‘Photography’ Archives
Miron Zownir: A Radical Man
Natalie Holmes chats to photographer, film-maker, author and all-round "radical man" Miron Zownir... Having taken up photography during the peak of the punk phenomenon in the late 70s, German photographer Miron Zownir emigrated to the USA in 1980, living in New York, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. It was in New York that Zownir made his name as a moody, expressionistic and unflinching photographer, capturing the darker fringes of society in the style of Diane Arbus or Weegee. In spite [...]
Q&A: Amit Elan
Hannae Kim talks to 22 year old Israeli artist Amit Elan about painting, faces and photography... Amit Elan is a 22 years old Berlin based Israeli artist. He studied at Hamidrasha Art Academy and has since developed mixed media installations. He exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and Israel. He writes for the artists' blog Art in Transit published by the international artists' organization I.G.B.K. Spring 2011 he completed an artist residency in the Philippines [...]
Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände
The snappily-titled Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände is a not-so-well-known 18-hectare urban park at the southern end of Schöneberg. The park has blossomed from the ruins of an old railway hub that was built in the 1890s, and which for 70 years operated as one of the city's busiest (including during WWII). The area was closed and abandoned following the division of the city and nature slowly began to work its magic, reclaiming the old crumbling administrative buildings and rotting [...]
Winter in Berlin [Photo Gallery]
![Winter in Berlin [Photo Gallery]](http://www.slowtravelberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wm_039-300x200.jpg "Winter in Berlin [Photo Gallery]")
We asked our readers for their best photos of Berlin in winter. Here are our picks of their pics...
In Photos: Treptow Crematorium
All photos by Christoph Boecken. Captions and additional text by Paul Sullivan. Treptow Crematorium Kiefholzstr. 221, 12437 Berlin T 030 63958121 Open M-F 9-15
Hohenschönhausen: In Pictures
Stefanie Rothenhöfer chats to Berlin photographer Philipp Lohöfener about his work at Hohenschönhausen, Berlin's Stasi prison memorial. Philipp Lohöfener was born in 1974 in Bielefeld, Germany. He studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld, Germany from 1998 till 2006. In 2010 Lohöfener won first place in the Sony World Photography Awards (Category Fine Art/Architecture 2011), and recently bagged 4th place at the Art of Photography Show, 4th Place, [...]
Stephen Barber: Walls Of Berlin
Stephen Barber is a Professor at Kingston University's and a writer on urban culture, experiment in film and Japanese culture. He has been writing since 1990 and has published twenty books (sixteen non-fiction books and four novels), many of them translated into other languages. He has received many awards and prizes for his books, from bodies such as the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio Program), Ford Foundation, DAAD, Japan Foundation and Henkel Foundation, He is currently engaged in a [...]
MADE
Carlijn Potma chats to Nico Zeh, creative orchestrator and founder of acclaimed Berlin art space, MADE... Over a year ago, Berlin was enriched with a new conceptual art space: MADE. ‘Yet another art venue..’, many would think. But this art center - 420 m2 , located on the 9th floor of a former office building at Alexanderplatz and designed by the architect Alexis Dornier - seems more ambitious. Fully supported by Absolut Vodka, this all-white creative space programs a wide range of [...]
Pieces of Berlin
Carlijn Potma chats to photographer Florian Reischauer about his Pieces of Berlin project... Austrian photographer Florian Reischauer is the founder of ‘Pieces of Berlin’, an appealing photoblog focused on the Hauptstadt. Bored of his hometown Vienna and longing for something new, Reischauer made his move to Berlin in 2007. As photographers tend to do, he began capturing the city and its inhabitants. His collection of images kept growing and Reischauer started to look for a [...]
Potatoes Mutatoes
Photographer Uli Westphal has been documenting (and eating) Berlin's mutatoes, "the last survivors of agricultural diversity"... Since 2006, artist Uli Westphal has been collecting, documenting, and eating Berlin’s Mutatoes—the non-standard fruits, roots, and vegetables that can be found at the city’s farmers’ markets. His photographs form an archive of “these last survivors of agricultural diversity,” revealing an incredible variety of colours, curves, and contours. For [...]
