Fff Press Conference

FFFGes PRESS CONFERENCE

FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT – NEW – IN THE BRAUBACHSTRASSE

Thursday, March 6th, 2014 at 2 pm. Fotografie Forum Frankfurt Braubachstrasse 30-32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main

Guests and Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Felix Semmelroth, Deputy Mayor of Culture, Frankfurt am Main Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt Sabine Seitz, Managing Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt Michael Loulakis, Chairman of the Board, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. Dr. Angela Hildebrand, Board Member, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt Emeric Glayse, Fondation Carmignac, Paris

PRESS CONTACT Andrea Horvay Braubachstraße 30–32 60311 Frankfurt am Main Tel.: +49 (0) 69. 291726 Fax: +49 (0) 69 28639 Email: [email protected] www.fffrankfurt.org

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CONTENTS

This press kit contains the following documents:

PRESS RELEASE FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT –NEW-- IN THE BRAUBACHSTRASSE

PRESS INFORMATION FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT

KEY FACTS ABOUT US HISTORY – 30 YEARS FFF EXHIBITED ARTISTS 1984–2012 EXHIBITION PREVIEW SUMMER ACADEMY 2014

PRESS INFORMATION VIVIANE SASSEN. IN AND OUT OF FASHION

EXHIBITION CV PRESS IMAGES

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

FLYER “SOMMERAKADEMIE 2014” FLYER “UMBAU UND SANIERUNG DER BRAUBACHSTRAßE 30–32” INFORMATION ABOUT CARMIGNAC GESTION/ FONDATION CARMIGNAC

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, MARCH 6th, 2014 FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT –NEW-- IN THE BRAUBACHSTRASSE GRAND OPENING 2014 AND 30TH ANNIVERSARY CULTURAL QUARTER FRANKFURT AND A HOUSE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

Frankfurt am Main once again has a home for photography in the Museum quarter – in the heart of the city. Just in time for the 30th anniversary of this internationally renowned institution, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt’s new space is located on the second and third floors of the entirely renovated historical building at Braubachstrasse 30-32. In 300 m2 of exhibition space, all genres of photography will be presented in a changing exhibition program of new discoveries and re- viewing the classics. Additionally projections and multi-media shows will be shown with new technologies. On the third floor 100 m2 is provided for offices, a library and a reading room. In the middle of this year, a reference library with reading room will be opened, giving the interested public an opportunity for research in comprehensive and extensive photographic publications.

As a long-standing platform for current trends in the international photography scene, the public can expect in 2014 an exciting program of exhibitions from the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. On May 16, at 7pm, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt will celebrate its grand re-opening at Braubachstraße 30-32 with the exhibition Viviane Sassen. In and Out of Fashion (May 17 – August 17, 2014). This Dutch photographer is one of the most sensational figures in contemporary image making. The exhibit will present highlights from her fashion photography over the last 18 years.

From September 6, until October 5, 2014 the exhibition Davide Monteleone. Spasibo will be shown, in collaboration with the Fondation Carmignac, Paris. The Italian photographer, Davide Monteleone was awarded the 4th Carmignac Gestion Prize for Photojournalism for his project Spasibo (Thank You), a documentary on present-day Chechnya. Parallel to the Book Fair in October, the exhibit Contemporary Photographic Portraiture from Finland (October 10, - November 30, 2014) will be shown, addressing current photographic positions from Finland that diversely use the portrait genre for artistic expression.

For the seventh time, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt SUMMER ACADEMY 2014 is offering a multifaceted lecture and seminar program that is unique in Germany. The kick-off begins with Boris Eldagsen, the German photo-media artist and winner of the Voies Off Festival Arles 2013, with a workshop on experimental photography on April 5th and 6th. Additional photography artists and experts at this year’s Summer Academy will include Davide Monteleone, Elina Brotherus, Jo Ractliffe and Lukas Birk.

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NEW this year is a series of events that have been designed for beginners and amateur photographers. The workshop series „Photowalks – Frankfurt through the lens“ is for interested beginning photographers, tourists, new Frankfurters or long-time residents that want to learn about Frankfurt from other perspectives on an outdoor city tour with photography training throughout Frankfurt am Main. From May until September on the last Saturday of every month, Nils Thies, multimedia journalist, photographer and staff member of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, will conduct the participants to interesting places and give tips on basic technical principles, composition and editing. Mid June 2014, David Hall’s Workshop „Digital cameras, explained from an analogue perspective“ will teach beginning photographers and ambitious amateurs the various camera models and how you can get the best out of your digital camera.

Further information about FFF can be found at www.fffrankfurt.org or by e-mail [email protected].

A detailed press kit with information about FFF, the 2014/2015 program and our new space can be downloaded from our website under www.fffrankfurt.org/presse.

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt Braubachstraße 30–32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main Tel. +49 (0) 69 29 17 26, [email protected] www.fffrankfurt.org Opening hours (starting May 17, 2014): Tuesday, Thursday–Sunday: 11am–6pm, Wednesday: 11am–8pm, Monday closed Entrance: 6 € (Reduced: 3 €)

The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt is supported by the Förderkreis Fotografie Forum Frankfurt e.V., individual patrons, sponsors and the Culture Board of the City of Frankfurt am Main.

PRESS CONTACT Andrea Horvay Braubachstraße 30–32 60311 Frankfurt am Main Tel.: +49 (0) 69. 291726 Fax: +49 (0) 69 28639 Email: [email protected] www.fffrankfurt.org

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MAY 16TH 2014, 7 PM NEW – OPENING IN THE BRAUBACHSTRASSE 30-32

300 M2 EXHIBITION SPACE IN THE HEART OF FRANKFURT’S CULTURAL QUARTER

2500 BOOKS AND SPECIALISED JOURNALS IN THE LIBRARY’S READING ROOM

330 SUPPORTING MEMBERS

CELEBRATING 30 YEARS FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT

400 EXHIBITED ARTISTS

240 EXHIBITIONS

CO-FOUNDER AND PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE TRIENNIAL RAY FOTOGRAFIE PROJEKTE FRANKFURT/RHEINMAIN

7 SUMMER ACADEMIES

100 WORKSHOP TEACHERS AND LECTURERS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY SCENE

3000 VISITORS

400% GROWTH RATE

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The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) is a unique center, which exhibits photographic art of the highest quality and promotes its importance as a universal visual language. Since it’s founding in 1984 the FFF strives to incorporate all aspects of photography and to provide a platform for critical dialog. Through a wide-ranging program of exhibitions – typically four to eight exhibitions are shown annually, publications, workshops, lectures and symposiums during the Summer Academy, the ever evolving and classic interpretations of the photographic medium are highlighted. Emphasis is placed upon premiering photographers in Germany whether it be from international or national image-makers, one-person shows of historical and contemporary icons to intriguing group collections of international emerging talents.

FORUM – Center of photography • One of the most renowned photography institutions and examples of photographic-curator practices in Germany • An exceptional platform for selected photographers and ambitious artists • Exhibitions in the form of classical museum presentations and the use of new media INSTITUTION – Promoter of photography • Photography database of exhibitions and current topics • FFF awards with the goal of honoring excellent photographic accomplishments • Reference library with reading room • Collection • Collection management – consultation for photographers and collectors PLACE OF EXHIBITION – Presentation of all photographic genres • Changing exhibition program including emerging talents and rediscovered classic photographers • Continuous presentation of the history of photography • Special exhibitions in cooperation with other institutions and companies EDUCATION – Art education and comprehensive examination of photography • FFF Summer Academy with symposia, workshops and lectures • In-house publications (a magazine is planned), catalogues and publications • Guided tours and gallery talks • Projects in cooperation with kindergartens and schools • Art trips and excursions, visits to studios • Master-Class programs in cooperation with academies and universities MEETING POINT – open to all fans of photography • Portfolio reviews and Jour fixe • Organization of events (Publisher’s Night and Night of the Museums) • Renting of space for exclusive events • Editions & Shop – the sale of photographs and books, including rarities and new discoveries to the current exhibitions

The FFF is a non-profit organization and is supported through its members, entrance fees, book and print sales, the City of Frankfurt am Main and sponsors.

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Staff Celina Lunsford (Artistic Director) is a curator and writer specialized in international contemporary photography and photographic history. Since 1992 she has been responsible for the FFF exhibition and workshop program. She is the Vice President of the German Photographic Academy (Deutschen Fotografischen Akademie DFA), nominator for Prix Pictet, London and member of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize Academy. As an international festival curator she has worked for the Fotofestiwal in Lodz, Poland (2011) and the Lianzhou Festival in China (2007). Lunsford has for many years mentored photographers through such events as the Houston Fotofest, Joop Swart Master Class, Amsterdam and the Asia-Europe Foundation Forum for Photographers. Her book, Imogen Cunningham (Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg) was listed by the American Photo Magazine in „Best Photography Books 2013.“

Sabine Seitz (Managing Director) has been managing the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt since 2005 and she is the Project Manager of RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain. After her studies in communications design at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung in Darmstadt (1979 -1983) she worked for different photographers in Frankfurt am Main. She moved to Australia in 1987 and worked there as a free-lance photographer for advertising agencies and publishers until 1991. Upon returning to Frankfurt she continued her own photographic work and worked as the Production Manager for Fotostudio Günter Pfannmüller until joining the FFF team.

Svenja Lubs (Office Assistant) studied art history and romance studies in Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main. Since 2002 she has assisted in exhibition organization, correspondence with artists and the FFF Summer Academy. She is also responsible for the organization of the association’s membership database.

Andrea Horvay (Press) has been managing the press, social media and related events for the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt since 2011. After her art history studies in Kiel from 2002 – 2007 she worked on various exhibition projects and the FFF Summer Academy. She also worked as a research intern at the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf between 2009-2011.

Förderkreis Fotografie Forum Frankfurt e.V. Managing Board Michael Loulakis (Chairman) Dr. Michael Peters (Assistant Chairman) Dr. Angela Hildebrand (Secretary) Gerd Baum Felix Damm Advisory Board Peggy Jo Behling Jule Hillgärtner Barbara Klemm Dr. Klaus Klemp Celina Lunsford Pia Pfannmüller Sabine Seitz Maike Siever page 2/2 TRÄGER Förderkreis Fotografie Forum Frankfurt e.V. Braubachstraße 30–32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main TELEFON +49 (0) 69 29 17 26 TELEFAX +49 (0) 69 28 639 E - MAIL [email protected] www.fffrankfurt.org FFF EXHIBITED ARTISTS

30 Years of Fotografie Forum Frankfurt Since it was founded in 1984, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt has always strived to make multiple aspects of photography accessible to a wide audience. With its ambitious program of exhibitions, publications, lectures and workshops, the FFF has been committed to distinguishing the uniqueness and to furthering exploration of the „photographic vision“. How it all began Thirty years ago, by establishing the FFF, Karin Steins and Manfred Heiting contributed to the recognition of photography as an independent medium in the Frankfurt art scene. Heiting, known as initiator of the International Polaroid Collection and organizer of one of the photokina Bilderschauen, deliberately chose Frankfurt am Main as the location for an exhibition center for photography in Germany: „Frankfurt is in every respect the cultural sector, which is more flexible and less fixed as other big cities in Germany…. Furthermore, Frankfurt has an interesting regional environment, a great potential of young dynamic people, an international public and an expanding financially autonomous business community.“ A registered non-profit association followed and in the historical rooms of the Leinwandhaus on the south side of the Cathedral, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt moved into its first residence together with other galleries. The Leinwandhaus The first exhibition in 1984, “Barbara Klemm. Photography 1968–1984”, kicked off the successful exhibition activities of the FFF. Until 2007, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt presented on the first floor of the Leinwandhaus, numerous exhibitions of famous international photography greats. Among them were Otto Steinert, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Robert Frank, Ralph Gibson, Alice Springs and Helmut Newton, Sebastião Salgado, Diane Arbus, Eliott Erwitt, Sarah Moon, Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper, Robert Mapplethorpe, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Martin Parr, Elinor Carucci, Lee Miller and many others. Most of the artists were introduced in Germany for the first time at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. Since the 1990s, the presentation of national as well as international new discoveries became ever more important. The tradition of aligning exhibitions to the program of the Frankfurt Book Fair began to play a special role. Henceforth since over 20 years, the FFF has been showing theme exhibitions parallel to the respective guest countries of the Book Fair, such as “Contemporary Brazilian Photography” (1994), “New Russia” (2003), “Fast Forward: Photographic Message From Korea. Contemporary Photography from Korea” (2005), and “Watching Me, Watching India. New Photography from India” (2006). In 1992, Celina Lunsford became Artistic Director of the FFF and since has formed the conceptual focus of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. With her successful exhibitions such as “Larry Fink: Boxers, Brokers and Society” (1995), “Relating to Photography, Photography from Private Frankfurter Collections” (2004), “David Maisel, Black Maps: The Lake Project” (2006), “Frontiers of Another Nature, Contemporary Photographic Art from Iceland” (2011) she has created and formed the FFF image over the last 20 years. Sabine Seitz became Managing Director of the association since 2005 and together with Celina Lunsford constitutes a strong team at the summit of the Institution.

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Stop-Over at the former Literaturhaus After moving out of the Leinwandhaus in 2007, the program of exhibitions and lectures continued until the end of 2008 in temporary rooms at the former Literaturhaus at Bockenheimer Landstraße 102. Most notably, the group exhibit “Turkish Realities” (2008), “How to Hang a Book: Six Case Studies...with Kehrer Publishing house” (2008), and “Wolfgang Eilmes: African Stories (2008)” were popular with the public. Cooperation with other cultural institutes followed, such as with the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, the Instituto Cervantes and the DZ BANK Kunstsammlung. Summer Academy In addition to scheduled exhibitions, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt organized frequent sales exhibits and presented lectures and workshops dedicated to the various styles of photography. This developed into the Summer Academy; a platform for art didactic and further education, which promotes dialogue and critical debate on photography and on the media. Since 2008, the Summer Academy has been offering each year a broad agenda from April to October of tours, lectures, and workshops with renowned photographers, emerging talents, publishers, curators and theorists from the international photography scene. RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain As co-founder and project manager for RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt coordinates a triennial together with other leading partners and collections in the region. This event highlights the importance of international positions in contemporary photography and video art, the photography collections of the area and the expertise in photography in the Rhine-Main area. In the first edition of RAY 2012 the central exhibition „Making History“ was a curatorial cooperation between Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie and Art Collection Deutsche Börse. The next triennial RAY 2015, which is supported by Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain will open in June 2015. New Residence at Braubachstraße 30–32 With neighbors like the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main and numerous galleries, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt once again takes its place in the heart of Frankfurt am Main’s cultural quarter directly in the city center. In the new space on two floors at Braubachstraße 30–32, there is now 400 m2 for future exhibitions, a multi-media room for lectures and projections, office space and a library of the photography book collection, which will be open to the public.

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2014

Viviane Sassen. In and Out of Fashion May 17, to August 17, 2014 Opening: May 16, 2014, 7pm Viviane Sassen. In and Out of Fashion is the first German overview of Viviane Sassens work to showcase her fashion photography. The unique exhibition will be presented as a series of photographs, installations, projections and a selection from the artist’s personal archives. An exhibit in collaboration with Studio Viviane Sassen and Huis Marseille, Amsterdam. The publisher Prestel has released a book under the same title Viviane Sassen. In and Out of Fashion, which will be available at the exhibit.

Davide Monteleone. Spasibo September 6, to October 5, 2014 Opening: September 5, 2014 Spasibo is a documentary of black and white photographs including street photography and portraits on present-day Chechnya. The Italian photographer Davide Monteleone who has been awarded the 4th Carmignac Gestion Prize for Photojournalism investigated the present Chechnyan identity for this project. The publisher Kehrer has released a book under the same title Davide Monteleone. Spasibo which will be available at the exhibit.

Contemporary Photographic Portraiture from Finland Part of the Finnish Guest of Honour programme Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 October 10, to November 30, 2014 Opening: October 9. 2014 This exhibition introduces contemporary photographic artists from Finland, who investigate themes through portraiture and generate expression beyond the documentary representation. All artists in the exhibition were chosen because the portrait is a key symbol used to reveal their stories. Through observation of the world around them they create intimate staged settings of pleasure, self-reflection or irony. Themes of childhood, youth, the body, motherhood, family, aging and violence and photography itself are the leitmotifs.The Artists: Elena Brotherus, Ulla Jokisalo, Jan Kaila, Harri Pälviranta, Nelli Palomäki, Jorma Puranen, Raakel Kuukka, Ilu Susiraja and Santeri Tuorian.

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2015

Eyes Open! 100 Years of Leica February until the end of May 2015 Around 200 photographs (primarily Vintage Prints), complementing documentary material, newspapers, magazines and rare books recapitulate the history of 35mm photography from the beginning to present day. Here the main focus is on the creation of images, either the documentation of key moments in recent history or the development of a new view of the world – or both. Joining the „Icons“ of more recent photo history, are the works of anonymous, less known, forgotten or overlooked photographers.

RAY 2015 June 20 to September 20, 2015 Opening: June 19, 2015

As the project headquarters of RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt coordinates a Triennial dedicated to international photography and video together with museums, organizations and collections from the region. The next exhibition project RAY 2015 is sponsored by Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and will open in June 2015.

V. Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award Duration: September until the end of October 2015

Serge Clément. DéPaysÉ November 2015 until the end of January 2016 The exhibition Serge Clement. DéPaysÉ initiated and curated by FFF will premier during the 2014 Paris Photo at the Centre culturel canadien in Paris. It is Clement’s first major retrospective, including 40 years of work, in Germany. The title DéPaysÉ refers partly to the disorientation of one’s living environment and in the mind. The universal cityscape surfaces as abstract multiple layers of asphalt, architecture and street-lights. Views seem shifted, or reflected inducing a feeling of suspension. Clement’s observations of darkness penetrated with light, nostalgic impressions or surreal still-lives are atmospheres of otherworldliness. Serge Clément was born in Québec, Canada in 1950 and is one of Canada’s leading photographic artists. An accompanying book and a quartet of special edition prints will be available in 2014.

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Events from April 5 to October 22, 2014

In its seventh year, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt SUMMER ACADEMY once again offers a diverse program, unique within Germany, for lectures and workshops. The workshop instructors and lecturers for this year are Els Barents, Nanda van den Berg, Lukas Birk, Elina Brotherus, Boris Eldagsen, Klaus Elle, David Hall, Elina Heikka, Davide Monteleone, Jo Ractliffe and Nils Thies.

From April to October this compact schedule of events addresses different themes and styles of photography. Renowned and emerging voices and talents of the international photography scene share insights into their work through the 20 events. During the program, discourses over artistic positions are transformed into active moments between photographers and the public. The lectures impart the artist’s insight into their own creations and during the workshops; a dynamic photographic dialogue develops between the seminar leaders and the participants. Our program addresses itself to all those persons who use photography as a medium for individual expression. The groups of participants are made up of ambitious photographers, as well as beginners, advanced learners and professionals, young people and art students.

NEW this year is a series of workshops that have been designed for beginners and amateur photographers. The workshop series “Photowalk – Frankfurt through the lens” is for beginning photographers, tourists, new Frankfurters or long-time residents that want to learn about Frankfurt from other perspectives. It runs from May to September, always on the last Saturday of the month, as an outdoor city tour with photography training through Frankfurt am Main. Nils Thies, multimedia journalist and photographer, will conduct the participants to interesting places and give tips on basic technical principles, composition and editing. Mid June 2014, the photographer David Hall will elaborate on how you can get the best out of your digital camera in the workshop “Digital cameras explained from the analogue perspective”, also for beginning photographers and ambitious amateurs.

Workshops and Lecture dates:

Saturday/Sunday, Boris Eldagsen, photo-media artist, Berlin April 5/6, 10 am–6 pm www.eldagsen.com Workshop Experimental Photography: “No Budget Staged Photography”

Friday, May 16, Opening of the exhibition “Viviane Sassen. In and Out of Fashion” 19 pm Viviane Sassen, photographer, Amsterdam www.vivianesassen.com Duration: May 17–August 17, 2014

Saturday, May 17, Nanda van den Berg, Senior curator Huis Marseille Museum voor 2 pm Fotografie, Amsterdam www.huismarseille.nl Lecture “About the Art of Viviane Sassen’s Fashion Photography”

Saturday, May 17, Els Barents, Director Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie, 6 pm Amsterdam www.huismarseille.nl Lecture „Collecting at Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie in Amsterdam“

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Friday, May 23, Lukas Birk, Multi-media artist, Bregenz/London 6 pm www.lukasbirk.com Lecture „The travelling artist“

Saturday/Sunday, Lukas Birk, Multi-media artist, Bregenz/London May 24/25, 10 am–6 pm www.lukasbirk.com Workshop “Photography. Object. Crossover”

Saturday, May 31, Nils Thies, Multimedia/Journalist, Frankfurt am Main 2–5 pm www.nilsthies.de Workshop “Photo Walks – Frankfurt through the lens” Meeting place: Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

Wednesday, June 4, Klaus Elle, Artist and Creative Coach, Hamburg 7 pm www.elle-elle.de, www.klauselleart.viewbook.com Lecture “From the ash-grey end station of East German Illusions on the sparkling runway into the Golden West”

Sunday, June 15 David Hall, Photographer, Frankfurt am Main 10 am–6 pm www.david-hall.de Workshop “Digital cameras explained from the analogue perspective”

Saturday, June 28, Nils Thies, Multimedia/Journalist, Frankfurt am Main 2–5 pm www.nilsthies.de Workshop “Photo Walks – Frankfurt through the lens” Meeting place: Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

Wednesday, July 2, Jo Ractliffe, Photographer, Johannesburg 7 pm www.stevenson.info Lecture „Landscape as Political Phenomena“

Saturday/Sunday, Jo Ractliffe, Photographer, Johannesburg July 5/6, 10 am–6 pm www.stevenson.info Workshop Documentary Photography „Critical Urban Landscape“

Saturday, August 30, Nils Thies, Multimedia/Journalist, Frankfurt am Main 2–5 pm www.nilsthies.de Workshop “Photo Walks – Frankfurt through the lens” Meeting place: Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

Friday, September 5, Opening of the exhibition “Davide Monteleone. Spasibo” 7 pm 4th Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award Davide Monteleone, Photographer, Rome/Moscow www.davidemonteleone.com www.fondation-carmignac.com Duration: September 6–October 5, 2014

Saturday, September 6, Davide Monteleone, Photographer, Rome/Moscow 6 pm www.davidemonteleone.com Lecture “From the Soul to Thank You”

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Saturday/Sunday, Davide Monteleone, Photographer, Rome/Moscow September 6/7, 10 am–6 pm www.davidemonteleone.com Workshop Documentary Photography „Ideas and Practice”

Saturday, September 27, Nils Thies, Multimedia/Journalist, Frankfurt am Main 2–5 pm www.nilsthies.de Workshop “Photo Walks – Frankfurt through the lens” Meeting place: Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

Friday, October 10, Opening of the exhibition “Contemporary Photographic Portraiture 7 pm from Finland” Duration: October 11–November 30, 2014

Saturday, October 11, Elina Brotherus, Photographer, Finland/France 7 pm www.elinabrotherus.com Lecture “The Artist and her Model”

Saturday/Sunday, Elina Brotherus, Photographer, Finland/France October 11/12, www.elinabrotherus.com 10 am–6 pm Workshop Portrait Photography “The Artist and her Model”

Wednesday, October 15, In cooperation with Hippolyte Photographic Gallery, Helsinki 7 pm www.hippolyte.fi Lecture “Photo Books in Finland”

Wednesday, October 22, Elina Heikka, Director of the Finnish Museum of 7 pm Photography, Helsinki www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi Lecture “Collecting and Exhibiting at the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki”

All events will take place at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Braubachstraße 30–32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main. Lectures and presentations always take place on Wednesdays at 7pm or Fridays and Saturdays at 6pm. Admission is 5 Euros, Reduced 3 Euros. Members of the FFF and students with valid ID have free admission. Workshops fees and registration forms are available on our homepage. www.fffrankfurt.org

All programs are subject to change. For more information please visit www.fffrankfurt.org regularly for updates or email to [email protected], or call +49 (0) 69 29 17 26.

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FRANKFURT AM MAIN, MARCH, 2014

VIVIANE SASSEN. IN AND OUT OF FASHION May 17–August 17, 2014

Press conference: May 16, 2014, 11 am Opening: May 16, 2014, 7 pm

In the Netherlands and abroad Viviane Sassen is known foremost as an artist, whose surreal, colourful photographs of Africa won her the Prix de Rome in 2007. Alongside her autonomous work, however, she has worked many years as a fashion photographer. Sassen has carved out her own unmistakable style for in the field and it is held in high regard. From May 17 until August 17, 2014 the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt will premier Viviane Sassen. In and Out of Fashion, a retrospective of her fashion photography from the last 18 years. This overview presents photographic images, which are influenced by painting and often constructed like a collage with elements of free association. In the last 18 years Sassen has developed a personal language that is bewildering -- with intertwined bodies, sculptural compositions and abstract forms – it is always fascinating and full of energy. Sassen’s fashion photography is marked by both innovative strength and a surrealistic beauty. In contrast to her free-lance artwork, Sassen’s fashion photography is commissioned work that is created in close collaboration with a team of stylists, art directors, models and make-up artists. This enables Sassen to treat fashion photography as the ultimate playground, where she can work quickly and intuitively while enjoying the additional benefits of having a professional team on hand to facilitate her experiments. She calls this her ‘Laboratory’. “When models work with Viviane, they abandon themselves,” says Carven designer Guillaume Henry. “Viviane doesn’t try to make them vulnerable, she just asks them to forget about being a model.” The early work Viviane Sassen’s fashion photography developed from 2000 onwards partly in close and experimental collaboration with Emmeline de Mooij, with whom she produced photographic series for magazines such as Purple, Re-Magazine and Dazed & Confused. The exhibition in Fotografie Forum Frankfurt includes such a series, Nudes. This body of work includes early photos by Sassen and De Mooij that were based on simple ideas and had strange and surprising effects. Here bodies became part of a sculptural investigation that were linked to extensions in the form of objects and clothing, and were turned into an amorphous tangle. The exhibition also includes images from the now iconic series she made for the magazine Kutt in 2002, which was a comment on an advertising campaign that Sassen had shot for the Italian fashion house Miu Miu the previous year. The models’ bodies are so intertwined that it is almost impossible to say what belongs where. According to De Mooij they had worked “in a sort of dream world”. Sassen is strongly attached to this type of spontaneity, and her work correspondingly remains free from the fashion world’s prevailing codes and conventions.

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The flow of independent creativity At the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt’s exhibition a new projection installation will be created including new works and past classics. More than 300 photos taken from advertising campaigns created for Carven, M-Missoni, Stella McCartney/Adidas and Levi’s, and from editorials for magazines such as Pop, Wallpaper, Numéro, AnOther Magazine, Purple, and Dazed & Confused, will be shown. This selection changes from venue to venue, and in Frankfurt photos previously not shown, will be included. The fact that Sassen’s fashion images generally arise in the course of an unobstructed creative flow is the focus of this installation: the exciting, experimental, creative, modern character of contemporary fashion is also evident here. Sassen carries out a modernist research into form that has much in common with the formal experiments of cubism, surrealism and minimalism. Sassen boldly crops her models’ limbs to position them as floating objects in the image. She often adds areas of colour to her images or rotates her pictures to free them from the constraints of gravity, all of this to stimulate the viewer’s imagination. In and Out of Fashion would not be complete without the section called Foreplay, images which Sassen makes just before or right after a shoot, revealing the serendipities of the photographic process. This series forms perhaps the most intriguing new genre in Viviane Sassen’s oeuvre, producing images marked by an extraordinary abstraction. Body and form Sassen works with natural resources like bright sunlight, shadows, and reflections in mirrors, but her images are also constructed using colours, forms and textures. The exhibition shows numerous examples of this, including her collaboration with Dutch top model Anna de Rijk, and a series of 36 portraits of the French stylist Roxane Danset. Having started as a kind of performance, with Danset as a “white Grace Jones, obviously without the singing”, this exercise led to strange and unexpected forms that Danset herself describes as “creature-esque”. Viviane Sassen’s spontaneous, artistic, and characteristically individual approach has ensured that her fashion photography goes far beyond the usual confines of this medium. The fashion domain affords her the space to carry out experiments that generate a reservoir of material, which enable her to develop the language of her autonomous work. The exhibition also furnishes convincing proof that Sassen is developing a visual vocabulary for fashion photography of the future. Publication The accompanying monograph to this exhibition, Viviane Sassen. In and Out of Fashion, Prestel Verlag, Munich includes texts by Nanda van den Berg and Charlotte Cotton. It is available in hardcover with 260 pages, 250 colour illustrations, and a chronological overview of tear sheets of almost all Sassen’s fashion series to date. Price: €49.95 during the exhibition. A press proof PDF of the book is available on request; please contact Andrea Horvay at [email protected].

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Special Events May 17, Saturday, 2 pm Lecture „About the Art of Viviane Sassen’s Fashion Photography“ Nanda van den Berg, Senior Curator Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam Location: Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Braubachstraße 30-32, 60311 FF/M The lecture will be held in English.

May 17, Saturday, 6 pm Lecture “Collecting at Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie in Amsterdam” Els Barents, Director Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam Location: Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Braubachstraße 30-32, 60311 FF/M The lecture will be held in German.

Opening Viviane Sassen. In and Out of Fashion will open on Friday, May 16, 2014, at 7pm.

Venue Fotografie Forum Frankfurt Braubachstraße 30-32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main Tel. +49 (0) 69 29 17 26, e-mail: [email protected] www.fffrankfurt.org Opening hours: Tuesday, Thursday–Sunday: 11 am–6 pm, Wednesday: 11 am–8 pm, Monday closed. Admission fee: 6 € (reduced: 3 €)

Press material For more information about the exhibition, including press images, please contact Andrea Horvay by telephone on +49 (0) 69 29 17 26 or by email at [email protected].

PRESSEKONTAKT Andrea Horvay Braubachstraße 30–32 60311 Frankfurt am Main Tel.: +49 (0) 69. 291726 Fax: +49 (0) 69 28639 Email: [email protected] www.fffrankfurt.org

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Viviane Sassen (Amsterdam, 1972) was awarded the Prix de Rome in 2007 and the ICP Infinity Award for Applied and Fashion Photography in 2011. Her much-lauded personal work, which unlike her fashion work arises in contemplative isolation and on far-flung travels, especially in Africa, has been collected in publications including Flamboya (2007), Parasomnia (2011) and Die Son Sien Alles (2012). Her work has been exhibited in museums all over the world, including the MoMA in New York, the LACMA in Los Angeles, the FORMA in Milan, the Kunsthalle in Vienna, and numerous other locations in France, Australia, Korea, the UK, South Africa and Nigeria. 1972 born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; lives and works in Amsterdam 1974-77 lived with her family in Kenya, where her father worked in a polio-clinic 1990–92 studied fashion design at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem, The Netherlands 1992–96 studied photography at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, The Netherlands 1996–97 received Master of Fine Arts at the Ateliers Arnhem, The Netherlands

EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN │ SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 In and Out of Fashion, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany (17.05 – 17.08.2014) Viviane Sassen. UMBRA, Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, The Netherlands (8.03 – 1.06.2014) In and Out of Fashion, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah USA Pikin Slee, Stevenson, Cape Town 2013 In and Out of Fashion, Rencontres d'Arles, France; Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh Three Magi, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany 2012 In and Out of Fashion, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands There There, Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland Youth Code, Photo Biennale Daegu, Daegu, Korea Parasomnia, Stevenson, Cape Town 2011 Sketches & Flamboya, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria 2010 Moshi, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South-Africa Sketches & Flamboya, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, Germany Flamboya, Musee Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France; Danziger Projects, New York, USA; FORMA, Milano, Italy 2009 Flamboya, Galerie van den Berge, Goes, The Netherlands 2008 Flamboya, FOAM photography museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; De Gang, Haarlem, The Netherlands 2007 As the crow flies, Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, The Netherlands 2006 Die son sien alles, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2005 Realm, i.c.w. Emmeline de Mooij, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam 2001 I see you gorgeous blossom special, Fotofestival Naarden, Naarden Vesting, The Netherlands

GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN (AUSWAHL) │ SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 Six Yards Guaranteed Dutch Design, Museum for Modern Art, Arnhem, the Netherlands Junge Menschen, Museum Winterthur, Zürich

2011 New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA ‘No fashion please’, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Figure and Ground: Dynamic Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Contact Photography Festival) 2010 Africa, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, USA Lagos Photo, Lagos, Nigeria Flamboya, Brighton Photo Biennial, curated by Martin Parr, Brighton, UK 2008 Cover Project, Art Aids, icw Martine Stig, AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2007 Dutch Fantasy – Nouvelles images de mode Néerlandaises, Institut Neerlandais, Paris 2006 Spooky, Het Gebouw, Utrecht, the Netherlands Die Liebe zum Licht, Stadtliche Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany 2003 Rotterdamse Design Prijs, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2002 Flowers, Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2001 Goeie foto’s, Aschenbach & Hofland galleries, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2000 Kinship, Amsterdam Centrum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1999 Tegenlicht, Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

PREISE │ AWARDS 2011 Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography, International Center of Photography, New York 2009 Paris Photo, Motive Gallery, Paris, France (nomination BMW prize) Finalist Best Book Award for Flamboya, Rencontres-Arles, France Finalist Kees Scherer prize for Flamboya, Fotofestival Naarden, The Netherlands 2007 Art Amsterdam, Motive Gallery (nomination Thieme Art Award), the Netherlands Nomination KLM Paul Huf Award, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Prix de Rome, The Netherlands

BIBLIOGRAFIE │ BIBLIOGRAPHY 2014 Pikin Slee (Prestel, ISBN: 978-3-7913-4953-4) 2012 In and out of fashion (Prestel, ISBN 978-3-7913-4828-5) Roxane (Oodee Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9570389-1-2) 2011 Die Son Sien Alles (Libraryman, ISBN 978-91-86269-19-7) Parasomnia (Prestel, ISBN 978-3-7913-4521-5) 2010 Sketches (Kominek) 2009 Sol & Luna (Libraryman, ISBN 978-91-86269-24-1) A day in the life of (Libraryman, ISBN 978-91-86269-04-3) 2008 Flamboya (Contrasto, ISBN 978-88-6965-139-7)

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VIVIANE SASSEN. IN AND OUT OF FASHION May 17–August 17, 2014

Press conference: May 16, 2014, 11 am Opening: May 16, 2014, 7 pm

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These photographs may be published only in connection with Viviane Sassen. In and Out of Fashion at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, as a preview or review of this exhibition.

Press material For press images and more information about the exhibition, please contact Andrea Horvay by telephone +49 (0) 69 29 17 26 or by email at [email protected].

PRESS CONTACT Andrea Horvay Braubachstraße 30–32 60311 Frankfurt am Main Tel.: +49 (0) 69. 291726 Fax: +49 (0) 69 28639 Email: [email protected] www.fffrankfurt.org