• Heinrich Völkel - Interview
    26.07.2010 | OSTKREUZ | Videos

    As 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.

    the terrible city

  • Books - Andrej Kremenschouk - Come Bury Me
    23.07.2010 | OSTKREUZ | Books/Exhibitions

    After 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

    come bury me

    come bury me

    come bury me

    read on ...

  • Dawin Meckel - Interview
    22.07.2010 | OSTKREUZ | Videos

    The department for picture editors at the "OSTKREUZ School of Photography" took the chance and realized three video interviews for the exhibition "The City".
    Today we will start showing them, with the one having Dawin Meckel talk about his Detroit project "DownTown".
    The Students Laura Droße, Jan Hartig and Ulrike Neumann sign responsible for the concept and production of the interview. Camera and film editing were done by Kevin Mertens and Phillipp Plum.

    A big "Thank you" goes out to them for the amazing work.
    Unfortunately the interview is only in German.


    DownTown

  • Interviews - Dawin Meckel on Conscientious
    16.07.2010 | OSTKREUZ | Interviews

    Once again OSTKREUZ is represented on the renowned photography blog Conscientious by our photographer Dawin Meckel. In an interview about the series "DownTown", his contribution to our exhibition project "The City", he describes among other things why he decided to go to Detroit and how he proceeded.


    screenshot

    Please click on image to read the interview.

  • Inside OSTKREUZ - Online galery
    15.07.2010 | OSTKREUZ | Inside OSTKREUZ

    Our OSTKREUZ anniversary exhibition ’The city. Becoming and Decaying’ may have ended but it has left traces: We are glad to present our new online gallery. Each of the eighteen photographers has chosen one picture which is also available in a complete edition including the exhibition catalogue.

    www.ostkreuz-galerie.de

    edition

    screenshot: www.ostkreuz-galerie.de

  • Inside OSTKREUZ - Maik Reichert - Documentary film
    14.07.2010 | OSTKREUZ | Inside OSTKREUZ

    Maik Reichert is a freelance photographer and a documentary filmmaker. He studies Audiovisual Media at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.  For his graduate thesis film he attended all of the 18 photographers of the agency OSTKREUZ with his camera for a period of one year. The project is not finished yet but you can see two clips of it here. Unfortunately the film is only in German.

    Part 1:
    part one

    Part 2:
    part two