Espen Eichhöfer: Welcome to OSTKREUZ! After working as a professional photographer for quite a long time, what are your main wishes regarding your junior membership at OSTKREUZ?
Sibylle Fendt: After eight years of working mostly on my own, I'm looking forward to being part of a community, to the exchange between the members, to collective projects and to having a share in the further development of the agency. 
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Interview - Sibylle Fendt
08.09.2010 | | Interviews -
Various - Pepa Hristova at ttt
30.08.2010 | | VariousYesterday our photographer Pepa Hristova presented her project "Sworn Virgins" in the German cultural TV program "ttt" (titles, thesis, temperaments). You can watch the video in the ARD mediathek (unfortunately only in german)
here.
screenshot ard mediathek ttt - titel thesen tempramente
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Interview - Jörg Brüggemann - Metalheadz Indonesia
19.08.2010 | | InterviewsJörg Brüggemann has been working on a project on globalized Heavy Metal culture. In February he travelled to Indonesia to portray the local Metal scene with the help of a VG BildKunst scholarship. In the following interview Dawin Meckel asked him why he went there and what he experienced.
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Exhibition - Sibylle Bergemann, Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler - "Sibylle"
10.08.2010 | | Books/Exhibitions"Sibylle" listed among the most popular magazines in the GDR. From 1956 to 1990 it was published every two months in an edition of 200.000 copies, which used to run immediately out of stock. Until 1995 it was available all over Germany. The magazine's success is referred to its aspiration to combine fashion, photography and culture.
Three of OSTKREUZ' founding members, Sibylle Bergemann, Ute and Werner Mahler, are among the photographers who shaped the particular aesthetics of the magazine.
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Marco Dorn - Profile
06.08.2010 | | Inside OSTKREUZOur office has a new addition. Marco Dorn is our new apprentice and we would like to introduce him with a short profile.
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Anne Schönharting - Interview
04.08.2010 | | InterviewsAnother interview regarding "The City". Like the other interviews before they were realized by the department for picture editors at the "OSTKREUZ School of Photography". Our photographer Anne Schoenharting talks about her experiences and pictures about the planned and "perfect" international city of Auroville in India. A heart felled "Thank you" goes to Ismini Goula, Renata Šikić (for concept & production) and Kevin Mertens, Phillipp Plum (video and editing).
Unfortunately the interview is only in German.
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Heinrich Völkel - Interview
26.07.2010 | | InterviewsAs we mentioned it some days ago, students of the department for picture editing at OSTKREUZ school for photography produced three video interviews with OSTKREUZ photographers. Today, we introduce you to the interview with Heinrich Voelkel, who is speaking about his project "the terrible city" which he did in Gaza/ Palestine.
This time Peter Böhmer, Yasmin Klüh and Andrea Knobloch were responsible for concept and production. Viedo and editing: Kevin Mertens and Phillip Plum.
Thank you so much. You all did a great job on this interview.
Unfortunately the interview is only in German.
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Books - Andrej Kremenschouk - Come Bury Me
23.07.2010 | | Books/ExhibitionsAfter winning this year's German photo book prize in silver with his book No Direction Home, our photographer Andrej Krementschouk is now busy printing his new book Come Bury Me. The setting of this story is a dilapidated old cottage in the center of a small Russian town, where a group of homeless people have created a home for themselves at the edge of society.
The book will be published by Kehrer in August 2010.
Andrej Krementschouk:Come Bury me
Kehrer Verlag,
2010 80 Seiten, ca. 28
Euro ISBN-13: 978-3868281200
