Archive
Here you can find information about the former festivals regarding theme, programme and events, as well as you can reade about the former portfolio reviewers.
The theme 2009: Landscape
In these years where both climate as well as landscape and the powers of nature play an increasingly active part of our daily lives, landscape is no longer something that we can just take for granted and recklessly consume.
Landscape has inspired photographers since the invention of the medium in the 19th century and over the years photography has added new dimensions to our understanding and insight into nature as idea and phenomenon. Contemporary landscape photography confronts us with the problems human beings have created in nature. It makes visible our intervention in the landscape, our transformation of the landscape. At the festival you will therefore be able to experience landscape photography with a focus on:
- The city landscape
- The industrial landscape
- Agricultural landscape
- Untouched nature
- Destroyed nature
- as Geological phenomenon
- and much more
With this approach the festival will be adding to the current discussion about how we are treating the nature that surrounds us, and at the same time question our beliefs about nature, which is quite relevant in this point in time, where nature recovery is planned, together with national parks and the development of a nature canon.
Programme 2009
| Date: | Event: | Location: |
| 1 October | Festival Opening | Brandts, Odense |
| 8 October | Lecture: Nature, Wildlife and Climate | Brandts, Odense |
| 22 October | Lecture:The Landscape Photographer Ansel Adams | Brandts, Odense |
| 2 - 4 October | Meeting Place | Brandts, Odense |
| 24 October | Seminar: Image on Nature | Brandts, Odense |
| 31 October | Seminar: Landscape photography | Brandts, Odense |
Artist talks in connection with the openings:
| Friday 2 October 2009: | |
| Ringe bibliotek at 3.30pm: | Michael Marten |
| Naturama at 3.30pm | Andreas Müller-Pohle |
| Saturday 3 October 2009: | |
| Johannes Larsen Museet at 5pm: | Takeshi Shikama |
| Toldboden at 6pm: | Greg Smith |
| Filosofgangen at 8pm: | Søren Dahlgaard, |
| Tine Hauch-Fausbøll, | |
| Nikolaj Recke, | |
| Myne Søe-Pedersen, | |
| Pétur Thomsen & | |
| Carina Zunino |
Programme for Meeting Place
| Date: | Time: |
| Friday, 2 October 2009 | at 9am-12pm |
| Saturday, 3 October 2009 | at 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm |
| Sunday, 4 October 2009 | at 9am-12pm |
Events 2009
- Nature, Wildlife and and Climate - 8 October
- The Landscape Photographer Ansel Adams - 22 October
- Image on Nature - 24 October
- Landscape photography: Nature – Faith, Hope and Charity - 31 October
Nature, Wildlife and Climate - 8 October 2009
In connection with the festival Fototriennale.dk, Museet for Fotokunst is hosting a lecture by Thomas Bjørneboe Gomes Berg (scientist at Naturama, Svendborg) about how our climate influences nature and life – and about the challenges which our climate and nature presents to life.
It is taking place on October 8, 2009 at 7 pm on the second floor of Brandts, Brandts Torv 1, DK-5000 Odense C.
Price and enrolment
Price for participation: 35 DKK
Enrolment: Ingrid Fischer Jonge, phone 65 20 70 32, e-mail: ingrid.jonge@brandts.dk.
Payment at Brandts Shop.
The Landscape Photographer Ansel Adams
In connection with the festival Fototriennale.dk, Museet for Fotokunst is hosting a lecture by Dr. Anne Hammond about the great American landscape photographer Ansel Adams. Please note: this lecture is in English.. The lecture takes place on October 22, 2009 at 7 pm.
Free admission
Image on Nature - 24 October
In connection with the festival Fototriennale.dk, Museet for Fotokunst is hosting a seminar entitled Image on Nature on 24 October, 2009.
With Landscape being the overall theme of the festival, the seminar will be looking at 'the concept of landscape' from various interdisciplinary perspectives. Through the academic angles of art history, geology and climate research, the varying perspectives will comprise and deepen the discussion on nature.
Tying in with a series of international photo exhibitions shown in Odense and coastal cities of Funen thematising 'the concept of landscape', the aim is to give the seminar participants greater knowledge and understanding of the complexity of the current climate change debate.
Through this interdisciplinary discussion on nature, we hope that the difficult issues surrounding the subject as well as innovative solutions will be acknowledged and in turn inspire people across a wide demographic.
Programme for the seminar October 24, 2009
| Time: | Programme: |
| 13:00-13:15 | Director of Museet for Fotokunst Ingrid Fischer Jonge welcomes the participants, presents the idea behind Image on Nature and introduces the lecturers of the seminar. |
| 13:15–14:00 | Director of Gl. Holtegaard Mads Damsbo presents Landscape Photography, an art form which through history has provided us with descriptions and accounts of the natural environment and climate in relation to cultural intrusion. |
| 14:00–14:45 | Project Manager Louise Wolthers presents Denmark in Transition, a large scale photo art project, in which 14 of Denmark's prime photographers present a collected image of Denmark in the year 2008 – 2009. |
| 14:45–15:05 | Interval |
| 15:05–15:50 | Professor at RUC Jesper Brandt tells about Changes in the Danish Geology and Landscapes and puts into perspective the physical planning along with today's monitoring of nature and landscape. |
| 15:50–16:35 | Meteorologist and author Jesper Theilgaard explains with his lecture Between Hurricanes and Climate Changes the consequences of the climate changes we experience today. In addition Jesper Theilgaard will describe how the climate in general has developed and what research knows about climate changes during the past thousands of years. |
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| Mads Damsbo - © Tove Kurtzweil | Louise Wolthers | Jesper Brandt | Jesper Theilgaard - © Ulla Voigt |
Price and enrolment
The price for participation, coffee/tea during the break plus entry fee to Museet for Fotokunst: 100 DKK.
Members of Venneforeningen for Museet for Fotokunst: 75 DKK.
Enrolment: Nanna Schmelling, phone +45 28 55 70 37; e-mail nanna.schmelling@brandts.dk
Payment at Brandts Shop.
Registration deadline: Thursday the 22nd October
Landscape photography: Nature – Faith, Hope and Charity - 31 October
In connection with the festival FotoTriennale.dk, Museet for Fotokunst is hosting a lecture by MA Ingrid Fischer Jonge (director, Museet for Fotokunst) and MA Jens Friis (Co-director, Museet for Fotokunst) on October 31, 2009, at 10.30 am. It is a theme day about the history and many expressions of landscape photography. Arranged in collaboration with Folkeuniversitetet (Danish University Extension).
Information about price and enrolment follows
Education
Youth Corner
How does WHERE you live affect HOW you live?
- grab your camera and tell us in pictures
Fototriennale.dk invites 6th, 7th and 8th graders from schools all over Funen to participate in Fototriennale.dk´s Youth Corner. In their own photos they must answer the simple question: How does WHERE you live affect HOW you live?
Fototriennale.dk and Brandts Educational Centre offers tuition and guidance from professional photographers and look forward to exhibit the best photos at Brandts.
For futher information please contact educator Lise Kapper, lise.kapper@brandts.dk / tel. +45 6520 7080
Portfolio Reviewers
Peggy Sue Amison, Director
Sirius Arts Centre, Ireland
Sirius Arts Centre is a multidisciplinary centre based in the south of Ireland (20 minutes from Cork City) which has been operating since 1988, Peggy Sue Amison has been the Artistic Director at Sirius since 2001. In her role at Sirius, Peggy curates exhibitions and coordinates the international Artist in Residency Programme. Although Sirius is a multidisciplinary centre, the organization has a special interest in promoting photography as an art form through its exhibition and residency programme.
Originally from America, Peggy began as a fine art photographer and later became an arts administrator, a curator and has written for a number of American and international publications on photography. She has been a reviewer at numerous international meeting places for photography and coordinated an international conference on photography which took place in Cork in 2007. Peggy is one of three curators of the main exhibition programme for the Lódz Fotofestiwal in Poland which will take place in May 2010.
Peggy is interested in reviewing complete or near complete bodies of work that investigate ideas of culture and identity in creative and imaginative ways with an element of surprise. She is interested in personal works, staged work as well as documentary. She is not interested in reviewing wildlife photography or commercial/advertising imagery. Peggy will consider work for future exhibitions in Ireland and also is interested in meeting artists who have projects which might be considered for the international artist in residency programme at Sirius Arts Centre. (Artists interested in the residency programme should make sure to visit the web site at: www.siriusartscentre.ie and be sure they understand what the programme is about before meeting with her).
Fred Baldwin, Chairman
FotoFest, USA
Frederick Baldwin was born in Switzerland where his father served as American Consul. Baldwin saw combat as a Marine in Korea in 1950-51. After graduating from Columbia College in 1965, he began documenting life in the arctic, including underwater photography cod fishing in Norway, polar bears, reindeer herders, and Marlin fishing underwater in Mexico. Baldwin recorded the Civil rights movement in Georgia in 1963-64 before going to Sarawak, Malaysia as Peace Corps Director in 1964.
In 1966, Baldwin continued magazine work in India and Afghanistan as well as rural poverty in the southern USA. In 1972, Baldwin teamed with Wendy Watriss to begin a major documentary on Texas. From 1980 to 1987, Baldwin directed the photojournalism program at the University of Houston. In 1983, he co-founded FotoFest with Wendy Watriss in 1983 and remains Chairman today.
Baldwin has a broad interest.
Elisa Braun, Co-director
F/Stop - Photography Festival, Germany
Elisa Braun was born in 1981 in Berlin. She lives in Hamburg and Leipzig. Braun studied German Literature, Drama and Journalism at the University of Leipzig and Universidad de Complutense in Madrid. Her scientific focus is on crossing media relations of text and photography.
Festival assistant at the 2nd international Photography Festival F/Stop, Leipzig, internship at stern-magazine, photographic department and arts section, Hamburg and longtime assistant of the project management in Magic Net and Platform 11plus, pan-european.
In 2009 Co-director of the 3rd F/Stop Photography Festival in Leipzig. F/Stop is a special platform for young contemporary photography with focus on artistic photography.
Elisa Braun is interested in artistic and creative photography especially of young artists. She is also interested in documentary and journalistic work of photographers. She is not interested in commercial work.
Krzysztof Candrowicz, Director
Lodz Art Center & Fotofestiwal & Festivalunion.com, Poland
Krzysztof Candrowicz is a founder and director of Lodz Art Center and Foundation of Visual Education in the city of Lodz in Poland. The foundation has started organization of the International Festival of Photography in 2001 and is now preparing the ninth edition in 2010. Every year during the festival Krzysztof Candrowicz coordinates 50 exhibitions and numerous workshops, lectures, slide-shows and movie presentations. As a director and chief curator of this event, he established an association of 30 European festivals of photography, called PHOTO FESTIVAL UNION. The organization is responsible for common activities of European photo events, such as annual meetings, publications, photographic exchange and common promotion.
In October 2005 he became the director of Lodz Art Center, which started its activities in May 2006, as a center of international art exchange in Poland.
Candrowicz is interested in viewing work of international interest, particularly creative photography, documentary projects and new interdisciplinary approaches to the medium. He is not, however, interested in viewing nude, landscapes, flowers or glamour photography.
Beate Cegielska, Head of Galleri Image
Galleri Image, Denmark
Since 1990 Beate Cegielska has curated numerous group and individual exhibitions of Danish and foreign artists, as well as putting on shows in Germany, Poland, South Korea and China, among other countries. She has also for many years participated as a portfolio reviewer in various international art photography festivals around the world. Galleri Image is a non-commercial exhibiting space whose goal is to show national and international photographic and video art, and to promote knowledge of high quality photo-based art. The gallery is situated in Aarhus, Denmark, and was founded in 1977, making it Scandinavia's oldest gallery for photographic art - indeed for many years it was the sole photography gallery in Denmark. In the course of more than 30 years of exhibitions, the gallery has acquired an outstanding international reputation, contributing significantly to the recognition and understanding of photography as an important, independent form of visual art.
Beate Cegielska is interested in innovative art photography and video. She is not interested in commercial work.
Gunther Dietrich, Director
PHOTO EDITION BERLIN, Germany
Born 1967 in South Germany, Gunther Dietrich studied Philosophy and Visual Arts (Photography) at the Art Academies in Hamburg and Berlin. To his masters belong the artists Katherina Sieverding, Dieter Appelt and Gottfried Jäger. In 1998 he founded the Gallery Transition in Berlin, which was specialized in Video Art, Performance and Installation. After 2002 he followed his own artwork in experimental photography and exhibited in several Group- and Soloshows in Germany and Europe. Since 2007 he is director of PHOTO EDITION BERLIN – Gallery for contemporary photography – in Berlin, Germany.
PHOTO EDITION BERLIN can be envisaged as a gallery for new talents, aiming at promoting experimental, original and creative productions within the area Photography, Video and Installation. Considering the generic and increasing fusion of artistical practices, PHOTO EDITION BERLIN aims at transforming their space into a meeting place for reflexion and discussion. They aim at establishing a collection of contemporary art representing the work of national and international artists and to host a programme of temporary exhibitions, either collective or individual, thus creating a dialogue between the Berlinese and international artistical practices.
Dietrich is mainly interested in artistic photography (less documentary).
Diana Edkins, Independent Curator & Book Editor, USA
Diana Edkins has been seriously and actively involved with fine art photography since 1969 – profiled in the 2009 Graphis Photography Annual along with Holger Broeker, Curator Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany and Greg Hobson, Curator National Media Museum, Bradford, England among others. Ms. Edkins’ experience has been multi-faceted. Fall of 2009 she will lecture in Florence, Italy on “Robert Mapplethorpe in Context” as well as being a reviewer at the International Meeting Place in Odense, Denmark.
Until May 2009, she was Director of Exhibitions and Limited-Edition Photographs at Aperture Foundation where since 2002 she produced and curated over 35 exhibitions which traveled worldwide to a record number of institutions. Some of the exhibitions were “Lisette Model and Her Successors” co-curated by Diana Edkins and Larry Fink which has been shown in Rome and Milan and continues to travel around the United States; “ The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore: 1969-1979” which has been traveling in Europe and throughout the United States since 2004 and will return to Europe Fall 2009 first to the Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark and then on to Dusseldorf in Fall of 2010 for six months at a huge celebration of the Dusseldorf school; “ A Couple of Ways of Doing Something: Photographs by Chuck Close and Poems by Bob Holman; William Christenberry Photographs 1961 -2005” among others. In January 2009 there were 9 different Aperture organized exhibitions on view simultaneously around the world. During her tenure at Aperture she also significantly grew the limited-edition photographs division producing over 100 new prints many of which sold out in record time.
Her first book was done with Beaumont Newhall on William Henry Jackson for the Amon Carter Museum, Texas. She worked at LIGHT Gallery at its inception, and was research supervisor under John Szarkowski at the Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art from 1972-1976. She has taught the History of Photography at Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts and The New School and has lectured extensively over the years.
Among the books she has edited and co-authored are: Fashion Photography (1979),Thames and Hudson and Simon and Schuster; Vanity Fair: Photographs of an Age (1981) Clarkson and Potter; On The Edge: The First One Hundred Years of Vogue (1990) Random House; The Power of Style (1992) Crown and a host of others.
Edkins is interested in all kinds of photography except commercial.
Jens Friis, Curator & Editor-in-chief of KATALOG
Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark
Jens Friis has a MA in History of Art from University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has been an active member of the selection committee for exhibitions in Gallery Image in Aarhus and for a number of years he has also worked in the commercial gallery in London selling photographic art works. Back in Denmark, he has lectured in Visual Communication and History of Photography at the High School for Journalism in Aarhus and contributed to a book on Danish photographic history published in 2004. Since 2003 he has been the editor-in-chief of KATALOG – journal of photography & video now in its 21st year published by Museet for Fotokunst, Odense. He is also curator of exhibitions at aforementioned museum.
Friis is interested in all shapes of photography and visual arts. He will discuss your work and can give you advice on how to develop as an artist. He may facilitate publication in the magazine KATALOG or exhibition in the Museet for Fotokunst.
Elda Harrington, Director
Encuentros Abiertos & Fundacion Luz Austral, Argentina
Elda Harrington is the Director of Encuentros Abiertos (Argentine’s Photofestival) since 1989 and the director of the Argentine School of Photography since 1987. She is also the president of Luz Austral Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting photography in Argentina. Ms. Harrington is an international curator and an independent photographer.
Harrington is interested in reviewing innovative and new media bodies of works. She is not interesting in reviewing commercial works. She can provide an opportunity for invitations to exhibit and participate at the Encuentros Abiertos-Festival of Light in Argentina.
Elina Heikka, Director
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland
Elina Heikka is the director of The Finnish Museum of Photography. She holds a MA in Art History from University of Helsinki. Heikka has worked both as special researcher and director of the Central Art Archives / Finnish National Gallery, the editor in chief of Valokuva – Finnish Photography, curator, gallerist – as well as guest lecturer at The University of Art and Design (Taik) in Helsinki, The Art Academy Turku among others. Heikka has written numorous articles on the history of photography, contemporary photography, visual culture, art criticism, and art institution.
Heikka has no preferences, but has most experience with contemporary photographic art.
Vangelis Ioakimidis, Director
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography & www.photobiennale.gr, Greece
Born in Thessaloniki in 1962. Vangelis Ioakimidis is the director of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography since September 2005. He studied Photography at the department of Cinema and Audiovisual – sector of photography image, in the University Paris VIII. He got two master degrees, on the Economy of Culture and on the Civilization and New Technologies in the Leonard de Vinci-Nanterre University and in the Aegean University respectively.
He worked in the publishing houses of "Contrejour", "Camera International", as well as in the European Editions "C.E.C" in Paris (from 1985 to 1995). In 1997, he represented as General Commissionaire, the Directorate of Fine Arts of the Greek Ministry of Culture, in the Biennale of Nice, which was dedicated to the Greek photography from 1850 till nowadays. The last 20 years, he has organized and curated many exhibitions, books and exhibition catalogues/albums.
Ingrid Fischer Jonge, Director
Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark
Ingrid Fischer Jonge holds a Master’s Degree in Art History with emphasis on contemporary photography. Mrs. Jonge established The National Museum of Photography at The Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark where she was Head of the Museum, Head Cultural Activities and in charge of The Department of Maps, Prints and Photographs from 1994-2007.
Now Mrs. Jonge is the director of Museet for Fotokunst (The Museum of Photographic Arts) at Brandts in Odense, Denmark. She has curated many exhibitions and has written numerous books and studies.
Jonge is most interested in viewing contemporary art photography.
Peter Lav, Gallerist
peter lav PHOTO GALLERY, Denmark
Peter Lav has been a gallerist since 2006 and is a Master of Arts from Copenhagen University.
Lav is only interested in modern and contemporary photography. Not documentary.
Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany
Celina Lunsford has been based at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt since 1992. This institution specializes in all forms of photographic arts with an emphasis on contemporary work from emerging to well-known masters of the medium. The annual program is 5-7 changing exhibitions per year including one historical show. The FFF has active lecture and workshop series with prominent image-makers and curators. Lunsford’s experience spans over 20 years of curating, writing and critiquing photography in the global art scene. Throughout her career she has curated, juried and reviewed for other festivals in America, Europe and Asia. She is also a free-lance consultant to other corporate and private clients.
Recent publications include: Turkish Realities, Positions in Contemporary Turkish Photography and Video, Kehrer Verlag, Heidleberg, 2008; Nou Now: Contemporary Catalan Photography, Barcelona, 2007 (with David Balsells & Institut Ramon LLull); Fast Forward: Fast Forward: Photographic Message from Korea, Seoul/Frankfurt a. M., 2005.
Lunsford is interested in seeing well-developed projects from documentary to fine arts based photography, which are fresh for exhibition or publication. She can also advise on editing, presentation and marketing your work in the international fine arts field.
Karla Osorio Netto, Director
FOTO ARTE BRASILIA, Brazil
Karla Osorio Netto is a lawyer and art historian as well as a contemporary art collector. She is the creator and executive director/curator of FOTO ARTE FESTIVAL in Brasília, Brazil, a biennial festival founded in 2002. Foto Arte is one of the most important photographic festivals in Brazil dedicated to photography and new media. Mrs. Osorio is also a publisher of art books, specializing in contemporary art and photography. Furthermore, Mrs. Osorio created the most important Contemporary Art Center in Brasilia, ECCO – Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo (www.eccobrasilia.com.br), which organizes art shows, workshops, educational programs etc…
Netto is most interested in seeing bodies of work which are complete or nearly complete and which possess new, innovative or interdisciplinary approaches to the medium and intend to be closer to a contemporary art work. She does not wish to see traditional nudes, landscapes and flowers.
Silvia Mangialardi, Director
Fotomundo, Argentina
Silvia Mangialardi is the director of Ediciones Fotograficas Argentina and since 1984 the director of Fotomundo, an argentine magazine specialized in photography, founded in 1966.
She has edited books ("Buenos Aires, una Visión Fotográfica") and curated national and international exhibitions ("Buenos Aires, una Visión Fotográfica", "Tango des Porteños", "Imágenes de los Argentinos", "Los Argentinos y el Trabajo", etc.).
She gives lectures on Contemporary Argentine Photography in Argentina as well as abroad (Houston Center for Photography, Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History Texas, The Americas Society de New York, etc). She can provide opportunities to publish the work in Fotomundo magazine and be part of exhibitions in Argentina.
Mangialardi is interested in reviewing all kind of bodies of work except those of a commercial nature.
Andreas Müller-Pohle, Artist, Publisher & Editor of European Photography
www.muellerpohle.net, www.riverproject.net, www.equivalence.com, www.eye-mind.com, Germany
Born in Brunswick, Germany, in 1951. Studied economics and communications at University of Hannover and University of Göttingen, 1973–79. Founded European Photography magazine in 1980. 1986 publication of Vilém Flusser's "Die Schrift – Hat Schreiben Zukunft?" ("Scripture – The Future of Writing") as the first electronic book on diskette. Since 1996 publisher and editor of "Edition Flusser". 1997–2004 visiting professor at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. Reind M. De Vries Foundation European Photography Prize, 2001. Foundation of Eye-Mind, a Berlin-based individual workshop program, 2005. Recent works include ”The Danube River Project” (2006) and ”Hong Kong Waters” (in progress). Lives in Berlin.
Müller-Pohle is interested in seeing works that deal with our contemporary condition, no matter which subject, style or technique. Not interested in reviewing commercial or decorative work.
Marc Prüst, Freelance Curator and Project Manager
Marc Prüst, France
Freelance photography project manager Marc Prüst studied International Relations and Japanese language in the Netherlands and Japan.
During his studies he discovered his love for photography, and after graduation he started working as Project Manager for the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam, traveling and setting up exhibitions all over the world. In 2004, he became head of the Exhibition Department and, when World Press Photo celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2005, Prüst was given the responsibility for the exhibition Things As They Are; 50 Years Photo Journalism in Context. He worked in close cooperation with curator Christian Caujolle and editor Chris Boot on both the exhibition and the award-winning publication with the same name.
In early 2007, he was given the opportunity to work for Agence VU’ in Paris, where he was mainly responsible for the International Cultural activities of the agency.
© Paolo Verzone / VU'
He left the agency to become a freelance photography project manager focusing on organizing and curating exhibitions, editing books, and editorial advice to photographers.
Prüst is interested in journalistic work, and new forms of storytelling. Not interested in commercial work.
Christopher Rauschenberg, co-founder, Board Chair & Exhibition Committee for Blue Sky Gallery; co-founder, former President & Board for Photolucida
Blue Sky Gallery and Photolucida, USA
Christopher Rauschenberg was born in New York in 1951, has practiced photographic art since 1957, and has a B.A. in photography from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He taught art and photography from 1982 to 1996 at Marylhurst College in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
He has photographed in 26 countries and he has had 86 solo shows in 6 countries (including one at the Malmö Kunsthall in 1985. Available monographs of his work include three books and a deck of cards.
He was a co-founder and president of Photo Americas (a major photography festival in Portland, Oregon – now called Photolucida) from 1999 to 2003 and is currently a Board member. He is a co-founder and co-director of Blue Sky Gallery (an internationally respected non-profit photography gallery – www.BlueSkyGallery.org). Over the last 32 years he has co-curated and co-produced 638 solo exhibitions and 45 group shows and has edited and produced over 60 art and photography publications.
He has done portfolio reviews at every Houston FotoFest since 1988 as well as at Photo Americas/Photolucida (Portland, Oregon), Rhubarb Rhubarb (Birmingham, England), Foto Arte (Brasilia), the Month of Photography in Bratislava and the Month of Photography in Montreal. He has also participated in the informal reviews at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France.
Blue Sky Gallery is a non-profit artists' space which produces 25 to 27 solo exhibitions per year. We produce catalogs that reproduce 6 images from each show. Our focus and passion is on promoting emerging artists. Over the last 5 years, we have done solo shows by 67 photographers from 10 photography festivals.
While Mr. Rauschenberg likes to look at everything, Blue Sky does not tend to exhibit classic traditional nudes, classic traditional portraits or classic traditional scenic photography. The landscapes and portraits the gallery exhibits tend to have documentary and sociological content.
Rudolf Scheutle, Curator
Münchner Stadtmuseum / Sammlung Fotografie, Germany
Rudolf Scheutle works as a curator at the Münchner Stadtmuseum / Sammlung Fotografie, Munich and lectures History of Photography at the University of Applied Sciences, Munich. He has written numerous publications and has organized exhibitions on photography and contemporary art, including “Lehrjahre – Lichtjahre, Die Münchner Fotoschule 1900-2000” (2000), “Moving pictures – Photography and Film in Contemporary Art”,(2001), “Urban Conditions” (2006), “Im Angesicht” (2007) and ”Nude Visions“ (2009).
Scheutle is interested in all types of photography except commercial photography.
Maria Karen Sigurðardóttir, Director
Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Iceland
Maria Karen Sigurdardottir has been the Director of Reykjavík Museum of Photography since 2000. She graduated from The School of Conservation, part of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1995 and achieved a MPA degree (Master of Public Administration) from The University of Iceland in 2008. Reykjavík Museum of Photography is the only independent museum of photography in Iceland. The purpose of the museum is to collect, catalogue and preserve photographic material, i.e. photographs, glass plates, negatives and slides, and articles and documents relating to photography. The Museum's aim is to establish itself as a museum of photography in an international context and to awaken the interest of the public and of experts in photography and photographic culture. The objective of the museum is to improve understanding of photography, its cultural role and its value both as a historic resource and as art.
Sigurðardóttir is interested in all kinds of photography.
Pirkko Siitari, Chief Curator
KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
Director of Northern Photographic Center in Oulu 1990 – 1997
Chief Curator at the Finnish Museum of Photography 1997 – 2004
Director of Kerava Art Museum 2004 – 2008
Chief Curator at KIASMA, Collections 2008 –
© Pirje Mykkänen / Central Art Archives
Johan Sjöström, Curator
Göteborgs Kunstmuseum (Gothenburg Museum of Art), Sweden
Johan Sjöström is the curator of exhibitions at Gothenburg Museum of Art in Sweden. The museum is one of the most important institutions for art in Sweden and the collections and the temporary exhibitions has a broad range; from Renaissance to contemporary art, photography and new media. Mr. Sjöström has been invited to review, lecture, and curate exhibitions at numerous international photo events including Rencontres d’Arles in France; FotoFest in Houston, USA; FotoFest in Beijing, China; Rhubarb-Rhubarb in Birmingham, UK; FotoBild in Berlin, Germany; Artphoto Image Festival in Bucharest, Romania; Bratislava Month of Photography in Slovakia; and Skábmagovat in Inari, Finland. He has contributed to magazines including Artphoto, FotoMagazin, Source and Paletten, and is also the editor of several publications including History Acts, A Good Idea, Lara Baladi- Kai’ro, The Politics of Place, Mats Hjelm: Trilogy, and Head North. He is on the advisory board o Pavilion Magazine and, together with Jan-Erik Lundstrom, he curated the Bucharest Biennale 2008.
Sjöström is most interested in reviewing creative, conceptually oriented photography and new media, political, postcolonial and multicultural issues, postmodern landscape, issues of gender, identity and sexuality. He is not interested in reviewing traditional documentary, classical nudes, classical landscapes or commercial work.
Finn Thrane, Principal of Micro Folk High School, Artistic adviser & Independent curator
JANUS Micro Folk High School & PhotoMondo Internet Gallery, Denmark
Finn Thrane is a self-taught photographer and artist in the field of photography and worked for about 15 years as an independent photographer along with teaching at a folk high school. He holds a master’s degree in literature and film science from Copenhagen University, has a basic course from the Danish Film School and later studied photography in France, Italy and Sweden. He was the founding director of Museet for Fotokunst (The Museum of Photographic Arts) in Odense, Denmark, 1985, and has curated more than 200 exhibitions for his own institution as well as for museums in Scandinavia and for festivals in Spain, France, the Baltic countries, Slovakia and the USA. He has written numerous of analytic articles for Danish and foreign monographs, and founded and co-edited the bilingual photo-magazine KATALOG from 1988-2007.
In 2000 Mr. Thrane initiated the international festival of photography, the ODENSE FOTO TRIENNALE, which is currently planning its 4th version in 2009. Spring 2009, Finn Thrane together with his partner, Lisbet Marschner, founded “JANUS. A Micro Folk High School”, offering humanistic management courses and courses which combine psychology and photography with literature and awareness of natural values.
Finn Thrane is interested in seeing all kinds of artistic photography/photobased art, both thoughtful photojournalism and experimental conceptual photography, but prefer to avoid any kind of commercial photography.
Enrica Viganò, Director of ADMIRA and FOTO&PHOTO
ADMIRA, Italy
Enrica Viganò is a freelance curator and a writer, owner of Admira, a Milan based agency dedicated to the organization of cultural events in photography. Since 2001, she has been the artistic director of Foto&Photo, a festival held in Cesano Maderno (Milan), and since 1998 she has been part of PhotoEspaña staff as guest curator, and director of Campus from 2004 until 2007 (a program of workshops), after being coordinator of international projects. She has curated many travelling exhibitions of renowned photographers throughout the world, and promoted emerging names as director of the gallery ClicArt, Milan. Beside editing a number of books dedicated to relevant photographers, she has started the activity of publisher with Admira Edizioni.
Viganò is interested in all the wide range of photography suitable for exhibition, except commercial photography, and can offer the chance of showing in Italy and other countries.
Wendy Watriss, Artistic Director, Senior Curator & Co-Founder
FotoFest, USA
Wendy Watriss is a photographer, writer, curator and co-founder of FotoFest®. She has served as FotoFest Artistic Director and Senior Curator since 1991, developing over 80 international exhibits for FotoFest since 1990, including ground-breaking exhibits on photography from China, Latino photographers in the U.S., contemporary Korean photography, new media/technology work for FOTOFEST2002, Russian Pictorialism, Water, contemporary Mexican photography, the Global Environment, Artists responding to Violence, photography from Latin America 1865-1994, photography from Central Europe, visual history of Kurdistan with Susan Meiselas, exhibition on Guantánamo, and new works from Alfredo Jaar, Georges Rousse and the Starn Brothers. In 1998, she completed the award-winning book IMAGE AND MEMORY, Photography from Latin America 1866-1994 (University of Texas Press, 1998). From 1994-2009, Wendy Watriss has directed the FotoFest catalogue publications and supervised FotoFest programs such as the Meeting Place artist portfolio reviews, symposia and workshops.
From 1970-1991, Watriss worked as an award-winning international photojournalist and independent documentary photographer, publishing work on subjects such as religious conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, conflict in Salvador and Nicaragua, rebuilding of Skopje in Macedonia, Vietnam veterans and the herbicide Agent Orange, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. Her work has won World Press Photo awards, the Oskar Barnack Award, Interpress Photo, Leica Inc., and Mid America Arts/National Endowment for the Arts. In 1971, she began a photography and oral history project in Texas with Frederick Baldwin. This work has recently been published in the book Looking at the U.S. 1957-1986 (Metz & Schilt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2009).
I am interested in all types of work. I look for work, abstract or figurative, which reflects a clear concept on the part of the artist and the ability of the artist to successfully carry through this concept through 15-20 images. I am interested in both classical, paper-based prints as well as multi-disciplinary work.
I am the Senior Curator for FotoFest and select work for the FotoFest Biennials as well as exhibits done by FotoFest between Biennials. I also do guest curating. At FotoFest, we have started a series of International Discoveries exhibitions between Biennials and selections for these exhibitions come from portfolio reviews like the Odense Trienniale and events similar to FotoFest’s international Biennials, Texas every two years. FotoFest’s International Discoveries II exhibition is scheduled for fall 2009 and International Discoveries III in fall 2011. FotoFest’s next international Biennial is March-April 2010. The focus is Contemporary U.S. Photography, with invited curators.
Rhonda Wilson, Creative Director
Rhubarb-Rhubarb, England
Beginning life as a magazine journalist, Wilson has worked as a graphic designer and writer, photographer and author. She has pioneered professional development for photographers and image makers since 1991, and in 1993 set up Seeing The Light, now Rhubarb-Rhubarb – The UK’s Photographic Portfolio Festival and all year round mentoring programme, linking with some of the world’s most esteemed gallerists and publishers.
She lead a team which produced ‘the people and the city’, the exhibition and publication which profiled Birmingham’s bid for the capital of culture 2008, working with Brian Griffin and Tom Merilion.
Wilson has curated shows for new art gallery walsall, les rencontres d’arles, lianzhou festival - china, and most recently, in February 2009, won the rights to premiere and curate Obama’s People, by Nadav Kander, currently showing at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in the UK.
She would like to see bold series of work, either finished or in progress, about issues which the makers feel strongly about on a personal level. More, she is highly interested in looking at work by producers who are being creative later in their lives.
Wilson is also a reiki master.