In summer of 1987, the city of Berlin celebrated its 750th anniversary. Given the strategical importance during the Cold War, the anniversary quickly became a race between East and West Berlin about which side could impress more with its festivities. Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, the first gallery for photography in the GDR, hosted the group exhibition One Day in Berlin. Among the 17 photographers that portrayed East Berlin were Sibylle Bergemann and Harald Hauswald. Visitors lined up until Warschauer Bridge to see the show. The Fall of the Wall only two years later marks the beginning of a rapid development in the reunited German capital.

What kind of stories do you find on the streets of Berlin 30 years later? Where do the changes become most visible? The Fotogalerie asked these questions in an open call for entries entitled One Day in Berlin – 30 years later. Out of more than 2000 photographs, the jury selected the images and series that reflect the many faces of the city, its development and most pressing issues of recent years. With 50 participating photographers, it is the biggest group exhibition ever at Fotogalerie Friedrichshain.

The presented images show developments along the former border strip of the Wall, conflicts about the last occupied houses in Rigaer Strasse, the new freedom on Tempelhofer Feld, economic growth versus social tensions, debates on refugees and migration, gentrification and unique snapshots of everyday life in Berlin.

An exhibition catalogue will be presented in the course of the exhibition.

Duration of the exhibition: 4th August – 22nd September 2017
Opening: Thursday, 3rd August, 7 pm
Welcome: Clara Herrmann (District Councillor for Culture, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg)

Panel discussion with Berlin photographers: Thursday, 7th September, 7 pm

Finissage: Friday, 22nd September, 7 pm

Ein Tag in Berlin 2017 – 30 Jahre danach
Gruppenausstellung
04. August – 22. September 2017
Ort: Fotogalerie Friedrichshain
Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 3. August um 19 Uhr
Begrüßung: Clara Herrmann (Bezirksstadträtin für Kultur, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg)
Podiumsdikussion mit den Fotografen: Donnerstag 7. September 2017 um 19.00 Uhr
Beteiligte KünstlerInnen:
Peter Kagerer, Uli Kaufmann, Eberhard Klöppel, Christoph Kohlmann, David Kregenow, Tobias Kruse, Stefanie Kulisch, Brieuc Le Meur, Amelie Losier, Peter Malzer, Katarzyna Mazur, Rudi Meisel, Sonia Melnikova, Clemens Menne, Enrico Pietracchi, Carla Pohl, Peter Pollmanns, Christian Reister, Michael Schaaf, Christian Schirrmacher, Cordia Schlegelmilch, Oliver S. Scholten, Gottfried Schwemmer, Daniel Seiffert, Silvia Sinha, Bara Srpkova, Guido Steenkamp, Rainer Steußloff, Rainer Stosberg, Martin U Waltz

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The exhibition is the result of a photographic project that was started in 2014 by the Goethe Institut. Throughout one year, ten photographers, five in Germany and five in Italy, photographed public places in their cities according to the regulations of street photography. You will visit the streets of Augsburg, Berlin, Hamburg, Iserlohn, Bologna, Naples, Rome, Palermo and Treviso; spontaneous moments of everyday life that can also often be extraordinary, humorous, touching and even confusing at times.

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Created and defined by the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Frank and Alex Webb, this kind of spontaneity lives of the fleeting moment. Its situational character is a result of the deliberate decision to actively influence the shooting situation, eliminating, therefore, the timing, the perspective and the image cut.

The images on display were taken from Hamburg to Palermo, through Berlin, Naples, Augusta, Treviso, Bologna and many other German and Italian cities. From the perspectives of ten photographers it was born a collection of pictures of spontaneous moments of everyday life. Some photos, abstract from where they were taken, they possess a universal expressive power. In others, the architectural details, the light or the attitude of the depicted people leave clues on location shooting. Full of humor, scurrilous, touching, enigmatic or confusing, photographs disclose the significant geographical, social and cultural rights of the individual regions.

The team of photographers to “Go!” Is made in Germany, by the editor Fabian Schreyer (“The Street Collective”) of Augsburg, by the member of “Public-In” Siegfried Hansen Hamburg, the Berlin photographer Guido Steenkamp, by Marga van den Meydenberg, Dutch photographer in Berlin, as well as by the member of “Observe” Michael “Monty” May Iserlohn. Italy is represented by Umberto Verdoliva (“Street Photographers”, “spontaneous”) of Treviso, Mary Cimetta di Bologna and Stefano Mirabella Rome (both “spontaneous”) as well as Michael Liberti (“EyeGoBananas Collective”) of Naples and Palermo Giorgio Scalici.

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Street Photography is thus Non-Fiction. It is not photojournalism per se, which is about recording events. Its concerns are much smaller but equally important, the little-noticed nuanced moments of everyday life. It is seeking the unusual in the everyday: As photographer, film-maker and blogger Nick Turpin puts it, “Good Street Photographs show you something you still would not have seen had you been there.”

Today cameras are everywhere and in everything. The camera in the average mobile phone has a higher resolution than the best digital cameras of ten years ago. Millions of images are recorded every hour in every part of the world. A large proportion of these are recordings of happenings in the streets, yet very few are what could be called Street Photographs. To rise above this mass of images, to create something special and to do it more than once is a fierce challenge, one that the photographers assembled at Galerie Hertz for the Louisville Photography Biennial have managed to do, and to do regularly.

The photographers are:

Blake Andrews, Eugene, OR
Anahita Avalos, Villahermosa, Mexico/France
Richard Bram, New York City
Maciej Dakowicz, Poland/Cardiff, Wales
Melanie Einzig, New York City
Adrian Fisk, UK/New Delhi
David Gibson, London
Siegfried Hansen, Hamburg, Germany
Nils Jorgensen, London/Cumbria, UK
Kate Kirkwood, Cumbria, UK
Felix Lupa, Tel Aviv, Israel
George Kelly, Portland, OR
Jesse Marlow, Melbourne, Australia
Stephen McLaren, London
Jan Meissner, New York City
Andy Morley-Hall, London/Wellington, New Zealand
Johanna Neurath, London
Kramer O’Neill, New York City
Mike Peters, New York City
Orville Robertson, New York City
Paul Russell, Weymouth, UK
Otto Snoek, Rotterdam, Netherlands
David Solomons, London
Guido Steenkamp, Berlin
Ying Tang, Shanghai/Cologne, Germany
Nick Turpin, London/Artemare, France
Kay von Aspern, Vienna
Dougie Wallace, Glasgow
Amani Willett, New York City

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Guido Steenkamp’s photographs are created spontaneously, in fleeting, unique moments. They neither uncover causal connections, nor are they intended to explain anything. Rather, Guido Steenkamp looks for the extraordinary in everyday situations – a gesture, a mere shadow perhaps, or a peculiar example of how people react in their surroundings.

The photographs make their effect through their aesthetic form, their symbolic significance and the sometimes cynical, sometimes ironic observations in public spaces. The result is a series of unstaged photographs documenting little surrealistic moments in the ordinary everyday life in the streets of Berlin, caught on film over the past few years.

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