Portfolio Review

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/

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

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

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/

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/

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

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