THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

“Go clubbing has become an integral part of nowadays social interaction. From ‘night life’ we expect pleasure, desire, fun and hilarity – at least this is suggested by advertising and society. The photo designer Hanna Witte questioned these expectations in her series Nacht.Leben. Her portraits reveal the world of the protagonists during a clubbing night. The images provide glimpses and avoid giving away to much from the stories behind. They tell about a different story of clubbing nights – loneliness, rejection and isolation, while being surrounded by many people.”

Hanna Witte’s series “Nacht.Leben” (night-live) has been photographed very clean, but the work is nevertheless convincing. – Sometimes I feel that the ‘design’ in photo design is a little bit too much weighted at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund.

Jakob Boerner’s series “Basic Care” shows interiors and portraits of welfare recipients in Germany and makes a nearly invisible population group visible.

The gallery Jarmuschek + Partner in Berlin displays up to the 20th February 2010 the series “Topografien der Durchfahrt” (Topographies of Transit) by Elmar Haardt (born 1974).

Elmar Haardts work deals with the phenomenon of Alpine transit. All images were made in the Swiss Gotthard region.

What about here in 10 years? With this question in mind 12 photography students from the Ruhr area and Berlin explored the homeland of the others.

The results are on display at the Neue Schule für Fotografie in Berlin until 24th February 2010. My personal favorite is “Alter, Alltag, Kulturhauptstadt” by Marco Philippi.

In his current projekt “Casa Mare” the photographer Frank Gaudlitz portrayed people in the Central- and Southeast European countries within their homes. The series has been published in a phozto book by Hatje Cantz.

The Frank Gaudlitz, born in 1958, studied with Arno Fischer in Leipzig. He lives and works in Potsdam.

Between 2002 and 2005 Haubitz + Zoche photographed investment ruins of state-funded tourism projects along the coast of the Sinai Peninsula.

Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche work as artist duo in Munich. The main focus of their work is on architecture and space.

In her series “If You Leave Me Alone” a href=”http://www.johannamanke.de/”>Johanna Manke stages the experiences of teenagers with their first crush.

Johanna Manke, born in 1976, studied communication design at the HAW Hamburg. She lives and works in Hamburg.

Isadora Tast’s series “Mother India – Searching for a Place” shows poraits of humans, who came to India in a search for meaning and stayed there.

Isadora Tast, born in 1973, studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld. She lives and works in Hamburg.

Anna Simone Wallinger photographed a container camp for asylum seekers in Berlin. The work covers ten sequences, which have developed in one period of 12 hours in each case.

Anna Simone Wallinger, born in 1980, studied photography at the Lette Verein Berlin. She lives and works in Berlin.