besides his own photography, he worked for the dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Development Cooperation, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, the Royal Tropical Institute, various ethnographical museums, and development cooperation projects. He is mainly inspired by recurring daily events in the lives of ordinary people, how they live, eat and drink, work, sleep, dream, and love. As photographer he captures the feelings of others in an honest, stylish, and respectful way. His work has been exhibited in various museums throughout Europe and Africa and published in various books and publications.
Since 2007 Reinout van den Bergh is curator of the international BREDAPHOTO Festival.

Interested in:

photographers who work with passion.

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers, Photographer

http://www.reinoutvandenbergh.nl/

Eva Bertram studied communication design with a focus on art photography under Jürgen Klauke at the University/GHS Essen (Folkwang Hochschule). She has been an instructor at the New School for Photography Berlin since 2007. Eva Bertram has received many different stipends and awards, including the Artists’ grant of the Land of Berlin and the Stipend for Contemporary German Photography of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung. She has been taking part in national and international exhibitions for over 20 years.

Categories:

Photographer, Professors

http://www.zone-b.info/kuenstler/eva-bertram.html

After working for ten years as a photographer for Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater, Michael Biedowicz was active as a photo editor for Bildende Kunst, taz, and Wochenpost. He has been working for ZEIT since 1997 and became head of photography for the ZEITmagazin in 2007. In addition to this, Biedowicz founded the photo gallery pavlov’s dog in 2011.

Interested in:

new personal styles and ways of seeing.

Categories:

Photographer, Newspaper, Gallery

Lars Blunck studied art history, political science, and geography in Brunswick and Kiel as well as cultural management in Hagen. He received his doctorate in 2001 with a dissertation on performative assemblages of the 1950s and 1960s (Between Object & Event. Partizipationskunst zwischen Mythos und Teilhabe. Weimar, 2003). Following this, he did voluntary work at Hamburger Bahnhof (Museum for Contemporary Art) before becoming a research assistant in art history at the Technical University Berlin in 2002. In 2005 he received the Deubner Prize for current art historical research, and in 2007 he habilitated at the TU Berlin with a paper on Marcel Duchamp (Duchamps Präzisionsoptik. Munich, 2008), followed by a five-year guest professorship there. In 2011 he was a fellow of the Terra Foundation for American Art and in 2013 he took on the professorship for art history at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg. In his research, Blunck focuses chiefly on the history of art and images in modernism and contemporary times, particularly the history and theory of photography.

Categories:

Art Historians, Professors

http://www.adbk-nuernberg.de/AKADEMIE/Personen/steckbriefe/blunck_lars.html

Michaela Bosakova studied art history at the Comenius-University in Bratislava. She was Head Curator of CEHF. She was also the production editor of the first volume of the encyclopaedia The History of European Photography 1900–1938. She will also be the project manager for the next two volumes. Michaela Bosakova co-produces The European Month of Photography festival in Bratislava. Furthermore she cooperates with several cultural magazines.

Interested in:

something more than just a photograph.

Offer:

support for young talent with future cooperation and exhibiting.

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers

http://www.sedf.sk/

Louise Clements is Artistic Director of QUAD, a centre for contemporary art and film, as well as being the co-founder and, since 2004, Artistic Director/Curator of the FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby. As a curator, since 1998 she has initiated and curated many commissions, publications, mass participation, art, film, and photography programmes and exhibitions. She was guest curator at Kaunas Photofestival, Lithuania; Habitat Centre and Haus Khas BlowUp, in Dehli, India; Dong GangInternational Photography Festival, South Korea; UK Photography Now: The Constructed View, 2013; Dali International Photography Festival, China, (theme: Life Is Elsewhere) 2013; Noorderlicht 20/20 2013. She was a jury member for WYNG Masters Hong Kong 2014, LensCulture Portrait Prize 2014, France, Daylight Award USA. Louise regularly writes about photography for catalogues and magazines in both print and online media. She is co-editor of photobooks inc Hijacked III UK/AUS, PHOTOCINEMA, Hungry Still and is editor at large for www.1000wordsmag.com. She is an international photography juror and nominator, and portfolio reviewer at festivals and galleries extensively throughout Europe, America, and across Asia.

Interested in:

seeing any kind of work at any stage of the project development; photographers who are interested in discussing ideas; collaborative projects and the crossover between photography and other media.

Offer:

During the review Louise can offer critique on creative practice and advice on strategies for the presentation of work and conceptual project development ideas for publishing, exhibition in gallery or public space. During the review process photographers can expect supportive discussion on their projects and if relevant, referrals and suggestions for progression.

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers

http://www.formatfestival.com/

Ludger Derenthal has headed the Photography Collection of the Berlin Art Library, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since 2003. Before that he was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, taught art history as a research assistant at the Ruhr University Bochum, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In his publications and exhibitions, he examines photography of the 19th and 20th centuries, Dada, and Surrealism – in particular the work of Max Ernst – as well as sculpture in public space.

Interested in:

positions with a critical and creative approach to photography and its history.

Categories:

Art Historians, Museum

http://www.smb.museum/mf

Since the 1980s, Elke Dichert has been a professional art buyer. She worked for the agency DDB Düsseldorf from 1985 to 1989. After that, she was Head of Art Buying for Grey Düsseldorf for ten years. From 1998 to 1999, she ran the studio of Dieter Eikelpoth, after which she once again worked for DDB Berlin as Head of Art Buying. Since 2010, Elke Dilchert has been active on the art market as a freelance art buyer.

Interested in:

people, portraits, lifestyle, beauty, and stills; likes new and different things that nonetheless still work in advertising.

Categories:

Art Buying

http://www.elkedilchert.com/

Following her studies in literature, Stefanie Dörre began working in the editorial field in 1999, chiefly as an art editor specialized in photography. She has been editor-in-chief of the tip Berlin Magazin since September 2013.

Interested in:

all of photography’s facets.

Offer:

special counsel in the area of press and publications as well as commissioned photography and photo series.

Categories:

Newspaper

Daniela Eger’s roots are in photography. She completed her photo education at the Lette-Verein Berlin in 1994 and founded the photographer’s collective Z21 in Berlin-Mitte; that same year, she became known through the magazine Wiener (in cooperation with Levis) and was awarded second prize by the English ELLE as well as an exhibition with Harvey Nichols. Commissions through magazines such as Amica, Dazed and Confused, and Style and the Family Tunes followed. This cleared the path for many other commissions, both for magazines and in classical advertising. She switched sides in 2005, and through 2010 worked with a renowned photo representative agency in the process of setting up its Berlin branch. Finally, in 2010, Daniela Eger founded her own Photographers’ representative agency A&O, Artists and Organisation.
She supports young talent and experienced photographers alike and is equally committed whether the end product is presented in advertising or the art market. 

Interested in:

Innovation and emotion. Places no value on categories and has nothing to do with compartmentalization!

Categories:

Art Buying

http://www.aando-berlin.com/

Ângela Ferreira is Director and Curator of the Portuguese photo festival Encontros da Imagem in Braga, an international festival specialised in fine art photography and finding and introducing contemporary artists from around the world. She has contributed articles to numerous magazines, interviewed international artists, and introduced their work to the Portuguese art scene based on her professional background and expertise in the field of art photography.

Interested in:

documentary photography and photo essays as well as compelling work, whether abstract or not, addressing contemporary issues.

Offer:

Searches for well-edited portfolios to include in the Encontros da Imagem festival in Braga and/or to nominate these for other photography institutions.

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers

http://encontrosdaimagem.com/

Rainer Iglar has been involved with photography since 1980. He became a board member of the Galerie Fotohof in Salzburg in 1983; since 1999, together with Michael Mauracher, he has published a series of photography books called the Fotohof edition.
He is also active in communication and institutional work and carries out projects and exhibitions on a regular basis.

Interested in:

cohesive photo series and photo book projects.

Categories:

Photographer, Gallery

http://www.fotohof.at/

Joanne Junga Yang is the Director and Curator of the Y&G Art Global Contemporary Project. She is also currently the Director of the International Committee of the SEOUL PHOTO FESTIVAL. Last year, she co-curated the Dong Gang International Photo Festival. She also curated the SEOUL PHOTO FESTIVAL in 2011.

Interested in:

viewing contemporary and developed bodies of work covering diverse issues.

Not interested in:

commercial photography.

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers

http://www.yngart.org/

Markéta Kinterová is an independent artist working with photography as a tool of conceptual art. She is a Creative Director of the Fotograf Gallery, Fotograf Festival and Fotograf Magazine in Prague. Fotograf Magazine is a periodical mapping the world of contemporary photography; a special themed issue dedicated to photography, visual culture, and contemporary art is published biannually. To more easily get the magazine to readers from its home base in Central Europe, Fotograf is launching a digital version for tablet computers. The Fotograf Gallery space is dedicated to presenting solo projects of contemporary art for artists using the medium of photography as well as artists with a background in photography. The annual Fotograf Festival in Prague presents specially themed and curated photographic exhibitions as well as talks by professionals, theoreticians, and artists passionate about the medium.

Interested in:

Reviewing conceptual art projects, experimental projects, public art projects, documentary photography moving beyond the normal boundaries of the mediums. She is also interested in independent publishing, artists’ books, and ‘zines. As a magazine editor and festival co-founder, she is also interested in a wide range of approaches to depict the world around us in a distinctive manner.

Categories:

Curators, Newspaper, Gallery

http://fotografmagazine.cz/

Christophe Laloi graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la photographie d’Arles, France, in 1996 with a master’s degree in art history. Afterwards he founded the Voies Off Festival at the Rencontres d’Arles. He is the festival’s Artistic Director and Director of Programming, selecting more than 60 artists from five continents each year.
Christophe Laloi is a key member of the jury for the Prix Voies Off. He organises portfolio reviews, as well as a variety of exhibitions. Between 2000 and 2005 he also undertook creative activities in the areas of scenography, installation, and projection of photography. He has been a lecturer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles for ten years. He has also been a reviewer for many festivals in France, Denmark, Turkey, Spain, and England. In 2007, Mr. Laloi opened the Galerie Voies Off. This exhibition space presents emerging and established photographers throughout the year. He also founded a professional digital printing laboratory for contemporary photography in Arles.

Interested in:

contemporary photography.

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers, Gallery

Guillaume Lebrun lives and works in Paris. He is a photographer, teacher at an applied art school, and has spent more than ten years on editorial projects developing books and reviews. He is an editorial board member of The Eyes, a new European photography magazine.

Interested in:

documentary works about Europe (politics, culture, society, etc.), and personal and/or conceptual approaches.

Categories:

Photographer, Newspaper

http://theeyes.eu/

Yong-Hwan Lee is a Professor in the Department of Photography at Chung-Ang University and also president of The Society of Korean Photography. He was Director of the 2010 Daegu Photo Biennale. He graduated with a degree in photography from Chung-Ang University and in multimedia from Ohio University. He is currently working with Samsung Electronics providing advice about new digital media devices. As a photo artist, he is interested in cityscapes that examine the social and historical side of modern Korea. 

Interested in:

the ability of historical, social, and aesthetic judgment.

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers, Photographer, Professors

http://yongfoto.com/

In 1990, Wiebke Loeper began studying art photography in Leipzig at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) under Arno Fischer and Joachim Brohm. Parallel to this, together with friends, she founded the lux fotografenbüro berlin and began working as a freelance photographer and assistant to Sibylle Bergemann. She graduated in 1997; in 2000, following a DAAD travel grant to the US, she completed her master’s degree with Joachim Brohm. Her books Hello from Bloomer, Lad, MOLL 31, and Gold und Silber lieb’ ich sehr were published soon thereafter. In 2001 she began teaching, and was made professor for photography in the design department of the FH Potsdam in 2008. The Galerie cubus-m represents her artistic work. Wiebke Loeper’s works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Interested in:

I’d like to talk about photography that serves as a tool for understanding the world, and that describes it from an individual perspective. In view of the complexity of the world today, I am interested in what forms and concepts are required to address this with photography.

Categories:

Photographer, Professors

http://www.lux-fotografen.de/

Maren Lübbke-Tidow completed a traineeship at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK) in Vienna from 1993 to1996. After this, she worked until 2014 in the editorial department of Camera Austria International, whose director she became in 2011. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including solo presentations with the works of Wolfgang Tillmans, Annette Kelm, Tobias Zielony, Peggy Buth, Michael Schmidt, and Sven Johne.

Interested in:

Works that explore the human image and questions of history and identity, documentary projects, conceptual practices, artists’ books, and photography in the Web 2.0 era.

Categories:

Curators, Newspaper

Katharina Mouratidi lives and works in Berlin as a freelance photographer and artist. Her works have been published all over Europe and have been seen in many solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including at the Willy-Brandt-Haus Berlin, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Palau Robert (Spain), and FotoFest Houston (USA). In 2013, Katharina Mouratidi was made a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh). She teaches at a variety of institutions, including the Ostkreuzschule and the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, where she had a guest professorship in 2011. Since 2008, Katharina Mouratidi has also been managing director of the Society for Humanistic Photography (GfHF), where she plans, directs, and curates photographic projects in cooperation with renowned art and cultural institutions at home and abroad.

Interested in:

photographic projects on politically and socially relevant issues in every stage.

Not interested in:

commercial portfolios, architecture and nude photography.

http://www.humanistischefotografie.de/

Andreas Müller-Pohle is a Berlin-based media artist and publisher. He studied economics and communication at the Universities of Hannover and Gottingen and, in 1979, founded European Photography, an independent art magazine for contemporary photography and new media. His first artistic projects from the late 1970s focused on issues of photographic perception, later on photo recycling, and now also incorporate video. In the mid-1990s he began exploring the use of digital, genetic, and political codes. In his most recent works he addresses the subject of water with extensive portraits of the Danube River and the megalopolis of Hong Kong. Müller-Pohle’s works have been widely published and exhibited and are included in numerous private and museum collections worldwide. As a publisher, Müller-Pohle has edited major works by media philosopher Vilém Flusser, available today in the ten-volume Edition Flusser and including the seminal Philosophy of Photography, which has been translated into over 20 languages. Müller-Pohle was awarded the European Photography Prizeof the Reind M. De Vries Foundation in 2001. He is the author of numerous texts on photo theory, among others on ‘Visualism’, and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, among other institutions. His most recent project, Hong Kong Waters, was published by Kehrer Verlag and Asia One Books.

Interested in:

works that combine a concept or theme with an enhancing aesthetic approach; book projects are especially welcome.

Not interested in:

commercial, decorative photography.

Categories:

Photographer, Publishing house

http://www.muellerpohle.net/

Moritz Neumüller received a degree in art history from the University of Vienna and is also a graduate of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He has worked for the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Artin New York City and supervised several international book and exhibition projects on photography and video art. He has directed various activities of PHotoEspaña, the Spanish Festival of Photography and Visual Arts from 2004 to 2007, and the LOOP International Video Festival & Fair in Barcelona in 2008.
He is currently working for PhotoIreland and directing a study program called European Master of Fine Art Photography in Madrid. Since 2010, he runs The Curator Ship, a platform for photography and image culture.

Interested in:

contemporary work by photographers and media artists, especially documentary, social, and conceptual work.

Not interested in:

traditional nudes, still lifes, commercial work, lifestyle, and fashion.

Offer:

If he cannot include you in one of the shows he curates for festivals and institutions, Moritz Neumüller is known to try his best to provide useful advice, casual mentoring, and even contact information for other people who might be interested in your work.

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers

http://www.curator-ship.org/

Susanne Prinz studied art history, American literature, and politics in Leipzig and Munich. Until 2002, she worked in the art trading field as director of the galleries Rüdiger Schöttle (Munich) and Christian Nagel (Berlin). From 2006 to 2012, she was director of the Atelier für Physisches Theater (APT) / Internationale Schule für bewegungsschauspiel Berlin. Susanne Prinz has been director of L40 – Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e. V. (specialized in art in public space) since 2010. She has organized numerous exhibitions, published many essays as a freelance author, and has worked as a curator throughout. In addition, she teaches in Salzburg and Kassel.

Interested in:

photography that investigates the nature of the image abstractly and/or formally, narrative works, still lifes, landscapes.

Not interested in:

social studies.

Categories:

Art Historians, Museum

In 1994, Frank Schumacher graduated in photography from the FH Bielefeld, where he studied under Prof. Gottfried Jäger. From 2001 to 2007 he taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach. Since 2008 he has headed the photo design department at the Lette-Verein Berlin.

Interested in:

conceptual and long-term projects, socially relevant themes.

Categories:

Photographer, Professors

http://neuebilder.com/

Bernd Stiegler studied German philology and philosophy in Tübingen, Munich, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg. From 1999 to 2007 he was program director for science at Suhrkamp Verlag.
Since the fall of 2007, he has been professor for modern German literature at the University of Konstanz with a focus on the 20th century in a media context. He has edited numerous publications on the history and theory of photography, media science, and German and French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Categories:

Art Historians, Professors

http://www.litwiss.uni-konstanz.de/fachgruppen/germanistik/personal/detail-seite-germ/stiegler-bernd-283/10688/8399/

Juha Suonpää is a photographer, filmmaker, researcher, and teacher. He graduated from the University of Tampere with a degree in education and received a doctorate in art from the University of Art and Design, Helsinki. His doctoral thesis Petokuvan raadollisuus (The Beastly Image of the Beast, 2002) examined the social significance of nature photography. For his research, he got the Pirkanmaa Science Award in 2000. He is also well known for his earlier prizewinning books Metsä Liikkuu (The Forest is on the Move, 1994) and Luontokuvan totuuden hetki (The Moment of Truth in Nature Photography, 2001).
Suonpää lectures on photography, writes academic papers on related topics, and arranges regular photographic exhibitions in Finland and abroad. He has also created children’s books, learning materials, and documentaries, most recently Hukkamies (Wolfman) which premiered in Switzerland in 2013. Juha Suonpää is currently Director of the Fine Art Programme at Tampere University of Applied Sciences.

Offer:

Juha Suonpää wrote a monograph for fine art students where he explored the most successful visual strategies used in contemporary fine art. The experience provided by these activities along with additional other publications and his own artistic pursuits allow him to provide practice-based critique, advice, and tutoring.

Categories:

Photographer, Professors

http://holymelancholy.fi/

At first, Peter Thieme studied economics at the Martin Luther University in Halle; after this, he completed his studies in photography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGBK)in Leipzig under Horst Thorau and Arno Fischer. He has been a freelance photographer since 1990. Between 1993 and 1999, he chiefly made photo documentations. He is also a founding member of the photographers’ group ZeitOrt, and was part of lux fotografenbüro berlin from 2002 to 2006. He is a frequent instructor at the HTW Berlin and the BEST-Sabel Berufsfachschule für Design. His photographs can be found in numerous collections, including the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg in Halle, the Berlinische Galerie, the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, the Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik, and many private collections.

Interested in:

Making the visible intelligible.

Categories:

Photographer, Professors

http://peterthieme.com/

Hannes Wanderer’s parents ran a printing business, and so he came into contact with printing technology and printed matter early on. In 1976, he completed training to become an expert in printing preparation. He worked for an art bookstore in Paris from 1980 to 1981; after that, he worked as a printing preparation expert for fifteen years for various companies in Berlin. In 1997, he founded theadvertising agency Peperoni Werbeagentur, also in Berlin, where he is responsible for concept, text, graphic design, and photography for a variety of clients; this was followed by the founding of the photo book publisher Peperoni Books in 2004 and the publication of the first Peperoni books as well as his own project, Time Out – Leere Läden. In 2009, Hannes Wanderer opened 25books, a bookselling company specialized in photography with a showroom, a webshop, and a blog. Up until 2012, he published numerous additional publications in collaboration with various different artists, including Stefan Canham, Julia Baier, Julia Kissina, Henrik Spohler, Michael Wolf, and Thomas Hoepker. All books are printed in the family printing business Wanderer. In addition, he has participated in lectures and workshops for the Ostkreuzschule and the Neue Schule für Fotografie in Berlin, the HAW Hamburg, the Hartford Art School, the Rodchenko School in Moscow, and various Photobook Festivals.

Interested in:

monothematic works.

Not interested in:

catalogues or artists’ portfolios.

Categories:

Publishing house

http://www.peperoni-books.de/

Maurice Weiss studied with Arno Fischer and Ullrich Mack at the FH Dortmund. He has been represented by OSTKREUZ – Agentur der Fotografen since 1995. He lives in Berlin, where he works as a freelance photographer.

Interested in:

Stories loud and quiet from our crazy world and photographers that want to tell us about their experiences and observations.

Categories:

Photographer

http://www.ostkreuz.de/

Lars Willumeit completed his photography education and his studies in social anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has been working as a photo editor since 1997, including for Camera Press, London, and from 2000 on for GEO/GEOlino in Hamburg and New York, where he was also involved in editorial development and in various book and exhibition projects.
After moving to Switzerland, he continued to work as photo editor for a variety of publications and as a freelance art buyer. He was photo editor for Du – Das Kulturmagazin in Zurich from 2008 through 2013.
From 2005 on, Lars Willumeit increasingly concentrated on a variety of author and instructor jobs, workshops, moderator positions, lectures, juries, and portfolio reviews in the area of photography, including for PHotoEspaña (PHE), Les Recontres d‘Arles, Visa pour l’image Perpignan, PDN’s 30, MAZ Luzern, Krakow Photomonth, and the summer academy of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.
In late 2013, he completed his master’s as curator and art communicator at the ZHdK in Zürich, and is increasingly active as curator for East Wing, a platform and gallery for photography in Doha and Dubai.

Interested in:

documentary and free works.

Not interested in:

Werbung, Corporate, Porträt.

Offer:

advertising, corporate, portrait.

Categories:

Curators, Newspaper

http://www.larswillumeit.com/2034535