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.
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Roland Angst
Gallerist, graphic designer, and publisher at only photography, Berlin
Roland Angst
Gallerist, graphic designer, and publisher at only photography, Berlin
Roland Angst studied architecture, sociology, and graphic design in Berlin, Frankfurt, and New York. He then worked on a freelance basis and became a partner in a Munich-based graphic design agency specialized in corporate and book design. In 2009, he founded the gallery and eponymous publisher only photography in Berlin.
Interested in:
unique and contemporary ideas, concepts with a deeper reach, good handicraft.
Not interested in:
self-reflections, poverty tourism, bad copies and versions of things we’ve all seen.
Categories:
Publishing house, Gallery
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Alexa Becker
Acquisitions editor at Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg
Alexa Becker
Acquisitions editor at Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg
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
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Andreas Müller-Pohle
Artist and publisher of European Photography, Berlin
Andreas Müller-Pohle
Artist and publisher of European Photography, Berlin
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
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Hannes Wanderer
Publisher of 25books, Berlin
Hannes Wanderer
Publisher of 25books, Berlin
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