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HISTORIC AND ALTERNATIVE PROCESSES IN ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY

AN EXHIBITION ON THE WORLDWIDE PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY DAY

Exploring the roots The inimitable magic of photography will not fade. Historical, analog, and alternative forms of photography – and the often associated work in the darkroom – do not decline despite the triumph of digital photography and digital image processing. Quite the contrary: analog photography and its photographic processes are experiencing new heights and constantly get new enthusiastic supporters, especially among younger generations. Increasingly, photo artists turn towards the fascinating analog image processes again, thus not letting them fall into oblivion.

The Exhibition As part of the Worldwide Pinhole Day in April 2015, EXPOSED shows a broad artistic spectrum of these creative forms of photography. The exhibition displays not only photographic works done by classic analog techniques, but it also shows photography from its decelerated side using pinhole camera, wet plate, infrared, and much more. The resulting images transform the magic of materials and processes into an artistic expression of the present – attracting attention once again. Three The main exhibition takes place at Lumina Gallery, Austria‘s most established gallery for analog photographic art between the April 16 and April 26 2015 (the Worldwide Pinhole Day). Another part will take place at the remarkable West46 Gallery. EXPOSED EAST, a special exhibition of analog photography from Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and the Baltic states, takes place at the The Art Gallery Vienna concurrently. The finissage will be a special event on April 26 featuring the World Pin Hole Day and presenting selected pinhole photography artworks. In three renowned galleries focus of the entire genre are displayed: Lumina: Austria’s instance for analog photography. In the main exhibition venue 30 artists exhibit as part of Exposed techniques from pinhole over cyanotype to infrared. 16.4 04.26.2015. West 46: One of the most important photo galleries in Vienna. The Exposed focus on Polaroid and other small-format photography. About ten exhibiting artists. 7.4 - 19.04.2015. The Art Gallery Vienna: The massive participation of Eastern European artists to the Call for artists is displayed in the exhibition focus Exposed East. 16.4 - 04.26.2015.

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The Artists 47 Artists from all around the world including Iran, Ukraine, Belarus, Belgium, and the USA are presenting their single artworks and series. A team of curators selected the works from over 500 submissions within the frame of an international Call for Artists. The exhibition shows an impressing variety of analog artistic photography. Martin Allhoff (AUT)...................................................................................................................................... 6 David Auner (AUT)........................................................................................................................................ 8 Pasquale Autiero (ITA)............................................................................................................................... 10 Sonja Bachmayer (AUT)............................................................................................................................ 12 Scott Barnes (USA)..................................................................................................................................... 14 Igor Belsky (UKR) ....................................................................................................................................... 16 Mario Bertieri (ITA)..................................................................................................................................... 18 Oleksandr Bieliavskyi (UKR).................................................................................................................... 20 Andrey Bondarenko (UKR)....................................................................................................................... 22 Sina Boroumandi(IRN)............................................................................................................................. 24 Johann Bottos (ITA).................................................................................................................................... 26 Radosław Brzozowski (POL).................................................................................................................... 28 Luis Corrales (ESP)..................................................................................................................................... 30 Kristofor Dahl (USA).................................................................................................................................... 32 Andrea Ehrenreich(AUT).......................................................................................................................... 34 Romy Eijckmans (BEL).............................................................................................................................. 36 Jasmin Elmi(AUT)....................................................................................................................................... 38 Martin Frey (AUT)........................................................................................................................................ 40 Rudi Froese(AUT)....................................................................................................................................... 42 Zilvinas Glusinskas (LTU).......................................................................................................................... 44 Yaroslav Golubchik (UKR)......................................................................................................................... 46 Nicola Hackl-Haslinger(AUT).................................................................................................................. 48 Gerhard Hafner (AUT)................................................................................................................................ 50 Alex Halada (AUT)....................................................................................................................................... 52 Dennis Iwaskiewicz (AUT)........................................................................................................................ 54 Yulia Kopr(RUS).......................................................................................................................................... 56 Elena Kristofor (AUT)................................................................................................................................. 58 Walter Kühnelt (AUT)................................................................................................................................. 60 Jürgen Lechner (GER)................................................................................................................................ 62 Jose Manuel Madrona (ESP).................................................................................................................... 64 Alexander Magedler (AUT)........................................................................................................................ 66 Marc von Martial(GER)............................................................................................................................. 68 Ronnie Niedermeyer (AUT)...................................................................................................................... 70 Torsten Pauer (AUT)................................................................................................................................... 72 Lothar Ponhold (AUT)................................................................................................................................ 74 Nora Proske (AUT)...................................................................................................................................... 76 Mona Rad Ziabari (IRN)............................................................................................................................. 78 Zsuzsanna Reisinger (HUN)..................................................................................................................... 80 Nora Amélie Sahr (AUT)............................................................................................................................. 82 Antonia Small(USA)................................................................................................................................... 84 Jaya Suberg (GER)...................................................................................................................................... 86 Svemart (AUT)............................................................................................................................................. 88 Stefan Teufelsbauer (AUT)....................................................................................................................... 90 Tina Toth (AUT)............................................................................................................................................ 92 Clive Wheeler (GBR)................................................................................................................................... 94 Damla Yılmaz (TUR)................................................................................................................................... 96

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Ing. Martin Allhoff (AUstria) ”Since my earliest childhood, the possibility to capture a moment with a camera fascinated me. I started with a Pocket-Camera and evolved using my grandfather’s Kodak Retina IIIc, a range finder camera. With this camera I learned to deal with time, aperture and manual focusing. My view for situations and special moments evolved, and people/portrait is still my favorite kind of photography. In 2001 I bought my first Nikon SLR which was a big step and picture quality, in 2007 the first DSLR. In 2012, I decided to take my skills to a more professional level and attended a 2 years photographical education. I learned a lot about light, different techniques to take better pictures – but the highlight was working in the darkroom. The magical moment when the picture appears in the developer fascinated me a lot! This day definitely changed my view to digital photography and re-opened to door to the exciting world of film & paper – and pictures you can touch and take in your hands when they are finished! In the 2.year of education, everybody had to choose a project for the whole year. Mine I called ”Monochrome is not just black & white”“ The idea was to bring old photography techniques back to life. Eventually, the blue world of Cyanotype was my choice. I spent weekends experimenting with the chemistry, printing negatives and tried around 20 varieties of paper from 80 to 600g weight, until the results met my expectations. 4 of these 14 unique original works are selected for the “EXPOSED“ exhibition. I return to analog photography - from pocket film, small and medium format up to 8x10“ – and Polaroid / Impossible instant film of course, which still has its very own magic. I develop black & white films at home and anticipate summer to have enough light to bring the next cyanotypes to paper.“ Contact Web: retolog.tumblr.com 6

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David Aunerâ&#x20AC;&#x2039; (Austria) David Auner, aac is a cinematographer currently based in Vienna, Austria. Growing up in Graz, Austria he was taught film photography by his grandfather, himself a professional photographer, at an early age. David started working with digital technology in the mid 1990s, he works both with film and digital cinema cameras in a wide variety of genres ranging from music videos to narrative projects. For personal projects David is biased towards using film for its more organic feel and texture as well as the magical experience of working with a medium that tends to have a life of its own. Images At the age of 80, Davidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paternal great uncle Willi Almbauer Sr. decided to finally retire from milling rye. He was the third owner of the mill since it was bought by the family in 1927. Thus ends the operation of a mill that can be traced back to the mid 16th century. In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s age of convenience stores, an old style mill and bakery is hard pressed to survive. In addition, the legal situation has changed as well, prohibiting the commercial viability of a small family-owned flour mill. To document the current state of the mill David captured both digital and traditional black and white film photos. With the help of his family he created a book that preserves the history of the mill and offers a little insight into the making of flour and bread. Contact Web: www.auner.net 8

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Pasquale Autiero (ITAlia) Took his first steps into the circle of photojournalism, collaborating with the agency Graffiti Press of Rome. The experiences abroad led him to develop a vision of wider and more personal scope. Always present at the Luciano Corvaglia’s darkroom project from 2013; since last year is stable his participation at the Italian Center of Authorial Photography, first with “Asylum”, then with “Canto Notturno”. The past summer was the turn of his first solo exhibition at the gallery Frame Ars Artes of Naples. His series of photographs are born by the need of communication which finds its sublimation in the visual search togheter with poetic and philosophical references. Twice awarded, first in 2013, at Corigliano Calabro photography festival, then in 2014 at Castelnuovo di Porto. Images Asylum – Tales of life, love and death The English word asylum has various meanings, may in fact mean both refuge, both mental institution, and is just down the difference that flows between the two definitions that I want to play. The images, sometimes seeming unrelatedly, coming from different places, portaying subjects that seem to have nothing to do with each other, openly want to hide behind an appearance of confusion and particularity to transmit through metaphorical visions, the most universal of the human needs, explicit, and at the same time hidden in all the seasons of our lives, that is the one of a safety net to which turning and the feeling of bewilderment resulting from the loss or inability to achieve it. It is in this sense that the serie wants to get to affirm the denial of the delirious, although necessary, human contradictions, in order to sustain the search for a universal shelter, possible only through the introspection and the stimulation of the mind, thing that the images do by means using the pure inspiration, osmosis between the author and the audience, which only by the feeding on that can arrive to the message. Contact Web: www.pasqualeautiero.com 10

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Sonja Bachmayer (Austria) Sonja Bachmayer, born on November 7, 1960 at Ybbs an der Donau, Lower Austria Childhood and school years predominantly spent together with cows and feathered friends and roaming the surroundings at will; school-leaving exam (Matura) passed in the most depressing city of Lower Austria, then moved eastwards to study ethnology at Vienna University; leased a farm for the sake of love and bred sheep and goats; later returned to the capital and raised twin boys; professionally gained a foothold at the Anton-Proksch-Institute; since 2000 scientific assistant in addiction research. In 2010 started looking for a new field of interest and personal salvation and found both in a photography course at Fotoschule Wien (Vienna Photo School); 2012 completion of training at Fotoschule Wien, since 2012 trading licence to work as a press photographer (Clients Jewish Museum of Vienna, Anton Proksch Institute). Since 2013 Member of IG Bildende Kunst. 2014 (ongoing) Participation in the Anzenberger Masterclass (guided by Klaus Pichler, Reiner Riedler, Andrew Phelps, Annet van der Voort) Exhibitions Participation in various group exhibitions as part of the training courses 2012 Soloexhibition “The Low Season – the Vienna Family Baths in Winter“ shown in the Anzenberger Gallery, during the 1. Photo-Book-Festival in Vienna); “Lost Places”, Fotozeile, 1050 Vienna; 2013 Exhibition “Landscape in Mirror”, Fotoquartier, 1050 Vienna 2013 under the Top – 20, The best of folioPORT.com, on-line portfolio reviews, 2013 edition, Kaunas-Photography 2014 Exhibition ”Urban Fiction“, Fotoquartier, 1050 Vienna, in the context of ”Off-Festival Vienna“ Contact Web: www.somoflo.at 12

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Scott Barnes(United States) Scott Barnes is a printmaker with a Master’s Degree in painting. Photography has often been a means to document objects or events for later research, and use in drawings, prints, or paintings. Scott has been behind the camera lens since eighth grade, when he was introduced to black and white photography at Camp Kawanhee in the mountains of Maine. Photography was integrated into high school graphics classes, and although the majority of art classes in school and after school focused on drawing and painting, his parent’s high school graduation gift was a 35mm SLR. (His parents bought him a digital SLR upon completion of his MFA in painting). A former whitewater kayaking athlete and general outdoor enthusiast, Scott Barnes’ images have been used in several industry publications including monthly magazines/journals, advertisements, manufacturer brochures and websites, guide books, and calendars. He is currently teaching at Fairleigh Dickinson University while also pursuing both fine art and commercial photography. Scott’s work often reflects a love for adventure and an intimate knowledge of his natural environment. Exploration of the photogravure (polymer) process began as a way for Scott to work with his preferred process of intaglio print-making, without using hazardous acids and solvents. The first plates mimicked his drawings and traditional print-making methods. As his skills improved, Scott realized that the process could add special atmosphere, to photographs, that would assist the narrative in each image. The photographs have ceased being digital source material for other art work. They stand on their own as a testament to life’s inquisitive exploration; a record of the phenomena of experiences shared by Scott Barnes and his friends. In 2013, he published a unique workflow for making these types of prints, titled, “Making Photogravures with Polymer Plates”. A second, expanded edition is scheduled for publication in 2016. “I enjoy the simultaneously contemporary and anachronistic aspect of polymer photo gravure. It gives me a feeling of connection to my life as it is today, and the lives of people in the past.” Images The six photogravures of the Grand Canyon are taken during a trip along the Colorado River in the winter of 2010 & 2011. The National Parks in the United States are getting more crowded every year. Profit-driven industry is encroaching upon these wilderness areas and threatening to destroy them. The only way to experience the original, natural powerful beauty of a place like the Grand Canyon is during the winter, when motorized boats are not allowed on the Colorado River, tourist helicopters are not flying above, very few people are hiking on the trails, and commercial rafting is closed for a few months. The group on this trip wanted to experience a manually-powered, self-supported multi-week trip in the 225 mile wilderness of the Grand Canyon along the Colorado River. Contact Web: artandwater.blogspot.co.at 14

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Igor Belsky (Ukraine) Was born in 1972 in Kiev, Ukraine. First time took the photo camera “Smena“ at the age of 8. Eventually it became a profession. Studying is mostly based on such photo masters as V.Rudenko, R.Ostrovska, M.Kovalchuk, A.Lyapin. Have been working as photograph in the personal services sector for long time. Now works in the Ukrainian Union of Designers. Exhibitions and art projects 2012 Writing folly things on walls“ – art group ”L∞K“, Kiev, Ukraine “3,1415926535897932“ – art group ”π“, Kiev, Ukraine ”Summer colors“ – art group ”π“, Kiev, Ukraine ”Zezura“ – art group ”L∞K“, ”GogolFEST“, Kiev, Ukraine ”Virus“ performance – ”24 frames“ photos, ”GogolFEST“, Kiev, Ukraine ”Far–fetched Story“ – short film, art group ”Glue“, ”FastFilmFest“ Kiev, Ukraine 2013 ”646“ – short film, art group ”Glue“, ”CrazyCameraMan“ festival, Kiev, Ukraine ”Memory recovery“ – multimedia project, ”VIZII“ festival, Kiev, Ukraine ”Circle“ – ”Open studios“ Ukrainian Union of Designers ”Control strips“ – performance, photo, installation, art group ”L∞K“, Kiev, Ukraine ”Expropriation“ – art group ”L∞K“, Moscow, Russia 2014 ”Random contacts“ – photo, Kiev, Ukraine ”Expo internacional 2014“ – Guayaquil, Ecuador “Shucks“ – documentary short video, Fastov-Kiev, Ukraine ”Afenfosfobia“ – performance, ”GogolFEST“, Kiev, Ukraine ”Baba Kutsya“ – perfomance, photo, Fastov, Ukraine ”Loneliness“ – performance, ”GogolFEST“, Kiev, Ukraine ”One Urban. Absence of Horizon“ – photo, artwork, Art-Cafe ”Dom Maya“, Sumy, Ukraine Images Project ”At the distance of breath“: It‘s not so important what language you use to express your mind. Which of the techniques you use in your work and what kind of instruments are comfortable for you. What is important - that‘s your own soul. Your own point of view is the only thing that makes you the personality. In our technocratic times the author the same way as many of us was captured by the idea of dependency on technical instruments we use for our work. Thinking for a long time about the impossibility of creating without possessing the last achievements of photo industry. “The truth could be reached only step by step.“ (from Leonardo da Vinchi‘s thoughts of art). Marina Abramovich: ”The main thing is not what you do as an artist, the main thing is - how you do it.“ ”At the distance of breath“ - the approach to the woman, to the verity, self-knowledge, to the creativity, free from stamps and clichés, free from technocratic conventions. All the works are made with the simplest self-made camera with the small aperture. Contact Web: www.vitlyar.com 16

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Mario bertieri (ITALIA) Born 1984 and raised in Genoa, Italy. After moving to Vienna to pursue his artistic and academic career and graduating from the University of Vienna and the Graphische, he started his career as a professional photographer. His academic background as an archaeologist soon led him to search for the roots of photography and a way to integrate historical processes in his commercial and personal work. Currently head of the Studio684 (Vienna) a small studio aimed at promoting and supporting alternative processes. He is currently trying to discover how much his first years in Italy influenced him in his artistic growth. Moreover Mario likes his coffee black, fermented soybeans and fancy tropical drinks. Images 1-3: Etch/bleach process (after Liesegang 1870) and emulsion manipulation applied on negatives. Prints : 22x22 cm, Silver Gelatin Prints 4, 5: Wet plate collodion positives on Aluminum. Original Plates, 18x24 cm, 2mm Aluminum 6, 7 : Mordancage. “Variationen nach Sudre”. Prints : 18x24 cm Silver Gelatin Prints Contact Web: www.684.at 18

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Oleksandr Bieliavskyi (Ukraine) Born August 1981. Currently lives and works in Sumy, Ukraine Oleksandr Bieliavskyi is an emerging photographer, working primarily in film photography. He shoot basicaly street photography. As well as documentary projects and photostories. Education Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema And Television University Member of National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine (NSPAU) Exhibitions 1999 Solo exhibition Nikanor Onatsky Regional Art Museum in Sumy 2011 Solo exhibition Sumy Municipal Gallery 2014 Group exhibition EYES ROUGE 単 kunstlerische Perspektiven der Urbanitat, Viena, Austria 2014 Group exhibition AcademArt gallery, Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine Group exhibition EYES ROUGE - Vernissage Mimiken der Menschlichkeit 単 Kunstschaffen, Viena, Viena, Austria Competitions 2012 Short-list Street photography festival Moscow, Russia Bronze medal on XVII exhibition of National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine (NSPAU) Kiev, Ukraine Contact Web: alienlens-photoblog.tumblr.com 20

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Andrey Bondarenko (Ukraine) Born 1968 Since i was born, i have been living in Zaporozhye, Ukraine The main occupation is metallurgy. The photography is a hobby. For the last 5 years i have been taken pictures with the help of handmade pinhole cameras made of coffee cans. Contact Mail: elektriker@meta.ua 22

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Sina Boroumandi (IRAN) Born 1980 Solo Exhibitions 2011. Variations on a Theme of Balzac, Maryam Harandy Gallery, Tehran 2013. Theoria, Aun Gallery, Tehran 2013. Remembered Witnesses, Pszczyna Cultural Center, Poland 2015. Ekphrasis, 26 Art Gallery, Tehran Group Exhibitions 2006. Sales Gallery, Tehran 2007. Sales Gallery, Tehran 2008. Man-e Honar-e No, Tehran 2009. Man-e Honar-e No, Tehran 2010. Mah-e Mehr Gallery, Tehran 2013. Bielska Gallery, Poland A City in Deconstruction “This project is an ongoing series of photographs started in 2013, after I encountered a vast amount of constructing in Tehran, in a way that in which direction I look, an old building is being destroyed and a big, new structure is in its place. I decided to capture the feeling of these scenes with a tiny homemade pinhole camera to put more emphasis on what is going on. These photos are selected from an ongoing project which till now about thirty photographs are made.” Exploring the City in Colour “These works are a study on Werner Heisenberg’s (1901-1976) idea of a physical reality which stands in the middle of the distance between the image of an existent and the existent itself, in an equal distance between both “the possible“ and “the real”. Having this in mind I decided to add shapes and concepts by superimposing the transparent pictures of a city, the city where I live, in search of the images which can stand in the equal distance from what really exist and what could exist, between reality and possibility, between fatalism and freedom of will, between heaven and hell, between God and Devil. These photos are selected from an ongoing project which I have started to work on from late 2014.” Theia “Theia is a hypothesized ancient planet in the Early Solar System that according to the giant impact hypothesis collided with the Early Earth around 4.533 billion years ago, Theia’s debris gathered together around Earth to form what was the early Moon. In this series I altered the behavior of the flat surface of negative emulsion by pouring Fixer on the film before I put it in the camera to explore what will happen if some portions of film were unable to capture the subject in front of it.” Contact Mail: sinaboroumandi@gmail.com 24

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Johann Bottos (Italy) Johann Bottos was born on the 7th of October in the year 1981 in Pordenone (Italy). His first ‘true’ contact with photography came during University in Australia while studying Visual Communication. As part of the course he studied commercial and professional photography which enabled him to venture into traditional darkroom printing and use medium-large format cameras. After university he worked for 8 years at the Electrolux Industrial Design Center has a graphic designer first and after as a senior graphic designer. In this yperiod of time he developed a passion for landscape photography. For the first two years Johann used a digital slr besides he was never fully satisfied with the quality of the prints. He believed something was missing, something did not look right. It is after relooking at the prints from his university years that he decided that analogue photography would be the right medium for him. Concurrently he discovered what would be his greatest reference point in photography: Ansel Adams. Johann develops his own negatives and prints them manually in his darkroom. He has been part of two exhibitions and is about to exhibit in the next two months in further two venues. His belief in landscape photography is to translate the great array of emotions which the natural wild areas trigger into a tangible image. Johann believes that these feelings need to be cherished as they help to maintain an inner equilibrium which in today’s fast paced society is lost. Finally he thinks photos should help to increase the awareness in people to preserve and maintain the fragile natural heritage of this planet. Contact Web: www.johannbottos.com 26

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Radosław Brzozowski (POLand) Born 1971, started taking photos with an old Soviet made camera at the age of 13. A keen amateur for over 20 years he worked as a teacher and textbook developer until he finally turned to photography full time when he founded the Tricity School of Photography in 2008. Since then he has been dividing his time between administering the school and developing its curriculum and photography specializing in artistic nude and alternative photographic processes. He has shown his work on over ten group and individual exhibitions both in Poland and the USA. Artists statement Photography, first the ability to ‘freeze’ the surrounding reality, make it permanent, then to create its own subjective representations has fascintated me for over thirty years. Having started my explorations in the darkroom I turned digital for a while in order to finally focus on the creative possibilities of historical photographic processes. I currently creat my photographs almost entirely by means of historical methods even though I don’t avoid digital media as a means to a more traditional end. Having focussed almost entirely on the female nude for a number of years I currently balance fascination with the subject with intensive work on documentary photography using both the creative potential and permanence of film photography and alternative photographic processes to preserve my vision of he surrounding world for the days when it will have changed. Contact Web: www.radoslawbrzozowski.com 28

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LUIS CORRALES (Spain) Luis Corrales (born in Seville, 1975) works and lives in Vienna since 2003. Self-taught photographer, he started taking pictures in 2006 and has seen his work published in the last years in a bunch of international magazines like Schwarzweiß (Germany), Bliza (Poland), Hojas en la acera (Spain) or International Street Photographer Magazine (USA). He has been taking part in photography exhibitions since 2008. Soon interested in analog cameras and processing techniques, his main body of work is based on 35mm black and white film. The series presented in this exhibition is called “Wiener Akte“ (“Viennese nudes”) and consists of 5 self-developed prints on fibre-based paper. The photographs show empty backyards that have had no use for a long time, or emptied urban landscapes which will most probably be developed soon. Images Series “Wiener Akte“ (Viennese acts): Linzerstraße, 2010 Hütteldorferstraße, 2011 Poschgasse, 2011 Laxenburgerstraße, 2014 Schönbrunner Straße, 2014 Contact Web: www.luis-corrales.com 30

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Kristofor Dahl (USA) Kristofor Dahl was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1977. In 1996 Kristofor attended the University of Redlands in Redlands, California where he obtained his B.A. in Studio Art. Kristofor started his event and commercial photography studio, Dahlphotog, in 2002. Initially the focus of his early career was based in ceramics, sculpture, and design - mostly abstract expressionism. Kristofor then turned to large and medium format photography which is where his interests are now focused. Kristofor’s businesses are currently based in Irvine, California where he owns and operates Dahlphotog Studios, as well as New Love Photography, with his wife Lauren - who serves as his business partner, muse, and model. Kristofor’s work has been shown throughout the United States, most recently at the “Aura“ exhibition at Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, Oregon. Artist Statement I am a multidisciplinary artist, however I am focused at this time on large format photography, as well as alternative process printing. My early work was abstract expressionist, portrayed in ceramic and sculpture - mostly working with installations and large pieces meant to convey a passage of time and humanity. Much of my work today continues this experimentation, and revolves around the human female and male form as they exist on a base level - meaning to convey the sacred aspects of the body, as a vessel and a carrier of our history and existence. What is the body? What choices do we have? What is the future of the human race? Who holds the power of creation? These are the questions I look to explore through most of my work. Currently I am using both newly manufactured large format glass plate negatives, as well as negative glass plates originally produced in 1918 which I found unopened and unexposed at an auction. I purchased them not knowing if they were still usable, but as it turns out they produce some very nice images. I use alternative printing processes such as albumen, silver chloride, and ziatype to relay the feeling I want from the original negative. All of my prints are done via contact print using original historic methods. I try to relay the depth of the human condition and being, as well as my hand in the creation of the works. The images in this show are not altered from the original exposures I made, and there have been no manipulations or editing of any kind done to the final prints. The prints in this show are one of a kind, the negatives are destroyed after the print is perfected. Contact Web: www.dahlphotog.com 32

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Andrea Ehrenreich (AUSTRIA) Born in 1966 Bratislava, Slowakia, living in Vienna, Austria since 1992. She works as an architect and photographer and connects the two professions with each other. Specialized in architecture photography she uses this knowledge in architecture design too. This days she is working on a photoproject, that documents the progress, influences and changes in slowakian architecture as it is seen from her very special point of view. As a contrast to the technically demanding photography of architecture she uses Polaroid and Pinhole photography as a device of free expression and creativity. Non perfect analog pictures, with view on the bare essentials are the answer to the digital world of pixels. In particular her polaroids have made her popular and have earned appreciation in several countries. In the german magazine ”Photoklassik“ she was labeled as “ one of the most versatile polaroid artists of our days“. Contact Web: www.andreaehrenreich.com 34

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Romy Eijckmansâ&#x20AC;&#x2039; (BEL) Romy Eijckmans (born 18.11.1985 ) received her MFA from Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design in 2012. While living and working in Brussels, Belgium, she travels extensively for making work. Her photography has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Europe and the US and is featured in various online platforms. Although trained as a photographer, her artistic practice transcends the typical approach of the photographic medium. An intensive investigation into light and the wondrous phenomena of our natural environment, have become key to her constantly developing body of work. Her a-typical method shows a great interest in the potential for experimentation that the medium offers. She often works with camera-less photography, fine art printmaking and is recently discovering the opportunities of installation art. These offer her the possibility to deal directly with the material itself, establishing a more immediate relationship with her work Contact Web: www.romyeijckmans.com 36

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Jasmin elmi (AUSTRIA) The passionate self taught Photographer Jasmin Elmi, was born 1986 in bavaria and resides in Bregenz, Austria. Her roots are persian-german as well as french-polish, which influences her work on a nostalgic but also multicultural way. Her sensitive kind of seeing people bare and beautiful fused together with her subtle way of capturing emotions creates meaningful artwork that moves. Using the medium of photography to tell stories, create moments and reveal people and nature in its full bloom is her highest endeavor. She uses her art as a voice of her soul, thoughts and illusions. The emerge from Analog Photography empasizes the originality of her work in the focus of human, nude and nature photography. Images With the Nude-Series ”Eden“ the artist expresses her feelings, thinking of a warm summer morning lounging in a luscious garden, combining fruits, herbs and leaves in shapes of lust and beauty with bare skin. The Renaissance womankind was the main inspiration for these series. To the artist, women combine so many shades of personality within one soul, that it is just like exploring ”Garden Eden“. Contact Web: www.eyenatic.com 38

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Martin frey (AUSTRIA) PhD in theatre studies and additional degrees in theatre, film and media studies as well as journalism and communication science from the University of Vienna. Research on contemporary Dutch theatre, lecturer at the University of Vienna – Institute of theatre studies, public relations work for independent theatre groups in Vienna, eight years of freelance work with the Filmarchiv Austria in Vienna and editor of the journal Filmkunst. Many years of research on the British painter and filmmaker Derek Jarman, publication of Derek Jarman – Bewegte Bilder eines Malers (Derek Jarman – Motion pictures of a painter). At the same time, intensive involvement with graphic design, numerous design works in the years that followed. Early 2000, founds a business, since that time freelance work in the areas of graphic design, project development and urban photography.

Projects (Extract) 2011 – present: 2008 - 2010 1992 - 2011

Shops with history – sundry goods in Vienna Vienna windows – Display in Process Vienna Südbahnhof Air-raid cellars

Image ”Wien Alsergrund“, October 2011, Camera: Polaroid Supercolor 645 CL, Film: original Polaroid 600 Film from 2008 Contact Web: www.martinfrey.at 40

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Rudi Froese (AUstria) Rudi Froese, born in Vienna (Austria) in 1967, studied photography at the ‘Prager Fotoschule’ (Austria). From the start of his career, he has worked for national and international magazines, as well as for private customers and companies. His first personal project, mainly dealing with travelling through southeastern Europe, appeared as a book and also as a documentary movie, Both were titled ”Transbalkan – from Vienna to Istanbul, part I“ (2012). The movie was awarded second prize at the travelling-movie-festival in Ružomberok (Slovakia) in 2012. Part II “from Istanbul to Vienna“ will be released in 2015. Rudi’s interests in photography are widespread but documentary photography is his passion. He works and lives in Vienna. Images Broad Masses In search oft the average consumer and Max Smith. This project deals with the tracking of the average man and his life since 2010. Hidden and secret places, local border phenomena, forgotten areas. However ubiquitous moments lost by banal everyday. Where is the home of the comonly referred ”Broad Mass“ average population? Where their action radius? The home sweet home? The little paradise? Are these persons simple average or pseudo-individualists? The uniform people in their uniform houses with uniform pools from the discount-supermarket and the uniform car on the shared parking. For example, industrial and advertising tries a huge target group of consumers to create their corresponding notions and therefore forms a huge market. The so-called ”Broad Masses“, that follows like lemmings, seemingly grateful to the unmistakable and not very subtle cries of the economy. Does it exist? These pictures would like to give an unobstructed view on the dreams, wishes, and desires of our neighbours and fellow men, the so-called ”average consumer“; either with laughing eyes as well as critical-objectively glance. This project started in Wien-Donaustadt (Vienna) and is expandable to all of austria, therefore still in progress. Contact Web: www.rudifroese.at 42

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Zilvinas Glusinskas (Lithuania) born1972 , Lithuania. From 2004 always with camera. Last six years working with pinholes, cyanotypes, gum bichromates, lith print. Artist Statement My photography is like a “travel notes“ , capturing my feelings when I press a shutter button. Old film cameras, old films are like travellers in time waiting for a picture to frame. Started from a simple darkroom, step by step I grew to printing my works. I found alternative photographic processes to be the best way of presenting my photos.

Exhibitions 2005 Rathmore international festival of culture, Rathmore(Ireland)) -participant 2008 ”Antipop‘s Art“ Kaunas(Lithuania) -participant 2009 No color - Solo exhibition - Kaunas (Lithuania) 2010 LT PINHOLE - Palanga/Klaipėda (Lithuania) - participant International Photographic Project ”Peace Love Pinhole“ (Omsk, Taškent - Russia/Uzbekistan) - participant ”Goa International Pinhole Contest 2010”(India) -participant ”INTERNATIONAL PINHOLE DAY“ Klaipėda (Lithuania) -participant 2011 Me, Monarch Goa Center for Alternative Photography(India) -participant 2012 ”CAMERA OBSCURA/PINHOLE“ Kaunas(Lithuania) - participant 2013 ”Don’t Move!“ Kaunas (Lithuania) - Solo pinhole exhibition 26 “Pinhole Patagonia“ Santa Cruz (Argentina) -participant ”KITI 4“ Klaipėda (Lithuania) -participant ”Nejudėk!“ - Panevėžys (Lithuania) - Solo exhibition ”FOTOGRAFFITI“ Kaunas (Lithuania) - Solo exhibition 2014 ”JAPIN“ Panevėžys (Lithuania) - Solo exhibition ”Exposición Internacional De Fotografía Estenopeica“ Guayaquil(Ecuador) - participant 2015 ”Watercolor Paper“ Bratislava (Slovakia) - Solo exhibition Contact Web: mnym.tumblr.com 44

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Yaroslav Golubchik (UKRAINE)

Was born may 1971 and live in the Kiev, Ukraine. 44 years. 1997 I graduated from faculty of radio engineering of the Kiev state technical university of Ukraine. (KPI) 2005 I graduated from law department of Moscow State University of economy of statistics and informatics (KNEAD) Since 2012 the teacher of children’s studio of the photo at the Center of education of youth “Desantnik”, Kiev. Since 2013 teacher of the Kiev school of the photo. Since 2012 and to this day I am engaged in alternative methods of a photo printing, development of cameras and photooptics of own design. Holding master classes in the alternative photo. 2009 Short-list - Trierenberg Super Circuit - Linz 2014 blue tape FIAP, international competition “ international competition “Vernisaj na Pokrova”. Contact Web: www.yarstudio.com.ua 46

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Nicola Hackl-Haslinger (AUstria)

Born in 1974 in Linz, Austria. First attempts in photography at the age of five, using an Agfamatic 300. With 15 years she came in posession of her first reflex camera, marking the point in time to start experimenting in the dark room. After finishing the School for Arts and Crafts (Höhere Bundeslehranstalt für Kunstgewerbe, Austria) in 1993 Nicola Hackl-Haslinger attended a school for goldsmiths (Goldschmiedeschule El-Drobny, Austria) and received the artist’s hallmark in 1999. Beside of working as a goldsmith in her own atelier, she attended the Prager School of Photography (PFSÖ) in Austria from 2008 to 2011 and graduated with distinction. In 2012 she became a member of the Professional Association of Contemporary Artists Upper Austria (bvoö - Vereinigung Kunstschaffender Oberösterreichs) and started lecturing at the Prager School of Photography in the field of portrait photography. Since 2014 she has been a member of the artist-group “Galerie Forum Wels”, Austria. National and international exhibitions. Work Intense and experimental examinations in the area of artistic photography, especially working with different papers and more than one layers. Main focus on symbolic interpretations. Mysterious and unobvious images are meant to stimulate the viewer to contemplate and philosophize. Often the work is a combination of metal and photography. Statement “For me analogous photography - with all its facets - represents a wonderful counterpart to the fast living world (of digital images). I love the slow and relaxing act of developing photographs in the dark room. Suddenly the concept of time becomes insignificant - I find myself centered in the here and now. It is pure deceleration.“ Images

“Mind Spiral”, 2010, image size 21 x 30 cm, framed photogram “For any Reason”, 2010, image size 16 x 30 cm, framed photogram “Convoluted Thinking”, 2010, image size 25 x 25 cm, framed photogram Contact Web: www.nh-h.at 48

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Gerhard Hafner (AUstria)

Gerhard Hafner (*1969, Styria, Austria) is a self-taught autodidact. Although always interested in different kinds of art forms, he was already in his 40s when he started taking pictures in a creative way. In 2013 he began to learn a photographic process called “collodion wet plate photography”. Since then, he focuses only on this technique what became his passion. Artist Statement I was always fascinated by the look and the aesthetic of the 19th century photography. And I wondered if you can do this kind of photography nowadays. The answer was ‘yes’. But it’s a long way until you get everything together (knowledge and equipment) to produce decent pictures. In these fast and short living digital times, I love this slow process and the idea of creating an image all by hand. The Process: The collodion wet plate process is an early photographic technique invented by Englishman Frederick Scott Archer in 1851. The process involved a solution of collodion poured over a glass plate (ambrotype) or metal plate (ferrotype or tintype). In the darkroom the plate was immersed in a solution of silver nitrate to form silver iodide. The plate, still wet, was then exposed in the camera and then developed, fixed and varnished. Images

“Cage” 9x12cm Ambrotype “Death Of A Flower” 9x12cm Ambrotype “Books And A Flower” 9x12cm Ambrotype “Plates On A Rope” 9x12cm AmbrotypeContact Contact Web: hafner.weebly.com 50

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alex halada (AUstria) Alex Halada, was born in 1965 in Brno. Active since 1982 in Austria, 1992 photographically, inter alia for “profile”, news, style, TREND, Reuters, APA and various companies. Currently completed series about the Liliputbahn in Vienna including book and calendar at www.ASAblanca.com and www.alexhalada.com. Currently working on a picture book about Paternoster elevators, frontier stories book, tales of the Czech - Austrian border as a result of the “attention. “State border – Pozor. státní hranice” travelling exhibition. Images The present work deals with the transience of both the human body as well as the material used. Both have a limited space of usage, both are “analog”, both are “original” and not reproducible, unique. Contact Web: www.alexhalada.com 52

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Dennis Iwaskiewicz (AUstria) Born 1992 in Vienna 2013-2014 FotoK - Schule für Fotografie Exhibitions and Publications (selection) 2013 “Spiegel der arbeitenden Gesellschaft”, solo Exhibition, Eigensinnig Gallery 2014 „Stadt Beton(t) Frei“, solo Exhibition, Eigensinnig Gallery „Doubling High“ for Falter „Nevertheless 7“ 2015 Human Landscapes, book release, West46 Gallery Image My work shown explores the relationship between photography and abstraction, or the body and the fear of losing myself. Ever since I was a pre-adolescent I have been fascinated by the unrelenting divergence of relationships. What starts out as triumph soon becomes corroded into a carnival of futility, leaving only a sense of chaos and the possibility of a new beginning. In this work, I try to use various geometric formulas to explore key compositional elements, and bring them forward through cutting and removing parts of the picture. Contact Web: www.iwaskiewicz.com 54

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Yulia kopr (russia) I was born 1983 in Norilsk (Russia). First I became a “wood & bone carver”, than finished to study Design in Tula State University. Always wanted to be a Veterinarian. Love to have a good look at people faces, drawing with a black pen, Chinese massage, green color and cherry ice-cream. Want to write a book and build a house in Ireland. Since 2009 I’m living in Vienna and working as a photographer and designer. Education and biography 2002-2008 Tula State University “Designer”, Russia 1998-2002 College of Applied Arts”Wood-bone carver” Norilsk, Russia 1994-1998 Art school, Norilsk, Russia Solo exhibitions 2009 December-2010 January “Anna” Mojo, Sedlitzkygasse, Wien, Austria 2009 February “Russia-beyond the scenes” Engelmaier, Yppenplatz, Wien, Austria 2008 August “Russia & People“ Xi, Vereinsgasse, Wien, Austria Group exhibitions 1998 City n “North souvenir“ Norilsk, Russia 2000 City competition “Hope of Norilsk-2000“ Norilsk, Russia District competition “ North souvenir“ Dudinka, Russia International festival of junior artists “Opening doors“, Giurgiu, Romania (Catalogue) 2001 City competition “Hope of Norilsk-2001“ Norilsk, Russia Exhibition “On junction of centuries“ Norilsk, Russia 2002 All-Russian Art Festival “We are the children of one country“ Moscow, Russia (Catalogue) Exhibition of Applied arts to city fest Norilsk, Russia Philanthropic exhibition of Applied Arts Norilsk, Russia 2010 go foto & more - Kunstmarkt, Fotowerk Wien, Wien, Austria 2011 Mofa#2 - Monat des offenen Ateliers Fotowerk Wien, Wien, Austria “Songlines No.1”, Galerie Alma, Wien, Austria “Paintings”, Kunstwerkstatt Wien, Wien, Austria “Lange Nacht der Museen”, Galerie Alma @ Urania, Wien, Austria “Moving Focus”, Galerie Alma, Wien, Austria 2011 November “Eyes & Intensions”, Galerie Alma, Wien, Austria “Small Paintings”, Kunstwerkstatt Wien, Wien, Austria 2011-2012 “Galerie Alma’s Sammelsurium”, Galerie Alma, Wien, Austria 2012 “Paintings”, Kunstwerkstatt Wien, Wien, Austria “gofoto & more”, Fotowerk Wien, Wien, Austria 2014 ABLICHTUNGEN - Bildwerke | Werkbilder”, The Art Galerie Vienna, Wien, Austria “Walk of Art 2014”, Beamboard Naschmarkt, 1040 Wien, Austria “Krieg und Frieden”, Bezirksvorstehung, 1040 Wien, Austria “Walk of Art 2014”, Beamboard Naschmarkt, 1040 Wien, Austria “Fotografie”, ip.forum, Wien, Austria “Eyes Rouge - Mimiken der Menschlichkeit”, The Art Galerie Vienna, Wien, Austria “Preview 2015”, The Art Galerie Vienna, Wien, Austria Contact Web: yulia.kopr.co.at 56

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Elena Kristofor (AUstria) born in Odessa, Ukraine lives and works in Vienna, Austria 2014 Summeracademy Salzburg, class by Olga Chernysheva and Anna Jermolaewa 2008 – 2011 fotok, Vienna 2003 – 2009 Architecture, TU Vienna Exhibitions (selected) 2010 “portraits“ & „gestures“, Insights 2, fotok, Vienna „on the surface“, Photobook Festival, Kassel „on the surface“, buchk, fotok, Vienna „gestures“, the old man and the sea, NÖ Dokumentationszentrum für moderne Kunst, St. Pölten 2011 „do you really look at me?“, Diplome 11, fotoK (2), Vienna „On contemporary architectural photography“, archdiloma 2011, Kunsthalle Vienna project space, Vienna archdiploma award 2011, category „theory” (absence), absence, fotok, Vienna 2012 „untitled“, krinein, European month of photography, Ragnarhof, Vienna 2013 „on the surface“, ViennaPhotoBookFestival, OstLicht, Vienna 2014 „in the landscape“, „a picture“, photo:vienna, MAK, Vienna „wrapped portrait“, Alte Schieberkammer, Vienna „labyrinth“, Summeracademy Salzburg, Salzburg „protected“, Denkfabrikat Werkschau, mo.e, Vienna 2015 „in the landscape“, Exposed, Lumina, Vienna „after Symryn Gil“, Image 101, periscope, Salzburg „in the landscape“, ParaDocks, Vienna Contact Web: www.elenakristofor.com 58

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Walter Kühnelt (AUstria) Walter Kuehnelt, Engineer, Photographer, Academic Advertising & Sales Manager Studies: „Training and Research Institute for Graphic Arts Vienna“ „Vienna University of Economics and Business“ „Berufspädagogische Akademie des Bundes in Wien“ Since 1964 independent Professional Photographer . 1965-2000, 35 years teaching Photography on „The Training and Resarch Institute for Graphic Arts in Vienna “ „Graphische “. 1989-1999, ten years lecturer on the „Berufspädagogische Akademie des Bundes in Wien“. 1983 The „Vienna University of Economics and Business“ awarded the designation „Academic Advertising and Sales Manager“ to me ,after study of „Advertising & Sales“ 1962-1964 in evening courses and after 19 years of practical work as advertising photographer and teacher. 1979-1994 Engineer to plan photographic facilities, rooms and phototechnical equipment, in 15 university clinics and in a central photo and graphic department “ of the new constructed „Vienna General Hospital “(AKH), part of the „Medical University of Vienna“, with a study trip to the „MCV, Medical College of Virginia“, Richmond, VA, USA. 1996 as an education-expert I was in Brasil, as part of a team to plan a „Technical School of Design“ in BeloHorizonte, with market research in BeloHorizonte and Sao Paulo. Many years I also was a photographic consultant for the „criminal investigation department“ Bundespolizeidirektion Wien. In the year 2000 the „Silbernes Ehrenzeichens für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich“ was awarded to me by the Austrian President. Exhibitions I took part in many national and international photo exhibitions in Austria (Vienna, also Vienna MUMOK Museum of Modern Art, Graz, Klagenfurt, Gmunden), Germany (Munich, Cologne), Italy (Venice, Salsomagiore Therme),Hungary (Miskolc), Japan (Tokio), France (Chalon sur Saone, Bourbon-Lancy), Tunisia (Hammamet) Indvidual exhibitions: Austria (Vienna), Hungary (Budapest „National Dance Theatre “). My live is „Photography“ and all the above steps of my curriculum are connected with photography. Image Nude, Simone, Vasvar, Hungary, B&W high speed infrared film Contact Web: www.kuehnelt.at 60

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Jürgen Lechner (Germany) Born 1962 in Nürnberg, Germany. Currently lives in Eckental, Germany 1985, A`Levels, then apprenticeship for photographic lab technician, then apprenticeship for photography. Since 1989 freelance photographer. Member of BBK in 2010. The BBK is the Federal Association of Artist of the Fine Arts in Germany. In a period characterized by technological advances, German photographer Jürgen Lechner looks to the earliest photographic techniques: pinhole photography with a camera obscura. In doing so, Lechner presents the spectator with contemporary scenes that highlight the often-overlooked viewpoints of our environment. Lechner’s abandon of digital photography may be unusual, but his aesthetic proves to be as innovative if not more so than any digitally based photographic style. His somber scenes have a quiet and meditative air that encourages the spectator to relish a world that seems comparable with yet far removed from our own. Artist Statement In 2006 I decided to go back to the roots of photography, to rediscover pinhole photography with a “Camera Obscura” – which has become my preferred means of taking photographs. I studied the works of different artists, including painters who influenced my current work. A good photograph takes time, I often visit places several times to find the conditions I need for a special photograph. Working with a pinhole camera means an immense depth of field, a huge image circle and a long exposure time. All has to be considered. I love this “slow” photography, being one with nature, engaging in deep introspection, getting movement in the pictures, like the action of water or branches in contrast to non-moving objects to reach more tenseness. I do black and white pinhole photography only, as I think it is more mysterious, more insistent, more quiet and suits the method better than color photography. Contact Web: www.juergenlechner.de 62

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José Manuel Madrona(SPAIN) Born 1975 in Valencia His work is oriented towards photography with plastic lens cameras, imperfect lenses and not always clear, as well as towards experimentation with film and alternative photographic processes. Also manufactures its own cameras and lenses with the purpose to find a way of artistic expression connected to onirism, the automatic creation, the simplicity of the forms and all that is fertile to live by himself, with his own identity and personality. The objetive is to find a nexus between images of low technology and the viewer. Showing the great poetic ability to transmit stories and emotions of fine art photography. “My artistic career began more than ten years ago, immersed myself in the plastic lenses photography, and the primitive photographic processes of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Also I build cameras and self-made lenses, to achieve the desired result, as well as chemistry and alternative photographic techniques.My path is marked by empiricism and the need to use photography as a means of expression. Linked to the oneiric and the manifestation of our present from a perspective estranged of sharper and high resolutions. Recovering the meaning of sensations and forms”. Solo Exhibitions 2014 “INTRAMURS 2014”. Valencia. “Little framed dreams” Revela-T 2014 Festival de fotografía analógica. Vilassar de Dalt, Barcelona. “Emulsions” Revela-T 2014 Festival de fotografía analógica. Vilassar de Dalt, Barcelona. Biennial “RUSSAFART 2014 – Comunicando arte”. Valencia. 2012 “Unnamed places, Unexpected people” within the program of “RUSSAFART 2012 – Tiempo de arte”. Valencia 2011 “Pequeños sueños encuadrados” Bookshop-Café Slaughterhouse. Ruzafa, Valencia “Blurry Stuff Lo-Fi Photography” ELDORADO Space of collaborative art. Valencia. 2010 “Blurry Stuff Lo-Fi Photography” Bookshop-Café Slaughterhouse. Ruzafa, Valencia. Group Exhibitions 2015 “OBSCURA 121 views” Escuela de artes y oficios Vitoria. Plaza conde peñaflorida S/N,01008 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country. 2014 “Plastic Fantastic Show V” LightBox Photographic Gallery. Astoria, Oregon USA.

“Somerville Toy Camera festival 2014” Brickbottom Art Gallery. Massachussets, USA.

“OBSCURA 121 views” Pfluger68 Gallery. Pflügerstrasse 68, 12047 Berlín, Germany.

2013 “HOLGA out the box III” TCC Photo Gallery. Longview, Texas, USA. “Somerville Toy Camera festival 2013” Nave Gallery. Massachussets, USA. 2012 “HOLGA out the box II” TCC Photo Gallery. Longview, Texas, USA. “In your dreams” . Photoplace Gallery. Middlebury, Vermont. USA. “Spooky Show III”. LightBox Photographic Gallery. Astoria, Oregon USA. “4th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show”. Rayko Photo Center. San Francisco, CA, USA. 2010 “Spooky Show II”. LightBox Photographic Gallery. Astoria, Oregon. USA.. Contact Web: www.josemanuelmadrona.com 64

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alexander Magedler (AUstria) born 1970. I have been taking pictures for the last 22 years…with an occasional 1-hour break. Images All the images have been taken between 2002 and 2008 in Austria, Hungary, Niger and Iran, with Konica Hexar RF, Bronica SQ-A and Yashica MAT124 cameras on either Ilford HP5, Kodak Tri-X or Fuji Neopan 400 film, developed in Kodak D76 1+1. The Lith-Prints have been made on Forte (Polywarmtone), Foma (Fomatone) and Kentmere (Kentona) Papers with Lith-chemicals from LP. One of the Cyanotypes is a contact-print from 6x6 negatives. For the second print i first made a normal print on regular FB-paper, i scanned this print, inverted the image in Photoshop and printed the resulting file on overhead transparency and used this „negative“ to make the Cyanotype. Both of the Cyanotypes were made on watercolourpaper, the exposure was made outside in sunlight. Contact Web: www.magedler.com 66

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Marc von martial(Germany) Born 1972 in Bochum, Germany Graphic Designer and Photo Artist “My focus is on people and sensual moody portraits. Sensual melancholia is probably the best term to describe many of my works, such as the “dorso”, „that attic window“ and “of fears and sorrow” series. Through artistic film photography, with the use of alternative processes, experiments, hybrid and mixed media applications, I try to transport and accomplish intense moods.” Working on his people photography projects is more of an easy minded collaboration with his models and photo partners than your regular “stand here, do that” shooting. The use of film photography is essential for this process, for the model and me alike. We can let loose and concentrate on the vision in our heads without the immediate control of a display. All this people photography work is broken up by the one or other urban photography project, showing the unusual in the usual. Cyanotypes & alternative contact prints For me taking the photo is only the first step in a long process of refining the image to an artwork that is printed on paper, mounted and ready to be presented in a fitting way. Taking the negative is a beginning in the vision of the final artwork. The process of making Cyanotypes, Calotypes, Gum Prints and alcohol gel transfer, the look one can achieve with them, and the many ways of manipulating or toning are an ideal process for bringing my artworks to life. I love the contemplating slowness of the processes. Especially in our times of looking at hundreds of hundreds of images each day, on glossy digital screens, sometimes so tiny you can’t even make out any detail, I find it important to take the extra step and detaching your vision from this fast and artwork guzzling online world. The haptic, the feel, the tones, the paper structure and colors are not present on screen and yet are such an important piece of the life of an artwork. Exhibitions 2013 Bonner Schule, group exhibition Kiernan Gallery „grayscale“ group exhibition 2013-2014 LightBox Photographic Gallery, Mobile Magic V, VI, VII, IX, XI, group exhibitions 2014 elf perspektiven, group exhibition Plastic Fantastic Show V, group exhibition AURA, group exhibition 2015 Expolaroid Montélimar, group exhibition Contact Web: www.mvmphotography.de 68

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RONNIE NIEDERMEYER (Austria) Ronnie Niedermeyer has been working as an independent artist in Vienna since 2005 The image Thurnhof (Mautner-Markhof-Gasse 40, 1110 Vienna / 3 April 2011): The building known as Thurnhof was first mentioned in 1402 as the administrative center of Simmering, a former village that today is a district of Vienna. Following centuries saw a continuous expansion of the site, which was augmented by a brewery in 1605. The Himmelpforte (Pearly Gates) Sisterhood acquired the property in 1678, using Thurnhof as subsidiary convent and continuing to run the brewery. After a major fire, the structure was rebuilt in 1777, thereby acquiring its present form. The pentaxial construction has a central recess with a wide basket-handle arch that leads into a ribbed domical vault. The sisterhood’s emblem, depicting a lamb, can still be seen over the entrance from the street. After Emperor Josef II abolished the convent by decree in 1783, the premises were purchased in 1802 by master brewer Dittmann and then in 1822 by the Meichl family. Thurnhof remained the brewery’s administrative building. In 1937, Vereinigte Brauereien Schwechat, St. Marx, Simmering – Dreher, Mautner, Meichl AG, which controlled the estate by that time, was taken over by the Mautner Markhof family; the street acquired its present name in 1967. The company, Mautner Markhof Feinkost GmbH, changed owners in 2002. Demolition work on this site began in 2006, and the grounds were subsequently sold to property developers. Thurnhof itself remained standing, and is to be integrated within a residential and commercial building complex. It became a listed monument in 2014. Toyo 45C view camera with Schneider Symmar-S 210mm f/5.6 lens, Fuji Velvia 50 sheet film, additional exposure through pressure, C41 cross processing Contact Web: www.rn.co.at 70

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TORSTEN PAUER (Austria) The charming aspect of instant photography like Polaroid in my opinion has two facets. Once when invented the process of taking pictures was purely analogue. To get results regarding lighting, framing and other key points of the final negative or positive took quite long and instant pictures helped to get a first impression of the final result. This is what I would state is the manifest aspect of the medium in a controlled environment. The other aspect is what I would call the ephemeral one. It is more like a “lomographic” way of pointing and shooting taking the picture. Because of the limited possibilities of most of the instant cameras, a purely consumer product, the output is sometimes more accidentally but with often beautifully results though. Additionally what I like in terms of my little personal project is on one hand the ephemerally effect. Say the control of framing and flashing is very limited to manage by the person who is taking the self-portrait. But on the other hand the final instant picture very often reflects an indication of the personality no matter the intention was truthful or posed. I was born 1957 and grew up on a small island in the Baltic Sea called Fehmarn (Germany). I went to school there and moved at the end of the seventies to Vienna to continue my education. After finishing High School I studied Architecture at the Technical University of Vienna. By the end of the nineties it was inevitable due to personal reasons to start a “nine to five” job and I started to work in the telecommunication business and I’m working in this field up to the present day. I was always very much interested in photography hence I took classes e.g. at the art school at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (96/97) and recently attended several summer schools (e.g. Eva Schlegel, Tobias Zielony). Contact Web: tpauer.tumblr.com 72

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Lothar Ponhold (Austria) Ponhold was born in Vienna. He became interested in photography at the age of 16 and has been active ever since in the genres of nude, fashion and reportage photography. Some years ago, he discovered the pinhole camera and fell in love with its simple and pure kind of photography where time passes slowly while taking the picture. Without conrolling the frame and the angle exactly, Ponhold is fascinated by the combination of light, aperture, exposure, types of conventional film and the box itself. With mechanical parts derived from the very earliest means of capturing images, his ÒMagic Box” gives a wide field of view showing both the scenes and the movement of life itself. He often takes pinhole images during journeys, creating a different kind of view to that delivered by more conventional cameras. And his camera has also served as a bridge with people he has met. Ponhold currently lives and works in Vienna. Exhibitions 2011 Italy, Senigallia – Musinf - Museo Comunaled`arte Moderna della Fotografia 2012 Italy, Senigallia – Musinf - Museo Comunaled`arte Moderna della Fotografia 2013 Ecuador, Guayaquil – Museum Norton Presley - “Pinhole around the world” 2014 Austria, Vienna - “PHOTO POP UP Store” @ WEST46 Argentina, Buenos Aires - “Accion Estenopeica” Austria, Vienna - “Fotographie für Alle” Austria, Ebenthal – Schloss Ebenthal - Pfingstkonzerte 2014 e-book Project – “Pinhole around the world” Austria, Vienna – The WOMB “PURE IMAGING” Ecuador, Guayaquil – MAAC - “Un imago por la cultura II” 2015 Mexico, Oaxaca Contact Web: www.pinhole.at 74

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Nora Proske (Austria) born 1976 in Vienna. is a freespirited non commercial artist learned her craftwomanship at the higher shool of photography “Grafische” Vienna, as an apprentice in fotosales, and by life… Images This piece is defined by numerous undefined influences, physical and personal. A 6 by 4,5 exposed film negative was laserprinted in reverse and applied to a piece of glazed plywood. Optional as a handmade BW magnification laminated to AluDipont plate. The person that ventures into nature unclad learns how helpless and exposed to danger he is when simply trying to climb a dead uprooted tree. Bruised from blackberry thorns, drenched, shivering and gawped at by dogwalkers I conclude: we are too weak to go back to the roots. *The film was accidentally additionally exposed. Contact Mail: nora.proske@chello.at 76

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Mona Rad ziabari(IRAN) Born in 1983 Tehran-Iran BA in Handicraft Art University of Tehran Solo Exhibitions 2012 Pointless Hole - Azad Art Gallery - Photography Exhibition Group Exhibitions 2004 Participated in Edinburgh Photography Exhibition 2009 Man-e Honar-e No - Photography Exhibition 2010 Mah-e Mehr Gallery - Photography Exhibition 2012 Arya Gallery - Painting Exhibition 2013 Arya Gallery - Painting Exhibition Other activities Published works in Annual Book of Iranian Illustrators - 2006 Theater Photography Acted in short films Images Pointless Hole: This project started after green revolution in Iran, which was full of blood, tortures and arresting. After the Green revolution everything has changed my country was not the same for as it before. It was another place, even another planet. I walked in the city but I didn’t know the streets. During that time also photography in Tehran was forbidden. So I decided to start a project using the old boxes that we throw them away and make a pinhole camera with photography paper so in the town police never could recognize that I am taking photos .Pinhole photography also gave me the exact surreal effect that I was looking for. This photos are selected from 24 photos which were exhibited in Azad Art Gallery in 2012 Tehran, Iran *The film was accidentally additionally exposed. Contact Mail: monaa.raad@gmail.com 78

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Zsuzsanna Reisingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2039; (hungary) Reisinger Zsuzsanna is a self-taught photographer based in Budapest, Hungary. Photography, especially portraiture inspired by feminity is a kind of time travel into which she wants to involve the viewers. She makes the headresses, hats, and all the other accessories with her own hands. This appearance and the alternative photographic technique gives a vintage, or rather a nostalgic feeling that around and characterizes her photos. She prefers to use polaroid land cameras from the 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. She made this series with a Polaroid Land 340 camera using inverted Fuji FP-3000B negative films. Her work has been featured in online magazines, and artist community networks as NdMagazine, Worbz, Artlimited, Dark Beauty Magazine. Her twelve polaroid pictures was presented /will be presented/ 1th April 2015 on the Expolaroid 2015 exhibition in France as a slideshow. Contact Web: reisingerzsuzsanna.tumblr.com 80

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Nora Amélie Sahr(Austria) Void production A ‘camera’, a void black box allowing a human to enter it, is mounted on the back of a tricycle and gliding through the veins of the city, capturing glimpses of human interaction within the urban environment. The large size of the box allows to generate large scale images and provides the possibility of emerging into the dark void, enabling to personally experience the physical phenomenon of photography and reveiling the creative potential of all facets of void space and its inherent parameters. Once the human eye gets used to the darkness of the space, it perceives a shadow of an upside down projected outside environment. ‘Void production’ exploits the creative potential of ‘space’ using archaic forms of photography. The long time exposured negatives, generated through space and time, capture fragments of the city. They reveil human interactions that merely appear like shadows in between the hardware of a city. Contact Mail: sahrnor@hotmail.com 82

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Antonia Small (USA) Stage performer turned photographer, Antonia (Toni) has lived in Paris and New York, but now calls the small fishing village of Port Clyde, Maine home. Ms. Small holds a B.A. from Vermont College, and certificates from the SALT Center for Documentary Studies and the Maine Photographic Workshops. Recent continuing education includes workshops in photography and encaustics, and John Coffer’s Camp Tintype. Influenced by her theater and dance performance training, Toni likens the formal frame of her twin-lens to the proscenium arch of a theater, compares her ten-minute exposures before her pinhole camera to a performance, and enjoys the “happening” of submerging her camera underwater, where she can see nothing of what her camera captures, but simply attends the process. Current collaborations with the pinhole camera include Baker’s Dozen, a year-long exchange with artist Amy Rockett-Todd, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and, The Monster Project, a teaching pinhole and performance experiment with theater director Esther Mollo, of Lille, France. Her work is held in private and museum collections. Artist Statement The Song Cycle was a body of work I created exploring time, relationship, and loss. Meant to explore the distance in years between, my father and me, who was nearly fifty years old when I was born, I wanted to mark our relationship with a series of images about what I had learned from him, what he had given me as parent, and how much I was going to miss him. Interlude 1 & 2 are from this series and were some of my first pinhole images, where I began exploring what I call theater for the camera. The ghosts revealed, when I processed the film, shocked me. The Song Cycle established my love for the pinhole camera as a mysterious storytelling device. Interlude 1 Interlude 3 My Fair Isle series is my second series of pinhole imagery and is autobiographical in nature, but also refers to Homer’s Odyssey. They are a love story about a young woman who goes to sea and falls in love....With the sea, the ship, the sky, the history, the sailors, the weather, and the lore. My background in theater intersected my interest in pinhole photography to create some small measure of my internal landscape after spending one year at sea aboard tall ship “HMS” Rose. Hermes – a trickster, shape-shifter who helps Odysseus home Penelope – the faithful wife of Odysseus Transit of Venus – a rare celestial event (6/5-6/2012) Proci – Penelope’s unsavory suitors Contact Web: www.antoniasmall.com 84

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Jaya Suberg (GErmany) Born in 1956 in Hagen, Germany. In 1980 I came to the „walled-in“ city of Berlin and I immediately felt at home, a completely different universe! I felt excited and encouraged ... as soon as I stepped into the street. Everything had resonance, the ailing and neglected spoke my language only Berlin smelt like this, looked like this, felt like this. The eighties: my party - wasting your youth, DAF, Joy Division, The Cure and many others. All this sought space, sought expression. Since an early age I soaked up everything - brought everything into focus with my camera. Initially I worked the photographs and other materials into a collage diary; especially when life was hurting. But at some stage I had to transgress beyond the limits of the book cover, develop something greater. The elaborate, surreal collages reflected my feelings: impulsive, intense and imaginative. The photo shoots kept increasing - spontaneous or by appointment. Attractive people, mostly women and the wondrous encounters in the game with the camera became expressions of my mixed media works. The increasing ease of access to digital resources was my revelation: I tattooed the beautiful creatures with my own language, applied shades of desire and sketched injuries onto face and body. After years of experimentation and study, I‘ve found my means of expression: I combine my photography with painting, drawing, digital collage and mixed media. Berlin is no longer what it once was ... For many years I have spent winters in southern countries, most recently, many times on La Gomera, where I can work and exhibit. There as here, I meet people who often become part of my workflow because feelings are universal. Our stories interweave until everything either dissolves or deepens. My intention is not to stimulate thought, but to feel ... to feel touched. Contact Web: www.jayasu-berlin.de 86

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Svemart (Austria) svemart startet with photography in 2010 and soon recognized the fascinating and absorbing possibilities of pinhole photography. the challenges svemart tries to explore lie within the combination of this anachronistic and very simple technology with the photographic aspects of long exposure times interacting with living subjects. while the velocity of human environment is evolving faster and faster, pinhole technology forces you to pause ... to dissolve the visible and to reveal the unseen. vienna 2015: svemart = svetlana & martin Images kindheits erinnerungen (childhood memories) exposure time â&#x2030;&#x2C6; 00:05:00 mahl zeit (substantial meal) exposure time â&#x2030;&#x2C6; 00:15:00 tauch station (going underground). edward snowden has to duck, while the surveillants are exposed and pulled to the surface of the public. exposure time â&#x2030;&#x2C6; 00:02:30 Contact Web: www,pinhole.gallery 88

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Stefan Teufelsbauer (USA) 1983 born in vienna 2004 first contact in photography 2006 beginning with film photography 2009 solo exhibition „Schlafende Fabrikenwelt“ 2011 solo exhibition at „Schwarzer Reigen“ http://www.schwarzer-reigen.com 2012 solo exhibition „mea parvitas“ http://vimeo.com/51266386 2012 group exhibition „Lichtfänger“ organizied by the club „Vereinigung für Digitalkamera Verweigerer“ http://www.vfdkv.de I am driven by intuition, emotion and passion in the world of photography. Whether a piece of history, fantasy, a dream or now. The moment is mine what I have to capture in my camera. I quickly realized that it is not clearly done with buying a great camera to create expressive images. My photographs are made with high contrast, they are not afraid to show grain of the film and although the subject usually radiates coldness or loneliness, it catches me and tries to devour me. Far away from mainstream arises a own genre for the viewer, which discloses a food for thought for little stories. Cont act Web: www.teufelsbauer.com 90

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Tina Toth (austriA) Born 1984 in Vienna. Finished my photography education in June last year. Preferred photography themes are architecture, landscape, abstract and still life. “What we need are a few crazy people; look at what we have reached with the normal people.” (George Bernard Shaw) Since autumn 2014 I work more often with analog photography. At the moment I spend more time with the Canon T70 and the Polaroid Spectra. The Canon T70 was my first “professional” SLR camera to take photos, which I use since I was 15 years old. Photography is for me like coming home – A great feeling that never ends. I really like to think more about the picture I take with analog cameras. You don’t take hundreds of pictures like using a digital camera and you have to wait for the finished picture – minutes, hours or often days, when you take the film to the photo lab for development. The 3 pictures selected for the “EXPOSED” exhibition were taken with my Polaroid Spectra. They are the beginning of a new project which shall only consist of double exposures. The project is about the “place” in which we spend our time, and shall – in the first step – show those places from the in- and outside. Contact Web: fotodesignart.tumblr.com 92

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Clive Wheeler (united kingdom) Towards Enlightenment (Auf dem Weg zu Erleuchtung) As an artist I am drawn to the objects around us that we take for granted or discard. There is a beauty to be found in these mundane creatures and the series of three photograms you see in this exhibition are a wonderful example of that beauty. The objects I have used are simple glass bowls for fruit or puddings and a glass cake plate and, of course, a key. The glass objects remind me of childhood as they are rarely used in contemporary UK homes but would have been used more often by my grandparentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s generation. The key is one of the thousands of keys in the world that have no longer got a lock to fit in, a true example of useless beauty. I started working on a series of photograms at Christmas time, 2014, for the first time in about 10 years. Initially I thought I would make a small series of images before working on taking some black and white photographs on film again. However, the initial images I made were so successful I have continued to develop the work and have now made around 100 photograms and see no end to the creative energy I get from making these startling works. It is a wonderful process to work with because each print is unique, made by hand and is always surprising when you see it emerge in the developing tray. An arts critic working for The Guardian newspaper in the UK has recently made a statement questioning whether photography can be art. I find this semantic argument redundant and irrelevant in the art environment today, but would like to point out that photograms are just as unique and unrepeatable and are just as dependent upon the choices of framing and what to leave in or take out as any painting or sculpture. The artist choses the tools and materials suitable to their vision. Contact Web: photowheel.tumblr.com 94

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Damla YılmaZ Photographer/Academician Damla Yılmaz; an artist and academician from Istanbul, Turkey; holds her BA degree from Sabancı University in Visual Arts & Visual Communication Design, Istanbul and MA in Photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK. Currently writing her Phd thesis on Postmodernity & Sublime in Contemporary Art at Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul and works as a freelance photographer. Artist Statement Relationships between people, nature and the exchange of sentiments are the main influences in my work. Driven by personal experiences, conflicts and contradictions, I question power struggles, domination/subordination and emotional upheavals and how these could be expressed visually. Using photography as a main medium, my intention is not to document the visible but to discover what may be hidden underneath. The visual can be a way of discovering hidden motives and desires, just like a meditation towards the deeper layers of the unconscious. Within the photographic medium the line between reality and fiction is ambiguous and there is always room for accidents and errors and what is unexpected. Although the projects are carefully planned; I also embrace what the medium offers during the creative process. Smiliar to human psyche; the visual may find its being in itself, free from outside force and logical interruption. Images Sigillum (2014) C Prints Sigillum01 (35xcm40cm) Sigillum02 (35xcm40cm) Sigillum03 (35xcm40cm) Sigillum04 (35xcm40cm) Sigillum05 (36cmx24cm) Sigillum06 (36cmx24cm) Manifestations of an unforeseen future./ Alternative shelters. These photographs are from the negative archive kept from 2008 up to now, are the signs of failure to control life. Focusing on deformations and transformations; the details and textures are expressions of psychological and emotional alterations within a lifetime which can also be seen as a diary of nature. Contact Web: cargocollective.com/damlayilmaz 96

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