After the huge success of Seconds2Real’s “fascination street” exhibition in Berlin with more than 650 visitors last year, “fascination street” is now coming to Vienna. We are very pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition at Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna March 31st – April 13th, 2012.

In the exhibition “fascination street goes vienna” the photographic collective Seconds2Real shows contemporary street photography focusing on Germany and Austria. Opposed to the traditional strongholds of street photography like Paris, London or New York they are drawing attention to Berlin, Munich or Vienna. The long history of street photography is continued by the Seconds2Real photographers today with a contemporary view on public life.

Participating photographers are Alexander Magedler (Vienna), Andreas Stelter (Minden), Christian Reister (Berlin), Elisabeth Schuh (Vienna), Friedrich Schiller (Vienna), Guido Steenkamp (Berlin), Kay von Aspern (Vienna), Mario Cuic (Munic), Natalie Opocensky (Vienna), Siegfried Hansen (Hamburg) and Thorsten Strasas (Berlin).

We would be happy to have the pleasure of welcoming you and invite you warmly to join us at the Vernissage, Friday, March 30th, 7pm. In parallel to the exhibition we will also do free Gallery Talks & Tours attended by many of the Seconds2Real photographers. Please see Gallery Talks & Tours dates below.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Location
Anzenberger Gallery
Zeinlhofergasse 7 | A-1050 Wien
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Running time and opening hours
March 31st – April 13th, 2012
Mo – Fr 10am-6pm | Sat – Sun 2-5pm | closed April 8th and 9th
Free admission

Public Opening: Friday, March 30th, 7pm
Free admission

Gallery Talk & Tour
Saturday, March 31st, 2-5pm
Sunday, April 1st, 2-5pm
Saturday, April 7th, 2-5pm

“fascination street goes vienna” on Facebook | Website anzenbergergallery.com

Thorsten Strasas’ series “Berlin. Grey.” ist currently on exhibition at FENSTER61. FENSTER61 is a Berliner photo exhibition place in a shop window in Mitte. The exhibition will be up until the 14th of February.

From the press release:
The urban human being lives. With and within major city architecture, as well as within the spaces of urban centers. Cramped or crushed to death by wideness, occasionally like a redundant relict out of a time when he himself was the center of the colony. Crowded to the border and left over – not knowing, whereto with himself and still meeting himself along the way.
Thorsten Strasas sees and shows encounters between the human being and his environmental space. Pictures these moments and shows the rest of disappearing individuality in urban space.

More on the FENSTER61 website

If you can’t make it to visit the exhibition in Berlin check this new video on vimeo.

In the exhibition “fascination street” the photographic collective Seconds2Real shows contemporary street photography focusing on Germany and Austria. Opposed to the traditional strongholds of street photography like Paris, London or New York they are drawing attention to Berlin, Munich or Vienna. The long history of street photography is continued by the Seconds2Real photographers today with a contemporary view on public life.

Participating photographers are Andreas Stelter (Minden), Christian Reister (Berlin), Elisabeth Schuh (Vienna), Guido Steenkamp (Berlin), Kay von Aspern (Vienna), Mario Cuic (Munic), Natlaie Opocensky (Vienna), Siegfried Hansen (Hamburg) and Thorsten Strasas (Berlin).

Public Opening: Friday, Oct 14th, 7pm
Free admission

Running time and opening hours
October 15th, 2011 – October 30th, 2011
Thursday and Friday, 4 pm – 7 pm Saturday and Sunday, 2 pm – 7 pm
Free admission

Gallery Tour & Talk
Saturday, October 15th, 2011, 4 pm – 7 pm Sunday
with Andreas Stelter, Mario Cuic, Siegfried Hansen, Guido Steenkamp and Christian Reister
October 16th, 2011, 2 pm – 5 pm
with Kay von Aspern, Elisabeth Schuh, Thorsten Strasas and Natalie Opocensky

Location
MEINBLAU Kunsthaus
Christinenstraße 18/19, Haus 5 (Pfefferberggelände),
10119 Berlin
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The exhibition is kindly supported by Stiftung Pfefferwerk.

Want more information? Check this interview with Kay von Aspern on sonic blog about Seconds2Real and the exhibition in Berlin. There’s a weekly interview series with members of Seconds2Real in celebration of the forthcoming exhibition in Berlin on ST84 Photo blog.

“fascination street” on Facebook | Website meinblau.de

Street Photography is thus Non-Fiction. It is not photojournalism per se, which is about recording events. Its concerns are much smaller but equally important, the little-noticed nuanced moments of everyday life. It is seeking the unusual in the everyday: As photographer, film-maker and blogger Nick Turpin puts it, “Good Street Photographs show you something you still would not have seen had you been there.”

Today cameras are everywhere and in everything. The camera in the average mobile phone has a higher resolution than the best digital cameras of ten years ago. Millions of images are recorded every hour in every part of the world. A large proportion of these are recordings of happenings in the streets, yet very few are what could be called Street Photographs. To rise above this mass of images, to create something special and to do it more than once is a fierce challenge, one that the photographers assembled at Galerie Hertz for the Louisville Photography Biennial have managed to do, and to do regularly.

The photographers are:

Blake Andrews, Eugene, OR
Anahita Avalos, Villahermosa, Mexico/France
Richard Bram, New York City
Maciej Dakowicz, Poland/Cardiff, Wales
Melanie Einzig, New York City
Adrian Fisk, UK/New Delhi
David Gibson, London
Siegfried Hansen, Hamburg, Germany
Nils Jorgensen, London/Cumbria, UK
Kate Kirkwood, Cumbria, UK
Felix Lupa, Tel Aviv, Israel
George Kelly, Portland, OR
Jesse Marlow, Melbourne, Australia
Stephen McLaren, London
Jan Meissner, New York City
Andy Morley-Hall, London/Wellington, New Zealand
Johanna Neurath, London
Kramer O’Neill, New York City
Mike Peters, New York City
Orville Robertson, New York City
Paul Russell, Weymouth, UK
Otto Snoek, Rotterdam, Netherlands
David Solomons, London
Guido Steenkamp, Berlin
Ying Tang, Shanghai/Cologne, Germany
Nick Turpin, London/Artemare, France
Kay von Aspern, Vienna
Dougie Wallace, Glasgow
Amani Willett, New York City

We would be happy to have the pleasure of welcoming you and invite you warmly to join us at the Vernissage, Fr, 14.10.2011, 19:00. In parallel to the exhibition we will also do free Gallery Talks & Tours attended by many of the Seconds2Real photographers. Please see Gallery Talks & Tours dates below.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

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Wir freuen uns mit “fascination street” die erste Ausstellung zeitgenössischer Street Photography der Fotografen Kooperative Seconds2Real ankündigen zu können. Die Ausstellung eröffnet am 15. Oktober und ist zwei Wochen lang zu sehen. Wir zeigen im einzigartigen MEINBLAU Kunsthaus in dieser Zeit mehr als 100 unserer Arbeiten.

Wir laden Euch herzlich zur Vernissage am 14.10.2011 um 19:00 ein. Begleitend zur Ausstellung bieten wir Galerieführungen durch einige der Seconds2Real Fotografen an. Die genauen Termine hierzu finden sich unten stehend.

Wir freuen uns auf Euren Besuch und auf viele interessante Gespräche!

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fascination street – contemporary austrian and german street photography

MEINBLAU Kunsthaus
gefördert durch die Stiftung Pfefferwerk
Christinenstrasse 18/19
10119 Berlin

15.10.2011 – 30.10.2011
Do + Fr, 16:00-19:00
Sa + So, 14:00-19:00

Vernissage

Fr, 14.10.2011, 19:00
freier Eintritt/ admission free

Gallery Talk & Tour

Sa, 15.10.2011, 16:00 – 19:00
So, 16.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:00
freier Eintritt/ admission free