This time, the Photobook Quartet discusses the book "Ren Hang" by the Chinese photographer of the same name, who took his own life in 2017 at the age of only 29. Although his career as a photographer lasted only six years, he was one of China's most controversial contemporary photographers. His trademarks included transgressing moral and social taboos and showing his friends mostly naked and in more or less sexualised postures and absurd, provocative stagings.
Tomasz Tomaszewski
The World Is Where You Stop
Heinz Neumärker
Ohne Vorstellung
Cai Dongdong
A Game of Photos
Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni
Fastidiosa
Salvatore Vitale
How to secure a country
Salvatore Vitale
How to secure a country
Salvatore Vitale
How to secure a country
Salvatore Vitale
How to secure a country
Lois Hechenblaikner
Ischgl
Salvatore Vitale
How to secure a country
Yann Mingard
Everything is up in the Air, thus our Vertigo
Sohrab Hura
The Coast
Tyler Mitchell
I can make you feel good
Carolyn Drake
Knit Club
Gabor Arion Kudasz
Human
Christina de Middel
The Perfect Man
Joel Sternfeld
American Prospects
Elinor Carucci
Midlife
Issei Suda
Fragment of Everyday Life
Fotobuch-Quartett
Based on the "Literary Quartet", Damian Zimmermann and Nadine Preiß (both Photoszene), Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi (The PhotoBookMuseum), Wolfgang Zurborn (Lichtblick School), Oliver Rausch and Frank Dürrach (both Fotoakademie-Koeln) as well as a changing guest discuss four photo books live and in front of an audience, sometimes lovingly and benevolently, sometimes meanly and maliciously, their heads hot. The events will be recorded by FotoTV and then put online. The Photobook Quartet is a format of the Internationale Photoszene Köln. The first event took place within the framework of the Photoscene Festival 2014 at the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne (MAKK), followed by the Photobook Quartet+ as a guest in the art spaces of the Michael Horbach Foundation, the Forum for Photography, the Zephyr in Mannheim and during the Cologne Art Book Fair 2015. Guests of previous editions were Renate Gruber, Claudia Dichter, Alexa Becker, Katja Stuke, Thekla Ehling, Erik Kessels, Bettina Flitner, Dr. Anja Schürmann, David Klammer, Simone Klein, and Thomas Gust.