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“Every city, no matter how it looks, is a work of art.”
- says Daido Moriyama in this beautiful video.

The new exhibition at FENSTER61 shows photographs from irinadabo taken in public toilets. Wot?? Well – here you go…

Found an interesting interview with John Gossage on the website of the independent photobook library today. Self-publishing from Ed Rusha’s first artist books form the 60s until today.

The current pictures at FENSTER61 are taken by Frank Machalowski. His series “Monster” is showing well-known places in Berlin taken with long exposure times to create some kind of “monsters” out of the peoples’ rush through the scenery. Check out this beautiful photos on the FENSTER61 website.

A great docu on youtube.

Looks like a promising group show opening tonight: Miraprosekt at Fotografischer Frühling at tete, Berlin: Photographs by Corinna Sauer, Sebastián Laraia, Jeffrey Ladd, Holger Biermann, Patrick Becker, Jiri Makovec, Dimitri Mellos, Richard Sandler, Gilles Roudière, Roger Minick, Jan Zappner, Georg Knoll, Andreas Pein, Jan Michalko, Jonathan van Smit, Jia Jia Zhang, hannah goldstein und Charlie Jouvet.

Tonight at Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, 7 pm: opening of the group show “Straße nach Damaskus” with portraits by Wenke Seemann, Angie Dehio and Andreas Rost. Details here.

Could be a little bit crowded… another great retrospective at c/o Berlin: Christer Strömholm.

New exhibition at FENSTER61: Gino Puddu‘s “Briefe aus Berlin” (letters from Berlin, read about the concept here).
The image will change approximately every 10 days until the 12th of March.

One of the most inspiring photobooks for me this year is MONO Volume One from Gomma Books. The book sold out within a month and provides a great overview on contemporary black and white photography with well known names like Petersen, Ackerman, Parke or Ballen along with younger emerging photogaphers.
Book video.

Nice: an 80s TV documentation about Martin Parr on the archive pages of the BBC.

List of all artwork (in progress)
I donated a signed copy of my ALEX book with an original photo print.

“Unter Druck – street culture” is a club for the homeless as well as for the socially marginalized. It is for people living under the breadline who are willing to promote their interests with self-made ideas and self-initiative. (read more here). I have known Unter Druck e.V. for a long time and therefor know that this is really a worthwhile project to support.

The current exhibition at FENSTER61 is part of the 5th European Month of Photography in Berlin. Thorsten Kirchhoff’s photographs from his incredible work “Walking” are shown in seven digital picture frames. The images are changing all the time so one can spend a long time looking inside the several spyholes and puzzling the story together. While the installation also works at daylight it is highly recommended to visit the venue at night.

What a beautiful documentary (will be online for a few days only!)

Tonight, 7pm, at c/o Berlin: opening of Joel Sternfeld’s Retrospective.