Portfolio Review

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

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

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/

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/