Portfolio Reviews

Gerry Badger / Born 1948 / Studied architecture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, graduating in 1969 / 1966 to present: freelance photographer, architect, author and photographic critic / Works featured in solo and group exhibitions and in a number of public and private collections such as the V&A, MoMA, Bibliothèque nationale de France / Curated exhibitions include The Photographer as Printmaker (1980) for the Arts Council of Great Britain, and Through the Looking Glass: Postwar British Photography (1989) for the Barbican Arts Centre, London / Author of numerous monographs, articles, essays and books on photography / Awarded several prizes, e.g. the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, ICP Infinity Writer’s Award, New York / Gerry Badger lives in London.

Categories:

Photographer

http://www.gerrybadger.com/

Christoph Bangert / Born 1978 / Studied photography at FH Dortmund and ICP, New York (2003) / A six-month road trip from Buenos Aires to New York in 2002 resulted in his first book Travel Notes (2007) / Freelance photographer and photojournalist, specialising in political events and reportages on war and conflict in different world regions / Regularly commissioned by The New York Times, Stern and Neue Zürcher Zeitung and published in other leading publications (Der Spiegel, Time, Newsweek) / 2005 to 2006 spent nine months in Iraq on assignment for The New York Times;documented in IRAQ: The Space Between (2007) / Recent book projects include Africa Overland (2013), War Porn (2014), hello camel (2016) / Winner of several awards, incl. World Press Photo, POYi / Participated in the Joop Swart Masterclass / Christoph Bangert lives and works in Cologne.

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Photographer, Newspaper

http://www.christophbangert.com/

Michael Biedowicz / Born 1955 / After ten years working as a theatre photographer at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, began his career as picture-editor and photojournalist for various publications / In 1997 joined German weekly DIE ZEIT / Since 2007 to present: picture-editor for ZEITmagazin / Since 2012 CEO at A1A artprint and curator and co-owner of the gallery for photography pavlov’s dog / Member of the judging panels of numerous national and international competitions as Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, Photography Association of the Netherlands / Guest lecturer at MERZ Akademie, Stuttgart, and Neue Schule für Fotografie, Berlin / 2014 awarded membership of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie / Michael Biedowicz lives and works in Berlin.

Interested in:

new personal styles and ways of seeing.

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Photographer, Newspaper, Gallery

http://www.pavlovsdog.org/

Adam Broomberg / Born 1970 / Studied sociology and art history at Wits University, SA / Joined Benetton’s research centre Fabrica in Italy / 1995 editor and photographer with Benetton’s COLORS magazine, returning later as creative director / Beginning of long-term collaboration with Oliver Chanarin / Since 2000 widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions on all continents / Featured in major public and private collections, incl. Tate, MoMA, Stedelijk, V&A, Musée de l’Élysée / Co-author of numerous publications and photographic studies, e.g. Ghetto (2003), Mr. Mkhize’s Portrait (2004), The Red House (2007), Spirit is a Bone (2015). / Major awards include ICP Infinity Award (2014) and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2013) / Lectures on photography, e.g. at LCC in London and School of Visual Arts, New York / Since 2016, professor of photography at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg / Adam Broomberg lives and works in London.

Categories:

Photographer, Professors

http://www.broombergchanarin.com/