THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

“In ‘The Limbo Pictures’, Limbo is used as a metaphor for a middleworld where everything is undefined and judgment is therefore impossible. The characters are isolated in their own situations without the existence of a Before and After, they therefore have a total lack of perspective on the own situation.” – Lovisa Ringborg

Lovisa Ringborg, born 1979 in Linköping, studied at the University of Photography in Göteborg. She lives and works in Göteborg/Sweden.

“For me, photography has become a way of attempting to make sense of the very strange world that I see around me. I don’t ever expect to achieve that understanding, but the fact that I am trying comforts me.”

Mikhael Subotzky

The summer approaches the end and autumn brings new photo seminars in Berlin. Who wants to extend his vision of photography should have a closer look.

Göran Gnaudschun from BerlinPhotoWorkShops deals in his seminar “Was Du siehst” (What You See) with questions of image conceptions.
Kai-Olaf Hesse leads in “City- and Landscape Photography” towards individual visual solutions. In “Photo book or photo series?” Kai-Olaf Hesse argues with forms of presentation and it’s context.

The Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin offers “The photo book” with Jens Liebchen, an introduction to the process of making a poto book.
The seminar “Magnum in Motion” with Adrian Kelterbornechniken (lead producer of Magnum in Motion, New York) leads into the production of multimedia photo essays.

In the former area of the brewery Ganter in Freiburg thirteen young photographers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland will be on display under the title “GEBRÄU 1” (brew 1) from 18th September 2009 until 09th October 2009.

The bandwidth goes from Magdalena Fischer’s sensible portraits of young athletes up to the analytic work of Marlon Kowalski.

The exhibition is curated and organized by the photography student Joscha Bruckert and the architecture professor Harald Roser.

The opening night is on Friday 18th September at 7 pm.

The Cologne-based photographer and journalist Damian Zimmermann presents in his new blog a loose mix around photography: book reviews, exhibitions and notes from a photographers daily life. Just take a look (German only!).

“Have I said it before? I am learning to see. Yes, I am beginning. It’s still going badly. But I intend to make the most of my time.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926

Maurice Kohl’s book project “Dsching, Dsching, Dschingis Khan – a new generation in Mongolia” shows portraits of young people from Mongolia from the areas sport, religion and music. The project was done in the summer 2008 during a nine week stay in Mongolia.

Maurice Kohl, born 1978 in Essen, studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund.

“When wishes are out of reach, simulation is taking over our leisure time and our holidays. Imaginary worlds are created, often under massive technological exertion, in order to offer us experience as reproducible merchandise. Although the quality of these adventures on demand sometimes proves to be rather dubious, the boom does shed light on one thing: the yearnings and dreams underlying people’s daily lives.” – Jens Lindworsky about Reiner Riedlers project ‘Fake Holidays’.

The book “Fake Holiday” is availavble here. Reiner Riedler, born 1968, lives in Vienna.

“Medya and Dilan are friends. They are 16 years old and live in Leverkusen in a settlement of multistory buildings. One year I accompanied them in regular intervals and explored their environment photographically. The girls noted their thoughts about love, friendship, religion, family and nationality and and provided the notes for my book project.” – Sibylle Mall about ‘Liebe ist das Schönste und die Zukunft’ (Love is most Beautiful and the Future)

An excerpt of the book is available here. Sibylle Mall, born 1973 in Rheinfelden, lives and works in Cologne.