For the upcoming seven days, Leon Kirchlechner will be posting on our blog. Leon, born in 1985, lives and works in Augsburg. He is part of the team behind Der Greif, and has just released his first book, Nowhere. We ourselves are happy to give you some insights about one guy from our team, and hope you like it!
This week, due to the special occasion of the release of our first book, we show parts of Leon Kirchlechner’s series »Nowhere« in our Artist Feature. You can take a look at the book in our shop.
This weekend, June 8th to 9th, we will be part of the first Vienna Photobook Festival at Galerie Ostlicht and Anzenberger Gallery. On Saturday, 4 p.m., Leon Kirchlechner will have a book-signing of his freshly released first photobook Nowhere, co-published by Der Greif and dienacht Publishing.
We are looking forward to meeting lots of nice people and hope to see you all there!
My last post has to do with my everyday life. I like the magazine Apartamento (1), I like the homes that are photographed in their articles. I photographed some corners that I particularly like at home, and use them as a pretext to talk about something else. At the head of my bed (2) I have some photobooks I love: Ruhr (Joachim Brohm), The long river (Nadav Kander), Landscapes Stories (Jem Southam), Agroperifèrics (Bside Books) On this site (Joel Sternfeld) Picturesque (Jan Kempenaers). In the house’s library (3) there are many books on typography, architecture, art. You know I am a graphic designer, and living with a woman architect. Yeah, the guy on top is Bibendum.
There are well-known images of the Spanish Civil War of photographers like Robert Capa or Agusti Centelles. But there were many photojournalists that anonymously took snapshots of the conflict in which the Spanish people fought to defend the republic without success. I am very interested in the graphic art of this historic moment and I have spent many years collecting original ephemera of Spanish Civil War: posters, postcards, brochures and illustrated magazines, and of course there is a section in my archive of photographs, almost always made by great photographers, although today unknown.
Have a Nice Book is a platform where everything related to printed photography is allowed. From great classics to self-edited books, going through fanzines and new publications.
This project is an initiative of Yosigo and Salva López (of which I talked about in my previous posts) about books and photography. They select a wide variety of photobooks, and have always accompanied by nice music. I could spend long hours watching his videos.
The video I have chosen to illustrate this article is about the book 1:1 with works of Carlos Albala, Susana Delgado, Teo Hernando, Ignasi Lopez, Javier Orcaray, Jon Uriarte, Manuel Zamora. Edited by bside books, a spanish independent publisher with great projects.
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We are proud to announce our first book-release: This thursday, June 6th, Leon Kirchlechner’s »Nowhere«, co-published by Der Greif and dienacht Publishing, will be released and presented at pavlov’s dog, 7 p.m., in Berlin-Mitte. We are looking forward to seeing you all there!
For everyone interested in a print, there’s also a strictly limited special edition available in our shop.
Alberto Lizaralde (b.1979) combines his work in creative advertisement with his projects in documentary photography. Alberto speaks of his project EVERYTHING WILL BE OK: “We all go through good times and bad times in our lives that will be relentlessly repeated. I went through one of these cycles and I turned it into this project. It was my story, although it could have been yours. After four years in the making, it will soon become a book.”
Another great discovery a few years ago were the photographs of Jose Javier Serrano (Yosigo). Yosigo takes an interesting work of photographic documentation of his daily stroll, his travels, places in his environment, etc.. Witness of this constant obsession is the record of the memory of his daily events is his series Mapa de Memoria. This series was published as a box containing postcards. And do not miss the Diary and the rest of his stuff.
Simona Rota, was born in Romania (1979) but lives and works in Spain. I love her project “Ostalgia”. Ostalgia was born in the aftermath of a work of documentation for the Museum of Architecture from Vienna since as a photographer, she was part of a research group coordinated by the Museum whose mission was – under the name “Soviet Modern” – to locate, rescue and study the Soviet archives related to the architecture that was promoted by the former USSR in its 15 republics. Read more…
