MEDIA LOUNGE

The bilingual quarterly EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art launches its issue #120 hot of the press at the Media Lounge of Paris Photo! Meet the protagonists involved in this November issue—artists, editors and authors alike: Artist Salvatore Vitale, whose poetic visual essay Decompressed Prism will be featured within the Portfolio rubric; guest editors Esther Ruelfs (Head of the Photography and New Media Collection and Curator at the MK&G Hamburg) and Boaz Levin (writer, curator and occasional filmmaker), who give insights into their ground-breaking travelling exhibition Mining Photography, a show evolving around the ecological footprint of image production; Felix Hoffmann, Artistic Director of the Foto Arsenal Wien, who is unveiling his plans for this brand new institute for lens based media in Vienna, which he currently is planning from scratch; and editors Pia Draskovits and Nela Eggenberger, who are available for all other inquiries regarding EIKON.

Mingle with us for the special pre-launch of Der Greif 15 at Paris Photo. Issue 15, titled The Collectivity Issue, is guest-edited by 50 renowned artists who juxtapose their work with an image from an open call for entries we launched in relation to the issue. To celebrate the launch, we will be joined by some of the guest-artists whose work is also exhibited in this year’s edition of Paris Photo. We are looking forward to presenting this truly collective work of art to the public, alongside your chance to get a signed copy. Since our inception in 2008, we at Der Greif are committed to researching subjects affecting the production, distribution, presentation and perception of photographic images – in print, on screens as well as in exhibitions.

Martin Parr, a member of Magnum Photos since 1994, changed the face of documentary photography with his project The Last Resort (1983-1985), creating a space for colour photography. In this issue of HOTSHOE, we look at the span of his career, starting with his black-and-white work with rural communities in the 1970s, through to his most recent projects, alongside an extensive interview with Aaron Schuman. Martin Parr will be signing copies of the magazine