These days I was invited to take part into a photographic competition which is held at the quarterly fashion meeting “Schönes Hamburg”. In the run-up to the event five photographers were asked to shoot one and the same clothes – a red jacket by Nusum and a blue overall by Musswessels – and present their work in just one photo. The photos of the five participants were shown at the meet-up last night and the guests elected a winner. I’m pretty amazed that they chose my photo as their favorite and feel very honored to be prized by such a competent audience.

Like almost every picture I take, this one again was the result of a great team’s work. So it’s not only my work which has been honored it’s also the merit of Tatiana Calasans (styling), Ann-Christin Galka (hair & make up) and the beautiful Tea and Lina, both from Place models, the agency who invited me to take part into the competition. Thanks to all of you!

I am very proud to announce that some of my work was chosen for the current Popup Arthouse Exhibition in New Delhi.

Here is in short what it’s all about:

“Pop-Up-Art-House :

’5 Days to Make an Art Exhibition’ OR ‘How to smack the nuts of artsnobs’

Pop-Up-ArtHouse is an art experiment that pitches a team of non-traditional curators against a mad deadline.

With 5 days to conceive, invite, curate and realize the exhibit, Pop-Up-ArtHouse is as much an exercise in adversity-driven creativity as it is an immersion into the contemporary practice and appreciation of art. It is also a chance to unlearn some of the perceptions one may have about the arts in general.

The curatorial team leveraged social networks, spammed creative communities and sweet talked their way into almost 300 works of art as submitted by their creators inside of 3 days. The remaining 2 days were used to curate the art itself – reaching (or not reaching) a consensus on the approach to selection and presentation of the works.

Pop-Up-Art-House questions curatorial practices that often bring a self-centred order to what could otherwise be a far more vibrant, organic and aesthetically challenging composition of artists and their pursuits. The curatorial effort in this project is skewed towards the creation of a curated platform, moving away from curatorial themes that revolve around the content of art.”