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7th Fotobookfestival Kassel 2015 – PANEL OF REVIEWERS
Alex Bocchetto and Valentina Abenavoli - Publisher, AKINA BOOKS, London
Akina Books is an independent publishing house of limited hand-made photobooks as well as long run, established in 2012 by Alex Bocchetto and Valentina
Abenavoli – two Italians based in London but working internationally. Akina is a
space to conceive, edit, design, print and bind ideas, working closely with the
authors on every aspect of the creative and technical process of bookmaking for
every project they take up. Their most notable editions include “Grand Circle Diego” by Cyril Costilhes, “Italia o Italia” by Federico Clavarino, “Teikai” and “Linger”
by Daisuke Yokota (currently working on the third book of the trilogy), “Balkan
Pank” by Joze Suhadolnik as well as 10 issues of “Eclisse” – a periodical limited–
edition handmade series, featuring short stories by emerging photographers.
www.akinabooks.com
Irène Attinger - Library and bookshop,
MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, Paris
Irène Attinger works since 1986 in photography museums : the Musée de
l’Élysée (Lausanne) and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris). She is
a famous photo book expert and also a curator. She takes part in many international jurys, portfolio reviews and lectures about photo books.
http://mep-fr.org/
Gerry Badger – Photographer, writer and critic, London
Gerry Badger is a photographer, architect, and photographic critic. He has written
extensively for the photographic press, and has curated a number of exhibitions,
including The Photographer as Printmaker (1980) for the Arts Council of Great
Britain, and Through the Looking Glass: Post-war British Photography (1989) for
the Barbican Arts Centre, London. He has written introductory essays to many
photographic monographs, including those of such photographers as Stephen
Shore, John Gossage, Anthony Hernandez, Guido Guidi, Martin Parr, Peter Fraser,
Jem Southam, and Chris Killip, as well as contributing to books on photography,
exhibition catalogues, and magazines worldwide. Among his books are Collecting
Photography (2002), The Genius of Photography (2007), and (with Martin Parr),
The Photobook: A History (2 vols., 2004 and 2006), and The Pleasures of Good
Photographs (2010). The Photobook: A History was the winner of the Deutsche
Fotobuch Preis and Kraszna Krausz Prize in 2007. The Pleasures of Good Photographs won the Infinity Writers’ Award of the International Center for Photography,
New York, in 2011.
Nadine Barth – Photo-editor at HATJE CANTZ, Germany
Nadine Barth is a curator and publicist. She studied philosophy, literature, and art
history in Hamburg and worked for many years as a journalist and art dealer. In
2006, she founded the barthouse culture concepts agency for art and communications. She has edited diverse publications on photography and fashion and has
curated exhibitions for the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, the MAMM in Moscow, Puma
in Singapore, and the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, among others. Nadine Barth
has been a consulting editor for photography art books at Hatje Cantz since 2013.
She lives in Berlin.
http://hatjecantz.de/
Harvey Benge – Photographer and writer, Auckland
Photographer, writer and teacher, Harvey Benge’s works from Auckland and Paris,
his practice focuses on picture series realised through the photobook. With over
fifty titles to date, his work has been published in Britain, France, Germany, Japan
and New Zealand. Benge has conducted workshops with many well known international photographers and curators including Antoine d’Agata, Peter Bialobrzeski,
Lewis Baltz, Alec Soth, John Gossage, Paul Graham, Rineke Dijkstra, Todd Hido,
Pieter Hugo, Quentin Bajac, and Sandra Phillips.
Pierre Bessard – Publisher, EDITIONS BESSARD, Paris
Éditions Bessard is a Paris-based independent publishing house created by Pierre
Bessard in October 2011. Focusing on working with artists, writers and curators to
realize intellectually challenging projects in book form.
Pierre is interested in seeing all types of work, seeing the reviews as an opportunity to discover new talent, is interested in looking at any project that has potential
as a book and particularly interested in seeing bookdummy’s and finished photobooks, Image-text projects, photo-literary series, etc Additionally, Pierre is interested in reappropriation and use of archival materials…
www.editionsbessard.com
Krysztof Candrowicz – Artistic director,
TRIENNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY HAMBURG / LODZ FESTIVAL
Krzysztof Candrowicz is a founder and director of the international Festival of photography in lodz, foundation of visual education and Lodz art center. As a director
of the festival, in 2004 he established a network of 30 european festivals of photography, called photo Festival union. Krzysztof Candrowicz is also working as a
guest curator and visiting Lecturer in numerous organizations, museums, schools
and festivals in Europe and worldwide. In january 2014 he became artistic director
of Triennial of photography in hamburg.
WWW.FOTOFESTIWAL.COM
WWW.PHOTOTRIENNALE.DE
Chiara Capodici – Curator, TRETERZI, Rome
3/3 was founded in Roma by Chiara Capodici and Fiorenza Pinna.
Since 2009, 3/3 has curated a series of exhibitions, publications and taught a
number of workshops on the subject of publishing, collaborating with the likes of
Rinko Kawauchi, Anouk Kruithof, Rob Hornstra and Joachim Schmid. In 2010 Little
Big Press was launched, a periodical exhibition, a library and itinerant bookstore
dedicated to independent and self-published photography titles. 3/3 has been in
charge of the publishing sector of MIA Art Fair between 2010 and 2014. Selected
curated exhibitions include Joel Sternfeld’s first italian solo exhibition, Temporary?
Landscapes by Massimo Mastrolillo, the collective Mizu no Oto and a focus on
Japanese publishing (Fotografia X); alongside Annalisa D’Angelo and Stefano Ruffa
the exhibitions Lost and Found (Fotografia XI), Life After Zero Hour by the collective Mastodon (SI Fest and FotoGrafia XI) and The Narrow Door by Massimiliano
Tommaso Rezza (Fotografia Europea 2014). The most recent curated publications
include Vorrei tra le mie mani il tuo viso che è terra (come terra) by Daniele Cinciripini, Saluti da Pinetamare by Salvatore Santoro, Piergiorgio Casotti’s Sometimes
I cannot Smile, Eleonora Calvelli’s In Bloom (Postcart), and the two volumes La
Città Nascosta and Rome LOVE for the book series Storie di Roma (Camera21),
and Alphabet by Ezio D’Agostino (Skinnerboox), a publication developed and finalized as winner project of make a book contest, Jesi. 3/3 is photoeditor at LAZLO
magazine.
www.treterzi.org
Verónica Fieiras – Publisher, RIOT BOOKS, Spain
Verónica Fieiras is an Argentinian photographer based in Madrid, where she has
been teaching photography for the last 5 years.In November 2013, she founded
RIOT BOOKS with Ilkin Huseynov, an independent publishing house based in
Spain. Under this label, she published her first book: The Disappeared, nominated
in Kassel last year and exhibited in many places.
www.riot-books.com
Ángel Luis González Fernández – Director, PHOTOIRELAND FESTIVAL, Dublin
Ángel Luis González Fernández is the founder and Director of PhotoIreland. The
organisation celebrates Ireland’s International Photography festival every July. He
launched in 2011 ‚The Library Project‘, a publicly accessible collection of publications around Photography, holding today over 1200 key items from 220 publishers
worldwide. Today, The Library Project premises are also host to an Art bookshop
and a gallery. Ángel won the David Manley Entrepreneur Award 2011 in the Arts
category. He has reviewed in festivals like Les Rencontres d‘Arles, and published
books like ‘Martin Parr‘s Best Books of the Decade’ in 2011, and ‘New Irish Works’
in 2013. He has designed books for Irish photographers such as Miriam O‘Connor
and David Farrell.
http://photoireland.org Curt Holtz – Head of Photography, PRESTEL PUBLISHING, Germany
Curt Holtz is a Commissioning Editor for Photography & Architecture books at Prestel, a member of Verlagsgruppe Random House, with offices in Munich, London,
and New York. His books include monographs on Roger Ballen, Devendra Banhart,
Anton Corbijn, Pieter Hugo, Zanele Muholi, Viviane Sassen, Guy Tillim, and Olaf
Unverzart, among others. He is based in Munich, Germany.
http://www.randomhouse.de/prestel_eng/
Ilkin Huseynov – Publisher, RIOT BOOKS, Spain
Ilkin Huseynov is an Azerbaijani photographer based in Madrid. He has been
working in a 5 years project based on memories of his own country affected after
the URSS collapse. The project has been exhibited in many places.In NOVEMBER
2013 he founded RIOT BOOKS with Veronica Fieiras, an independent publishing
house based in Spain. Under this label, he published his first book: Mühit.
www.riot-books.com
Manik Katyal – Founder & editor-in-chief, EMAHO MAGAZINE, India
Manik is the founder, curator and editor-in-chief of Emaho Magazine. Emaho was
started as a magazine to introduce the work of emerging photographers and to
provide them with a global platform to showcase their talent. Manik has also been
nominated for the ‘Creative Entrepreneur of 2012’ award by the British Council,
Emaho was invited to judge the FORMAT International Photography Festival, United Kingdom, The Reminders Stronghold Project Grant, Japan. He served on the
panel for the LUCEO Student Awards 2013 and was on the jury for International
Photography Awards. Manik has also served as a portfolio reviewer in various international festivals including FORMAT International Photography Festival, United
Kingdom, Chiang Mai Documentary Arts Festival, Thailand, Angkor Photo Festival,
Cambodia, Encontros da Imagem, Portugal, Les Rencontres d‘Arles,France and
Lens Culture Foto-Fest, France. Manik was also invited to do portfolio reviews at
The New York Times Portfolio Reviews, USA in April and Photo Ireland, Dublin in
July 2014. Manik was on the jury for Daylight Book Award 2014, Kassel Photobook
Award and First Chinese Grand Prix IPA International Photography Award 2014.
Emahomagazine.com
Klaus Kehrer – Director, KEHRER PUBLISHING, Germany
Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, studied at the University of Mannheim and then took
a job at the Braus publishing house and art print shop in Heidelberg. After a short
period as an employee, he turned to book design and began to do freelance work
producing art books and exhibition catalogs for museums and artists. Kehrer
founded the Kehrer Verlag in 1995, which he runs today with a team of about
twenty employees. The publishing house focuses on the design, production, and
international distribution of primarily photography books. In 2014, the publisher
in addition opened Galerie Kehrer in Berlin. Kehrer is the German partner of the
European Publishers Award for Photography. He occasionally conducts workshops
on book design and photobook marketing and, as a reviewer at photography festivals, actively seeks out fresh talent. www.kehrerverlag.com
www.kehrerberlin.com www.europhotobookaward.eu
Erik Kessels – Artist, curator and creative director of
KESSELSKRAMER PUBLISHING, Netherlands
Born in 1966, lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Erik Kessels is since 1996 Creative Director of communications agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam and works for national and international clients. As an artist and photography
collector Kessels has published several books of his ‚collected‘ images: Missing
Links (1999), The Instant Men (2000), in almost every picture (2001-2013) and
Wonder (2006). Since 2000, he has been an editor of the alternative photography
magazine Useful Photography. For the DVD art project Loud & Clear he worked
together with artists such as Marlene Dumas and Candice Breitz. Kessels writes
regular editorials for numerous international magazines. He lectured at the D&AD
Presidents Lecture and at several international design conferences such as in
Singapore, Goa, NY, Toronto and Bangkok. He has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld
Academy and at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture where he curated a
celebration of amateurism.
Kessels made and curated exhibitions such as The European Championship of
Graphic Design, Graphic Detour, Loving Your Pictures, Use me Abuse me, 24HRS
of Photos and Album Beauty . He als co-curated an exhibition called From Here
on together with Martin Parr, Joachim Schmid, Clement Cheroux and Joan Fontuberta. In 2010 Kessels was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize of the Arts and in
2012 elected as the most influential creative of The Netherlands.
http://kesselskramerpublishing.com/
TSE Ming-chong – Curator, gallerist, teacher and photographer, Hong Kong
TSE Ming-chong is not only a photographer, he is interested in every image-making media, time media and theatre art. His works focus on how individuals
behave in relation with history and society. He is a co-founder of Lumenvisum, a
non-profit organization dedicated to promoting photography education in Hong
Kong. Currently he is the Principal Lecturer at the Hong Kong Design Institute.
His solo exhibitions include: Art Marking Boundaries Central and Western District
Public Art Project”, (2009, HK), Horse Race Will Continue in Hong Kong (2000,
HK), Face To Face (1999, HK & Australia), Flashes Of Images (1997, HK) and Hong
Kong ‘94 (1995, HK), etc. Group exhibitions include: Long time no see, Victoria
(2014, HK), 300 Families (2013, HK), Luminous Harbor: Hong Kong Contemporary
Photography (2011 Tokyo), Megafauna (2011, Taipei), City Flaneur: Social Documentary Photography (2010, HK), Imaging Hong Kong (2008, HK), Hong Kong Art
Biennial 2005 (2006, HK).
Aron Morel – Publisher, MOREL BOOKS, London
http://news.morelbooks.com/
Andreas Müller-Pohle – Artist and publisher of
EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY, Berlin
Andreas Müller-Pohle is a Berlin-based media artist and publisher. He studied economics and communication at the Universities of Hannover and Gottingen and, in
1979, founded European Photography, an independent art magazine for contemporary photography and new media. His first artistic projects from the late 1970s
focused on issues of photographic perception, later on photo recycling, and now
also incorporate video. In the mid-1990s he began exploring the use of digital,
genetic, and political codes. In his most recent works he addresses the subject of
water with extensive portraits of the Danube River and the megalopolis of Hong
Kong. Müller-Pohle’s works have been widely published and exhibited and are
included in numerous private and museum collections worldwide. As a publisher,
Müller-Pohle has edited major works by media philosopher Vilém Flusser, available today in the ten-volume Edition Flusser and including the seminal Philosophy of
Photography, which has been translated into over 20 languages. Müller-Pohle was
awarded the European Photography Prizeof the Reind M. De Vries Foundation in
2001. He is the author of numerous texts on photo theory, among others on ‘Visualism’, and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at the Higher Institute of
Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, among other institutions. His most recent project,
Hong Kong Waters, was published by Kehrer Verlag and Asia One Books.
Interested in: works that combine a concept or theme with an enhancing aesthetic
approach; book projects are especially welcome. Not interested in: commercial,
decorative photography.
http://www.muellerpohle.net/
Moritz Neumüller – Independant curator, Madrid
Moritz Neumüller is a Barcelona-based curator, educator and writer in the field of
Photography and New Media. He has worked for institutions such as MoMA New
York, La Fábrica Madrid and PhotoIreland Festival. He is the academic director of
the Photo Department of IED Madrid, and a regular contributor to magazines such
as European Photography, foam and Photoresearcher. Since 2010, he runs the
The Curator Ship, an online resource for visual artists. Recent curatorial projects
for Daegu Biennial (Korea), Photobook Week Aarhus (DK), and The Birmingham
Library (UK).
www.curator-ship.org
www.iedphotography.com
Alison Nordström – Artistic director, LODZ FESTIVAL,
Former Director GEORG EASTMAN HOUSE
Alison Nordström is an independent writer and curator based in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Formerly Founding Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast
Museum of Photography, and Senior Curator of Photographs/Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House, she has worked extensively on both 20th century
documentary photography and contemporary photographic art. She is the author
of over 100 published essays on photographic topics, and has curated over 100
photographic exhibitions in nine countries. She holds the PhD in Cultural and
Visual Studies.
http://www.fotofestiwal.com/2014/
Monte Packham – Publisher, STEIDL, Germany
Born in Sydney in 1981, Monte Packham is a writer and editor who today divides
his time between Munich and Göttingen. With bachelor degrees with honours in
art history and law, Packham has worked since 2007 as an editor at Steidl, where
he also coordinates the publishing house’s fashion projects and exhibitions. Packham’s writing has been published in numerous magazines, and he is the author of
Concentric Circles (2011) as well an upcoming biography of Swedish art collector
and patron Theodor Ahrenberg.
www.steidl.de
Fiorenza Pinna – Curator, TRETERZI, Rome
3/3 was founded in Roma by Chiara Capodici and Fiorenza Pinna.
Since 2009, 3/3 has curated a series of exhibitions, publications and taught a
number of workshops on the subject of publishing, collaborating with the likes of
Rinko Kawauchi, Anouk Kruithof, Rob Hornstra and Joachim Schmid. In 2010 Little
Big Press was launched, a periodical exhibition, a library and itinerant bookstore
dedicated to independent and self-published photography titles. 3/3 has been in
charge of the publishing sector of MIA Art Fair between 2010 and 2014. Selected
curated exhibitions include Joel Sternfeld’s first italian solo exhibition, Temporary?
Landscapes by Massimo Mastrolillo, the collective Mizu no Oto and a focus on
Japanese publishing (Fotografia X); alongside Annalisa D’Angelo and Stefano Ruffa
the exhibitions Lost and Found (Fotografia XI), Life After Zero Hour by the collective Mastodon (SI Fest and FotoGrafia XI) and The Narrow Door by Massimiliano
Tommaso Rezza (Fotografia Europea 2014). The most recent curated publications
include Vorrei tra le mie mani il tuo viso che è terra (come terra) by Daniele Cinciripini, Saluti da Pinetamare by Salvatore Santoro, Piergiorgio Casotti’s Sometimes
I cannot Smile, Eleonora Calvelli’s In Bloom (Postcart), and the two volumes La
Città Nascosta and Rome LOVE for the book series Storie di Roma (Camera21),
and Alphabet by Ezio D’Agostino (Skinnerboox), a publication developed and finalized as winner project of make a book contest, Jesi. 3/3 is photoeditor at LAZLO
magazine.
www.treterzi.org
André Príncipe – Photographer and publisher,
PIERRE VON KLEIST EDITIONS, Lisbon
André Príncipe is a filmmaker, photographer and publisher. He is the founder of
Pierre von kleist editions. He has published six books; Tunnels (Booth-Clibborn
editions, 2005), Master and Everyone (2010), I thought you knew the place where
all of the elephants lie down (2011), Perfume do Boi (2012), Smell of Tiger precedes Tiger (2012) and Tokyo Diaries (2014, with Marco Martins). His film Traces of
a diary (co-directed with Marco Martins) with Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama
and Takuma Nakahira played in film festivals around the world and won the honaray jury award in Documenta Madrid. Flamingo field without flamingos,his latest
feature film, premiered in Indie Lisboa 2013 and was recently commercialy released.
http://www.pierrevonkleist.com/
Hannes Wanderer – Publisher, Bookseller, PEPERONI BOOKS / 25BOOKS,
Berlin-based Hannes Wanderer was born in Hameln 1958. His parents ran a
printing press so that Hannes Wanderer was in touch with printed matter from
the very start. In 1979 he completed his training as a prepress expert and as such
worked for several companies in Berlin for two decades. In 1997 he co-founded
the ›Peperoni Advertising Agency‹ where he was responsible for concept, text,
graphic design and photography for many different customers. 2004 he
founded the publishing house ›Peperoni Books‹ and the first ›Peperoni‹ title ›Time
Out‹ was released – his own project. Since 2009 Hannes Wanderer also runs the
photobookstore with showroom ›25books‹ as well as the associated webshop and
a blog. In addition to the regular publication of photography books, all of which
are printed by family printing press „Wanderer“, Hannes Wanderer gives lectures
and workshops for ›Ostkreuz‹ and the ›New School for Photography‹ in Berlin,
HAW Hamburg, Hartford Art School, Rodchenko School, Moscow and at various
Photobook Festivals.
http://peperoni-books.de/
http://25books.com/