Ruchomy Pamiętnik / Mobile diary

The last part of the Mobile Diary series. It is a book based on memories of people, who came to Slupsk in 1945-50 to live in a new land. The book includes double record cd/dvd with radio theater by Marcin Dymiter, and video work by Ludomir Franczak. Published in Polish and German languages.

Authors: Daniel Odija, Marcin Dymiter, Ludomir Franczak, Magdalena Franczak
Layout: Ludomir Franczak
Edition of 500, 112p., cd/dvd, hard cover, 2010
Published with the financial help of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and City of Slupsk

Rocznik 1934
First book of the Mobile Diary project – based on years 1945-51 in Pomerania, when Polish and German culture was coexisting in the territory. Published in Polish and Kaszebe.

Authors: Brzozaki Group, Weronika Fibich
Layout: Ludomir Franczak
Edition of 500, 16p., soft cover, 2010
Published with the financial help of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and City of Slupsk

Second book of the Mobile Diary project. Contemporary interpretation of the project’s idea made by 3 visual artists, and art historian. Published in Polish and German.

Authors: Adam Witkowski, Hubert Bilewicz, Paweł Kula/Maria Stafyniak
Layout: Ludomir Franczak
Edition of 500, 64p., soft cover, 2010
Published with the financial help of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and City of Slupsk

D 20€
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Brussels Beauties

Collected & edited by Erik Kessels.
The third in the found photography series collecting images of attractiveness from around the world. After Bangkok Beauties and Bombay Beauties, Kessels focuses on the smaller scale story of one Belgian girl. Unaware of her own prettiness, she turns a pensive face to the camera in image after image. The repetitive pictures build a quietly intense atmosphere, like stills from an old movie. We are left to speculate on almost everything about her: age, period when the photos were made, exact location (the Belgian capital of the title is absent inside). Only the consistency of her ambiguous expression is a certainty. A mini Mona Lisa, she seems alternately sadly happy, and happily sad, a strangely complex and mature set of emotions for one of her years.
Black & white, 170 x 255 mm, 40 pages, soft cover, edition of 500.

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Bombay Beauties

Collected & edited by Erik Kessels. A sequel to Bangkok Beauties, this collection of found photographs comprises a selection of pieces discovered by Erik Kessels in Mumbai. It depicts a rich mix of ordinary subjects, from hairdressers’ models to family shots to wedding images. Mixed in with this cross section of typical folk are rare shots of Bollywood actors and stars. Taken together, these show the rich diversity of the city, hinting at its untold stories and lives. Black & white, 170 x 225 mm, 60 pages, soft cover, edition of 500.

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Bangkok Beauties

Beauty captures the eye as well as the imagination. There is something naturally alluring and distracting about loveliness; something in its purity, its naivete, its promise and its hopeful inspiration. We all tend to gravitate with passion towards the ideal. In Bangkok Beauties, Erik Kessels provides a look at a specific photographic series that depicts attractive women during a beauty contest sometime ago. Here we see the contestants displaying themselves in such a way as to be judged by their poise, their posture and their most of all by their appearance. The photographs have become even more precious and lovely in their decay. Over the years, the pictures have deteriorated, been scratched and suffered weather all of which serves to enhance their beauty both as images and as objects. In fact, we can hold these rescued beauties and see them front and back thereby join in the admiring contest that continues even still. Black & white, 170 x 225 mm, 28 pages, soft cover.

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American Zoo

Collected, edited and designed by Jennifer Skupin, text by Zack McDonald.
Aristotle once observed that “man is by nature a political animal.” Art Director Jennifer Skupin takes this age-old profundity quite literally, compiling images of American presidents and the animals which they most resemble. It turns out that Fillmore is a mallard, Grant is a grizzly and Obama a llama. For all those hungry for the ultimate series in presidential non-human doppelgangers, American Zoo is the feast you’ve been awaiting. Black & white, 170 x 255 mm, 100 pages, soft cover, edition of 500.

D 14.50€
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10. – 19. März
Opening: 9. März, 18 Uhr

EWZ Selnau, Zürich

Teufelsberg
Marie Sommer

Text:
Jean-Yves Jouannais
Teufelsberg (mountain devil), is an artificial hill located southwest of Berlin, overlooking the city. Amusement park very popular with young Berliners, this hill was built after the Second World War with the remnants of the city after the Allied bombing. An estimated 30 million cubic meters of rubble piled mass there, the equivalent of 400,000 buildings. The hill rises on the site of the University of Nazi war which had been designed by the architect of the Third Reich, Albert Speer, and half done. As after the war, it was difficult to totally destroy the building riddled with underground bunkers, the German authorities decided to bury him and make him disappear under an artificial hill. The hill was then covered with trees, and used during the winter ski run in the 60s and 70s. During the Cold War, was built at the top center of U.S. espionage radar to listen to communications of the Soviet bloc in East Berlin.

She won the contest SFR Jeunes Talents – BAL 2009.
Coproducer : Le Bal/SFR
Released : September, 15th 2010
Collection : Hors Collection
English/French
ISBN 13 : 978-2-35046-197-7
Format : 210 x 290
72 pages
Paperback with flaps
41 color and black and white photos

D 22€
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Printing at home, Xavier Antin.

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Watercolour Printer
Prepared Printer
Joystick Printer
Brush Jet Printer
Springboard Printer
Rainbow Printer
Acid Printer
Potato Printer

PREMIER EN SPORT ET EN CHANT Nº0

Premier en sport et en chant is a new journal showcasing emerging photography.

Extent: 56 Pages
Trim size: 21 x 27 cm
Black and white laser print on Cyclus 115gr,
Cover on Cyclus 170 gr
Binding: Softcover, saddle stitched
Text: French / English
First run of 100 copies
Self Published

D 4€
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Club Donny #6
A strictly unedited journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment

D 10€
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