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There’s a 45 minute video entitled Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition featured on photographyblogger.net. You might skip the sections discussing slr/range finder cameras (I always get bored with these technical blabla as it’s definitly possible to get good pictures without a Leica, too ;-) but the rest of video is very inspiring to watch. There are also some interesting photographers to discover like Severin Koller from Vienna.

Recently I used to have the great pleasure to be in the audience of an evening lecture by Anders Petersen (at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin), who is not only a godfather of black and white photography but also an extraordinary character, that means a beautyful and striking person. These days I discovered an article about Petersen on Lens Culture, “an online magazine celebrating international contemporary photography, art, media and world cultures”. You can see a selection of his images there, but the best is an 18min audio interview and a 20sec sound bite where he talks about what he likes about black and white photographs. Enjoy, it´s great.

We are happy to announce that the both of us – Thomas Lobenwein (Wrestling) and Christian Reister (ALEX) - will be part of the Slideluck Potshow Berlin III at MMX, Linienstr. 142 /143, Berlin on 10th of June 2010.
The screenings start at 7pm 10pm. All information about the event here.

Complete List of participating artists: Klaus Muenzner * Christian Reister * OSTKREUZ Agentur der Fotografen * Thomas Lobenwein * Alicia Ross * Andrea Gjestvang * Andreas Gefeller * Andy Levin * Anya Jasbar * Ashe Kazanjian * Britney Anne Majure * Cezary Zacharewicz * Chiara Dazi * Daniel Augschoell * David Rae Morris * Emile Hyperion Dubuisson * Esther-Judith Hinz * Fiona Struengmann * Goodyn Green * Jan von Holleben * Jeff Harris * Jonah Samson * Lindsay Isola * Magnus Bjerk * Michael Grecco * Michael Harris * Mila Teshaieva * Mirko Tsotchew * Nick Shifflet * Nicolo Lanfranchi * Ninna Berger * Olivier Blaecke * Robin F. Williams * Shepard Fairey * Sven Jacobsen * Thomas Graichen

Berlin Alexanderplatz 2010

Strolling through a book store yesterday I discovered Hans Eijkelboom‘s lates book 10-Euro Outfits, that’s made like a small broshure.  Eijkelboom bought 32 new outfits for himself through the period of a year. He bought them in several Dutch cities, in Shanghai, Marrakech and New York. One thing they all have in common: the price was not higher than 10 €. The pictures are portraits of himself wearing his new clothes right after he bought them. A very funny book for – guess how much – 10 €!

Everywhere you go you hear that Dutch photography is the most interesting in Europe now and one particular name is in every mouth: Rob Hornstra. He is something like a shooting star and in New York they are really keen on him (Winner NYPH Book Award 2010). Not without reason Hornstra is praised for his ideas to find ways of how to make photo books and get them financed. Working on longterm documentary projects (what he calls slow journalism) he is exploring new grounds of journalistic distribution by selling his work in progress (and of course the books already finished) to people who want him to continue. You should have a look at (and if you like participate in) his new project, called ‘The Sochi Project’, where he is going to show how an area is changing when selected for Olympic Games. This kind of co-working could (and should) be part of the future of critical journalism.

I discovered a remarkable book while strolling through a book store lately. Using History by Greta Pratt was published by Steidl in 2005 but to be honest I didn’t know neither the photographer nor the book. Using History is a ten year documentation in bright shining colors about US-Americans responding to the country’s history and their bizarre patriotic urges. As one of my current photo projects is dealing with European Country Fans I found it very interesting to discover parallels and differences between the „original scene“ and the „German Edition“. Greta Pratt is curretly BIG in the press with her later series Nineteen Licolns but – ey! – compared to Using History – that’s fine, but…