New releases:

Hans W. Mende :: Grenzarchiv West-Berlin 1978/1979

Michael Wolf

Tokyo Compression

Coming in October 2010

His latest pictures have also been created in the big city. This time it is Tokyo that features. But not Tokyo’s architecture. Michael Wolf’s ‘Tokyo Compression’ sets its sights on the craziness of Tokyo’s underground system. He has chosen a point of view for these shots where his camera would be presented with an unrelenting flood of new images from one minute to the next.» more

Julia Kissina

When Shadows Cast People

Julia Kissina’s photographs are populated with figures, which scare us. Bodies are deforming, children develop additional arms and legs and her “freaks” seem to come from another galaxy, even when they look like people.» more

: Hans W. Mende

Grenzarchiv West-Berlin 1978/1979

During his more than 160 km long border survey Hans W. Mende has captured the Wall and border facilities, but primarily the development of the urban space close to the frontier - unagitated, large-sized and with the precise eye for coherences and details, which is so typical of him.» more

: Michael Wolf

Hong Kong Inside Outside

For more than 14 years German photographer Michael Wolf has been living in Hong Kong. Focused on the specific visual elements he has depicted high density living in one of the world’s most crowded cities like nobody has before. HONG KONG INSIDE OUTSIDE combines two major series of his work titled Architecture of Density and 100 x 100.» more

: Jo Röttger

Wilson's World

Jo Röttger has accompanied Robert Wilson, the great man of theater, on his unresting global flight. In the Watermill Center, Long Island, in his apartment in New York, during preparations and rehearsals of different productions in Warsaw, Paris, Berlin and Taiwan, during the encounter with dervish dancers in Istanbul and Athens, during the opening of the VOOM exhibition in New York. Jo Röttger has kept distance and therefore has come that close. » more

: Isadora Tast

Mother India - Searching for a place

In her insistent series “Mother India” Isadora Tast shows sensitive portraits from very diverse people, who came to India during their search for a homeland and for meaning and just stayed there. Short vitas and extracts from conversations, which Isadora Tast held with the emigrants complement this photo series. » more

: Oliver Möst

Clackastigmat 6.0

Oliver Möst is a spectacles wearer. He is shortsighted, without cut glasses in front of his eyes he sees everything blurred – and that badly. Primarily because of that, he is bothered by the question, in how far the things he sees equal the things others see, with or without spectacles. Because the world does not provide pictures, we create them ourselves. » more

: Rufina Wu. Stefan Canham.

Portraits from above - Hong Kong's informal rooftop communities

Self-built, informal settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings are an integral part of Hong Kong’s urban landscape. The rise of rooftop communities is closely linked to the migration history from Chinese Mainland to Hong Kong. With each of China’s tumultuous political movements in the 20th century, like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, there was a corresponding wave of Mainland Chinese migrating to Hong Kong.
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