Location MOP2, Aula Design
moderated by Prof. Caroline Dlugos
Rethinking Photography.
Podcast, festival, photo book prize.
We encounter photographic images and images of photography everywhere we go, every day. We carry them with us. We share them with friends, family, and followers. They are snapped, shot, generated, posted, and stored in clouds. They are edited, composed, algorithmically created, and distributed worldwide in seconds. They have become an international language.
Photographic images and imaging techniques shape the debate in connection with 'AI-generated' images and texts. This resurgent discussion about the photographic truth of representation is as old as photography itself. What is new about it is that it affects us all and can hit us very personally in our comfort zones.
Should everything that looks like photography be called something else? Or is that irrelevant? Does it make sense to distinguish between "photo photo" and "artistic photographic processes"? Between light-exposed and image-generating processes?
"To paraphrase Marvin Heiferman: There is nothing in our lives that photography has not since made helpful for. "
(Quote from the podcast Fotografie Neu Denken, episode 114 with Michael Wesely)
"To paraphrase Klaus Honnef: We see photographically."
(Quote from the podcast Fotografie Neu Denken, episode 115 Rückblick 01.02.)
About our speaker:
Andy Scholz first studied philosophy, German literature, and media studies in Düsseldorf and then photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen until 2005, under Bernhard Prinz, Jörg Sasse, and Herta Wolf, among others.
As a freelance artist, he explores the photographic medium in the field of tension between artistic and applied photography.
Since 2012, he has taught artistic photography, photographic image design, and photo theory at various institutions, including the University of Regensburg, North Dakota State University Fargo (USA), the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg, the Ruhr University Bochum, the Philips University Marburg, and the University of Education Ludwigsburg.
As a curator and festival director, he is interested in everything that looks like photography – regardless of how it was created. In 2016, he launched the INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES in Regensburg (Bavaria), focusing on the significance of photographic images today and their future. An international group exhibition curated by Andy Scholz, an international symposium, and a several-day supporting program form the festival's core. In November 2023, the third round took place, and the renowned German Photo Book Prize was integrated into the festival program for the first time. In 2024, the prize will be awarded for the second time in Regensburg, and in November 2025, festival edition number four will be launched.
During the first lockdown in 2020, he also developed the podcast "Fotografie Neu Denken" (Rethinking Photography), which now comprises over 190 episodes in five categories and can be heard wherever podcasts are available. As an author, philosopher, and theorist, he discusses photographic images and their social relevance with guests from the fields of art, photography, media, and the humanities, as well as from the German-speaking museum and art market landscape.
Links:
FOTOGRAFIE NEU DENKEN. Der Podcast.
https://fotografie-neu-denken.podigee.io/
http://fotografieneudenken.de/zu-den-episoden
INTERNATIONALES FESTIVAL FOTOGRAFISCHER BILDER
https://www.festival-fotografischer-bilder.de
DEUTSCHER FOTOBUCHPREIS
Ausgezeichnete Fotobücher aus Deutschland, Österreich und Schweiz.
https://deutscherfotobuchpreis.de/
STUDIO ANDY SCHOLZ
http://andyscholz.com
