Positionen

Biographie

Today most everyone can operate a camera, but does it make him a photographer?
To be a photographer requires a special ability – the ability of photographic seeing. This particular ability can be learned and developed over time.
The Ostkreuzschule in Berlin offers training based in the artisanal, mental, and emotional skills of this ability. After artistic basic studies, the focus is on the development of a personal visual language. Documentary, journalistic, or artistic photography genres are differentiated and interactions and knowledge of design theory, history and theory of photography will be taught. Successful photographers of the agency «Ostkreuz» report on their experiences in various photographic genres. Students also learn to make conceptual and substantive decisions through project work. The course comprises seven semesters in the cultural metropolis of Berlin.
Werner Mahler and Thomas Sandberg founded the Ostkreuzschule for Photography in Berlin in 2005.

Within the framework of the exhibition «Positionen» in Montpellier, the school presents a selection of graduation works from recent years:
Jonas Feige «Nacht auf der Sonne» (2012 – 2015)
Johanna-Maria Fritz «Sirkus Islands» (2014, 2015)
Bastian Gehbauer «Zirkel I.» (2012 – en cours)
Aras Gökten «Arkanum» (2013, 2014)
Stefan Hähnel «rurik» (2014 – 2016)
Amelie Kahn-Ackermann «si jiagou - Denk an die Heimat» (2014, 2015)
Birte Kaufmann "Les voyageurs" (2011, 2012)
Birgit Krause «Plánētes» (2013)
Julia Runge «Basterland» (2015)
Ina Schoenenburg «Blickwechsel» (2011 – 2015)
Stefanie Schulz «Duldung/Toleration» (2013)
Kamil Sobolewski «Rattenkönig» (2014)
Stephanie Steinkopf «Manhattan–Straße der Jugend» (2012)
Irina Thiessen «Privet Germania» (2015)
Sarah Walzer «Junge Siegerin» (2012 – 2014)
Yana Wernicke «Irrlicht» (2014)

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Within the framework of the exhibition «Positionen» in Montpellier, the school presents a selection of graduation works from recent years:

Jonas Feige «Nacht auf der Sonne» (2012 – 2015)
Johanna-Maria Fritz «Sirkus Islands» (2014, 2015)
Bastian Gehbauer «Zirkel I.» (2012 – en cours)
Aras Gökten «Arkanum» (2013, 2014)
Stefan Hähnel «rurik» (2014 – 2016)
Amelie Kahn-Ackermann «si jiagou - Denk an die Heimat» (2014, 2015)
Birte Kaufmann "Les voyageurs" (2011, 2012)
Birgit Krause «Plánētes» (2013)
Julia Runge «Basterland» (2015)
Ina Schoenenburg «Blickwechsel» (2011 – 2015)
Stefanie Schulz «Duldung/Toleration» (2013)
Kamil Sobolewski «Rattenkönig» (2014)
Stephanie Steinkopf «Manhattan–Straße der Jugend» (2012)
Irina Thiessen «Privet Germania» (2015)
Sarah Walzer «Junge Siegerin» (2012 – 2014)
Yana Wernicke «Irrlicht» (2014)