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My friend and mentor Andreas Rost’s series Fahrer Perspektiven [Driver Perspectives] is on exhition at FENSTER61 until Feb. 21th. During the last year he has spent a lot of time next to the drivers of busses, trams, subways and local trains in Berlin. The result is an extensive collection of rough black and white photographs showing the driver’s perspectives on the city. Check www.fenster61.de for details and and extract from the series.

Currently at FENSTER61: Susanne Wehr’s Kennzeichen B from the artist’s vast archive of private slides volks-bild.com

Frank Schirrmeister has a new series on his website called Sonntags in Berlin (Sundays in Berlin). I knew his reportage and architecture work but didn’t know his street photography pictures so far. His series explores Berlin on the fringe, the town beyond the cool downtown districts. By diving into the deeper layers of the metropolis, he discovers parallel worlds. For some years now, he has been exploring the leisure activities of ordinary Berliners, consequently avoiding the big fuss in order to find the unspectacular “real” (?) Berlin. I really like that work so we have just arranged an exhibition of Sundays in Berlin at FENSTER61 for 2011.

There’s an interview on slow travel berlin where he talks about his earlier series Plain City, which was exhibited at FENSTER61 in 2007, and Sundays in Berlin.

Update: the complete series on the OSTKREUZ pages.

The 2ed exhibiton of FENSTER61 in this year’s European Month of Photography in Berlin is up since Monday night. Christian Doppelgatz ist showing a series of striking portraits he took of youngsters from Berlin-Marzahn last year. Check out more portraits of the series on his website.

Several times over several seasons Dutch photographer Rogier Alleblas took pictures of the same park-like pedestrian walkway at a crossing in Berlin. All of the photographs show the same details from the same perspective: a few park benches located almost invariably at the same spots, serving as a backdrop for people who regularly pass by there to sit down and take a break. This work has yielded a number of photo series, some of which show the same people again and again in almost identical poses, while others are of different people in almost the same positions. The seasons change throughout the series, yet time seems to be dissolving in the process, blown away with the autumn leaves from the trees in the background of the photographs.

When Rogier applied for an exhibition at FENSTER61 I was spontaneously enthusiastic about this series. It’s one of those very simple ideas that can lead to great results. Of course the exhibition is part of the 4th European Month of Photography in Berlin.

Andreas Muhs is a photographer based in Berlin running on of the biggest online archives about the city. Beside his commercial work is working on free projects that also deal with Berlin. Right now there are two new books out by Andreas Muhs – „Berlin. Die Frühen Neunziger – The Early Nineties“ contains black/white photographs from die first 5 years after the wall came down and is published by Lehmstedt. „Rest-Berlin“ shows cityscapes and interiours of contemporary Berlin in colour – wastelands, empty slots, firewalls and abandoned buildings that dominated the face of the city for many dacades. Most of them will be vanished soon. This book is self-published on blurb. Parts of Rest-Berlin are on display at FENSTER61 until Oct., 10th. Tomorrow we will have a litte 5 year of FENSTER61 celebration combined with an extra exhibition of Andreas Muhs with both book mentioned above. If you are around the corner you may join us on Torstraße 61. Starts at 7 pm. You are invited.

Update: a nice article about Rest-Berlin on Spiegel Online International.

There’s a new exhibition at FENSTER61 by Magdalena Spinn, a student from Ruhakademie Schwerte. Her series Kinderlos (Childless) shows 16 playgounds in Berlin. I wonder what looks more cosy – the lion’s cages at the zoo or those architectual highlights for the kids. Check www.fenster61.de

“Ringen / Wrestling” by Thomas is now on display at my photo exhibition window FENSTER61. The exhibition lasts until July, 16th. If you are around Torstraße, Berlin, make sure to see the original prints. If not, see the series on thomas-lobenwein.de or fenster61.de. I think “Wrestling” is definitly one of Thomas’ strongest works so far.

Dutch photographer Michel Meijer is showing his series “Durchsfenster” [Through the window] at Fenster61 from today until may 17th. The pictures were taken seven years ago – one picture for each day in February 2003 at the Berliner cinema Durchsfenster. It’s a calm and unagitated story about a self-governing cinema run by movie enthusiasts. Read and see more on www.fenster61.de.

Michel Meijer / Durchsfenster