Thomas Kellner reviewed together with his supporting Jury (Thomas Gerwers, PROFIFOTO, Manfred Zollner, fotomagazin, Beate Cegielska, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark and Johan Sjöström, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden) all entries.
Thomas Kellner invites every year personally known colleagues for a group show in his studio. Most of them he has met at exhibitions, meetingplaces or artfairs around the world.
Submissions came this year from more than a hundred photographers from 20 countries, such as: 20 Ländern, darunter aus: Brasil, Canada, China, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithunia, The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, USA und Uruguay.
The exhibition end of June shows work by 26 photographers. Each photographer is represented by one selected picture. This year the portfolio award goes to Dirk Hanus from Leipzig Germany, who will be presented in the July issue of fotomagazin in Germany. PROFIFOTO, Germany will also publish a selection in his July issue. The exhibition photographers:network selection 2009 will take place June 27th till July 5th at studio Thomas Kellner Germany. On Saturday 27th visiting photographers meet at the Museum’s conference room for short lectures and artist’s talks. Sunday June 28th Art Galerie Siegen will present the awardwinning exhibition by Dirk Hanus.
photographers:network selection 2009 presents works by: Tamany Baker, Dietlinde Bamberger, Suzette Bross, Brian Buckley, Jill Cole, Nigel Dickinson, Kathryn Dunlevie, Lucia Ganieva, Meggan Gould, Daniel Handal, Dirk Hanus, Olga Hoffman, Pernille Koldbech Fich, Ferit Kuyas, Liu LiJie Silvia Morara, Susanne Opton, Qiu Jun Song, Qiu Zhen, Inger Lise Rasmussen, Elliot Ross, Toby Smith, Alvaro Villela, Wang XingLiang, Johan Willner,Yunsheng Geng
photographers:network selection 2009
June 27th – July 5th 2009
studio Thomas Kellner
Friedrichstrasse 42
57072 Siegen
Te.: +49 271 238 33 43
Opening hours Sa & Su 3 – 6 pm
Lectures at the Museum's conference room on Saturday 27th
Brian Buckley, New York
Daniel Schuman, Bielefeld
Falk von Traubenberg, Hamburg
Nelly Thomas, Langenselbold
Ferit Kuyas, Waedenswil, Switzerland
Dirk Hanus, Chemnitz
Ralf Litera, Bielefeld
Alvaro Villela, Salvador, Brazil
