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EXCESS

International Open Call for analogue photography

Open Call Deadline: January 28th, 2024

Exhibition dates: March 22nd-May 10th, 2024


Following the successful exhibition “Transition” in 2022, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain and analogueNOW! are pleased to announce their second curatorial collaboration, and invite film photographers and artists working with analogue techniques to participate in their upcoming international group exhibition on the theme “Excess”.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom – William Blake

In many instances, excess is viewed in a negative light: whether it’s overstepping boundaries like exceeding the speed limit and risking fines, recklessly consuming resources like we do through deforestation and facing severe environmental consequences, or, when associated with pleasure, it often goes hand in hand with feelings of guilt and the potential of peril, or even death.

In our personal lives, excess can manifest as a means of self-harm or self-expression through both the body and the mind. It can be observed in overindulgence in food and alcohol, substance abuse, and even in mental illnesses that are characterized by an excess of emotions that society deems should be “regulated”. Within the realm of analogue photography, excess in light, movement, or exposure time is often considered a hindrance to achieving optimal results, and is regarded as a mistake.

The concept of excess is inherently relative to a norm. While some instances of excess demand our attention to prevent harm, others warrant questioning: who or what determines what is excessive and what aligns with the norm? When should it be respected, and when and how should it be scrutinized or challenged?

Excess can be perceived as a deviation or a problem, but for some, it represents a means of breaking free from societal norms, a pivotal step in one’s life, or a demand for increased freedom. Is it something to be restrained, or could it be the “path to wisdom”?


Participation in the Open Call: Projects and Application

For our upcoming exhibition, we invite artists to delve into the concept of “excess” that surrounds us, whether from a social, environmental, political or intimate perspective, or even within the applied framework of analogue photographic processes.

We give the topic free for interpretation and welcome other readings of the theme. The submitted projects should be recent: either ongoing or completed in the past 5 years maximum. Long-term projects started years ago and recently completed (within the past 5 years) or still ongoing are accepted. In this sense, works that are based on archival material can be submitted. For consideration, projects must involve the use of analogue photographic processes, either entirely or in part. Camera-less photography projects are accepted.

Exhibition dates
March 22, 2024 – May 10, 2024

Submission guidelines
Please follow the guidelines closely.

  • Submit up to 15 images as jpgs (1600 pixels on the longest side each), file names should be: lastname-01.jpg, lastname-02.jpg, lastname-03.jpg, etc.
  • A PDF document with your personal info (full name, location, email, website/instagram), a short bio (up to 50 words) and a brief artist statement on your contribution (up to 150 words)

Send all files and the pdf via Wetransfer to opencall@analoguenow.com

Selected photographers will be notified by February 18th.

  • Payment: the participation to the open call costs 12 Euro per submitted project. There is an early bird price of 7 euro for projects submitted by December 31st. The submission fee must be paid via this website, by purchasing a ticket below. The payment takes place via PayPal.
  • The entirety of the submission fee will solely be used to finance the selected artists’ fees.

If you have any questions or need clarification on the submission procedure please write us: opencall@analoguenow.com or fotogalerie@kulturring.berlin

Exhibition prints

To enter the exhibition, selected photographers can either:

  • Ship or personally deliver the exhibition prints to Fotogalerie Friedrichshain. The expenses for shipping the prints to the gallery (and from the gallery back to the artist at the end of the exhibition) are the responsibility of the artists.
  • Or have their images printed in Berlin by Fotogalerie Friedrichshain. Printing fees will be billed to the artists.

Selected photographers will receive instructions on shipping their images or on submitting their high-res digital files for printing. Framing options must be discussed before shipping. Fotogalerie Friedrichshain has a wide array of frames available.

Use rights

Photographers retain full rights to their own images. Photographers whose submission is selected grant Fotogalerie Friedrichshain and analogueNOW! the nonexclusive right to use, print, and reproduce their images for the purpose of promoting the artists, the exhibition and its related programs, and subsequent display on Fotogalerie Friedrichshain and analogueNOW!’s websites, social media and online exhibition channels. Image credits will be provided with any use.


About Fotogalerie Friedrichshain

Founded in 1985, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain is the oldest gallery dedicated to photography in East Germany, and one of the first in Berlin. Alongside exhibitions of famous German photographers, such as Helga Paris, Arno Fischer, Sybille Bergemann, Harald Hauswald, Ute Mahler, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain has shown the works of internationally acclaimed photographers Gordon Parks, Sebastiao Salgado, Tina Modotti, Cecil Beaton, and Imogen Cunningham. Around 5000-10000 people visit its exhibitions yearly. Fotogalerie Friedrichshain is a non-profit institution fostering social and educational programs.

About analogueNOW!

Founded in 2013, analogueNOW! (AN!) is a nonprofit organization for the flourishment of contemporary analogue photography.  From the curation of exhibitions to darkroom and photography workshops AN! creates learning and exhibition opportunities for artists and photographers from beginner to professional levels. AN! collaborates with a wide range of partners and partner institutions in Berlin, Germany and internationally. The main event is the analogueNOW! PhotoWeekend which takes place every second year in Berlin. Together with other European partner festivals, we build a network of analogue photography across borders.

EXCESS

International Open Call for analogue photography

Open Call Deadline: January 28th, 2024

Exhibition dates: March 22nd-May 10th, 2024


Following the successful exhibition “Transition” in 2022, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain and analogueNOW! are pleased to announce their second curatorial collaboration, and invite film photographers and artists working with analogue techniques to participate in their upcoming international group exhibition on the theme “Excess”.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom – William Blake

In many instances, excess is viewed in a negative light: whether it’s overstepping boundaries like exceeding the speed limit and risking fines, recklessly consuming resources like we do through deforestation and facing severe environmental consequences, or, when associated with pleasure, it often goes hand in hand with feelings of guilt and the potential of peril, or even death.

In our personal lives, excess can manifest as a means of self-harm or self-expression through both the body and the mind. It can be observed in overindulgence in food and alcohol, substance abuse, and even in mental illnesses that are characterized by an excess of emotions that society deems should be “regulated”. Within the realm of analogue photography, excess in light, movement, or exposure time is often considered a hindrance to achieving optimal results, and is regarded as a mistake.

The concept of excess is inherently relative to a norm. While some instances of excess demand our attention to prevent harm, others warrant questioning: who or what determines what is excessive and what aligns with the norm? When should it be respected, and when and how should it be scrutinized or challenged?

Excess can be perceived as a deviation or a problem, but for some, it represents a means of breaking free from societal norms, a pivotal step in one’s life, or a demand for increased freedom. Is it something to be restrained, or could it be the “path to wisdom”?


Participation in the Open Call: Projects and Application

For our upcoming exhibition, we invite artists to delve into the concept of “excess” that surrounds us, whether from a social, environmental, political or intimate perspective, or even within the applied framework of analogue photographic processes.

We give the topic free for interpretation and welcome other readings of the theme. The submitted projects should be recent: either ongoing or completed in the past 5 years maximum. Long-term projects started years ago and recently completed (within the past 5 years) or still ongoing are accepted. In this sense, works that are based on archival material can be submitted. For consideration, projects must involve the use of analogue photographic processes, either entirely or in part. Camera-less photography projects are accepted.

Exhibition dates
March 22, 2024 – May 10, 2024

Submission guidelines
Please follow the guidelines closely.

  • Submit up to 15 images as jpgs (1600 pixels on the longest side each), file names should be: lastname-01.jpg, lastname-02.jpg, lastname-03.jpg, etc.
  • A PDF document with your personal info (full name, location, email, website/instagram), a short bio (up to 50 words) and a brief artist statement on your contribution (up to 150 words)

Send all files and the pdf via Wetransfer to opencall@analoguenow.com

Selected photographers will be notified by February 18th.

  • Payment: the participation to the open call costs 12 Euro per submitted project. There is an early bird price of 7 euro for projects submitted by December 31st. The submission fee must be paid via this website, by purchasing a ticket below. The payment takes place via PayPal.
  • The entirety of the submission fee will solely be used to finance the selected artists’ fees.

If you have any questions or need clarification on the submission procedure please write us: opencall@analoguenow.com or fotogalerie@kulturring.berlin

Exhibition prints

To enter the exhibition, selected photographers can either:

  • Ship or personally deliver the exhibition prints to Fotogalerie Friedrichshain. The expenses for shipping the prints to the gallery (and from the gallery back to the artist at the end of the exhibition) are the responsibility of the artists.
  • Or have their images printed in Berlin by Fotogalerie Friedrichshain. Printing fees will be billed to the artists.

Selected photographers will receive instructions on shipping their images or on submitting their high-res digital files for printing. Framing options must be discussed before shipping. Fotogalerie Friedrichshain has a wide array of frames available.

Use rights

Photographers retain full rights to their own images. Photographers whose submission is selected grant Fotogalerie Friedrichshain and analogueNOW! the nonexclusive right to use, print, and reproduce their images for the purpose of promoting the artists, the exhibition and its related programs, and subsequent
display on Fotogalerie Friedrichshain and analogueNOW!’s websites, social media and online exhibition channels. Image credits will be provided with any use.


About Fotogalerie Friedrichshain

Founded in 1985, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain is the oldest gallery dedicated to photography in East Germany, and one of the first in Berlin. Alongside exhibitions of famous German photographers, such as Helga Paris, Arno Fischer, Sybille Bergemann, Harald Hauswald, Ute Mahler, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain has shown the works of internationally acclaimed photographers Gordon Parks, Sebastiao Salgado, Tina Modotti, Cecil Beaton, and Imogen Cunningham. Around 5000-10000 people visit its exhibitions yearly. Fotogalerie Friedrichshain is a non-profit institution fostering social and educational programs.

About analogueNOW!

Founded in 2013, analogueNOW! (AN!) is a nonprofit organization for the flourishment of contemporary analogue photography.  From the curation of exhibitions to darkroom and photography workshops AN! creates learning and exhibition opportunities for artists and photographers from beginner to professional levels. AN! collaborates with a wide range of partners and partner institutions in Berlin, Germany and internationally. The main event is the analogueNOW! PhotoWeekend which takes place every second year in Berlin. Together with other European partner festivals, we build a network of analogue photography across borders.

Lecture: Slow Händwörk in de Atteljäh änd in de Dunkälkammer

Lecturer: Antje Kröger
Date Time:
Location: festival site

Oh three hearts beat between my breasts. Heart No ONE: The Storytelling, Heart No TWO: The Light and Composition Crazy, Heart No THREE: The Craftsmanship.


Aesthetics that reach into a time that was even slower – I always try to create this in my pictures. When slow living was not just a phrase for reflection and inner contemplation, but an inevitability of every life. My work is a slow process anyway. It takes time to feel the person in front of the camera. This time also gets the craft, my third heart. Slow handwork in the Atteljäh änd in the darkroom! Each sputum is an artifact, marked by cracks, shadows and blurs. Imponderables that take the control away from the creator of the picture, but in return the result is flawed in the untrained and unfree eye, but gives the wide field of vision freedom of interpretation and attraction.
The material requires similar attention as subject, composition and light. Balancing all of this is a slow learning process in which patience and commitment to the process of creation can create a multi-sound that resonates longer. The allure of the rugged, the twists and turns that can only be influenced to a limited extent, the questions of the ambiguous. Bringing ambiguities to light is what I would like to devote myself to with my analog photography.

Subjects:

Why master the analogue craft?
Why improvisation promotes a leap in quality?
What role do coincidence, decay and time play?
Where do all the materials come from & are the costs for analogue photography still affordable for artists?
What does long-suffering, waiting and learning feel like?
What do mistakes, mishaps & unpredictability mean?
How harmful are chemicals to me and my environment?
Why is there ever a fire in the large format camera?
Why is it worth lugging around analog technology when the best camera is said to be the one you always have with you?
What are analogue/digital remixes?


Lecture: “Collecting photographs – the analogue image memory”

Instructor: Roland Behrmann

Date / Time: Saturday June 3 at 5pm
Location: Festival space


Aristotles Hole – talk pinhole imaging and camera obscura creation

Instructor: Justin Quinnell

Date / Time:
Location: Festival space

Aristotles Hole – talk which covers the history, science and evolution of ‘discovering light, pinhole imaging and camera obscura creation. It then evolves into contemporary approaches to pinhole photography, mainly covering the period before the internet.

human, material, moment / 13×18 negative development on paper

Instructor: Antje Kröger
Date / Time: Sunday 2023.06.04 11am-5pm •
Location: FotografieInBerlin •
Number of participants: max 6 Teilnehmer:innen •
costs p.person: 150€ / 120€* •

Many photographic processes are expensive and/or quite environmentally unfriendly. That’s why I load the cassettes of my beloved DDR-Mentor large format camera directly with photo paper. This is how I photograph my artistic series, and this is what I will show you at this workshop. In the practical part, each of you will produce your own so-called paper negatives with the large format camera. No paper is
bought new. It comes to me from various sources. The procurement of my materials is the first creative process of my work.

Today you get to be creative together with the group. Photograph your fellow workshop participants. Self-portraits are also possible. Together we load the cassettes in the darkroom with the paper, together we discover the old large format camera. I support you with the individual steps of the photo-artistic process of creation. At the end we go to the darkroom to develop the paper negatives. Because in principle this analog process is an instant photo process. You can then hold your work in your hands and, of course, take them home.” — Antje Kröger

(*) Reduction is possible for the severely disabled, pupils, vocational school students, students, trainees, pensioners, the unemployed, BFDler and FKJler

Analogue vintage portraits

Instructor: Sabine Alex

Date / Time: Saturday 03.06.2023, 12am-2pm and 3pm-5pm
Location: Festival room, mobile duka
costs: 10€ per photo/ each additional print 5€*

Like in a photo booth, you can have an analogue portrait of yourself. Photographs are taken with an analogue large format camera. The photo is developed live together with you in the mobile darkroom bus and you then hold your individual black and white photo in your hands.

(*) Reduction is possible for the severely disabled, pupils, vocational school students, students, trainees, pensioners, the unemployed, BFDler and FKJler

TinType Portraits

Photographer: Maximilian Zeitler

Date / Time: Sunday 04.06.2023 at 10am-4pm
Location: Festival space
Cost p.person: 50€ / 40€*

Are you ready to step back in time and experience the magic of traditional photography? Join us for a Tintype Portrait Session with photographer Maximilian Zeitler at analogueNOW! on June 4th.

Using a 4×5″ large format camera, Max will create a Tintype portrait with you. The result is a one-of-a-kind, stunning image that you and your loved ones will cherish for a lifetime. Don’t miss this unforgettable opportunity to create a timeless portrait using a traditional photographic process. Limited spots are available, so book your session now and secure your place.

(*) Reduction is possible for the severely disabled, pupils, vocational school students, students, trainees, pensioners, the unemployed, BFDler and FKJler

workshop.experimental

Instructor: Sabine Alex
Date / Time: Sunday 04.06.2023 at 10am-3pm •
Location: Mobile Duka •
Number of participants: max 3 (age 16+) •
Cost p.person: 150€ / 120€* •

Photo paper has a light-sensitive layer – the emulsion. In this workshop you will learn how to bring the emulsion to an absorbent carrier material and use it like photographic paper after drying. Photographic images will be created on wood, cardboard and fabric. The attractive thing is the interaction of the graphic character of the photograph and the structure and color of the carrier material.

Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2017 | Mobile Dunkelkammer | FOTO. Lys Y. Seng

(*) Reduction is possible for the severely disabled, pupils, vocational school students, students, trainees, pensioners, the unemployed, BFDler and FKJler

Two colored Cyanotype

Instructor: Sehera Nawaz
Date / Time: Friday 02.06.2023 — 1pm – 5pm •
Location: Mahlowerstr. 1, 12049 Berlin •
Teilnehmerzahl: max 6 Teilnehmer:innen •
Preis: 120€ / 96€* •

Cyanotype is an old analogue photo printing technique developed in 1842. Instead of silver grains – as in the classical black/white-photography – one develops very stable pigments in prussian blue (or berlin blue). Also: one only needs water for the fixation and the chemicals are in most concentrations nontoxic for the environment and yourself.
This course will focus on printing two colored Cyanotypes. You will be able to print your own Photo and experiment with color variants and toning.
Even if you have expeirance in printing Cyanotypes, this course can be very interesting for you.

(*) Reduction is possible for the severely disabled, pupils, vocational school students, students, trainees, pensioners, the unemployed, BFDler and FKJler