Here you can find short clips and interviews with the participating photographers. We will add more interesting bonus tracks bit by bit - so drop by again soon!
Ai Weiwei
Trailer of Never Sorry, a documentation on chinese artist and political activist
Ai Weiwei.
In march 2015, the human rights organization Amnesty International awarded Weiwei with the most prestigious award Ambassador of Conscience.
Mishka Henner composes his pictures from hundreds of satellite photographs. In his series Feedlots, the british artist shows huge fattening systems in which cows quickly get fattend before they get slaughtered. In the following clip, Henner´s pictures are used in a peculiar way.
In the first part of our video-documentation referring to the exhibition project [7] Places [7] Precarious Fields, we introduce our curator. Urs Stahel talks about the challenge of equipping 4.000 sq. of exhibition space. In addition, he explains the importance of photo-exhibitions in a time in which photography is omnipresent.
A short biography about Urs Stahel is to be found here.
Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier
A few years ago, Rico Scagliola and Michael Meier began to work with adolescents by photographing them. This video gives an impression of the close cooperation between the Swiss artists.
The US-American artist Jim Goldberg portrays people from war-torn countries. By letting them write and draw on the polaroids, he questions and broardens the term of documentary photography.
In the following video he talks about the necessary sensitivity when communicating with the portrayed persons.
