“WALL ON WALL” is open until September 13 at the West Side Gallery, Berlin. The exhibition is part of our European cooperation programme “OPEN THE SHUTTERS” and the transnational project “Beyond the Walls”, supported by the EU Culture Programme.

jersey landkarten

Exhibition Opening  WALL ON WALL – Kai Wiedenhöfer
Wednesday  July 10, 2013,7 pm, Berlin Wall, Mühlenstraße, Berlin-Friedrichshain

WALL ON WALL is a photographic exhibition with 36 panorama pictures (each 9 x 3 m) showing walls seperating people all over the world. 1100m² of the Berlin Wall will be plastered by Wiedenhöfer’s wall photography on the Westside of the Eastside Gallery. The spectacular open-air exhibition will be on display from July 10th to September 13th at the river Spree, free of charge.

Speakers at the opening: Franz Schulz, mayor of Berlin district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Wolfgang Lenk, member of the Commission for Culture and Education of the district’s parliament.

Come by and join Kai Wiedenhöfer,  Adrienne Göhler (project promoter and former Secretary of Culture Berlin) and us to celebrate the completion of the long struggle to get this internationally relevant photo exhibit onto the Berlin Wall.

WALL ON WALL ist part of the European festival project  “OPEN THE SHUTTERS” and its transnational exhibition “Beyond the Walls”, supported through means of the EU Culture program.

Since 2008 Wiedenhöfer fought a battle to get permission from Berlin administration for his project “WALL ON WALL”. Finally, in February 2013 – and with the help of former culture senator Adrienne Göhler – lights were set to green. A first test glueing was succesful, for a short time the US-American-Mexican border was visible on Berlin Wall. From July 10th the whole series will be on display on the Westside of the Eastside Gallery, next to the Spree opening of O2 World, Mühlenstr., Berlin Friedrichshain . A preview of the project is part of the professional week of the festival and can be seen between 13th and 18th June indoors at STATION Berlin.

Decisions of the jury:
1. Price Enzo (3000€, donated by Berlin Fotofestival 2013 THRE BROWSE)
2. Price: Jean Michel Regoin (2000€, donated by Berliner Großmarkt GmbH)
3. Price: Alina Rudya und Cesar Rodriguez – (1000€, donated by Edition BRAUS, the price money will be split between both winners)

Congratulations to all winners !
Exhibitions of the winners and of the other 36 selected entries of the competion will be on display until July 13 at diverse locations in the quarter of Bergmannkiez in Berlin Kreuzberg. Check it out!

Check out the inspiring event program with lectures, talks and screenings by highly acclaimed photographers and media experts during the Professional Week (13.-18.6.20013) is staged at STATION Berlin  and  at Global Music Academy .

We are looking forward to your visit. Enjoy the event!

Grozny: Nine Cities from Maria Morina on Vimeo.

Geert van Kesteren has shown an innovative and inspiring use of new technology to tell his story of war in Iraq from different angles and perspectives, also shifting his role as a photographer and classical author to a facilitator or editor, putting oridnary people’s views and images at the center of attention.

There is a lot to learn for possibilities and roles for photojournalists in the future from Geert van Kesteren. “Without knowing him, one suspects Geert van Kesteren to be the punk of photo- journalism… Instead of pushing back, he embraces new realities. (‘Le Monde2’ on ‘Baghdad Calling’) .

Geert will be giving a presentation of his work ‘Why Mister, Why?’ emphasizing on the different ways of presenting photojournalism through different media; print, editorial, books at the festival, Saturday 15th of June at 3 pm at STATION Berlin.

For ten years Pedro Rosa Mendes (writer) and Wolf Böwig (photographer) traveled the region to document the West African wars. Their work has been recognized and published in newspapers and publications around the world. Under the label “The Charles Taylor Wars”, an international lineup of illustrators and artists now create a crossover version of the reports, merging illustration, photography and written word.

On Friday, June 14, Wolf Böwig will also take part in a panel about new media formats w/ Robert King, Rocco Castoro, and Micha Brunveils. He will talk about Black.Light Project and his new cross media approach. Berlin actor Alexander Radszun and Böwig already present the Black.Light Project in a multimedia performance on Friday, at 7pm.

The Berlin version of “Beyond the Walls” comprises of a collection of images from the exhibition “Picturing Derry” , showing photography of “The Troubles” 1969 in Northern Ireland, the exhibition BROKEN LIGHTS of Yugoslavia, a photographic journey through the wars that broke the republics, broke the communities and broke the people of the former Yugoslavia by Emmanuel Ortiz and an indoor and outdoor exhibition of large scale panorama photos of Kai Wiedenhöfer`s WALL ON WALL project.

Furthermore “Open the Shutters” at Berlin Fotofestival presents a series of lectures, screenings and workshops by international conflict and documentary photographers (i.e. Kai Wiedenhöfer, Robert King, Geert van Kesteren, Rob Hornstra, Wolf Böwig) and media experts looking at various styles and means of communication and public impact of photography in situiations of societal conflict and war and discuss contemporary challenges of finding new ways of fulfilling their job in a time of financial cut backs for editorial photojournalism due to the rise of the internet and digital media conversion.

Funded with the support of the EU Culture program of the European Union.

There will also be special portfolio viewings with Dario Bonera, DB Agency, Carol Körting, Leica LFI, Diego Orlando, Burn Magazine, and Milena Carstens, Zeit-Magazin, organized by Berlin Workshop.

http://www.berlinworkshop.de

Kai Wiedenhöfer
12:00 pm,STATION Berlin, Luckenwalderstr. 4-6, U-Bhf Gleisdreieck
Project presentation “Wall on Wall” – 36 panorama pictures 3 x 9 m on the backside of the East Side Gallery of the Berlin wall – Q & A and Screening of the documentary film  “Borderlands” (43 min. TV film) by Fred Kowasch on the development of the longt-term  documentation project, with Kai Wiedenhöfer und Fred Kowasch
——————-

Local media activists in war and conflict – Northern Ireland yesterday / Syria today

16:00Uhr, STATION Berlin, Luckenwalderstr. 4-6, U-Bhf Gleisdreieck
with: Julie Doherty , Geraldine Norby, Jim Collins, Fotograf/innen des Camerawork Darkroom (Derry, Nordirland),
Nils Metzger (Zenith – Zeitschrift für den Orient)

——————-

Ground Zero – Syria – the whole world watching – Screening & Panel

Anna Shpakova, Maria Morina, Oksana Yushko, Olga Kravets
13:30Uhr  1:30 pm STATION Berlin, Luckenwalderstr. 4-6, subway Gleisdreieck
———————————-

Why Mister, Why? iApp presentation – Geert van Kesteren

15:00 Uhr: 3 pm STATION Berlin, Luckenwalderstr. 4-6, subway Gleisdreieck
————————————-

Conflict Photography in Transition – Talk with:

Geert van Kesteren, Kai Wiedenhöfer, Patrick Baz, Anna Shpakova
Moderated by Guy Degen

16:30 Uhr, STATION Berlin, Luckenwalderstr. 4-6, subway Gleisdreieck

——————————————-

The Connected Camera - Panel on mobile Photography

Panel on the future of mobile photography and photojournalism
with: Thomas Donker, rbb (public radio and television station Berlin/Brandenburg in charge of future projects, Patrick Baz (photographer), Geert van Kesteren (photographer) and Rocco Castoro (editor-in-chief, VICE Media, USA)

Moderation: Andi Kunze (jury member Berlin Calling)

20:00 Uhr, / 8 pm Gloabl Music Academy, Bergmannstr. 29, 10961 Berlin, U-Bhf Gneisenaustr.

Berlin Fotogfestiavl AWARD Ceremony, Berlin Calling Mobile Photo Award

with Dr. Franz Schulz (mayor of Friedrichsahain-Kreuzberg), donors and jury members of the Berlin calling Photo Contest

21:00 Uhr /21.15 Gloabl Music Academy, Bergmannstr. 29, 10961 Berlin, U-Bhf Gneisenaustr.

It’s the second year in a row that dpa exhibits its winners of the contests “pictures of the year“  at our festival. Bernd von Jutrczenka, member of the main editorial office and manager of the idolatry, is one of the first supporters of THE BROWSE – FOTOFESTIVAL. At a panel on the 16th he will talk with other editors in chief of other agencies about the strategies and challenges news agencies and photographers have to face because new mobile technologies are invented.

dpa press release for the contest “Bilder des Jahres 2012/ pictures of the year 2012″

www.dpa.com

The International News Agency AFP shows the work of its awards winning photographers in an exhibition during the 2013 Berlin Fotofestival THE BROWSE.

The AFP Photo service produces up to 3,000 new images per day covering all the global news (politics, conflicts, sport, fashion…) and its photographers often awarded international prizes (World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, Pulitzer, NPPA-Prize…). In its exhibition in Berlin AFP presents a selection of its best pictures of 2012 from its International service and also from its three-year-old German photo service.

Like for the first edition of the Berlin Fotofestival Germany’s photo chief Isabelle Wirth will take part to a panel discussion and offer porfolio viewings. Also this year the Middle East and North Africa photo manager Patrick Baz comes to Berlin, to speak about his work and about cell phone Photography.

www.imageforum.afp.com
www.afp.com
https://www.facebook.com/AFPnewsenglish

Read Festival Magazine A4 online
Download Festival Magazin (A4 PDF, 96 pages 8 MB)

Read Berlin Calling Magazine online
Download Magazin Berlin Calling Exhibitions (A5 PDF, 64 pages, 3 MB)

Check them out and get ready for the Grand Opening June 13, 7 pm at STATION, Berlin, Luckenwalderstr. 4-6, 10963 Berlin

The Sochi Project is a five year long project that Rob Hornstra and the author and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen started in 2009 and that will end in the autumn of 2014 just right before the Winter Olympics begin. The goal is to document the changes Sochi and the whole caucasian area go through during the preparation for the Olympics.

During the process of the project Hornstra and his companions produced numerous books, poster and exhibitions with different stories for diverse purposes and reasons. Each one of them is a unique work of art and worth seeing. In regard for the festivals purposes this total work of art  and ways of presenting content represent a form of photojournalism that is one of a kind. Berlin Fotofestival THE BROWSE offers – months before the final exhibitions in Antwerp and Moscow – this extraoridnary work of dutch photojournalism an international platform and you the chance to look at it.

The stories were published in the newspaper between 2010 and 2011, accompanies by photojournalist workshops in Turkey, brought together in a book and assembled in a huge travelling exhibition. It has been shown in 10 cities in Turkey, London, Thessaloniki, Vienna and opened in the European parliament earlier this year.
Berlin Fotofestival 2013 – The Browse is bringing the exhibition to Berlin – a city which has strong ties to Turkey due to its large Turkish immigrant community, vibrant business conenctions and a city partnership between Istanbul and Berlin celebrating its 25th aniversary next year. Christopher Morris and a couple of other photographers who worked in the project will come to Berlin and share their experiences.