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Young photo books – how much passion can you afford?
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As part of the Triennial of Photography Hamburg Expanded and accompanying the group exhibition “ruled by touch” by Teresa Pistorius, Melina Papageorgiou, Annemie Martin, Jana Kießer and Hien Hoàng, we talked together about sustainability, passion and financing photo books.
Mundhalle, © Jana Kießer
Annemie Martin talks about her own experience of making books, © Jana Kießer
Part of the exhibition view, © Jana Kießer
Mundhalle in Hamburg, © Jana Kießer
The book
Together with the photographers Annemie Martin and Jana Kießer, we published their first joint photo book »Von Kartoffelrosen und brennenden Baumkronen« in 2021.
The series reflects the changes in everyday life during the coronavirus pandemic in the form of a photographic dialogue with personal texts. Mostly 800 kilometers apart – Annemie spent much of the Corona period on an island in Lake Constance, Jana in Berlin –the two photographers conducted the dialogue for more than a year.
In the same year, the publication was awarded bronze by the German Photo Book Prize in the conceptual-artistic photo book category.
Book view, © SHIFT BOOKS
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