Portfolio Reviews

 

Sylvia Ballhause / Born 1977 / Studied communication design and fine-art photography at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig with Christopher Muller and Beate Gütschow. / Her works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions and photo festivals, including “(Miss)Understanding Photography” (2004) at Museum Folkwang in Essen and Les Rencontres d’Arles. / From 2013 to 2017 she worked as a curatorial assistant at the city-run Galerie Zephyr – Raum für Fotografie in Mannheim. / Currently she is the project director for Days of Photography in Darmstadt.

Photo: © Daniel Lukac

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers, Photographer, Gallery

http://www.sylviaballhause.de/

 

Michael Biedowicz / Born 1955 / Worked as a theater photographer at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and as a fine arts photo editor at taz – die tageszeitung and Wochenpost / Since 1997 Employed at DIE ZEIT and as photo editor at ZEITmagazin since 2007 / Curator and gallerist at pavlov’s dog /  Member in numerous juries (including jury spokesperson, Deutscher Jugend Fotopreis, Photographers Association of the Netherlands [PANL], Körber Stiftung, Lotto Kunstpreis Berlin/Brandenburg, Leica Oskar Barnack Award) / Guest lecturer at Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin and Design Akademie Berlin / 2014 Appointed to Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) / Since 2017 Lecturer at Lette-Verein Berlin / Michael Biedowicz lives and works in Berlin.

Categories:

Photographer, Professors, Newspaper, Gallery

http://www.pavlovsdog.org/

Photo: © Milena Cartens

 

Milena Carstens / Studied photography at Fachhochschule Bielefeld / She has worked as a photo editor for numerous projects and periodicals / 2010–2014 Gallery manager for Robert Morat’s project space in Berlin / She has worked at ZEITmagazin as a photo editor since 2012 and as senior photo editor since 2014.

Categories:

Photographer, Newspaper, Gallery

http://milenacarstens.com/

 

Jörg Colberg is a writer, photographer, and educator. / He writes for his own website CPhMag.com and for publications such as Foam Magazine / Jörg Colberg teaches at Hartford Art School/University of Hartford / He lives in Western Massachusetts (USA).

Photo: http://jmcolberg.com/about [09.08.2018/17:03]

Categories:

Photographer, Newspaper, Publishing house

http://jmcolberg.com/

 

Nicolai Howalt  / Born 1970 / Graduated from Denmark’s renowned photographic art school, Fatamorgana, in 1992 / He is the recipient of honorary grants from The Hasselblad Foundation, The Danish Arts Foundation and Nominated for The Shpilman International Prize 2018. / The latest publications is By Looking up I see down - By looking down I see up (2017) and Element, 2016 and Light Break / Photography – Light Therapy (2015) / His photographic work spans across documentary, conceptual and installatory art. / He works and lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Categories:

Photographer

http://www.nicolaihowalt.com/

 

Douglas Mandry / Born 1989/ He is a Swiss photographer and artist based in Zürich / Graduated from ECAL University of Arts and Design in 2013 / His work questions our relationship to photography and representation in our post-internet era through a process-based approach, referring to various processes and photographic languages. / His work has been shown throughout Europe, among others at the Plat(t)form 15 of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, nominated twice for the Paul Huf Award, selected to the Swiss Design Awards, and exhibited in Corso Como, Azzedine Alaïa Gallery, and most lately featured in the Foam magazine #49, “Back to the Future”.

Categories:

Artist, Photographer

http://douglasmandry.com/

 

Linn Schöder / Born 1977 / Studied photography at Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften in Hamburg and visual communication at Hochschule für bildendende Künste Hamburg / Since 2004 Member of Ostkreuz – Agentur der Fotografen / Since 2016 Professor of photography at Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften in Hamburg / Her series “Family Photos Too, I Think” was shown in Paris, Marseille, Munich and Rome as part of the “25 Years Ostkreuz” exhibition. / She received numerous prizes, including the ZEITmagazin photo prize in 2013 for her “Self-Portrait with Twins and a Breast”. Linn Schröder lives and works in Berlin.

Categories:

Photographer, Professors

http://www.linnschroeder.de/

 

Frank Schumacher / b. 1965 / He studied visual communication at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, graduating with a Diplom in photography and film / 1995—2005 Büro für Fotografie und Gestaltung Lingnau, Schumacher in Cologne and Hamburg / He has written numerous editorials for publications including Brand Eins, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Zeit, Purple Magazine, Magazin der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung, and exhibitions including Chic Clicks – Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion at ICA Boston, Fotomuseum Winterthur, NRW Forum Düsseldorf / He taught at the Offenbach University of Art and Design and has headed the Department of Photography at Lette Verein Berlin since 2008 / Appointed to the German Photographic Association (DGPh) in 2010.

Categories:

Curators, Photographer, Professors, Newspaper

http://www.letteverein.berlin/blog/person/frank-schumacher/

Photo: © Antonia Neubacher

 

Heidi Specker / Born 1962 / Studied photography and film design at FH Bielefeld. / She was a master student at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and headed the photography class there since 2011. / Her works were most recently shown in Kunstmuseum Bonn, Camera Austria in Graz, Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Berlinische Galerie in Berlin, and elsewhere. / Numerous prizes and awards including Villa Massimo, Rome (2010), German Photobook Prize for IM GARTEN/CONCRETE (2005), ars viva Medienkunst 1997–98, European Photography Award 1996.

Categories:

Photographer, Professors

http://www.heidispecker.de/