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.

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

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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.

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.

Please click on image to read the interview.

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

screenshot: www.ostkreuz-galerie.de

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 2:

Only five days until the end of our exhibition ˝The city - Becoming and decaying" . Those who could not visit the exhibition have the opportunity to do so until sunday evening (04.07.2010).






images: © Lene Münch

OSTKREUZ was among the few European collectives which in May were invited to Madrid for the Meeting of Euro-American Photographic Collectives (E.CO), including a symposium, a huge group display and a screening in the historic city. Afterwards we took part in a workshop in Soria and the subsequent exhibition in the town centre.

After our arrival in Madrid a driver picked us up and brought us to a nice hotel in the city centre. Three mornings we joined in round table discussions at the Spanish Ministry of Culture, discussing topics such as financing, marketing and production of self-assigned stories of collectives. In the afternoon presentations of the various collectives took place, in the course of which Linn Schröder and I spoke about the agency as well as the exhibition and book projects ›Ostzeit‹ and ’The City’. The second evening many people attended the opening of an exhibition on the subject of the environment, including Maurice Weiss’ series on the Bikini Atoll, Andrej Krementschouk’s project on Tschernobyl and my work on the nuclear power reactor in Greifswald and the Asse II pit. It took place at a former tobacco factory in the city centre, a nice location, comparable to C/O Berlin. The third and last evening of our stay in Madrid a big screening, including a selection of our ›Ostzeit‹ project, took place on a nice small square in the historical district.

The following morning a coach brought us to Soria. Having checked in at our hotel, we were invited to a welcome lunch with the mayor and took part in a meeting about the workshop and exhibition at the former main building of the Bank of Spain. We spent the following two days taking pictures during the day and preparing the prints for the exhibition in the evening. Unfortunately I had to leave a day early so that I couldn’t take part in the opening.

Taking part in the E.CO meeting in Madrid and the workshop in Soria was an inspiring experience, permitting us to establish contact with European and Latin American collectives.

Thomas Meyer

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