Photobook Review with the Author, Wolfgang Bellwinkel

For our regular event, “Photobook Review with the Author”, this time we’d like to invite German Photographer, Wolfgang Bellwinkel to talk about his book, “No Land Called Home”.

Too many photographers are known internationally, doing good work and publishing new books that are unfortunately unheard of here in Japan. Not everyone in Japan can go and see their exhibitions, but there is interest here, if only we could get a copy of good photography books.
We have five questions that we will ask each photographer, and we will be taking questions from the audiene prior to the event.

Our second guest will be documentary photographer, WOLFGANG BELLWINKEL who lives in Berlin and Bangkok.. His new book, “No Land Called Home” have just been published by German publisher, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg. Wolfgang will be speaking to us through Skype from Berlin during the event.

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Wolfgang Bellwinkel, “No Land Called Home”

Wolfgang Bellwinkel investigates something that might be described as a state of mind: the longing for otherness, for strangeness, and the restlessness of someone who seeks exceptional experiences, and perhaps knowledge, in far-away climes. Bellwinkel builds a collage combining photographs from the last 18 years with his own short stories, which function as autonomous companions of the photographic material. Photographs taken in Asia come together with images of war and post-war scenes in Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Balkans to somehow form a coherent whole. Private shots are interwoven with documentary images, world events with biographical interludes. The book demonstrates a deep commitment to biographically oriented photography, which its author places in the context of events taking place in a constantly changing, globalized world.

Full Transcript of our Q&A with Wolfgang Bellwinkel

 

BellwinkelBiography

Wolfgang Bellwinkel lives in Berlin and Bangkok.
After completing his studies at Folkwang School of Art in the mid 90’ he began to work as a photographer for magazines and companies.
Beside his commercial work he’s been deeply engaged in different projects in Germany and former Yugoslavia. For more than a decade his main focus is Asia.
1995 he finished his first documentary film „weg“ that had its premier at the Bangkok Film Festival. As a lecturer he worked at universities in Germany, Singapore and Thailand, assigned by the Goethe Institut he teaches workshops all over Asia.
In 2011 the exhibition „Foreign Familiar“ curated by Wolfgang Bellwinkel was opened at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center and currently travels to various destinations in S.E. Asia.
Bellwinkel’s work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions amongst others at the Pinakothek der Moderne/Munich, Berlinische Galerie/Berlin, Museum voor Fotografie/Antwerpen, Daelim Art Museum/Seoul, Bangkok Art and Cultural Center/Bangkok.
http://www.wolfgang-bellwinkel.de/

 

Time: 2013/1/19 (SAT) 18:00
Place: Reminders Photography Stronghold
Fee: 500yen (20 seats, RPS members can come free)
Host: RPS Curator, Goto Yumi
Guest: Wolfgang Bellwinkel (via Skype from Berlin)

 

Photobook Review with Author
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