"Working with Marc during two Face-to-Face sessions, I was struck by the clarity of his conceptual drive and his willingness to interrogate power structures through visual form. His project 'New Dawn' operates within what Lucy Soutter describes as expanded photography, where the photographic image is no longer confined to depiction but becomes sculptural, staged, and materially constructed. ...

Before February 24, 2022, I was a photographer, human rights activist, surfer, and freedom lover. Joining the army was the last thing I dreamed of. I’ve always hated hierarchies, careers, and orders. But that day changed everything. Like Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1960), I realized some decisions in a man’s life leave no room for choice if you want to keep your ...

The theme “Tomorrow is Today” of our current Der Greif Issue 18 triggered us to pick up this urgency, put out by its guest editor Hank Willis Thomas and to initiate a series of deeper conversations about taking progressive action in the now. Here is our first edition of “Spread the Dialogue”: the encounter on paper between MAryam Touzani and Mauro Macchioni, extended through a long conversation ...

This work is representative of my recent practice focusing on the intersectionality of Blackness and examinations of the past. I am fascinated by how those intersections persist and shape how we accept our identities. I am continually recontextualizing the Black image, embodying feeling through physicality, and reflecting on the present realities shaped by generational truths. My practice is ...

The Leipzig Photobook Festival reopens for its fifth edition at Halle 14 “Power drifts between what is visible and what is hidden,” state Sarker Protick and Donald Weber’s Der Greif Guest Room from fall 2025. Power settles into structures, interfaces, habits of seeing and unseeing. It determines who is visible and who is rendered peripheral, whose stories circulate and whose are quietly ...

In the wake of the 2001 Twin Towers and 2005 London attacks, Rome underwent a visible transformation. The city became heavily militarized, with soldiers stationed outside embassies, monuments, and metro stops. This shift didn't just alter urban traffic; it fundamentally restricted the right to photograph. The list of "sensitive locations" expanded, and surveillance intensified in public spaces ...

What will future cultures think of the scarred earth we leave behind? My long-term project, “Supernatural,” contrasts past iconography with the surreal conditions of the Anthropocene era. I imagine future archaeological discoveries and the potential narratives that could emerge about our civilization. I photograph the liminal spaces of the Anthropocene landscape, from the buffer zones between ...

“‘Presence’ functions as a fluid record of the patriarchal (il)legibility of women’s histories of persecution. Read through Silvia Federici’s analysis of witch hunts as foundational acts of capitalist violence, the work exposes how systems of bodily governance and extraction persist, structuring women’s lives long after the violence itself has been historicized. By recombining archival images ...

An anticipation of the exhibition by Sheung Yiu, the 2025 C/O Berlin Talent Award winner C/O Berlin presents “(Inter)faces of Predictions,” the exhibition of the 2025 C/O Berlin Talent Award winner Sheung Yiu. On view from 7 February to 10 June 2026, the exhibition opens on Friday, 6 February 2026 at 20:00 at C/O Berlin in the Amerika Haus. Photography has long been shaped by the assumption ...

“The Great Pretender” is a personal exploration of masculinity and the ways traditional gender roles persist and evolve. While societal expectations are slowly shifting, and men are increasingly encouraged to express vulnerability and emotion, many conventional norms remain deeply ingrained. Growing up in the Netherlands, gender roles felt more fluid, but after moving to New York City I noticed ...

The latest finds from our community artists’ photobooks “In Focus” is a series of reviews in which we hunt down and peruse our favourite publications off the shelves of our community artists. This month, we are taking a closer look at “Dead End” by Nicola Moscelli and “The Lines We Draw” by Lavinia Parlamenti and Manfredi Pantanella.

“The Three of Us” grows out of a real and often overlooked facet of Soviet history: the conviction that death itself could be overcome. After the 1917 Revolution, some Bolsheviks envisioned not only a new society but a new humanity: one liberated from illness, aging, and even mortality. Scientific writings speculated seriously about resurrecting the dead and engineering eternal life, and there is ...

Chișinău-based photographer Ramin Mazur’s long-term practice examines place, vernaculars, and everyday life beyond dominant narratives Images that circulate widely on social media play a decisive role in shaping how social and political realities are produced, perceived, and contested. Far from being neutral, these images contribute to the formation of cultural and territorial identities, ...

What hasn’t happened, but could. The invisible and yet incapacitating. The fear of radiation has long fueled the imagination, driving the need for stories of redress and warning. Nausea. Headache. Vomiting. Incapacitation. What happens to a body once it's exposed to radiation? The fear of radiation has long shaped the collective imagination, provoking stories of warning, speculation, and ...

While working on my project “Breathing in 100000 km, breathing out,” I travelled across Poland and Iceland, returning to places that had left strong emotional traces within me. I focused on expressing the character of each location. The project became a life journey, a search for what feels most essential to me. It is better to feel and to continue looking, even when we do not fully understand ...

“Hill Pictures” documents the long-term conservation of the Belfast Hills: Slievenacloy, Colin Glen, Divis and the Black Mountain, Ligoniel, Cave Hill, and Carnmoney Hill. The project traces how people move through, care for, and remain connected to these landscapes. The series follows both human presence and natural processes across the hillsides, paying attention to subtle gestures, seasonal ...

The moment every photograph is created, a process of alienation between present and past begins immediately. What is fixed as an image is already slipping away from lived experience, becoming a trace rather than a continuation of time. Photography, in this sense, is never neutral: it produces distance even as it promises preservation. In my work “Attendant,” time becomes measurable, ...

Guest Room fosters collaboration and sparks creative exchange. For this edition, gallerist and curator Ghislain Pascal and New York-based photographer Sebastian Perinotti collaborate to explore the theme of identity. Identities are not fixed. They move, clash, overlap, and collide with the world around us. Inside every image, there is a tension between how we see ourselves and how others see us, ...

A photobook published by Dwaalstêr Editions featuring images by Der Greif community artist Jansen van Staden “In Focus” is a series of reviews in which we hunt down and peruse our favourite publications off the shelves of our community artists. This month, we are taking a closer look at “Protean Routes,” a photobook published by Dwaalstêr Editions featuring images by Jansen van Staden and ...

“A Place Where We Are in the Sun” explores the complexities of family, land, and belonging in Southern California from the perspective of an eighth-generation Californio: of Indigenous, Mexican, and European ancestry. Created on ancestral lands in and around Los Angeles, these physically manipulated and rephotographed family archives probe the intertwined relationships between land and kin, while ...

We have grown accustomed to accepting the existence of phenomena that elude our full understanding. Space, in particular, remains a frontier beyond our complete comprehension: its scale and boundaries remain elusive not only to the general public but even to scientists. Despite remarkable advances, we have yet to grasp the true magnitude of the cosmos and its indeterminate limits. This prompts me ...

Residencies as sites where mobility redistributes opportunities The growing emphasis on mobility within European cultural policy reflects a broader philosophical shift in how artistic work is understood today. For example, EU’s Creative Europe agenda and the newer mobility fund Culture Moves Europe position cross-border circulation as a driver of innovation, diversity, and cultural resilience. ...

Guest Room fosters collaboration and sparks creative exchange. For this edition, curator Dr. Charmaine Toh joins forces with curator and art historian Philippe Pirotte and explore the theme "Black Box". "Photography has always evolved with new techniques – from the chemical to the digital, from analog processes to networked circulation. Yet at its core, image-making often carries a sense of ...