History


2013
5th Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg

For the 5th Fotofestival Andréa Holzherr (exhibition manager MAGNUM Paris) was drawing on the diverse pictorial cosmos of the legendary photo agency and photographers' co-operative Magnum Photos to develop an overall theme for the exhibition venues.
The 5th Festival Grenzgänge. Magnum: Trans-Territories was presenting positions by Magnum photographers that deal with geographical, political, economic and private territories and circumambulate both physical and symbolic borderland.
To the 5th FF website

2011
4th Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg
With the 4th Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg in 2011 the curators Katerina Gregos and Solvej Helweg Ovesen set off on the search for the human images of our times and discussed the festival theme The Eye is a Lonely Hunter from different perspectives at the eight festival venues
To the 4th FF website

2009
3rd Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg
In 2009, under the title Images Recalled – Bilder auf Abruf the 3rd Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg showed how the photographic image orders and structures our view of the world; directorship was assumed by Tobias Berger (Chief Curator at the Nam June Paik Art Center in Korea) and the photographic specialist Esther Ruelfs.
To the 3rd FF website

2007
2nd Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg
With a new structure, under a new name and with Heidelberg as the third co-operation partner, Christoph Tannert, head of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, curated the 2nd Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg on the theme Reality Crossings.
To the 2nd FF website

2005
7. Internationale Fototage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen
After six successful editions of the International Photo Days in Herten, Westphalia, the first photo festival in the metropolitan region took place in 2005. The 7th Internationale Fototage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen had the main themes, Contemporary American Photography and Die Kunst Deutsche(r) zu sein - The art of being a German. The festival was under the directorship of Hansjoachim Nierentz.
To the website of Die Kunst Deutsche(r) zu sein