sam was also represented as an exhibition venue at the 12th Wiesbadener Fototage from August 13 to 28, 2022.
The theme of the Photo Days in 2022 was "Unruhige Zeiten/Turbulent Times"
Wiesbaden Photo Days 2022
The theme in 2022 was "Unruhige Zeiten/Turbulent Times", which took account of the latest developments. The Photo Days were curated for the first time by Jürgen Strasser, a photo artist with studios in Wiesbaden and Worpswede. He has also made a name for himself as director of the "RAW Phototriennale" in Worpswede.
During the Wiesbadener Fototage, six photographic positions were on display at sam. Eckart Bartnik's works dealt with the catastrophe in the Ahr valley in an unusual way: he showed bizarre sculptures made of flotsam left behind by the river as well as other structures made of collected garbage and scrap.
Jeoffrey Guillemard's pictures of the border between the USA and Mexico gave a profound impression of the suffering, but also of the hopes along a migration route that changes from day to day. Hannes Jung's work focused on the return of the wolf to Germany. A return that many people perceive as a threat. In a way, similar questions were discussed here as in other works on the subject of flight, immigration and emigration: Who should stay away? And who decides?
Jeannette Petri illuminated the Black Forest as an eerie, unsettling, archetypal German landscape in her series. And finally: Uta Schmitz-Esser's pictures from the Rhenish lignite mining area showed, among other things, situations of political struggle, while Anne Werner's photo series "Was Bleibt" (What Remains) was a poetic and subjective approach to the history of uranium mining in the GDR and its consequences.
Wiesbaden Photo Days 2022 - Artists in sam
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Eckart Bartnik
The photographer and natural scientist, born in Bonn in 1957, lives in Wiesbaden and works in basic research. Since the 1980s, his work has been shown internationally in group and solo exhibitions and published in daily newspapers and online.
Born in Nancy, France, in 1986. He has lived in Mexico since 2006. He started out as a self-taught photographer and completed the EMI-CFD photojournalism course in Paris in 2014. His documentaries focus on contemporary social issues such as migration, sexuality, religious practices and social movements.
Born 1986 in Bremen. Lives and works as a photographer in Berlin. He studied photography at Munich University of Applied Sciences and Arts, EASD Valencia and Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts until 2016. His work has been shown at C/O Berlin, the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art and the Kunstraum Potsdam, among others. His awards include the Otto Steinert Prize and the Lotto Brandenburg Art Prize for Photography.
Born 1974 in Düsseldorf. Studied photography and film with Lewis Baltz and Heiner Blum at the HfG Offenbach. After graduating, she published her own female hip-hop magazine "Anattitude". Scholarships in London and Paris. Then five years in Brussels. In 2022 she published the books "Dear Oma" and "Dark Wald". She lives in Freiburg and works for various magazines and companies.
Studied visual communication in documentary and reportage photography with Prof. Wilhelm Schürmann at the FH Aachen. Lives and works as a freelance designer and photographer in Cologne. In her freelance work she combines reportage and art photography on mostly socially critical themes.
wiesbaden.de / Stiftung Stadtmuseum Wiesbaden / Photo: Anne Werner
Anne Werner
Born in 1996 in Auerbach/Vogtland, lives and works as a photographer and photo editor in the West Saxony region. She studied photojournalism and documentary photography at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts until 2022. After graduating, she worked as a freelance photographer.
