About Der Greif »Guest Room: Nathalie Herschdorfer«
Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. She has also been working as a curator with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) for several years. In 2010 she was named director of the photography festival Alt. +1000 in Switzerland for which she curated two years of programming. Previously, she was a curator at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, where she worked for twelve years on major exhibitions, including Face: the Death of the Portrait , and retrospectives of Edward Steichen, Leonard Freed, Ray K. Metzker and Valérie Belin. She is the author of several books, among them The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography (2015), New Swiss Architecture (2015), Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast (2012), Afterward s: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past(2011). She is currently working on a survey show dedicated to Alex Prager and a book on contemporary photography entitled The Body Now (2018).
Nathalie Herschdorfer would like to see submissions that relate to the topic »Die Welt ist schön« (The World is Beautiful), a book by Albert Renger-Patzsch (1928). Please consider this for your selection!
Nathalie Herschdorfer © Amélie Blanc
Why submit to »Guest Room«?
»Guest Room« is a free opportunity to show your work to curators and gallerists. Your work will be seen and possibly published as part of the online-exhibition at the Der Greif website, a highly-frequented international source of photographic art.
About Der Greif: Guest Room
DER GREIF is an award-winning organization for contemporary photography. It is print-publication, online-publication, curatorial team and joint project all at once.
The website is exhibition-, communication-, and information-platform for participants and anyone interested in contemporary photography. Participating artists are presented in special Artist Features where they are given the opportunity to blog. In »Guest Room«, outstanding personalities in the field of international photography curate and select their favorite submissions online.
»Guest Room« has been conceived in January 2015 in order to expand and explore the possibilities of thoughtfully combining single photographic images and presenting them online. Each Guest Room-selection is published in real-time. Around 30 images per Guest are shown – single images or image-combinations.
Over the years DER GREIF has developed a very distinctive handling when working with photography-submissions from artists from all over the world. »Guest Room« questions this approach and the role the artistic directors of Der Greif play in it by integrating curators and gallerists in the field of international photography.
How to submit your work
Submitting to Der Greif »Guest Room: Nathalie Herschdorfer« is easy:
- Fill in your personal details in the Profile section
- In the »Work«-section, add or upload a project consisting of up to four images. Images can either be part of a series or be conceived as single images.
- Submit your work
For more information, please read the Terms and Condition at the summary of the submission process.
Timeline
Requirements
Submission Requirements
- One project with a maximum of 4 images
- Nathalie Herschdorfer would like to see submissions that relate to the topic »Die Welt ist schön« (The World is Beautiful), a book by Albert Renger-Patzsch (1928). Please consider this for your selection!
- The submitted photographs must fulfill the following technical terms: min. 1500px, max. 7000px
Entrance Fees
- no entrance fees
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