Under the pseudonym Alice Springs, June Newton worked as a portrait photographer from 1970 on. Her retrospective, originally organized by the Maison Européenne in Paris (MEP) in 2015, will now be shown in Berlin, showcasing numerous portraits and a ...

Bernard Larsson is one of the great unknown photographers of the 1960s. He moved to Paris in 1959 to perfect his work as a fashion photographer with William Klein and Irving Penn. He soon became more interested in street life ...

For her series Pinstripes (2016), Loredana Nemes took portraits of bank employees working in Frankfurt/Main. Bankers are powerful; for years now their reputation has been in tatters, and they are, without exception, men, at least in the top positions ...

In portraits taken in the year 1985 and cityscapes from 1990, Andreas Trogisch, who studied with Manfred Paul, among others, recorded the final years of the GDR, rendering palpable the zeitgeist of a failed political system. Trogisch portrays people in ...

On the occasion of the European Month of Photography Berlin 2016, the Collection Regard presents new works by Thomas Sandberg. About his pictures, he says: ‘I had a few days’ time, and so I bought a plane ticket and flew ...

Broken TV screens, violence and squalor, the American civil rights movement – but the glittering world of fashion, too: from the late 1940s to the 1990s, Gordon Parks was a complex and versatile observer of American society. The first photographer to ...

In her latest photographic series Six Degrees of Freedom, Jessica Backhaus investigates universal questions of human existence. Taking her own biography as a point of departure, she asks what it means to know the roots of one’s own existence ...

‘Our daily lives are filled with small miracles that we don’t notice. Being invisible, they are difficult to capture in a photo. Things you can’t see, but they are there: those are the things I want, somehow, to ...

After living in Paris for many years, Andréas Lang returned to Germany in 2001 in search of his intellectual roots. He began exploring the effects history and mythology exerted on European landscapes. Following the traces of German Romanticism, he ...

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 ...

Exploring his mother’s attic, Andréas Lang happened upon the writings and historical photographs of his great-grandfather, who was a member of the so-called Colonial Protection Force in the former German colony of Cameroon from 1909 to 1914. In ...

Proceeding from her doctoral thesis on the history of the camera obscura, Montserrat de Pablo presents in this exhibition the results of a research project that she carried out at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG ...

Rainer König’s perspective on Berlin is that of a jeweller who never loses sight of the details while creating an ensemble. Taken together, the numerous photographs of buildings, ruins and monuments and particularly the details of facades, doorknobs ...

Bernd Heyden’s photographic vision remains fascinating to this day. Viewers not only experience passers-by from a former time, but gain insights into the living conditions and everyday life in East Berlin of the 1970s and 1980s. Along with people ...

In the Edward Burtynsky Essential Elements exhibit, we present a variety of works from his different series. The exhibit accompanies the release of the book Essential Elements, scheduled for publication by Thames & Hudson in October. The German edition Essenz will ...

The exhibition reconstructs a chapter of the forgotten history of two photographers who emigrated from Germany and Austria. For the Viennese emigrant Gerti Deutsch, Picture Post, the anti-fascist magazine founded by the emigrant Stefan Lorant in 1938, became a new ...

In 2005, Cosmin Bumbuţ started photographing in Aiud Penitentiary in Romania. He spent four years taking pictures there and during this time witnessed all sorts of happy, sad and absurd events. He tried to get close to the inmates and ...

Concrete photography can be understood as an independent branch of the concrete arts. It takes its place alongside other forms, such as concrete painting, concrete music and concrete poetry. At the same time, it’s a subsection of photography in ...

War, violence, terror, murder, homicide – a bloody trail of brutality runs through human history. In every society, conflicts have long been crucial narratives anchored deep in individual and collective consciousness. But how are they documented and disseminated through the media ...

Joanna Kosowska explores Paul Virilio’s theory of the formation of military space, travelling around Europe in search of places occupied by the German Wehrmacht during World War II: places where military structures were erected, important sites of warring battles ...

In her series Praesens II Präsens, the German-Polish artist Maja Wirkus investigates how the reception of architecture is subjected to an ongoing process of transformation due to changes in private or social necessities, political systems or fashion: both in ...

The exhibition With Different Eyes, sponsored by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), is curated by Meskerem Assegued from Ethiopia. The young photographer Johannes Haile captured the mood in Germany from a variety of perspectives. His images tell entire stories ...

Oliver S. Scholten has been dedicated to the medium of photography over the past thirty years as an artist and educator, examining its various aspects in virtually every manner possible. His works range from objects and installations that question the ...

Shortly before the US trade embargo was loosened, Ana Cayuela Muñoz travelled through Cuba. Her encounters with a society isolated by world politics led to a series of photographs that explore the effects economic restrictions have had on human ...

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 ...

Jarvis Dooney is pleased to present one of Australia’s leading contemporary photographers, Polixeni Papapetrou. Exhibited for the first time will be her most recent series Eden juxtaposed with her 2013 body of work The Ghillies. Presented together, these two ...

The themes of my photography are the emotions trapped in the things people create and in the places they leave their mark. The people themselves usually aren’t visible – their presence would be too loud, their gloss too glaring. I ...

Jean-Marie Périer is a photographer of happiness – even of melancholy as well, perhaps, if you view it in a more nuanced way. In his images and portraits of actors and singers of the 1960s, we admire the enduringly present ...

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 ...

Joy, rage, exultation – there are few places in today’s society where passion is tolerated in as pure a form as in the stadium. Feelings that connect people with one another and with the players in the standing area of ...

KDK (born 1973) is a master of auratic photography, rediscovering concrete architectonic spaces in completely new ways. Out of In presents works from his series W and LU. W (wall/white) demonstrates the space-time relationship as KDK sees it. In ...

The photo series Parno Gras: mukline Evropljanura explores the lives and fates of the Romany in Europe. The work gives rise to social and political questions, not least concerning the refugee status of the Romany.
‘I have always seen art ...

The Berlinische Galerie has one of the most important collections of photography in Germany. As part of the collection’s presentation, it shows Berlin’s contribution to the development of photography through 1980. The exhibition starts with Heinrich Zille’s ...

Berlin-based Galerie Hilaneh von Kories will present the exhibition Portraits. Photographs from the years 2011–2015 by Austrian-born photographer Mario Marino, who presently lives in Germany. The fifteen large-format photographs in colour and black and white provide insight into the ...

Menno Aden is specialized in architecture and spaces. His photographs are by and large unpopulated. And yet the works of the series Room Portraits can be read as portraits of the people living in the rooms photographed. They depict the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This performative photographic exhibition asks how, in an age of participation, the social and political importance of photographs of Sinti and Romany are newly constructed.
What do you expect when you view images depicting Roma and Romnija? You won’t ...

The project StreetProjections brings street photography back to the streets. Different realities from around the world will be displayed by night through projections on the sidewalk of the Kurfürstendamm.
The photographs were selected in an international competition and show ...

Jarvis Dooney, in collaboration with the Australian Embassy Berlin, presents Australian artist James Tylor in his first international solo exhibition. Through his unique multicultural heritage of indigenous Australian, Māori and European ancestry, James explores the concept of racial and cultural ...

With her portraits and photographs of architecture and objects made during her time at the Bauhaus, Lucia Moholy (1894 – 1989) counts among the most renowned photographers of the early twentieth century. On the other hand, her photographic work from the ...

A camera has its own perception of the night, can penetrate darkness and make things visible that are otherwise invisible to the eye. The exhibition’s five artists explore the phenomenon of night and attain to new planes of consciousness ...

In October of 2015, the German photojournalist and ARD author Martin Gerner, widely experienced in crisis situations, was one of the few independent reporters to document the armed conflict between Kurdish fighters and the Erdoğan government over Diyarbakir. Loss and ...

The photographs in the exhibition feature old or abandoned shops and factories in the northwest of Ireland. Photographer Heike Thiele and author Winifred McNulty documented these places in the form of interviews and long-exposure photographs between 2008 and 2012. Most ...

The exhibition shows how Georg Nickel, DChE, the son of a farming family, discovered the world in the 1930s and 1940s, initially with his bicycle in his immediate surroundings, and later with a folding boat paddling along the Rhine and ...

This work-in-progress defines itself as museological research and sheds light on the everyday reality and more remarkable moments in the life of a work of art. Since July of 2016, the Gemäldegalerie Berlin presents a major exhibition on the ...

She chronicled Berlin’s post-war and theatre life. A photojournalist for the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, whose first issue of 1945 carried the headline ‘Berlin comes to life!’, Eva Kemlein’s images of survivors – as a Jew, she herself had made ...

Empty swimming pools, abandoned streets and playgrounds: Charles Johnstone’s first major photo project Havana (2006) shows us unusually still moments in this otherwise bustling Cuban metropolis. An autodidact, Johnstone dedicated the five series that followed entirely to his hometown ...

‘Perhaps known, but often not present’ is the focus of this group show that addresses the way in which various places and patterns of action are made visible in our society. The seven graduates of Bauhaus University in Weimar pose ...

Pius Fox and Marc Klee address the spatial surroundings of their living realities in very different ways. In the exhibition Dwellers, they capture the two poles of spatial experience with the photographic eye – proximity and distance. In formal terms, however ...

The exhibition provides insights into the East German working world during the last two decades of the GDR, well beyond state propaganda: people at their jobs, taking breaks, in their leisure time – sensitively observed and recorded by renowned photographers in ...

The photo exhibition Filmriss (blackout) brings together fourteen positions that illuminate the term in all its diversity, ranging from the concrete to the abstract/metaphorical. Stories are told with wrecked pictures at the end of analogue film sequences; the works ...

In the context of the European Month of Photography Berlin 2016, IMAGO presents works from the beginnings of the IMAGOgramm in the Kunstraum at Moritzplatz, curated by Susanna Kraus.
A selection of vintage prints that the inventors and builders of ...

a r e a is Claude Horstmann’s third solo exhibition at the Laura Mars Gallery. The exhibition title’s allusion to the question of region and terrain is both an approach and a statement on a theme that affects ...

The exhibition presents a selection of contemporary still life photographs whose spectrum ranges from artfully arranged images of flowers and food to the meaningfully orchestrated image of a darkroom detail. The desire to convey symbolic, philosophical, religious and socially relevant ...

Every work of art and every picture possesses its own materiality. But how does this manifest in photography, a medium that usually downplays corporeality and opacity? The exhibition DIS/APPEAR combines seventeen positions that apply diverse strategies to the contrarily ...

This exhibition of three series of works shows the social and political phenomena that have left a mark on everyday life in Israel: the downfall of the first settlers’ utopia, the treatment of the Arab population and the necessary absurdity ...

The exhibition consists of photographs taken during the Mini-Fotomarathon Berlin in the context of Nervous Systems: quantified life and the social question, an exhibition organized by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in collaboration with the Tactical Technology Collective. Nervous ...

Julia Baier presents a new sequential work from 2015 in which she responds to the extremes of the Icelandic landscape: black volcanic rock contrasting with white snow, moss with jagged crags, hot water with cool air. She creates a photographic ...

Gábor Arion Kudász (born in Budapest in 1978) is a Hungarian photographer who graduated with a degree in photography from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. He is now a lecturer there for the Photography MA programme ...

The photographer Martin Blume from Landau was honoured posthumously with the Dr Berthold Roland Photo Art Prize in 2015. This prize, originally endowed in 2008 by the Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz, was first awarded by the Ike and Berthold Roland Foundation in ...

The exhibition Unnecessary Warsaw Correspondent reveals an array of visual material and sources of non-linear events. The small-format photographs, previously glued into notebooks, depict façades, gazes, acts, lines of text and locations for possible scenarios. On the streets of ...

Since 2009, the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BTK), offers a BA in photography; it has been a regular part of the European Month of Photography Berlin since 2010. For the first time, this year’s exhibition presents the best ...

Photographed in the outskirts of Moscow, Instant Tomorrow shows how cities lose their character as the distance from the centre grows. Vibrant urban structures give way to huge commercial buildings. People arrange themselves in stereotypical antiseptic apartments like voluntary prisoners ...

The BrotfabrikGalerie presents a show of works by Ursula Kelm. In a variety of atmospheres, Kelm’s photography explores the interplay of duration and transience, with images of water throughout her work carrying varying shades of meaning. Again and again ...

Adriana Lestido is an Argentinean photographer who became known for her socially and politically inspired works, including photographs of women in prison and juvenile mothers. The artist works exclusively analogue and documents the history of Argentina’s young democracy, telling ...

The concept of time and ‘point of view’ play an important role in the artist’s work. In her own words: ‘…I slice apart … rooms, building on the rupture of consumption’; she weaves ‘one photographic space across another’ in her ...

For the first time worldwide, this exhibition presents the second part of the series Before They Pass Away by Jimmy Nelson, offering insights into his extraordinary body of work. In many respects, the term ‘unique’ best describes the people Nelson ...

The group exhibition Studio Bamako forms a dialogue with the tenth edition of the Rencontres de Bamako, the biennial for photography in Mali: In her series Figures, Malala Andrialavidrazana questions the significance of signs and their representation in images – among ...

These works by nine photographers present an array of subjective perceptions and values in the real world of everyday life. Brought together under the title The Invention of the Real, their photo series offer personal views of urgent present-day phenomena ...

Voladores is an artistic initiative that links the work of photographer Kike Arnal with one of the most antique and extraordinary traditions of the American continent: the human fliers. Although it is a syncretic ritual between indigenous and catholic elements ...

The exhibition presents the works of students and educators of the Studio Laboratory of Photography in the Dept. of Photography and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. The studio, run by Ľubo Stacho, has ...

The Landesarchiv Berlin presents a selection of works spanning four decades by the architecture photographer Otto Hagemann (1884 – 1974), who recorded numerous architectural motifs on large-format glass plates between 1921 and 1960. He was primarily a chronicler of the new ...

No longer second-tier? What are the conditions under which culturally engaged women work in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg? What would an ideal cultural establishment be like?
The exhibition portrays 25 women from the district’s colourful and multifarious cultural scene: an actress, a ...

The FOG Platform is dedicated to photography situated at the intersection of the artistic and the documentary. The emphasis is on a multiplicity of themes, working methods and styles. The exhibition shows four positions from this year’s issue 3 ...

Photojournalism possesses an important narrative power in our image-oriented world; what counts is the search for the right moment, which is often preceded by the photographer’s patience. Over 1,200 students and professionals under the age of 35 regularly ...

Take Off: three of Professor Martin Liebscher’s students at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, Satellite Berlin, explore shifts in perception and reality that arise in transfer, when motifs and meanings join to create unexpected pictorial landscapes. In Laura ...

In this exhibition, different teachers’ graduates are brought together for the first time. Three of the photographers are mentored by Bertram Kober and address social positions in the area of photojournalism and architecture photography: Ciro Caltana tells stories about people ...