analog

Curated by Eva Maria Ocherbauer

Leo Braun, Eunsun Cho, Hanne Dale, Mercedes Debeyne, Christophe Egger, Susanne Friedel, Alîn Gabriel, Fred Hell, Mathea Hoffmann, Johann Karl, Linda Kerstein, Elvira Kolerova, Benjamin Kummer, Loïc Laforge, Anton Roland Laub, Anthony Monday, Tobias Neumann, Alice Palchetti, Melina Papageorgiou, Flurina Ramondetto, Johanna Ribbe, Pauline Ruther, Jonathan Sachs, Julian Slagman, Maximilian Sprott, Roberta Stein, Kyriakos Tarassidis, Richard Wohlfarth, Charlotte Zellerhoff

As one of the few educational establishments for photography in Berlin, the Neue Schule für Fotografie reserves a special place for analogue photography. At the same time, over the past several years, traditional darkroom work has become increasingly popular again, which translates into the work of many students here. They explore the elaborate handicraft, haptic qualities, and materiality of the medium and deliberately count on the surprise effect in the result; they seek inspiration in the dynamics and unpredictability of the analogue photographic process and juxtapose the casualness of digital photography with the carefully considered moment of pressing the shutter. The exhibition, curated by photographer and instructor Eva Maria Ocherbauer, does justice to this passion. The exhibited works of former and current students at the Neue Schule für Fotografie were all created in the darkroom. The choice was made for individual images whose atmosphere and effect owe their authenticity solely to the analogue medium.