Dealing with Photographs. analyze.archive.historicize.construct.shoot.guilt.

Photographic images surround us. We all live and deal with them every day, whether consciously and intentionally or not. New ways of using and interacting with photography are constantly being developed. Likewise, the values and meanings attached to photographs change when they are transferred to new contexts. For a characterization of photography, it therefore seems promising to take a closer look at the verbs associated with it. Whether to analyze, archive, historicize, construct, shoot or to perceive guilt: in a one-day academic workshop, photography – understood as a set of practices – will be questioned from very different perspectives. In six interactive short lectures, current research projects will be presented and put up for discussion.

 In addition, the Berlin-based artist Viktoria Binschtok and Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci, Professor of Art History at the LMU Munich, have been invited for a discussion. Viktoria Binschtok negotiates image sources and economies in her works when, for example, she transfers the algorithmically determined associations of digital image search engines from a virtual to a physical space in her series Cluster. In her research project METROMOD, Burcu Dogramaci maps the networks of exiled artists in the first half of the 20 th century. Among other things, her focus is on image and exhibition practices that have developed from these experiences.

 The public Workshop is organized by students of the academic master’s program on the theory and history of photography M. A. Photography Studies and Research. Conceived and realized by Dortje Fink, Tabea Funke, Sarah Gramotke, Deborah Herber, Malte Radtki and Meike Reiners.

Participation free of charge. Without registration.

PROGRAMME

11:00 Welcom and Introduction

11:15 Meike Reiners
Fotoforensik. Methoden zur Befragung von Fotografien

11:45 Malte Radtki
Erinnere mich – zu meinen Bedingungen!
Nachlassbewusstsein im privaten Fotoalbum

12:15 Break

12:30 Sarah Gramotke
Joachim Schmids Archiv: Gefundene Sichtbarkeiten

13:00 Tabea Funke
Fotografische Schuldeingeständnisse

13:30 Break

15:00 Viktoria Binschtok & Burcu Dogramaci im Gespräch mit Student:innen

16:30 Break

17:00 Deborah Herber
Wer schießt, nimmt teil: Ethische und moralische Verantwortung im Fotojournalismus

17:30 Dortje Fink
Im Westen was Neues – periphere Fotografiegeschichten rücken ins Zentrum

18:00 End + Guided Tour

STOPOVER 2023 – M.A. Photography Studies
in the basement of the Museum Folkwang.

The artists will be present.