IPFL 2015 In 2012, Dutch photographer Carla Kogelman (b. 1961) – who previously worked in the theatre industry for twenty-five years – was commissioned by Szene Bunte Wähne, a youth theatre festival in Austria, to make a documentary about the rural Waldviertel region. She ended up in Merkenbrechts, a small village of 170 inhabitants, where…
PFL 2013
PFL 2013
IPFL 2017-2018
IPFL 2013 Plastic Habitat My photographic projects revolve around urban development. The past contribution ‘Recreation Now’ depicts serial housing phenomena in numerous European vacation resorts. With the series ‘Plastic Habitat’, my interest extended to residential development. It provides a photographic insight into the absurd urbanisation of the desert in Dubai with a focus on master…
IPFL 2014 The serie Talassophile Joris van der Ploeg takes the backdrop of a rapidly worsening world and places the beauty and optimism he sees in women and nature directly in front of it for a stark contrast. He has hope for progressive changes in the future through women and sets out to portray this…
IPFL 2015 “It is” It could have been possible. It would have been. It is. This project is a reflection upon vulnerability, imperfection, the search for meaning, for sense. About the ability to adapt – and the loss of it. The whole project consists of three photographic themes, presented in a photographic installation: interiors of…
IPFL 2017-2018 Series of Conversations Laura Hospes (1994) is reclaiming her skin and body by obsessively using it as her subject of research. Her work is rooted in the field of psychology, as of past experiences the connection between her skin, body and self is often lost, which causes a state of detachment. In an…
Winner IPFL 2015 The Treatment Even though modern spa towns first surfaced in 18th century Britain and spread throughout most of Europe and far Russia shortly after, the idea must have resonated deeply with the German psyche. There are over 300 spa towns in Germany alone. I travelled to about 40 of them all over…
IPFL 2015 Outside Room 8 Geert Broertjes & Lotte Bronsgeest March 2019. Geert had been suffering from abdominal pain for a while and it was getting worse. He had a rectal bleeding on the toilet and lost two liters of blood. After a few days of research at the hospital, the doctor told Geert the…
