Alex McLeod

New stunning works from artist Alex McLeod (posted before @Shotspot), exhibited at Pulse NYC.

© Alex McLeod

ewz.selection 2010

ewz.selection, the Swiss platform for contemporary photography, awards the eighteen best photographic works of the year this coming weekend. The exhibition with opening night party, panel discussions, sofa talks, pictures soirées, workshops and live shootings makes the ewz-eventhall a vibrant meeting place for photo lovers.

ewz.selection will be celebrating its 10th birthday with new photo prizes and the exhibition catalogue "Bilderwahn" newly designed by Tania Prill and Alberto Vieceli.

The nominees for the ewz.selection photo award are:

Reto Albertalli, Morbio Inferiore; Peter Bohler, Los Angeles; Annette Boutellier, Bern; Patrik Fuchs, Zürich; Denis Jutzeler, Petit-Lancy; Jonathan Heyer, Zürich; Irina Polin, Bern; Jacek Pulawski, Chiasso; Peter Püntener, Zürich; Nicolas Righetti, Genf; Meinrad Schade, Zürich; Nico Schärer, Zürich; Christof Schürpf, Luzern; Christoph Schütz, Fribourg; Gabi Vogt, Zürich; Nicholas Winter, Basel; Luca Zanier, Zürich; Andreas Zimmermann und Tobias Sutter, Münchenstein.


Photographs: © Gabi Vogt / Meinrad Schade

Guido Mocafico - Guns and Roses

"Guns and Roses, Guido Mocafico's second solo exhibition at Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, unites two bodies of work; Gunsdating from 2006 - 2008 and Roses, 2009. Combined, the two series Guns and Roses, raise interesting parallels; technology versus the natural, war versus love, fear versus pleasure - but in both, Mocafico examines mans intervention with nature. Of Italian descent, Mocafico was born in Switzerland in 1962 and currently lives and works in Paris." (photography-now.com)

Visitor Information of the Bernheimer gallery in Munich.

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Photographs: © Guido Mocafico

The Umbrella Kid

"The Umbrella Kid", born 1985 in Basel, Switzerland, has dedicated himself to analog photography without post-processing. His actual works are exhibited by the Gallery Daeppen in Basel until February 20th.

Photographs: © The Umbrella Kid

Lucerne - design master thesis exhibition

The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts presents the 2010 design master thesis exhibition from February 2nd to 7th. The exhibition poster is designed by the Lucerne-based designbureau C2F Cybu Richli & Fabienne Burri. In 2009, C2F received an recognition design-award from the City of Lucerne.

Photo 09

Photo 09, the annual exhibition of the best Swiss Photographs, will take place from January 15th to 18th at Maag Event Hall in Zurich.

All infos /// Exhibiting photographers

Photograph: © Ueli Alder, from Photo 08. Ueli's pictures can also be found here at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.

gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie 2009/2010

Photograph: Philipp Dorl, ... nach Mass, Zahl und Gewicht, www.guteaussichten.org


Photograph: Anna Simone Wallinger, Container, www.guteaussichten.org


Photograph: Ute Klein, Resonanzgeflechte, www.guteaussichten.org

gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie is a project set up in 2004 as a private initiative in support of talented young photographers. The core element of the project is an annual competition for final portfolios submitted to all German universities, universities of applied sciences and academies offering a course of study in photography. (Text: gute aussichten)
The exhibition gute aussichten 2009/2010 at Marta Museum in Herford is shown until January 10th 2010.
Congratulations to the eight winners: Georg Brückmann, HGB Leipzig; Philipp Dorl, FH Bielefeld; Sonja Kälberer, HGB Leipzig; Ute Klein, Folkwang Hochschule Essen; Ingo Mittelstaedt, HBK Braunschweig; Mona Mönnig, Folkwang Hochschule Essen; Shigeru Takato, KHM Köln and (with a special well done!) to my schooldays-friend Anna Simone Wallinger, Lette-Verein Berlin.
Pictures from Anna Simone Wallinger can also be found here at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.

KARAOKE - Photographic Quotes

Photograph © Aneta Grzeszykowska, Untitled Film Stills #3, 2006


Photograph © Ryan McGinleyAm, "Blue Falling" (Blaues Fallen), 2007


Photograph © Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs, "Wires", 2008, from: The Great Unreal

Seems familiar? We are constantly bombarded by images and information – at school, at work, in newspapers and on the web. All of these stimuli carry a multitude of underlying codes. Day in and day out, we navigate our way, more or less successfully, through a torrent of texts and images, subtle advertising messages and hard facts, official instructions and personal messages. New and long-established media alike vie for our undivided attention. What we tend to overlook is the fact that we are increasingly subject to a second, media-dominated reality in which we are no longer directly involved.
The exhibition KARAOKE – Photographic Quotes with works by Becky Beasley (GB), Thomas Galler (CH), Aneta Grzeszykowska (PL), Thomas Julier (CH), Anja Manfredi (A), Ryan McGinley (USA), Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs (CH/CH), Clunie Reid (GB) and Oliver Sieber (D) quietly flags up the relationships and juxtapositions that permeate our casual, everyday navigation of parallel worlds. (Text: Fotomuseum Winterthur)
KARAOKE - Photographic Quotes, Fotomuseum Winterthur, 24.10.2009 - 07.02.2010

Gebräu 1

The Ganter brewery in Freiburg is hosting the photography exhibition 'Gebräu 1' from September 18th until October 9th.
Exhibited photographers: Anja Schori, Andreas Till, Anne Schwalbe, Christian Breevaart, Daniela Droz, Hari Roser, Jana Voigt, Jörg Brüggemann, Joscha Bruckert, Magdalena Fischer, Marlon Kowalski, Michael Lämmler, Petra Warras
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Photographs: © Jana Voigt

New Nordic Photography - Klara Källström

'New Nordic Photography' is the annual summer exhibition presented by the Hasselblad Foundation, exhibiting new works by emerging Nordic photography artists. (hasselbladfoundation.org)
Klara Källström from Sweden is one of the 11 young photographers who shows her phantastic work at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden, until August 23rd. From August 1st Klara will exhibit at 'Planket 2009' in Stockholm.
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Photograph: © Klara Källström

Markus Georg

Stonehenge


Brandenburger Tor


9eleven

With 'Die Macht der Bilder', German photographer Markus Georg won ‘Gute Aussichten’, a photography thesis contest. Markus wants us to think about the power of well-known images like Stonehenge. The ‘Gute Aussichten’ exhibition at DZ Bank in Frankfurt is shown until July 10th 2009.
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Photographs: © Markus Georg

Ester Vonplon: winner of the Swiss Photo Award 2009

Swiss photographer and former skateboarder Ester Vonplon, born 1980 in Switzerland and living in Berlin, is the winner of the Swiss Photo Award 2009. Her grainy and atmospheric black-and-white photographs of a village in Kosovo convinced the jury. An interview with Ester about this Kosovo project is published here. Further prize winners are Jonathan Heyer, Andri Pol, Vanessa Püntener and Roger Eberhard. The exhibition can be seen until May 17th at ewz Selnau in Zürich.
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Photographs: © Ester Vonplon from the series 'wenn das wetter nicht mehr kaputt ist, werden wir spazieren gehen'

Sophie Brasey: 'vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis' winner 2009

GLOSSY DREAM, ECAL 2008. COLLABORATION WITH ANNE-MARIE PAPPAS


PRISM, SUMMER 2008. COLLABORATION WITH YANN GROSS


ECAL 2007

Yesterday the 'vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis' (Swiss award for young photographers) was awarded. Sodagrapher Ueli Alder was one of the nominees, the 2009 winner is Sophie Brasey, born 1985 and just finished ECAL. The exhibition will be shown until May 21th at BINZ39 in Zürich.
Photographs: © Sophie Brasey

New York Photo Festival 2009

The 2nd Edition of the New York Photo Festival will take place May 13-17 in DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass). It will be curated by William A. Ewing, Chris Boot, Jody Quon, and Jon Levy.
Above picture is from NYC-based photographer and teacher Amy Stein. Her book 'Domesticated' was published in fall 2008 and won the best book award at the 2008 New York Photo Festival.
Thanks to Nora
Photograph: © Amy Stein, »Howl«

Get your portrait shot by Rankin

British famous portrait and fashion photographer Rankin, who also co-founded the fashion magazine Dazed & Confused, has photographed everybody who is anybody including Britney Spears, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Kylie Minogue and even the Queen. Now it's your turn! If you have ever dreamed to have your portrait shot by Rankin and see it exhibited next to celeb portraits in an art gallery, you might get the chance in August. More details here on dazeddigital.com.
Photograph: © Rankin, Portrait of Kate Moss

True Norwegian Black Magic by Peter Beste

Black Metal subculture in Scandinavia and especially in Norway is given a higher significance than in other countries. American photographer and self-confessed Black Metal fan Peter Beste explored the Norwegian Black Metal movement over a period of seven years. The partially strange results can be seen at Pool Gallery in Berlin until April 28th. Below a portrait of Peter Beste himself, more pictures from the opening of the 'True Norwegian Black Magic' exhibition can be seen here at slanted.de.


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Photograph: © Peter Beste

So Blue, So Blue by Ad van Denderen

'So Blue, So Blue – Edges of the Mediterranean' is an exhibition by Dutch photographer Ad van Denderen about the seventeen countries that fringe the Mediterranean. Hosted by the Fotomuseum Winterthur, this photojournalism documentary can be seen until May 17th.
Photograph: © Ad van Denderen

geschossen + gedruckt 2009

The printing house Seltmann from Lüdenscheid/Germany produces extravagant books & catalogues and awards advertising photos for the 4th time. C/O Berlin, The Cultural Forum for Photography, shows the 'geschossen + gedruckt' ('shot + printed') exhibition between April 18th and May 17th, 2009. Opening and award presentation will be held on April 18th, 2009.
Above image is the winning photo from geschossen + gedruckt 2007 in the 'Product in Use' category by Zurich photographer Gabi Vogt. The image was shot during an 'Artist in Residence' stay in Romania and shows a Dacia hulk.
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Photograph: © Gabi Vogt

VisualLeader / LeadAwards 2009

The nominations and winners of the LeadAwards 2009 will be presented in the House of Photography of the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg for the fourth time from March 14th to April 26th, 2009. More informations at deichtorhallen.de.
Above image is the winning photo from the LeadAwards 2008 in the category fashion photography.
Photograph: © Geoffrey Cottenceau + Romain Rousset

Good Design, Good Business

Markus Löw, 'Acaralate 2E Geigy', ca. 1967, Photo: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Umberto Romito © ZHdK

The J. R. Geigy A.G. chemical concern was the starting point for a great moment in the history of Swiss graphic art and advertising. "Research for tomorrow" – the former Basle-based company also lived up to this forward-looking slogan in its communication: its design was intended to increase sales of products "made in Switzerland". The exhibition 'Good Design, Good Business' from 4.2. – 24.5.2009 at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the first comprehensive show of this important Swiss contribution to the history of design, presenting works from well-known Swiss designers like Gottfried Honegger, Max Schmid, Herbert Leupin and Karl Gestner. More pictures can be found here at werbewoche.ch.
'Corporate Diversity – Schweizer Grafik und Werbung für Geigy 1940-1970' is the well designed publication accompanying the exhibition, edited by Karin Gimmi, Andres Janser, Barbara Junod, R. Roger Remington and Yvonne Zimmermann. Design by norm.

Karl Gerstner, 'Neocid – eine Schranke dem Hausungeziefer!', Werbeblatt. DE ca. 1953, Armin Hofmann, Luzern