Photography fans are offered a chance to both keep up with theWestern art of photography and have a glimpse of 22 cities around theworld at a unique exhibition in downtown Hanoi.
Titled ‘The City: Becoming and Decaying’, the exhibition features morethan 170 pictures by 18 photographers from the German Ostkreuz agency.
"More than half of mankind is living in cities, and each day thousandsof people around the world are leaving their village in the countrysideand moving to the city – seeking a better life, security, freedom andprosperity," said Almuth Meyer-Zollitsch, director of the institute.
"The 18 German photographers set out from Berlin to explore urbanrealities throughout the world: How are people living in Tokyo or inLagos? What is behind the artificial paradise of the giganticshopping malls in Dubai – and of what kind is the future of the kidsplaying in the ruins of their home destroyed by bombs in Gaza,Palestine ?"
The exhibition showcases new cities,emerging from the desert, like the Ordos in China – and other citiesthat seem to be dying, like Detroit in the US, after the collapseof the automobile industry, becoming almost a ghost city.
"The exhibition is like a kaleidoscope, offering impressive portraitsof the cities and dwellers," said 60-year-old viewer Nguyen Thanh An."Each photographer has his own way to feature an image.
"I like the series ‘Monalisas of the Suburbs’ by Ute and WernerMahler," he said. "The couple chose to portray young women from foursuburbs. Their facial expressions, eyes, clothes, gestures and evenbackground scenes represent a changing society."
Theexhibition is open at the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, 66 Nguyen ThaiHoc Street and the Goethe Institute, 56-58 on the same street, tillSeptember 14.
Two photographers in the project, JorgBruggemann and Ute Mahler, will give a talk on new photography inGermany tonight at 7pm.
They will also conduct aworkshop titled ‘Portrait- Staging and Observation: Humankind in itsEnvironment’ to Vietnamese photographers and students on September 3-7.
Both talk and workshop, which will take place at the Goethe Institute, will be conducted in German and Vietnamese.
Ostkreuz is the most renowned German photo agency. Founded in EastBerlin following the example of "Magnum", it is associated with themost important contemporary German photographers.
The exhibition, which has been on an international tour since 2010, is held to celebrate the agency's 20th anniversary.-VNA
Titled ‘The City: Becoming and Decaying’, the exhibition features morethan 170 pictures by 18 photographers from the German Ostkreuz agency.
"More than half of mankind is living in cities, and each day thousandsof people around the world are leaving their village in the countrysideand moving to the city – seeking a better life, security, freedom andprosperity," said Almuth Meyer-Zollitsch, director of the institute.
"The 18 German photographers set out from Berlin to explore urbanrealities throughout the world: How are people living in Tokyo or inLagos? What is behind the artificial paradise of the giganticshopping malls in Dubai – and of what kind is the future of the kidsplaying in the ruins of their home destroyed by bombs in Gaza,Palestine ?"
The exhibition showcases new cities,emerging from the desert, like the Ordos in China – and other citiesthat seem to be dying, like Detroit in the US, after the collapseof the automobile industry, becoming almost a ghost city.
"The exhibition is like a kaleidoscope, offering impressive portraitsof the cities and dwellers," said 60-year-old viewer Nguyen Thanh An."Each photographer has his own way to feature an image.
"I like the series ‘Monalisas of the Suburbs’ by Ute and WernerMahler," he said. "The couple chose to portray young women from foursuburbs. Their facial expressions, eyes, clothes, gestures and evenbackground scenes represent a changing society."
Theexhibition is open at the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, 66 Nguyen ThaiHoc Street and the Goethe Institute, 56-58 on the same street, tillSeptember 14.
Two photographers in the project, JorgBruggemann and Ute Mahler, will give a talk on new photography inGermany tonight at 7pm.
They will also conduct aworkshop titled ‘Portrait- Staging and Observation: Humankind in itsEnvironment’ to Vietnamese photographers and students on September 3-7.
Both talk and workshop, which will take place at the Goethe Institute, will be conducted in German and Vietnamese.
Ostkreuz is the most renowned German photo agency. Founded in EastBerlin following the example of "Magnum", it is associated with themost important contemporary German photographers.
The exhibition, which has been on an international tour since 2010, is held to celebrate the agency's 20th anniversary.-VNA
