Portfolio Reviews

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.

Categories:

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/

Bruno Ceschel / Born 1976 / Studied at the University of Trento, Italy / Lecturer in photography at University of the Arts, London / Visiting lecturer at ECAL, Lausanne / 2010 founded Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH), an organization that supports and promotes emerging photographers / Organized with SPBH events at Tate Modern, The Photographer’s Gallery, ICA, Serpentine Galleries, C/O Berlin, Aperture Foundation and Kunsthal Charlottenborg / Also director of SPBH Editions, which has most recently published books by Broomberg & Chanarin, Lucas Blalock, Mariah Robertson, Gareth McConnell and Lorenzo Vitturi / Writes regularly for publications including FOAM, The British Journal of Photography and Aperture Magazine / Guest-editor of Photography and Culture, Ojo de Pez and The PhotoBook Review / 2015 published his book Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto (Aperture Foundation) / Bruno Ceschel lives and works in London.

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Professors, Newspaper, Publishing house

http://www.selfpublishbehappy.com/

Jörg Colberg / Founder, author and editor of the photography website CPhMag.com (until 2012 Conscientious)/ Seit 2010 faculty member of the international limited-residency MFA in photography at Hartford Art School, Connecticut / Author of numerous essays for international publications, journals and artist monographs/ Guest-editor of photography exhibitions and photobooks (e.g. Observed) / Jörg Colberg lives and works in the USA.

 

Photo: http://jmcolberg.com/about [05.08.2016/15:08]

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Photographer, Newspaper, Publishing house

http://jmcolberg.com/

Lucy Conticello / Born 1973 / Studied archaeology, art history and photography at La Sapienza University in Rome / Assistant photo-editor with Italian magazine Liberal / Worked as an editor, critic and lecturer in New York, Rome and Paris / 2000 to 2011 photo editor and researcher for, Business Week, New York Times, l’Espresso, Courrier International, IHT and photography agencies such as Sipa Press, Magnum Photos, and (briefly) the AFP / On photography juries such as Festival della Fotografia Etica and Foam Paul Huf Award; portfolio reviewer (Festival Cortona on the Move, PHotoEspana) / Since 2011 director of photography at M – award-winning magazine of French newspaper Le Monde / Recipient of several prizes, including ‘Magazine of the year 2011’ (Prix du Club des directeurs artistiques) and two ‘Magazine of the Year’ prizes in 2013 (Grand Prix des Médias de CB News prize and Prix du Syndicat des éditeurs de la presse magazine).

Categories:

Art Historians, Newspaper, Publishing house

http://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/

Rein Deslé / Born 1981 / Studied contemporary history and cultural studies / 2004 to 2010 collaborator at the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography at the University of Leuven / Since 2010 curator and editor at FotoMuseum Antwerp (FoMu) in Belgium / Curator of exhibitions including Imaging History, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Shooting Range and Show Us the Money, and solo shows for Gert Jochems, Charles Fréger, Rinko Kawauchi, Jan Rosseel and Jan Hoek / Editor of FoMu magazine’s EXTRA and .tiff / Frequent juror of photography competitions / Rein Deslé lives in Brussels.

Categories:

Curators, Newspaper

http://www.fotomuseum.be/

Marcel Feil / Born 1968 / 1994 BA in history of art at the University of Amsterdam / 1994 to 1998 worked at the Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture / 1998 to 2002 staff member at the Amsterdam Centre for Photography / 2002 to 2010 curator at the Foam museum of photography in Amsterdam, organizing a wide range of historical and contemporary exhibitions / Since 2010 deputy director, artistic affairs at Foam, as well as an editor of Foam, the museum’s international photography magazine / 2012 published A Book of Beds: A Selection of Foam Magazine Talent Photographs / 2014 curated the William Klein retrospective at Foam / Marcel Feil lives and works in Amsterdam.

 

Photo: © Oscar Anjewierden: Marcel Feil at the Opening Araki Exhibition at Photomuseum FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 18, 2014 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/duosphoto/) 

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Curators, Newspaper, Museum

http://www.foam.org/home

Maren Lübbke-Tidow / Born 1968 / Studied art history and political science in Marburg and Vienna / 1994 to 1996 intern and exhibition assistant at mumok/20er-Haus, Vienna / Since 1996 closely connected to Camera Austria (Graz) as author, editor and curator / 2001 to 2009 director of the Berlin editorial office / Since 2013 editor-in-chief / Recent exhibitions: 2016 Friedl Kubelka: Atelier d’Expression (Dakar), Camera Austria, Graz; 2015 Sven Johne: Anomalien des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts. Einige Fallbeispiele, Arbeiterkammer Wien / Recent texts include: Fülle und Leere…, cat. KunstHausWien; Annette Kelm: Wir wissen eigentlich nicht, was wir sehen… in: Camera Austria International (Graz/Berlin); Love Stories with Politics: Marlene Dumas, in: Kunstbulletin (Zurich) / Lecturer at Berlin’s Technische Kunsthochschule, University of Cologne and at Schule für Künstlerische Photographie, Vienna / Maren Lübbke-Tidow lives and works in Berlin and Graz.

Interested in:

Works that explore the human image and questions of history and identity, documentary projects, conceptual practices, artists’ books, and photography in the Web 2.0 era.

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Curators, Professors, Newspaper

Lesley A Martin / Born 1970 / 1991 PhD from Miami University / creative director, Aperture Foundation, and publisher of PhotoBook Review / Editor of numerous photobooks, including by Takashi Homma, Rinko Kawauchi, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and recent books by Richard Misrach and Gregory Crewdson / Worked on The Chinese Photobook, contributing editor to Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s, and The Latin American Photobook / 2012 cofounded the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards / Curator of national and international travelling exhibitions incl. Ubiquitous Image (2008), Aperture Remix (2012) and Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs (2016) / Writing on photography published in Aperture, FOAM, Ojo de Pez, and Lay Flat, among others / Currently teaches graduate course on the photobook at the Yale University School of Art / Lesley A Martin lives and works in New York City.

 

Photo: http://www.powarts.org/events/2015/2/23/colleagues-and-friends-breakfast-julia-joern [05.08.2016/14:50]

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Curators, Newspaper, Publishing house

Joachim Naudts / Born 1982 / 2012 started working for FOMU (museum of photography) in Antwerp / Curator of over 20 exhibitions, including Power! Photos! Freedom! (2013), Broomberg & Chanarin – Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt (2014), and Mijn vlakke land (My Flat Land, 2015) / chief-editor of the FOMU magazines Extra and .tiff / Since 2008 actively involved in the organization and planning of the non-profit organization Punctum focusing on contemporary photography / As of 2012 board member of Scherptediepte – Depth of Field, a network for researchers, curators and critics in the field of photography and media culture in the Low Countries / Regularly invited as a jury-member, speaker, writer or guest teacher in the field of contemporary photography / Joachim Naudts lives in Brussels and works in Antwerp.

Categories:

Curators, Professors, Newspaper, Museum

http://www.joachimnaudts.be/