Prinzessinnenbad, directed by Bettina Blümner, 2007 The title of this documentary film (literally ‘Pool of Princesses’) is a play on words derived from one of the film’s main locations: the Prinzenbad public pool in Kreuzberg, Berlin. The ‘princesses’ in question are three 15-year-old girls whose interconnected lives are the main focus of Bettina Blumner’s film.…
Justin Coombes, Hokkaido Postcard, Artist’s book, 2011, The exhibition Moments of Reprieve: Representing Loss in Contemporary Photography is, in collaboration with Paradise Row, currently on display at the David Roberts Foundation on Great Titchfield Street in London. By connecting photography with the manifold meanings of loss, the curators Louisa Adams and David Birkin dig into…
Basil Al-Rawi, Untitled No. 5 from the series Façade, 2012 Foreword to the exhibition catalogue of the Masters in Photography Studies degree show, University of Westminster: The degree show of this Masters in Photography Studies represents a unique moment in which photographers from different cultural, social, even political backgrounds come together to exhibit their work.…