COUNTER IMAGES - First Pages
Installation image from the exhibition series COUNTER IMAGES | GEGENBILDER.
Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany
February 9 - June 11, 2023
What image do young photographers create of the world? In this edition of the exhibition series COUNTER IMAGES | GEGENBILDER, international artists grant personal interior views of public and private places and events. Photographs accompany our everyday perception and shape our image of people and places. The photographs in FIRST PAGES are highly topical. They counter stereotypical images through their immediacy. The works show our present from many perspectives. With this they also take a counter-position to the Historical Photo Collection of the RJM. Over 40 students present their work here as photo books. The images are arranged and woven into a narrative. Almost all of the books on display are unique and fascinate with their different formats and forms. This presentation is a collaboration with the universities of Hannover and Dortmund. The works were created between 2018 and 2022 as part of the national and international photo book classes.
The show includes works by: Somaya Abdelrahman, Shirin Abedi, Kaisar Ahamed, Hannah Almstrup, Kseniya Apresian, Arafat Bin Siraji, Lucas Caste, Daniel Chatard, Gino Dambrowski, Khardra Farah, Rabbi Fatiq, Anna Fritsche, Andy Happel, Nanna Heitmann, Nicole Heinsohn, Allison Hess, Lukas J. Herbers, Elias Holzknecht, Victoria Jung, Carsten Kalaschnikow, Eyad Abou Kasem, Josh Kern, Yannis Konstantinos, Katrin Kutter, Inji Lada, Moritz Lehmann, Karsten Maatz, Hader Mahmoud, Mathilde Mahoudeau, Jana Mai, Viola Maiwald, Helena Manhartberger, Mehdi Moradpour, Sina Niemeyer, Prova Noorjahan Nizamy, Aslı Özçelik, Emily Piwowar, Tripty Tamang Pakhrin, Anna Roters, Amelie Sachs, Tabea Scherzberg, Chantal Seitz, Anastasia Shvachko, Ashutosh Shaklam, David Speier, Kira Tanita, Benjamin Thieme, Tatsiana Tkachova, Malte Uchtmann, Robic Upadhayay, Angelina Vernetti, Tim Wagner, Daniel Vogl, and Fares Zaitoon.
