THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

The gallery Kominek in Berlin shows from 03. April to 09. May 2009 an exhibition with images from Pekka Turunen’s book “Against The Wall“. The opening is on 03. April 2009 at 8 pm.

The focus of the photo book gallery Kominek is on documentary photography from East and Northern Europe.

=> Pekka Turunen @ Gallery Kominek Berlin – 03. April to 09. May 2009

“The disassociation of Nature and inhabited land is outdated and immoral. Inhabited land is nothing different from Nature since the boundaries dissolved. Investment and development spread to the outer peripheries, consuming immense amount of space. While it is wasted in great amounts, space should be the final resource for urban society.
I look for patterns and similarities connecting garbage dumps and everyday environment.” – Kudász Gábor Arion

Kudász Gábor Arion, born 1978 in Budapest / Hungary, studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. He lives and works in Budapest.

BerlinPhotoWorkshops offers in cooperation with The Sonic Blog Kai-Olaf Hesse’s seminar “The Built Environment and Documentary Strategies” in Duesseldorf. The workshop starts in April 2009 at the studio house in Duesseldorf. The application period ends soon at 31. March 2009.

Further information is available on the workshop page or directly at BerlinPhotoworkshops.

On occasion of the centenary of the Hetjens museum Duesseldorf fourteen photo and video artists were invited to stage selected objects in an individual way. In the exhibition the ceramic objects are shown together with the created photo and video work.

Amongst others work of Boris Becker, Karin Geiger, Yun Lee and Bernhard Prinz will be presented.

“I think about what I do, and try to make sense of it, for myself firstly and thus, hopefully, for others. That’s my edit process.”

Paul Graham

Ben Roberts’ series “Over Dark Waters” reflects a winter in central Ontario / Canada.

Ben Roberts studied at the University of Edinburgh and the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. He lives and works as freelance photographer in London.

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For the fourth time points the virtual showroom gestaltentreffen pesents a group exhibition with 12 artists. From 27. March to 29. March 2009 above 100 photographies, paintings and installations can be seen at the Gloria Halle in Duesseldorf.

The Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin offers a a seminar with Wolfgang Zurborn: “Die Erfindung des Realen” (The Invention of the Real) starting from April 2009.

Deadline for registration is the 27. March 2009.

Wolfgang Zurborn, born 1956, studied photography and film design at the Fachhochschule Dortmund. Wolfgang Zurborn lives and works in Cologne.

“By the means of a trip by moped in the Rhône Valley, the pictures are about the American dream. The myth we know through the medias and the movies. Most of the people I photographed haven’t ever been in the United State of America. They feel a sense of belonging to another culture that they don’t really know” – Yann Gross about his series ‘Horizonville’

Yann Gross, born 1981 in Vevey / Switzerland, received an MA in Photography from the University of Art and Design Lausanne. He lives and works in Lausanne.