nachladen – Photographic notes

Reflex reborn

Reflex is back: In handy DIN A6 format, folded without staples or glue from a single side A3 risograph print, to yield six pages. This first issue contains three photos illustrating the technique of rephotography.

Printed and for sale at nachladen.

Contrasting with reflex’ former incarnation containing 36 photos (published quarterly), the reduced scope of the new form of six pages, allowing either the printing of three horizontal photos or six vertical ones, not only makes the publication more accessible to the viewer, it also makes printing much more economical. Perhaps most important, the brevity allows me to speedily pursue and publish photographic ideas, allowing for new explorations of form, content and approach, to be published in regular intervals.

Alle Jahre wieder

Postchristmas again: Mit der Vorweihnachtszeit näherte sich wie immer bereits viel zu früh die Jahresspitze im Weihnachtsbaumverbrauch. Einen kleinen Ausblick auf die Zeit danach (der Vorjahre), und hoffentlich ein kleines Augenzwinkern bot meine Fotoausstellung postchristmas again, die zwischen dem 03.12.2022 und dem 12.01.2023 bei Tim Reuscher im nachladen gezeigt wurde.

15 Fotos von Weihnachtsbäumen nach dem Fest (Riso-Drucke) und 4 Texte von meinem Bruder Frank wurden in der Ausstellung gezeigt, und sind in Form einer kleinen Zine-Akte dokumentiert, die im nachladen verkauft wird.

Postchristmas again — wieder auf der Sternschanze.

Postchristmas again war die zweite Ausstellung zu diesem Thema, die erste fand im Dezember 2019 statt.

Hammer and Pickle — Dill with it V

Nachdem ich die letzte Gruppenausstellung von Gurkenkunst (Oktober 2020) verpasst hatte, bin ich dieses Mal wieder dabei:

Vom 03.09.–30.09.2022 zeigt Tim Reuscher im nachladen in der Sternstraße 17 die Gurkenkust junger lokaler und auswärtiger Kunstschaffender. Eröffnung war am Samstag, 03.09., 14:00h–19:00h.

Immer für eine Überraschung gut, schaut unbedingt rein!

Hugo Espacio : New Technologies in Pickle Manufacture (A4, Tusche auf 200g/m² Papier)

Hanni-Isabell Barfuss, Elisabeth K feat. Holi Buddywood : Karfreitag

Sternstunden des Kapitalismus : Kappa – unlimited edition & Kappa – limited edition (Siebdruck auf biobaumwollenem T-Shirt + Minizine)

Dada Reinhardt : Das Wunder der Gurkbad Caverns

Dada Reinhardt : Das einsame und abgefuckte Leben im
illegalen Gurkenabbau

Zechnik Himmelfaart : La Gurk et sa troupe

Mia Löb : Gurkenkunst und Gurkenkünstler

Laura Martin : All the Pickles for 1 Woman

Deutschland geht es gut. Schau mal wieder rein!

Veröffentlichung eines Fotozines und Ausstellung im nachladen, (Hamburg, Sternstraße 17) im Dezember 2020.

Die Ausstellung im Fenster des nachladens.

Wie geht es uns denn heute? Schaut mal wieder rein in den nachladen und findet es heraus, denn seit dieser Woche gibt es dort mein Fotozine (Design von Tim Reuscher, mit Text von meinem Bruder Frank) und eine Corona-feste Ausstellungsinstallation im Fenster. Beide zeigen Fotos die draußen in Hamburg zwischen 2018 und 2020 entstanden sind.

Die sechs Fotos im Fenster und der Ausstellungstitel werden von hinten angeleuchtet und strahlen. Ebenfalls entworfen von Tim.

Einzelne Drucke können im nachladen erstanden werden, das Heft sowohl dort als auch im Onlinestore.

Shapeshifting

reflex 08, showing the new cover design/process.

Alongside other tectonic shifts happening around the world at the moment, reflex is now produced differently, i.e. using the services of Norderstedt’s Books on Demand GmbH. This is in lieu of printing my photos with a laser printer and binding them by hand into little booklets, which is how it worked until now.

While many appreciated the handmade quality of the old booklets, perhaps their shape somewhat distracted from the content of the photos. If some part of my process could be considered to be handcraft it would be the development of the films. More important, the recent arrival of our baby made it necessary to decide how to allot the sparse time available for photo work. Long story short: handstitching booklets did not make the cut.

(The back issues will continue to be available as handmade booklets from the nachladen.)

As usual, reflex 08 is available from the glorious nachladen as of now.

Lost in Lactation

“Breastfeeding in progress!!” Sign on door of maternity ward.

Long time no see:

On February 28, I arrived in Yukuhashi, the hometown of my wife, where she wanted to give birth to our first child. As intended, this happened not long after my arrival and since then both her and the baby are doing fine.

We planned to return to Hamburg in the middle of May, but now it looks like our return has been postponed indefinitely, due to the recent worldwide unpleasantness related to the Coronavirus. This leaves us stranded in Yukuhashi, a small (dare I say rural?) town on the southwestern shore of the Japanese Inland Sea, in the vicinity of the metropolitan area of Kitakyushu. Even though the baby naturally takes up most of our energy (which we gladly give to him), still plenty of opportunities to record the peculiarities of local life with my camera present themselves almost on a daily basis.

The northern city limit of Yukuhashi, looking south.

Since as usual my tool of choice is a 35mm film camera, it will take some time for anyone to see the photos taken here. They are forthcoming though.

Shells of film cartridges after development.

Meanwhile in Hamburg: Various issues of my photo magazine “reflex” are now available through the online store of the Nachladen, as are many other publications by local artists from Hamburg. Please check it out.

Over Dill – Dill with it III

Gruppenausstellung von Gurkenkunst im nachladen.

11.01. – 25.01.2020 in der Sternstraße 17.

postchristmas

Photo exhibition in Hamburg.

Exhibition shown at the nachladen (Sternstraße 17), December 7th, 2019 to January 4th, 2020.

On display were 12 b&w risograph prints of Christmas trees after Christmas. At the exhibition’s opening around six o’clock, my brother Frank read from a text he wrote for the catalogue accompanying our exhibition.

The catalogue is available in the online shop of the nachladen.

Tim changing an ink drum on the Risograph printer.

Tim selling magazines made by people like you and me.

A few views of the exhibition in the nachladen.

From December 3 to 31, 2022 postchristmas is followed by postchristmas again – new case studies.

reflex 07

Reflex 07 is finished and will be available as usual in the nachladen from the end of this week.

reflex 05

Reflex 05 is here, with photos from (mostly) Hamburg, Strande and Kiel. And its not just here, now its also there:

I decided to make the new issues of reflex available to the general public in the “nachladen“, Hamburg’s hot spot for self-published magazines and art printing. Drop by if you are in the area and have a look, they have heaps of nice prints and magazines by local artists well worth a visit.