Participants of the master class 2012/2013 with Eva Bertram are presenting the current status of their long term projects. Including works by Jenny Fitz, Alex Giegold, Marjola Rukaj, Cina F. Sommerfeld and Markus Ulrich.
Directed by Eva Bertram, lecturer at Neue Schule für Fotografie and representative of a subjective narrative photography, five photographers have been working for one and a half year on personal projects. The subject “obvious inconspicuous” served as reference field for the participants. Not all works have been completed yet, but they show the current status of their long term projects corresponding with the photographic themes and questions of the participants.
In her work, the photographer Jenny Fitz scrutinizes “habitus” and role playing of persons in her social environment.
The project PARAdays by Alex Giegold shows the extract of a two-year journey, a search for and struggle about identities in a heteronormative world. Using a system of tagging she reflects both mechanisms of rememberance and the archiving of personal footage. Alex Giegold is alumni of Neue Schule für Fotografie and works as freelance photographer. She systematically engages in phenomena of social normalization.
For her work Limbus, Marjola Rukaj travelled to five former camps for forced laborer in South Albania, where enemies of the socialist dictatorship were confined from 1960 to 1990. In her photographies she shows uprooted people who tentatively ensconced themselves in their new forced living environments, because until today they could not find a better solution. Poverty, discomfort and the provisional arrangements over years develop into a stable living condition. In her series Vade retro Santana, Majola Rukaj displays heathen patron saints of the new albanian prosperity, which were attached to new properties by their owners to defend themselves against the evil and envious gaze of neighbours and relatives.
When she was a child, Cina F. Sommerfeld lived in the big and destroyed city Berlin. She could not understand a lot of things people were talking about. The only chance for her to understand was to observe. In her project Sieben acht die Treppe kracht (refrain of an old children song) Cina F. Sommerfeld reprocesses these memories.
In his series Stell Dich mal da hin – Ausrichtungen, Markus Ulrich combines portraits with urban landscapes. He is a doubter, who raises questions of authenticity not only for the photographed models, but also for reality.
So Gesehen (Seen as.)
Photographs by Jenny Fitz, Alex Giegold, Marjola Rukaj, Cina F. Sommerfeld and Markus Ulrich.
Curator : Eva Bertram
From December 8th, 2013 to February 2nd, 2014
Neue Schule für Fotografie
Brunnenstr. 188-190
10119 Berlin
Germany
Wednesday – Saturday, 1 – 6 pm
http://www.neue-schule-berlin.com/
