IDEOLOGIES (Exhibition Catalog)
About this Publication
ORDER: The RAY 2021 IDEOLOGIES catalog published by Kehrer Verlag.
What lies behind ideologies? How do different philosophies of life, political theories and other Values develop? How do they seem to others? And to what extent do they support power, manipulation, abuse, exclusion and exploitation in a wide variety of different societies?
In this publication, accompanying the fourth international Triennial of photographic arts in Frankfurt/RhineMain, artists like Máté Bartha, Johanna Diehl, Yves Sambu, Ja'Tovia Gary, and others use their work to reveal ideologies in the past and present. They demonstrate how ideologies have been expressed over the time and whether there are differences or not. Renowned authors further expand the discussion of this very current topic with their essay contributions.
Artists: Nicole Ahland, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Máté Bartha, Johanna Diehl, Yagazie Emezi, Friedrich Robert Otto Emmel, Sibylle Fendt, Ja'Tovia Gary, Eddo Hartmann, Nini und Carry Hess, Marta Hoepffner, Paula Markert, Eva und Franco Mattes, Qiana Mestrich, Lee Miller, Mohau Modisakeng, Hilde Roth, Yves Sambu, Adrian Sauer, Salvatore Vitale
Authors: Anne-Marie Beckmann, Max Czollek, Ralf Dingeldein, Janine Drewes, Kémi Fátoba, Rainer Forst, Valentine Goldmann, Elke Gruhn, Beate Kemfert, Eckhardt Köhn, Franziska Kunze, Christina Leber, Alexandra Lechner, Dorothee Linnemann, Celina Lunsford, Dietmar Mezler, Susanne Pfeffer, Yasmina Price, Julia Reichelt, Anna Sailer, Wolfgang Ullrich, Matthias Wagner K, Susanne Wartenberg
The Body Issue (Photobook)
A visual dialogue about bodies and how they are perceived in media has been undertaken by the femalephotographers.org collective. As the group’s first publication, The Body Issue addresses the depiction of bodies and the perception of them; at the same time, it also launches a series of photo books.
femalephotographers.org is a new collective that I am a part of that is dedicated to regularly publishing photography books devoted to issues, while also organizing companion exhibitions under its own direction. The goal is to increase the visibility of female photographers, since women are still underrepresented in the art world.
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Bex Day, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Katharina Bosse, Maggie Steber, Meklit Fekadu, Jennifer Greenburg, Jocelyn Lee, Lilly Urbat, Kirsten Becken, Claudia Holzinger, Jessica Barthel, Caro Siegl, Oriana Layendecker, Nora Lowinsky, Hanna Mattes, Veronika Faustmann, Katya Abedian, Paula Winkler, Marzena Skubatz, Qiana Mestrich
GUEST ARTISTS
Brandy Eve Allen, Brittney Cathey-Adams, Mary Chen, Tamara Dean, Yushi Li, Dita Pepe, Lotte van Raalte, Laurie Simmons, Chanell Stone
femalephotographers.org is a new collective that I am a part of that is dedicated to regularly publishing photography books devoted to issues, while also organizing companion exhibitions under its own direction. The goal is to increase the visibility of female photographers, since women are still underrepresented in the art world.
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Bex Day, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Katharina Bosse, Maggie Steber, Meklit Fekadu, Jennifer Greenburg, Jocelyn Lee, Lilly Urbat, Kirsten Becken, Claudia Holzinger, Jessica Barthel, Caro Siegl, Oriana Layendecker, Nora Lowinsky, Hanna Mattes, Veronika Faustmann, Katya Abedian, Paula Winkler, Marzena Skubatz, Qiana Mestrich
GUEST ARTISTS
Brandy Eve Allen, Brittney Cathey-Adams, Mary Chen, Tamara Dean, Yushi Li, Dita Pepe, Lotte van Raalte, Laurie Simmons, Chanell Stone
Also available online via The DAP Catalog.
“THE BODY ISSUE” 2021 Calendar
Available for purchase via Etsy.
Featured Artists:
Bex Day, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Katharina Bosse, Maggie Steber, Meklit Fekadu, Jennifer Greenburg, Jocelyn Lee, Lilly Urbat, Kirsten Becken, Claudia Holzinger, Jessica Barthel, Caro Siegl, Oriana Layendecker, Nora Lowinsky, Hanna Mattes, Veronika Faustmann, Katya Abedian, Paula Winkler, Marzena Skubatz, Qiana Mestrich
Hard To Place (Photobook)
“The title, Hard to Place, references the difficulty of placing Joseph in adoption because of his mixed heritage, but also the title alludes to the physical ambiguity of the multiracial body. “What are you?” is a frequent question a mixed body hears because the ways our bodies present themselves make us hard to place as well.”
- Dr. Alexandrina Agloro (Mixed Roots Stories)
- Dr. Alexandrina Agloro (Mixed Roots Stories)
About This Project and Publication
Hard To Place is a true story about race, family and the child welfare system in post-war Britain.
Combining confidential, UK government documentation with archival and (auto)biographical photography, this series traces the experience of Joseph, an orphan boy of Nigerian and Irish parentage growing up in 1960s/70s London. As a “half-cast(e)” child, in England, Joseph was considered “hard to place” amongst the mostly white, adoptive families.
Joseph is my husband. The little boy seen in Hard To Place is our son. The images in the book provide a visual alternative to the official, master narrative of child welfare that many mixed-race children are imprisoned by.
Self Published, 2016
Printed by Conveyor Arts
60 pages, 6 x 8.5"
Paperback (Perfect Bound)
Edition of 50
The Hard to Place photobook is available in the following bookstores/independent shops:
What you see here is a selection of the images in this series, please contact me to inquire about viewing more.
Additional Reading:
1. Essay by Paula Kupfer.
2. Personal essay and response by Dr. Alexandrina Agloro for the Mixed Roots Stories February 2016 Commons.
3. "Gaining Identity Through the Archive in Qiana Mestrich's Hard To Place" Afterimage essay by Amanda Chesnutt.
Some Kind of War (Artist Book)
About This Artist Book
Some Kind of War (2013) is a rare, handmade artist book of poetry and short stories printed on onion skin paper.
History of the World (Artist Book)
About This Artist Book
History became popularized when H.G. Wells (yes, the War of the Worlds author) published his two-volume History of the World in 1920. It's quite ambitious to think that you can publish the world's story in just two books, but Wells did. This of course left much to be desired in the way of fairness and accuracy, not to mention little room for illustrations.
I have a desire to re-imagine history.
Using found images, I added my own illustrations to Wells' second volume. Historical and contemporary characters come to life (an Aztec warrior, an African Hottentot, glamour model Coco Austin, Cuba's Castro and Batista) in this pop-up book for adults. I further anonymize Well's text and create my own historical narrative by employing an old practice of covering public school textbooks in brown paper bag to be reused by the next incoming class.