Portfolio Reviews

Nadine Barth / Studied philosophy, literature and art history in Hamburg / Worked for many years as a journalist and art dealer / 2006 founded the barthouse culture concepts agency for art and communications / Editor of diverse publications on photography and fashion including Vanishing Landscapes and Traumfrauen (both 2008), Traummänner, Amazonen and German Fashion Design (all 2011), Daniel Josefsohn: OK DJ (2014), Anatol Kotte: Iconication and Martin Roemers: Metropolis (both 2015), Andres Serrano: Salvation and BerlinRaumRadar (both 2016) / Curator of exhibitions including for the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, MAMM in Moscow, Puma in Singapore and the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin / 2013 to present: consulting editor for photography art books at Hatje Cantz / Nadine Barth lives and works in Berlin.

 

Photo: © Dorothea Tuch

Categories:

Curators, Publishing house, Gallery

Alexa Becker / Born 1974 / Master’s in history of art at the University of Heidelberg / 2003 to present: Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg / Since 2006 acquisitions editor responsible for submissions and selection of new art and photography-related projects, as well as consulting and development of the publisher’s program / Initiation of the Trouvés series of unique, handmade ‘book objects’ at Kehrer / Juror at numerous national and international photography competitions and regularly reviews portfolios, e.g., at photography festivals in Arles, Houston and Paris / Alexa Becker lives and works in Heidelberg.

Interested in:

unique photographic positions.

Not interested in:

works with a mainly commercial direction.

Categories:

Publishing house

http://www.kehrerverlag.com/

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.

Categories:

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]

Categories:

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/

Markus Hartmann / Born1962 / Studied at the Stuttgart Media University / Trained in publishing sales / 1990 to 2013 publishing director of photography and contemporary art at Hatje Cantz Publishers in Ostfildern / 2013 started Hartmann Projects, his own company for curating, exhibition organization and occasional writing (blogs and magazines) / 2016 co-founded Hartmann Books / Curated shows for the Rencontres d’Arles with Markus Brunetti (2015) and Alfred Seiland – Imperium Romanum (2016) / Organizing upcoming exhibitions with Peter Bialobrzeski, Alfred Seiland, Ingar Krauss / Markus Hartmann lives and works in Stuttgart.

Categories:

Curators, Publishing house

http://www.hartmannprojects.com/

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]

Categories:

Curators, Newspaper, Publishing house