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.
-
Dawin Meckel - Interview
22.07.2010 | | Interviews -
Interviews - Dawin Meckel on Conscientious
16.07.2010 | | InterviewsOnce 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.
-
Inside OSTKREUZ - Online galery
15.07.2010 | | Inside OSTKREUZOur 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
-
Inside OSTKREUZ - Maik Reichert - Documentary film
14.07.2010 | | Inside OSTKREUZMaik 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:
-
The City - The end of the City
29.06.2010 | | The City ProjectOnly 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 -
On the road - E.CO Madrid
28.06.2010 | | On the roadOSTKREUZ 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
-
The City - Conscientious
27.06.2010 | | The City ProjectLast year Jörg Colberg presented a personal selection of OSTKREUZ reportages on his renowned photography blog Conscientious. Now he posted a review on the catalogue of our anniversary exhibition 'The City. Becoming and Decaying' (on view until 4 July 2010 at C/O Berlin). Thanks very much, Jörg, we are glad you like it.
image: screenshot Conscientious webblog -
OSTKREUZ on Facebook
25.06.2010 | | VariousOSTKREUZ is now represented on Facebook. Check it out for current news, blog links and background information. Become a friend of OSTKREUZ and be always up to date concerning jobs, exhibitions and new projects of OSTKREUZ.
image: screenshot, facebook - www.facebook.com