Portfolio Review

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

http://www.only-photography.com/

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

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/

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/

Christophe Laloi graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la photographie d’Arles, France, in 1996 with a master’s degree in art history. Afterwards he founded the Voies Off Festival at the Rencontres d’Arles. He is the festival’s Artistic Director and Director of Programming, selecting more than 60 artists from five continents each year.
Christophe Laloi is a key member of the jury for the Prix Voies Off. He organises portfolio reviews, as well as a variety of exhibitions. Between 2000 and 2005 he also undertook creative activities in the areas of scenography, installation, and projection of photography. He has been a lecturer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles for ten years. He has also been a reviewer for many festivals in France, Denmark, Turkey, Spain, and England. In 2007, Mr. Laloi opened the Galerie Voies Off. This exhibition space presents emerging and established photographers throughout the year. He also founded a professional digital printing laboratory for contemporary photography in Arles.

Interested in:

contemporary photography.

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers, Gallery