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Seconds2Real’s exhibition “Fascination Street” will have its next stop in Vienna. As it is my first exhibition in Austria, I am going to show parts of my series and book ALEX from 2008-2010. All details here.

Gundula Schulze Eldowy’s exhibition Die Frühen Jahre / The early Years at c/o Berlin is opening tonight at 7pm. There’ll be several series shown from her latest books Berlin in einer Hundenacht and Der große und der kleine Schritt. Read reviews in German here and here.

Update: review on Spiegel Online.

This year’s Ostkreuz Schule für Fotografie und Gestaltung graduates are presenting their work in a an exhibition called “Schau” that will open tonight at 7pm. Check www.schau2011.de for location details and opening hours. The website provides a promising preview on the works that will be shown. Among them – hurray! – our dear fellow Thomas Lobenwein with his new series Floria and Fjodor.

My neunplus colleague Mirjam Siefert is exhibiting parts of her long time project Heaven Is Under Construction together with the painter Gabor A. Nagy at an exhibition titled “The Wasp and the Jar” at GHYCZY Galerie, Knaackstraße 96, Berlin. Opening tonight at 7pm.

‘Within Shadows’ by Susan Burnstine is the first exhibition of the American photographer in Berlin. Susan Burnstine works with homemade film cameras to get a very blurred and unfocsed styles which suits perfectly to her dream-like photographs. Burnstine usually sets her black and white pictures up but the result is still supposed to be a matter of some “magical” chance. Along with the exhibition comes her frist book with the same title.

There’s a slideshow of ‘Within Shadows’ and and interview about her work on Youtube. Susan Burnstine is also running an interesting blog called underexposed with interviews and thoughts photography.

The exhibition in Berlin is hosted at Galerie Hiltawsky until December 23th.

Four more opening days, then the Fascination Street exhibition in Berlin will be closed. This Sunday at 7pm we’ll be having a public finissage. Everybody’s invited to come along (again) and have a drink with us. Siegfried Hansen, Thorsten Strasas, Guido Steenkamp, me, and maybe some more exhibiting photographers will be present. Eventpage on facebook.

Btw: meanwhile my ALEX book was sold out at the gallery. They now have more copies – and it’s still possible to order it online – signed or unsigned.

Seconds2Real launched an album of pictures from the Fascination Street vernissage and the first 2 days over on facebook.

The opening of Seconds2Real’s first group show last friday was a stunning and funny night with lots of good conversations + very different people. I was happy to see a lot of old friends as well as a lot of people whom I didn’t know but who knew me. The exhibiton is open until October 30th.

Kickstart for the weekend – join the opening party of Seconds2Real’s group exhibition Fascination Street this Friday, 14th, from 7pm til late. Nine members of Seconds2Real – including me – are showing about 100 prints at MEINBLAU Kunsthaus in Berlin. There are Gallery Talks and Tours on the weekend also. Check Seconds2Real’s website for all details.

There’s a weekly interview series with members of Seconds2Real street photography collective in celebration of the forthcoming exhibition in Berlin on Sara T’Rula’s blog. The following interviews have been published so far: Elisabeth Schuh, Thorsten Strasas, Andreas Stelter, Mario Cuic and – today – me. Check all interviews here.

Opening this Thursday at 7pm at Fotogalerie Friedrichshain: the group show Familienbande presenting seven photographers, among them Klaus Münzner and Fred Hüning from neunplus, all dealing with the subject Family.

Different photographers – other side of the world – related topic – beautiful slideshow: Check the Crazy Little Fuckers by the internation photography collective stange.rs.

The British design group Hipgnosis designed countless iconic album covers for bands like Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, Alan Parsons Project, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, T. Rex etc. Most of the artwork bases on photographic groundwork. Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson were the main heads behind Hipgnosis and pioneers in innovative dark room techniques like cut&paste, double exposures, montages etc.

Tonight at 7pm is the opening of the exhibition „Hipgnosis + Storm“ at Pavlov’s Dog. The gallery is a tiny place so I really wonder how they will manage it to show both – classic + new work. Next Sunday the movie Taken By Storm will be shown at Babylon cinema. Watch the trailer here.

In my opinion the „Polish Perspectives“, a group show by un-posed members, was a real highlight of this year’s London Street Photography Festival. It presented work from the streets of London by three Polish photographers who have lived and worked in the city in several decades. There’s a video on youtube about it.

The DZ Bank Kunstsammlung is running a huge Street Photography exhibition called “Road Atlas” which is wandering through several German cities. It is currently at Rüsselsheim and will be shown also in Cottbus, Erfurt and Frankfurt during 2012 and 2013. Next to some photographers like Stefanie Schneider or Gregory Crewson whose work I would definitely not consider as Street Photography there is a very broad range of styles and artists like Nobuyoshi Araki, René Burri, Arno Fischer, Helen Levitt,  Pieter Hugo, Arnold Odermatt, Will McBride, Stephen Shore, Barbara Klemm, Andreas Rost etc.

Radio feature on hr-online.de (German)
Website of DZ Bank Kunstsammlung (German)

They also made a fine hardcover catalogue in German and English that contains 166 photographs from the last 70 years taken by 26 photographers.

Currently at FENSTER61: The Londoner DS Allen with six photographs from his recent black/white series Night Shift. It’s his second exhibition at FENSTER61 after Berlin – Grenze which was shown in 2006.