Das Fotoprojekt leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Dokumentation eines bis heute wenig bekannten Teils deutscher Nachkriegsgeschichte.

In ihrer ersten Monografie beschäftigt sich Maria Klenner mit den Schicksalen von 2.000 Kindern, die unmittelbar nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges in dem von den Alliierten eingerichteten Displaced Persons Camp in Bergen-Belsen geboren wurden. In über acht Jahren ist eine wertvolle Sammlung von 26 Porträts und Zeitzeugenberichten von Nachfahren der Überle...

Helen Levitt (1913 – 2009) numbers among the foremost exponents of street photography. As a passionate observer and chronicler of everyday street life in New York, she spent decades documenting residents of the city’s poorer neighbourhoods such as Lower East Side and Harlem. Levitt’s oeuvre stands out for her sense of dynamics and surrealistic sense of humour, and her employment of color photography was revolutionary: Levitt numbers among those photographers who pioneered and establishe...

25 Jahre nach dem Ende der Apartheid in Su¿dafrika verwebt das Buch viel- fa¿ltige Geschichten und Perspektiven u¿ber Generationen hinweg.

In den fru¿hen 1990er-Jahren reiste der niederla¿ndische Fotograf Ad van Denderen nach Welkom, einer kleinen Bergarbeitersiedlung in Su¿dafrika, um die letzten Tage der Apartheid zu dokumentieren. 25 Jahre spa¿ter entdeckte Lebohang Tlali, damals ein junger Kunststudent in Kapstadt, van Denderens mittlerweile von der Kritik gefeiertes Buch Welkom in...

Eboundja is a project that occupies Reinout van den Bergh from 2011 onwards. Since 2009, the thirty families of the same-named fishing village in southern Cameroon are in great uncertainty about their future. The village is situated in the middle of a coastal strip where the Chinese, in exchange for Cameroon’s iron ore, are constructing a deep sea harbour. The inhabitants are vulnerable to the combination of a corrupt government and megalomaniac project developers. In a series of photograph...

When Dutch photographer Geert Broertjes was diagnosed with cancer, his artist colleague Lotte Bronsgeest asked if she could make a portrait of him, »still pure, without the presence of poisonous medicine in his body.« That became the start of this project, in which Lotte and Geert chose analog photography to visualize the experiences of a patient undergoing the three most common cancer treatments: chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery. They subjected film rolls and negatives to the same t...

Arctic Heroes takes a poignant look at the fate of the Greenland sled dog. In Greenland, where the melting ice sheet is irrevocably disrupting the hunters’ 4,000-year old traditional way of life, the stark reality of global warming is an immediate and direct threat to their everyday survival. The Greenland sled dog, essential to Inuit settlement and survival, now faces extinction as hunters are forced to adapt to the vanishing world around them. In over 150 images, and through hunters’ pe...

Bas Losekoot is presenting a photo essay in which he provides insight in the psychological journey of commuters in modern megacities. Placing his camera in the liminal spaces of the city, he is addressing the state of in-between-ness of the modern urban experience. With an intuitive eye, he observes the »presentation of self« and »micro-second meetings« that everyday urban encounters prevail. The book includes photography from the cities of New York, São Paulo, Seoul, Mumbai, Hong Kong, ...

After explicitly depicting the horrors of war in War Porn and commenting on its absurdity in hello camel, Christoph Bangert now reflects in the third and last volume of this series on his own past and role as a journalist on the front. Rumors of War is the personal diary of a now former war photographer who dares to admit that he misses the war and now has to find a way to cope with peace. Bangert impressively describes his inner conflict between the overwhelming, but also selfishly driven fe...

Peter Fink (1907, Grand Rapids - 1984, New York City) bereiste in den 1950er- bis 1970er-Jahren die Welt und fotografierte an abgelegenen Orten und in Industriestädten der Nachkriegszeit in Japan, Frankreich, Portugal, Nordafrika und im Mittleren Osten. Kunst und Kultur sind wiederkehrende Themen, ebenso wie das Leben von Arbeitern, Familien oder Kindern an jedem Ort, den er besuchte. Daneben entstanden expressive Porträts und Modefotografien, surreale Stillleben oder seine

radikalen Refrac...