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Shaping CITYzenship – Photos!
A while ago I wrote about this project I was involved in, which revolved around the city of Berlin, with a focus on the changing nature of the city and how media campaigns have shaped my understanding (in a way…
Find the same – beauty ideals and flawlessness on the streets of Berlin
Killing Us Softly 4 Trailer from Media Education Foundation on Vimeo.
In her documentary, Killing Us Softly 4, Jean Kilbourne says, referring to the ideal of absolutely flawless beauty with which we are continually fed by ads:
“She never …
People in museums
In the spirit of traditions I went to the 28th Long Night of Museums in Berlin…, which took place at the end of January.
I am fascinated by people in museums. It is this apparently banal activity of looking
A place of silence – from the archives
These photographs where shot in the park around the Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted under Nazism
Portraits of self-sufficiency
Sharing knowledge and skills can mean many different things: it can be a way out of a system based on products that are designed and made under precarious economic and social conditions, it can mean having the chance to contribute…
Portraits of self-sufficiency: SDW Neukölln
This is the first interview for the series “Portraits of self-sufficiency“, which we are very happy to be launching today. I am also very happy that this is going to be a collaborative project, with great photographer Gabriele …
Decide what goes on the billboard
I was walking through Alexanderplatz in the late afternoon, when I saw a group of people drawing on what is normally a panel reserved for advertisement. So I parked my bicycle and talked to them.
It turns out, this was…
Anti-nuclear energy demonstration in Berlin: let’s fight the system, just not the sexist part of it
On Saturday 18th, roughly 100.000 gathered and marched… from Hauptbahnhof (Berlin central station) to the Reichstag, to show their opposition to the government unwillingness to completely abandon nuclear energy.
I was there, as you can imagine, and besides walking alongside
In continuous evolution
Films remain in their box, filed and properly kept for months before it is possible to look at them with fresh eyes.
Continuing my “Visions of humans” series.
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Frankfurt Main Station
Frankfurt Main Station, in German Frankfurt (Main) Hbf, is the busiest railway station in Germany in terms of railway traffic, and the second in Germany when it comes to number of passengers. Hamburg main station can reach 550.000 passengers per…
And we went to Geneva
I mentioned that “Structurally recyclable, basically disposable” has been to Geneva for what it will probably be its last show.
Here are a couple of photographs showing the exhibition and the venue.
This is the wall outside of the university,…
Structurally recyclable, basically disposable – Geneva exhibition’s archive
Press folder |
Press folders in Italian, German and French |
The situation |
To read about the observations on the situation of interns that inspired the project |
The project |
To know more in details about the project, the reasons behind the title |
Short update from Geneva
We made it! After almost having to delay the exhibition due to the university’s mishaps (read: unprofessionalism), the photos went up as planned on saturday afternoon ready for a short and quiet vernissage.
Now I am here for the rest…
Next stop for “Structurally recyclable, basically disposable”: Genève
As you have probably noticed from the change in the graphic on the side bar –> and the poster on the general project page…, next up for the traveling exhibition is the city of Geneva.
I’ll spare you the
Urban agriculture – taking back abandoned public spaces in Berlin
Cities have plenty of abandoned public spaces and when they manage to remain in public hands, which is not always the case unfortunately, often something very special can happen. An example is this great project: Prinzessinnengärten… (Princess gardens), launched by
Public spaces in Berlin: truly public decisions?
Due to something I have been working on, I have been out observing and photographing the city a lot. Berlin is not a city that has gone undocumented. Quite to the contrary, there are many exhibitions and art works dedicated…