Portfolio Review

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/