Photography Contest
Der Greif - Guest Room: Michael Grieve & Rut Blees Luxemburg
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Der Greif MagazineGuest Room is all about sparking creative collaboration. For this edition, Michael Grieve, Director of Werkstatt Fotografie in Berlin and ArtFotoMode, teams up with artist Rut Blees Luxemburg, a Professor of Urban Aesthetics at the Royal College of Art, and founder of FILET, a space for experimental art in London.
Their theme for Guest Room is "Urban Exoticism."
Urban Exoticism is a term coined by art historian Alia Tsagkari (www.aliatsagkari.com) and proposes an alternative concept to experience the urban environment. Can a heightened awareness of strange juxtapositions and semi-hidden places open up an uncanny perception of the city? Urban Exoticism as a visual language that values fragments, unexpected contrasts and elements obscured by everyday experience. This edition of Guest Room is looking for the concealed mysteries beneath the banal surfaces of the modern city, drawn from the realms of the exotic, the erotic and the unconscious.
Why submit to Guest Room?
Be discovered by an expert in contemporary art and photography
Get published in an online showcase on Der Greif alongside emerging artists from all over the world
Submit for free or pay a voluntary donation of 8€
Please note: Images which have been selected for a previous Der Greif opportunity are not eligible for re-submission. We want to support the broadest range of photographers possible and therefore encourage you to submit work that has not yet been selected by our past Guest Curators. Any images which do not comply with these terms will be removed from the selection process.
Why submit to Guest Room?
Be discovered by an expert in contemporary art and photography
Get published in an online showcase on Der Greif alongside emerging artists from all over the world
Submit for free or pay a voluntary donation of 8€
Please note: Images which have been selected for a previous Der Greif opportunity are not eligible for re-submission. We want to support the broadest range of photographers possible and therefore encourage you to submit work that has not yet been selected by our past Guest Curators. Any images which do not comply with these terms will be removed from the selection process.
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