Portfolio Review

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/