Portfolio Review

Once again, a Portfolio Review will be organised in the framework of the 6th European Month of Photography (MdF Berlin), to be held this year in collaboration with the BTK University of Applied Sciences of Berlin. Forty national and international experts are available for discussion with freelance photographers, artists, and photography students in advanced semesters.

Short Overview

Where: BTK, Bernburger Straße 24/25, 10963 Berlin
When: November 1–2, 2014
Participation fee: Three talks for € 75.00, six talks for € 130.00
Application deadline: September 12, 2014 // EXTENDED until September 24, 2014

Prices

First Prize: A solo exhibition in the dat Galerie as well as a 1,500.00 € voucher for exhibition prints with the Grieger company in Düsseldorf
Second Prize: 1,000.00 €
Third Prize: 500.00 €

Here you find detailed information for applicants and the eligibility requirements.

  • Hannes Wanderer

    Publisher of 25books, Berlin

    Hannes Wanderer

    Hannes Wanderer

    Publisher of 25books, Berlin

    Hannes Wanderer

    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

    Photographer at OSTKREUZ – Agentur der Fotografen, Berlin

    Maurice Weiss

    Maurice Weiss

    Photographer at OSTKREUZ – Agentur der Fotografen, Berlin

    Maurice Weiss

    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

    Photo editor and curator in Switzerland (CH)

    Lars Willumeit

    Lars Willumeit

    Photo editor and curator in Switzerland (CH)

    Lars Willumeit

    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