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these prize winning photographers are among the 1st to grow up in a world of digital imagery and feel at home in it and this new generation tends to view images with a certain skepticism nothing's taken for granted their works are currently being showcased in hamburg dash to holland in an exhibition and titled good alsatian or good prospects the common theme photography in times of global descend from asian. among the photographers is lisa hoffman she's taken pictures in crisis and doesn't trust the images we have of them she wants to for her own. scepter a mistake on my thing skepticism and mistrust a very strong and very negative connotation words. of this now i'd rather say a desire has arisen to look for other possibilities for representation a lot of. she superimposes as many as 1000 photos of places like syria and the ghana stand to create a kind of them a book picture of
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a mass of details people and objects appear it's a photographic puzzle a kind of counter image past it and what is not to get showing what remains in the background there is no clear idea of someone witnessing events instead it always includes the gaps as well in my artistic gets to ration i try to break through classical concepts of the image and long established tragedies and provide something else that. photographer marcus cybil also observes events that move the world in his videos and photos to takes a perspective all his own and no faces no masses of people on the move only the remnants what do refugees leave behind. is a kind of memorial to those who don't make it the cause of death are listed matter of fact lee drowning hypothermia or simply unknown photography can also be an indictment. splatters
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saying a has a very different approach to his mysterious photos or manifestations of hidden processors hundreds of points of light on the skin this is how facial recognition works when we unlock a smartphone and. he captures this fraction of a 2nd with a converted single lens reflex camera using infrared imaging to reveal points that are normally invisible and transform them into an image he makes the invisible visible. as much as it makes you realize an invisible sphere surrounds you that exerts an incredibly strong influence on your life it makes you want to be able to locate it you don't want to pinpoint it it awakens a deep desire or instinct to bring it into the realm of perception i've got someone who. lives and works in often in western germany.
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he said at the studio in an old laundry. he moves through in the sceptical sphere as he captures the intangible such as the signals from the patient's satellites. i'm setting up my own receiver for satellite data and i can hardly wait to see what i can pick up out of the sky today. what's so exciting is that it's not yet such a top secret black box. you can still get into it even as a regular citizen that's. what remains hidden. with a bit of technical savvy. listening to a satellite that's almost right overhead moving above europe. turns this until today into photographs images of the earth beneath clouds and water vapor and reveals how we observed.
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mr graham a very important part of my work that is the consideration of where the image comes from and whether it was the center of the addressee or the mind off the plays a decisive part you can't cut that out because then the work loses its edge and is no longer exciting showing where the image comes from is every bit as important as the image itself. it's an insight into our present and a glimpse into the future as new technologies become more and more than cryptic and inscrutable. eventually happen is that these black boxes the photographs vanish into. are there algorithms or as in this case observations out of lights more image data sent back and forth they will become less and less accessible and it will be able to examine the processes themselves the movie to go by and they can come. not all of photographers are looking into the future recut of fallen behavior is looking the other way back to the beginnings of photography one project has her
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meeting her sister in a room only the 2 of them for a few days and the camera. the doctor fees most basic aspects may appear simple but are in fact complex they trade roles who is 1st a question who who is active and who is passive. the good man i am at. my work isn't primarily a question of digital or analog my actually i take a journey back through the history of photography in a work created by me and my sister one that could hardly be more subjective or more personal thanks and. forward into the past or upwards into almost inaccessible rounds young photographers in germany are calling many things into question and shining a new knight onto existing realities. i
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try to be as open and this free of care as it's possible at the same time very relaxed to a particular moment comes together. very concerned with the surface reality what we see on the surface of the soup what is underneath the lives of the many many layers and i can border i can be as wandered to the world's big cities with his rather flex law goes out than berlin pharmaco. but the images he captures are always ambiguous. as this photo studio in togo doesn't offer photos to go. this shot of a carefree child playing on the beach masks a different reality. this young girl she walks up and
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down probably the whole day trying to boiled eggs and she's put them down and spend the moments going on this kind of merry go around this particular social situation if her parents see her doing this that we saw that so there would be to. born in oxford and raised in law. can be has lived in berlin for years having experienced so many different ways of life he knows that everyone will interpret his pictures differently. it's really different realities in the prison where coverage from how you want to look at it what age you are home but sure you are all these things all the time and in my own perspective no one reality is above the other. this is the bar beach and law goes before construction started here. time and again in both iraq and b.
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was drawn there to the beach where all the nigerians hung a. blind beggar's being led by 2 sighted people. a woman praying. how much history how many stories has the sea washed away a lot of us cautiously on cautiously look out and have a kind of faint echo of the former slave trade we're from these very shores millions of people were taken away into the new world a slave so there's a kind of very faint echo still echoing. one this is a very carefully. this echo of history can also be heard in our can be african quarter project since the 1990 s. has been documenting life in the quarter of berlin's wetting district where many of the streets are named after former german colonies. some streets are even named after men responsible for the deaths and suffering of countless thousands of
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africans men like karl peters. time and time again activist his name. is 820042005 somebody i don't know who. put this same kind of technology as the science. and video was the complaint against the german could have my eyes of the time and then submitted to be removed to. embrace the. violence resistance and the colonial past that's yet to be addressed all compressed into the image of a single street sign. can be always shoots his photos with an analog medium format camera and always in black and white. he doesn't need to photoshop is images all he needs is a lot of time and a little serendipity. in
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his every day observations of life arc in both iraq and be captures the attitudes and atmosphere in the big cities of europe and africa. and him by deservers to discover the realities hidden behind the surface. the. perception of reality fragments fragments fragments fragments so it's a constant quest to try because it's closer to reality it's an ongoing. adventure i think it's very very important but i would never really caught that so
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i keep on trying all the time. once said the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera that's all for 21 by.
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this is news a line from berlin dozens of people are killed as are powerful earthquake rocks turkey and greece hundreds more are injured as buildings in the turkish city of it is near collapse rescuers pulled more than 100 people from the rubble you know working to free others also coming up people in france mourn the victims of thursday's attack in a nice church as police say they've arrested at a 3rd suspect in the stabbings and fears.

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