Discipula, Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt, Werker Magazine | 15.05.2016

Syntagma Square and the Temple of Parthenon, Greece, 18–19 October, 2011, from the Europe, Greece, Athens, Acropolis series, 2012 © Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt

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Discipula

Founded by MFG Paltrinieri, Mirko Smerdel, and Tommaso Tanini in 2013, Discipula is a collaborative research platform operating in the fields of contemporary photography and visual culture. Combining art practice and self-publishing, Discipula delves into the production, use, and consumption of images, and explores the interweaving of fact and fiction in the process of meaning-making. Discipula’s works have been exhibited internationally at the Mücsarnok (Budapest), FORMAT InternationalPhotography Festival(Derby), Photo 50 – London Art Fair, and elsewhere. Discipula was the recipient of the 2015 Author Book Award at the Rencontres d’Arles Festival.

Klara Källström (1984) and Thobias Fäldt (1978) have been working together for ten years. They are based in Stockholm but have produced most of their work while traveling: the liminality that travel creates is the site where their methodology takes shape. Most of their projects are published through their own label, B-B-B-Books, which they founded in 2011 in Stockholm with designers and collaborators 1:2:3. Källström and Fäldt have had solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions around the world, including Fotografiska (Stockholm), CULT Exhibitions (San Francisco), Pingyao International Photography Festival (China), CFF/The Center for Photography (Stockholm), VERKET (Stockholm), Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest), The Popular Workshop (San Francisco), and Gallery VU (Québec City). They have participated in group exhibitions at the Swedish Institute (Paris), Hasselblad Center (Gothenburg), LACMA (Los Angeles), Aperture Foundation (New York), and, most recently, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen). Their work has also been published in numerous photography anthologies around the world.

Werker Magazine is a publication about photography and labor, initiated by the visual artist Marc Roig Blesa and the graphic designer Rogier Delfos. Its starting point is the Worker Photography Movement, a group of associations of amateur photographers that appeared in Germany in the 1920s, part of the legacy of the first socialist photography experiments in the USSR, which extended into the rest of Europe, the United States, and Japan. The publication takes an interest in working methodologies based on self-representation, self-publishing, image analysis, and collective learning processes. Each issue is produced and distributed in a different context (a fine arts academy, a museum, a neighborhood, the Internet…), thus exploring strategies of interaction with specific audiences.

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Karol Hordziej is a curator, cultural manager, and lecturer. In 2004–2013 he was the arts director of the Krakow Photomonth Festival, and in 2004–2014 a member of the Visual Arts Foundation council. In recent years he has been involved in designing the processing and promotion of artists’ archives. He was curator of the Zofia Rydet: A Record, 1978–1990 exhibition, created jointly with Sebastian Cichocki for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2015), and Jan Dziaczkowski: True and Untrue Stories, presented at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2015). He lectures at the Academy of Photography in Krakow and in Warsaw, and at the Art Academy in Szczecin.