Thoamas Hoepker
Heartland

Thomas Hoepker's road trip through America 1963. » more

Patrik Budenz

Post Mortem

Today, death has mostly vanished from public perception. Most people die in institutions, and in case someone actually still dies at home, the corpse is immediately taken away by morticians in order to prepare the burial. But what happens with a corpse between the moment it is given into the care of professionals and the burial? » more

Armand Quetsch

ephemera

dark

mysterious

visually stunning

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Michael Wolf

Bottrop-Ebel 76

Michael Wolf is worldwide known for his work about ›life in cities‹ and some of the most significant series have already been published in books: ›Tokyo Compression‹, ›Hong Kong Inside Outside‹, ›A Series of Unfortunate Events‹ to mention a few.

And now ›Bottrop-Ebel 76‹ which is quite a different story. As a student Michael Wolf has photographed the series in 1976 in the small coal-mining village in the Ruhr-District, Germany and submitted it for the exam to his teacher Otto Steinert at the Folkwangschule in Essen - at that time as a classical social documentation sorted by categories such as ›building types‹, ›working population‹, ›youngsters‹ or ›festivities and associations‹. Now with the distance of more than 35 years the work has been looked through carefully again and put together for the book in a much more free manner. » more

Michael Wolf

Architecture of Density

This book has been published before as part of the two-book set "Hong Kong Inside Outside“ erschienen, which is completely sold out. Now „Architecture of Density“ comes in a new edition as a stand alone book. » more

Michael Wolf

Tokyo Compression Three

The third edition of the photobook classic.

With "Tokyo Compression" Michael Wolf struck a nerve. His portraits of people who are on their way in the Tokyo subway, constrained between glass, steel and fellow travelers, have won many awards and were shown in exhibitions around the globe. The first two editions of this book are sold out. » more

Torben Höke

Rented Rooms

Torben Höke travelled for three months through India. He sat in buses and trains, sometimes for as long as 35 hours a stretch. He rambled from Calcutta to Varanasi to Bangalore further in the South and then back to Calcutta again. He saw poverty and wealth, Rolls Royces and rickshaws, splendid temples and the hippies of Goa, overcrowded trains on their way to the mega-metropolis of Mumbai

and buses that teeter on rocky slopes as they travel through the dusty hinterland. In short, he saw much of the contradictory beauty and sprawling size of India, yet there is nothing of this in his pictures. » more

Angela Bröhan

Orte

The places we see in Angela Bröhan´s photographs can not be searched or found, haunted or visited. They are real but fleeting. They are visible to those, who walk without a map and leave their usual coordinate system. Like Angela Bröhan, who turned her encounters with ensembles, perspectives and moods in the city and at its edges into pictures.» more

Denis Brudna

Am Boden

He does not really like New Year`s Eve, says Denis Brudna. Not the programmed party mood, not the fireworks, after which you can set the clock and, actually, not what is left from all the drinking, popping, being merry. The garbage.?? Actually.?? » more

Thomas Hoepker

Champ

Ali was the greatest. A great sportsman, a controversial thinker, who, with his appearances in and outside the ring enthralled people but also offended many. A polarizing figure, unforgotten until now. Thomas Hoepker had the opportunity to spend time with Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali and take photographs » more

Roger Eberhard / James Nizam

Tumulus

Dark green and brown tones prevail in these images. Untouched undergrowth, interspersed with moss and ferns. Rainforest. And yet people have left traces. Crumbling into decay, wood huts are to be seen in some pictures, more or less shaped piles of planks, beams and wedges on others. Mysterious remains of bygone bustle already overlaid and penetrated by the returning nature, photographed rich in detail but inexplicable. An idea of eternity is blowing through these images.» more

Irina Ruppert

Rodina

The desire for security and belonging is one of the dominant feelings. Everyone is longing for home, but when childhood is gone, one finds it only and mostly unexpectedly in the memory, it does not matter if one stayed or left. Irina Ruppert came from Kazakhstan to Germany with her family at the age of seven. Now, decades later, she is drawn towards the east. Instinctively, over and over again. Because of the memory – or the idea of it. » more

Andreas Weinand

Colossal Youth

Melanie, Öhner, Stiffel, Limbo, Gero, Anna and her friends are young and live in Essen when Andreas Weinand spends much time with them and takes pictures from 1988 to 1990. While the first episode of the “Simpsons” is broadcasted in the USA, Florence Griffith-Joyner wins three Olympic gold medals in Seoul, the Berlin Wall falls and Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web, the storm of youth rages within the clique, going full blast.
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Marc Theis

Lost in Time

Not another industrial ruin, one is tempted to say. But this time the situation is different, because in the images, which Marc Theis has taken on the abandoned Continental-site in Hannover, the different time levels interlace to a peculiar dialogue of generations. » more

Stefan Canham/Nguyen Phong-Dan

Die Deutschen Vietnamesen

Germany and Vietnam are connected by a special history. Both countries were separated for a long time, both are reunited again nowadays. In different epochs after World War II, there have been migration shifts from Vietnam to Germany for various reasons. In an artistic-photographic manner, the book deals with the present life situation and everyday life of those Viet Kieu – the foreign Vietnamese. They all brought a piece of Germany to Vietnam and preserve the long-time relationship to Germany on the most different levels. » more

Michael Wolf

Tokyo Compression Revisited

With "Tokyo Compression" Michael Wolf struck a nerve. His portraits of people who are on their way in the Tokyo subway, constrained between glass, steel and fellow travelers, have won many awards and were shown in exhibitions around the globe. The first edition of this book was sold out after a few weeks. And the topic kept haunting Michael Wolf as well. He returned to Tokyo in order to immerse in the subsurface insanity once again and this time even deeper. Now with "Tokyo Compression Revisited" the second, completely revised edition of the classic is published, with many so far unreleased images and an entirely new "hidden track" at the end of the book. » more

Michael Wolf

Real Fake Art

Strange, this is how these pictures appear at first sight. In front of typical Chinese urban backdrops young Chinese men and women present oil paintings by American and European artists from different epochs. Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, even photographs by Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston, Bernd and Hilla Becher or August Sander can be found among the works. What stands behind all this?» more

Andreas Trogisch

Desiderata

The four so far published photo folders by Andreas Trogisch fascinated and enchanted us. Now the both last folders “Asphalt” and “Desiderata” complete the cycle. They are published in an edition of 100 numbered and signed copies by the publisher “Peperoni Books”. The magical poetical aura of these images oscillates between pausing and going on, longing and home sickness and wanderlust. » more

Andreas Trogisch

Asphalt

The four so far published photo folders by Andreas Trogisch fascinated and enchanted us. Now the both last folders “Asphalt” and “Desiderata” complete the cycle. They are published in an edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. The fifth folder is called “Asphalt” and contains no more than 14 b&w images.  » more

Fred Hüning

zwei

A man and a woman are two (›zwei‹). This image cycle shows how they meet, approach, begin to understand, find out that they belong together. It is the middle part of the trilogy of personal works, Fred Hüning’s ›Sentimental Journey‹, just as moving as previously ›einer‹ (one). » more

Patrik Budenz

Quæstiones medico-legales

Every evening TV-shows like CSI, Crossing Jordan or Quincy show legal medical experts at work and the field of forensics also have long since entered the German crime series. But the medical image of forensic medicine has only little in common with reality. In fact, only few people have realistic ideas of how things work in the autopsy hall or the forensic laboratories and what else belongs to the legal medical’s everyday life. The photographer Patrik Budenz wanted to find out more. On the basis of the medial image, he accompanied the forensic medicals during their work at the site of crime, in the section room, in the laboratory and at their desk. » more

Amin El Dib

Autonome Bilder

Amin El Dib makes art with photography and you have to take this literally: For him, the medium is nothing more and nothing less than the material, whose exploration defines his oeuvre. What unites him with the artists of all time periods and media, is the radicalness of his approach; from basic considerations about the materiality and mediality of photography he defines the limits, which he exceeds – especially in order to know where they are.
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Andreas Trogisch

Technik

His first two photo folders “Von Ferne“ and “Magico“ have enchanted us. The fourth folder is called “Technik“ and leads us deep into the fabulous world of Andreas Trogisch. Perfect in image design the photographs remain mysterious in a fascinating way. » more

Andreas Trogisch

Mercedes

His first two photo folders “Von Ferne“ and “Magico“ have enchanted us. The third of six folders is called “Mercedes“ and leads us deep into the fabulous world of Andreas Trogisch. Photographed in color for the first time, the pictures are infatuating and peculiar. » more

Michael Wolf

FY

Michael Wolf's popular Street View-pictures deal with the automatically produced flood of images, which is spread by Google via the internet, and belong to his oeuvre that occupies itself with the conditions of the modern urban life. For FY, similar to "A Series of Unfortunate Events", Michael Wolf uses the picture pool of the Google tool as basic material for his own pictures. During researches he encountered a global mass phenomen. » more

Michael Wolf

Tokyo Compression

Michael Wolf's latest pictures have also been generated in a big city: Tokyo. But this time Tokyo’s architecture is not the topic. Michael Wolf’s “Tokyo Compression” focuses on the craziness of Tokyo’s underground system. For his shots he has chosen a location which relentlessly provides his camera with new pictures minute per minute.» 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