The world is a stage. In the wings of work and everyday life, against a backdrop of hope and care, we perform our tiny roles in the vast world theatre. Perhaps we’re not aware of the play. Perhaps the ...

‘Fair photography’ is the name photographer Maxim Korotchenko gives to his photographic method, in which he does not directly engage with the persons portrayed or intervene in any way. He remains neutral, almost distanced, and avoids all subjectivity and empathy ...

Gunnar Smoliansky, 83, is one of the most important Swedish photographers of the post-war era. His artistic work, comprised of analogue black-and-white photography from nearly sixty years, ranges from portraits, landscapes and still lifes to conceptual works that visually explore ...

Volcanic rock formations at the seaside, darkest night and burning metal: on the Sicilian coast, Friedrich Gobbesso steps onto an ancient stage, claiming it for his pyrotechnical performance and its photographic documentation. In analogue experiments, the Berlin-based sculptor and photographer ...

There is an unmistakable and highly personal inflection in Martina Hoogland Ivanow’s images, emanating from their compact atmosphere and her distinctive way of dealing with shadows and light. The images are characterized by a soft grey scale such that ...

Landscape photography instils a longing in us. A wooded mountain in the distance, recorded in a photograph, a picture of a rugged coastal stretch make us ask: how would it feel to be there? Our pining gaze collides with a ...

The exhibition brings together two artists, each of whom harbours doubts about the purely reproductive nature of the photographic image. While Hachmeister found her way via drawing and painting and combined these with photographs, some of which she painted on ...

This exhibition combines two long-term projects realized over the past decade, presenting an in-depth look at the Caucasus and Ukraine – two former regions of the Soviet Union that have struggled to break away from Russia’s sphere of influence toward ...

Sigmund Freud gave the name ‘screen memories’ to a particular kind of childhood memory. He distinguished between apparently indifferent and circumstantial childhood memories and those he identified as important and emotionally relevant. In this process, which is due to resistance ...

Today, when the period has been so mythologized, so pawed over, so scrutinized – both through the filter of nostalgia and the filter of bitter experience (for if the 1960s were a great time to be alive for some people, they ...

What is lost identity? Lost identity is taken from you. You claim it back if you accept your true/fake identity. What if those terms do not exist? In the consumer paradigm, true/fake identity terms have lost all meaning ...

Eight students of the f/16 School for Photography explore the question ‘Who Am I?’ in a variety of ways. How does personality show itself in an image, and how can it be stylised into an icon? What is a ...

The Unspecific Measurement of Distance presents an area of artistic positions in contemporary photography. Using a drastic and desolate photographic language, Miron Zownir, the ‘poet of radical photography’, articulates the parallel lives of outsiders in a seemingly timeless shadow world ...