Roundabout, Andersonstown, Belfast by Paul Graham

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"..it was this photograph that set the tone for what was to come. Whilst standing by the roadside with his medium format camera in hand, a British Army patrol approached him and asked what he was doing, whilst making it clear he should take no more pictures. But his instincts took over and he made this frame as the patrol left the scene. You can see the soldiers running off down the road on the right, with one still on the roundabout.

At the time he didn't realise its significance. It was only when he was looking through his negatives that he realised this was his breakthrough picture, one which offered a gateway to the story. His style was now set, it would be anti-surveillance, turning the camera from a device that focuses in on the most important part of the frame, to one that captures the wider view and pushes the viewer to seek out the significance of the picture."

From the blog of Phil Coomes, BBC Picture Editor.

from 'Vexataions' by Martin Maier

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"Vexations is a project that accounts for a junk internet culture""

I do not wish to dislcose whether these images are staged photography, reportage or documentary photography."

Shortlisted, Terry O'Neill Award, 2010.

from Brot by Gosbert Adler

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"Gosbert Adler’s internationally acclaimed photography questions reality without claiming to offer definitive answers. His pictures depict seemingly trivial, mundane scenes. Always serial and limited to a few themes, they explore the specific aesthetic scope of photography, which sees itself as documentary and is aware of its absolute subjectivity. In his conscious choices of perspective, detail, focus and colour, Adler constantly reflects the possibilities and constraints of his medium."

Exhibited at zone E, Essen.

Seehausen by Hans-Christian Schink

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"From the very start of his artistic activity, Hans-Christian Schink has worked on strictly defined series in regard to content that developed over a long period of time. The exhibition focuses on four thematic and aesthetic emphases of his photographic oeuvre. It presents portrayals of walls and empty interiors that negate central and interpretative perspectives, taking their place in the ranks of colour field painting."

Exhibited at  Neues Museum, Weimar.