Irregular update. Black and white and in color by
Patrick Becker, Holger Biermann and Jan Michalko

>> Booklet :
TERRASSEN AM ZOO
by Holger Biermann

Raum für Fotografie at Neuköllner Leuchtturm
Emser Strasse 117, 12051 Berlin, Germany

open 17march – 08may, tuesday to friday, 2 – 6 pm

http://www.photography-in.berlin

http://neukoellnerleuchtturm.de

Photographs by Corinna Sauer, Sebastián Laraia, Jeffrey Ladd, Holger Biermann, Shinji Abe, Patrick Becker, Jiri Makovec, Dimitri Mellos, Richard Sandler, Gilles Roudière, Roger Minick, Jan Zappner, Georg Knoll, Andreas Pein, Jan Michalko, Jonathan van Smit, Jia Jia Zhang, hannah goldstein and Charlie Jouvet.

at TÊTE art space in Berlin 15 march 2013

artist talks 20 march 2013 – Jan Zappner, Corinna Sauer and Holger Biermann

infos at http://www.tete.nu

opening: 15 march 2013
gallery weekend: 16 / 17 march
artist talks: 20 march

TÊTE
Schönhauser Allee 161A
10435 Berlin / Germany

hannah goldstein
http://www.hannahgoldstein.net

MIRAPROSPEKT group exhibition
Photographs by Corinna Sauer, Sebastián Laraia, Jeffrey Ladd, Holger Biermann, Shinji Abe, Patrick Becker, Jiri Makovec, Dimitri Mellos, Richard Sandler, Gilles Roudière, Roger Minick, Jan Zappner, Georg Knoll, Andreas Pein, Jan Michalko, Jonathan van Smit, Jia Jia Zhang, hannah goldstein and Charlie Jouvet.

The Uyghurs in Urumqi and Kashgar proved to be as curious about me as I was of them. Frowns and smiles were often simultaneous. A number of Uyghurs wanted to know if I was an American, and were surprised and pleased to learn that I’m of German origin. I had to notice that their praises were limited to Germanys worst epoch.

In the overcrowded streets of the “Old Town”, a continuing crush of people sweeps over the dusty pavements with an urgency I hadn’t experienced in any other city in China.

Though the government does its best to re-model and conform these Uyghur neighborhoods to Chinese norms, only a few native Han Chinese dare enter them. At the gold lettered gate of the “Old Town”, guided Han Chinese tourist groups wander in the Bazaar’s refurbished halls and passages. There, traders sell skins of lynx and wolves, or of yellow-pelted dogs, which are cleverly painted with patterns of black vertical stripes: the rare “Chinese tiger”.

Though Uyghur security guards are prohibited from carrying arms, heavily armed Han Chinese police and military are on constant patrol, the drab institutional Chinese uniforms in stark contrast to Uyghur traditional dress. The everyday wear of Uyghur women, in particular, features spectacularly colorful decorative costumes and elaborate adornments. Some of the younger Uyghur men can be seen in the long-discontinued fashions of Western department stores.

The last photographs of this series are of Tajiks in their home-town of Tashkurgan, high in the Pamir mountains. Close to the miltarized border zone of Tajikistan and Pakistan, Tashkurgan is a drab little town inhabited by an ethnically distinct people, its streets filled with a small army of undernourished stray dogs.

I photographed in Xinjiang Province for a short time and without editorial direction or ethnographic method. These photographs are a record of scenes, faces and situations which I found interesting.

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TAKE TWO: The Post-Sandy opening of the South Street Seaport Museum. Tuesday, January 15, 2013 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm

The Museum of Photography in Görlitz

Exhibition from 28 july to 24 August 2012

Löbauer Straße 7, 02826 Görlitz/Germany

located at the former ground of the camera
manufacture Ernst Herbst & Firl, producer of
atelier- and travel cameras between 1893 and 1919.

Exhibition of photographs seen on miraprospekt.com by Patrick Becker, Holger Biermann, Georg Knoll, Sebastián Laraia, Jan Michalko, Andreas Pein,
Gilles Roudière and Jan Zappner

The Museum of Photography in Görlitz / Germany

Opening 27 july 2012, 7 pm

Exhibition runs from 28 july to 24 August 2012

at  Galerie des Museums der Fotografie

Löbauer Straße 7,  02826 Görlitz

located at the former ground of the camera
manufacture Ernst Herbst & Firl, producer of
atelier- and travel cameras between 1893 and 1919.

Exhibition of photographs seen on miraprospekt.com by Patrick Becker, Holger Biermann, Georg Knoll, Sebastián Laraia, Jan Michalko, Andreas Pein,
Gilles Roudière and Jan Zappner

I’ve been walking many miles and years there.
You won’t see any signs of gentrification or other
politically relevant issues in these photographs.
It’s famous Midtown Manhattan.
The very busy business and tourist district.
It’s easy to photograph there.

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