Group exhibition Seconds2Real at Meinblau gallery / Berlin
In the exhibition “From Distant Streets,” curator and photographer Richard Bram has gathered together the work of 29 photographers working around the globe in a multitude of styles but with one common thread: their photographs are of unposed, unrehearsed Reality. Street Photography is thus Non-Fiction. It is not photojournalism per se, which is about recording events. Its concerns are much smaller but equally important, the little-noticed nuanced moments of everyday life. It is seeking the unusual in the everyday: As photographer, film-maker and blogger Nick Turpin puts it, “Good Street Photographs show you something you still would not have seen had you been there.”
Today cameras are everywhere and in everything. The camera in the average mobile phone has a higher resolution than the best digital cameras of ten years ago. Millions of images are recorded every hour in every part of the world. A large proportion of these are recordings of happenings in the streets, yet very few are what could be called Street Photographs. To rise above this mass of images, to create something special and to do it more than once is a fierce challenge, one that the photographers assembled at Galerie Hertz for the Louisville Photography Biennial have managed to do, and to do regularly.
Feature on 591Photography Blog
Ulf Fågelhammar published a selection of my pictures on his 591Photography Blog.
In context of the Look11 Liverpool Photography Festival festival, Seconds2Real is exhibiting their work at Bold Street Coffee in Liverpool. The images are shown from 15th June until 13th July, 2011.
Some of my pictures and a nice article are shown on clickblog.it.
Very kind introduction of me and my photography on the wellknown LENSCRATCH blog of Aline Smithson.
Group exhibition “f.ort.be.weg.en”
I participated with some of my street photographs in the group exhibition “f.ort.be.weg.en”. The exhibition was part of the month of photography 2010 in Vienna. Thanks a lot to eyes-on and – of course – to Robert Rutoed and all other helpers for great organisation and engagement!
The Seconds2Real website has a new look and some fresh content. Enjoy!
Seconds2Real is a co-operative of eleven passionated austrian and german street photographers. It was founded by Augsburg photographer Ronny Künniger 2007. The aim of Seconds2Real is to promote Street Photography from Austria and Germany with joint projects such as publications and exhibitions as well as with this website.
Unlike most photographic online communities, Seconds2Real is a close family of like-minded individuals. We know each other in person and we meet frequently in changing cities. We greatly value the personal relationships between our members. We like watching people. We like photographing people on the streets. We like colour and we like black&white. We like film and we like digital.
Most of all we like to be surprised by the marvels of daily life.
Publication street photography magazine
Publication is a biannual periodical produced by street photographers for street photographers:
- Produced in London, UK by Nick Turpin Publishing
- Aims to publish the best Street Photography we can find
- Consists of an illustrated color booklet of essays and articles accompanied by twenty-two unbound prints
- Has a different theme for each edition
- Is open to suggestions and submissions
- Is self financing and contains no advertising, your purchase contributes directly to the next edition
I really like to see that one of my pictures is published in the first edition.
25 years Brennpunkt photography magazine
Dietmar Bührer, the founder of the german Brennpunkt magazine, is presenting a special anniversary edition, due to 25 years Brennpunkt. One picture of my urban surrealis series is part of the edition.
Dietmar Bührer: http://www.edition-dibue.de
25 years Brennpunkt anniversary edition: https://www.epubli.de/shop/showshopelement?pubId=2210
Datum – Seiten der Zeit
Some of my pictures of the seríes ”urban surrealis“ are published in the Vienna magazine “Datum – Seiten der Zeit“, edition 09/09.
Datum – Seiten der Zeit
My seríes ”lovely ugly” is published in the Vienna magazine “Datum – Seiten der Zeit“, edition 06/09.
Brennpunkt Magazin für Fotografie
A part of my series “urban surrealis” is shown in the Berlin photography magazine “Brennpunkt“, edition 2/2009, published by Dietmar Bührer.
WUK Wien Buchpräsentation ‘Kindsein zwischen Leben und Überleben
Wahre Lebensgeschichten sowie Kurzbeiträge von ExpertInnen und Schriftstellern zeigen Schattenseiten von Kindheit auf.
Gewalt, Missbrauch, Sucht, Krankheit, Armut, Behinderung, Verwahrlosung oder Flucht wirken sich auf Kinder aus. In 15 wahren Geschichten werden Schattenseiten von Kindheit beleuchtet, unterschiedliche Lebenswege nachgezeichnet und die Möglichkeiten und Unmöglichkeiten der Verarbeitung traumatischer Kindheitserlebnisse dargestellt. Den Geschichten gegenübergestellt sind Kommentare und Analysen von ExpertInnen aus dem psycho-sozialen Bereich und literarische Texte von Schriftstellern wie Dimitré Dinev oder Arno Geiger. Die kurzen, fachlichen Beiträge erklären Hintergründe und zeigen Zusammenhänge auf.
Jedes Kapitel des Buches wird mit einer Schwarzweiß-Fotografie von Elisabeth Schuh oder Kay von Aspern eröffnet. Diese atmosphärischen Momentaufnahmen zeigen Kinder und Jugendliche in Situationen tiefer Versunkenheit bis stiller Freude. Eine Auswahl der Fotografien wird bei der Buchpräsentation im Rahmen einer Ausstellung zu sehen sein.
‘Kindsein zwischen Leben und Überleben’, Herausgeber SOS-Kinderdorf, erschienen im Studienverlag, Preis € 16,90,–, 168 Seiten
Das Buchprojekt konnte durch die Finanzierung der Generali Gruppe Österreich realisiert werden.
Seconds2Real book
As a member of the streetphotography group Seconds2Real I am very proud to present our first book:
Interview streetphotography with Peter Feldhaus / The Sonic Blog
Interview: Straßenfotografie im deutschsprachigen Raum (sorry – german only)
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