Portfolio Reviews

 

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.

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Photographer, Professors, Newspaper, Gallery

http://www.pavlovsdog.org/

 

Estelle Blaschke / b. 1976 / She has been teaching the history and theory of photography at ECAL (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne) since 2013 and conducts research on concepts of photography as an information technology at the University of Lausanne / She was a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of the History of Science in Berlin in 2009–2011 and 2014 / She received the Research Award of the German Photographic Association (DGPh) in 2012 for her dissertation on the history of photo agencies / Her publications include Banking on Images. The Bettmann Archive and Corbis, Spector Books (2016) and “The Excess of the Photographic Archive” in Documenting the World. Photography, Film and the Scientific Record, University of Chicago Press (2016).

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Art Historians, Professors

https://www.estelleblaschke.net/

 

Claus Gunti is a Swiss Art Historian / He teaches at the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) and at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) / His research primarily focusses on the history of digital images in photography, recent developments in imaging technologies (drones, 3D renderings, automated photography) and photographic materiality. / His recent publications include “Rendered realities and fabricated visual spaces” (Augmented Photography, ECAL, 2017), “Light epistemologies” (FOAM Magazine, 2018) and Digital Image Systems. Photography and New Technologies at the Düsseldorf School (transcript Verlag, 2018).

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Art Historians, Professors

 

Kim Knoppers / b. 1976 / She is an art historian (University of Amsterdam), and curator at Foam / Since 2011, she has worked on solo exhibitions, including those by Melanie Bonajo, Broomberg & Chanarin, JH Engström, Anne de Vries and Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs and group exhibitions, most recently Collectivism. Collectives and Their Quest for Value (2016) and Back to the Future. The 19th Century in the 21st Century (2018) / She has contributed to various magazines including Foam Magazine, Unseen and Aperture and has written catalogue texts for Jaya Pelupessy and Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques, amongst others. She is also a lecturer on the MA Photography at ECAL in Lausanne where she initiated and developed the course Do Not Disturb – Curating in Progress.

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Curators, Art Historians, Professors, Museum

http://www.kimknoppers.nl/

Photo: © Heike Mertens

 

Heike Catherina Mertens is Program director at Hatje Cantz Publisher, Berlin since March 2018  / She was managing director and curator at the Schering Stiftung from 2007 to February 2018. / Studied art history, philosophy and sociology and, after academic work in the field of contemporary art, she worked as a curator for public art from 2000 until 2007 / In 2001, she founded stadtkunstprojekte, a Berlin-based association to promote urban public art / Alongside her work at Hatje Cantz, she regularly teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts as part of the further education program ‘Curating’ and publishes books on contemporary art. / Member of the University Council (Hochschulrat) of the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, and of the board of trustees for the awarding of the KAIROS Prize, presented by the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S.

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Professors, Newspaper, Publishing house

http://www.hatjecantz.de/

 

Franziska Schmidt / Studied art history and German at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle/Wittenberg / Worked as a researcher, curator, writer, lecturer, specialist, assessor, and manager / Regularly took part in international juries and symposia / Member of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie e.V. / 1994–2000 Freelance member and curator at the photography collection of Kunstmuseums Moritzburg, Halle/Saale / 2000–2001 Received “Museum Curator for Photography” scholarship from Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung / 2005–2007 Artistic director and managing director of Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig / 2002–2005 Director of Galerie Berinson, Berlin / 2007–2017 Head and expert for Grisebach Auctions’ photography division, Berlin.

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Curators, Professors, Museum

 

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.

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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.

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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.

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Photographer, Professors

http://www.heidispecker.de/

Photo: © Loredana Nemes

 

Dr. Christiane Stahl / Born1963 / Studied art history, theater and film studies at École du Louvre Paris and Freie Universität Berlin / Since 2002 Head of Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung / Talks, publications, jury member and lecturer with a focus on modern and contemporary photography.

 

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Art Historians, Professors, Gallery, Museum

http://www.alfred-ehrhardt-stiftung.de/