Federica Chiocchetti, Salvatore Vitale, Simon Karlstetter | 20.05.2016

MASTERS SERIES meeting (EN)

On Collaborations: gaining & losing control over the use and life of images & words

Editors and curators are working with content created by photographers, and gain control over the content, while the photographers let the control go. With the web, one can’t foresee the life of a photographic image.

How do photographers try to maintain control about the use and context of their images, or, in fact, is it still important to have that control? How much can letting control go work for your own work? How does the fact that we still don’t properly understand the relatively young medium, i.e. the Internet, influence the way we talk about and use photographic images – both online and offline?

Federica Chiocchetti is a writer, photography critic, editor and curator. The founding director of the photo-literary platform Photocaptionist, she is currently writing her PhD on photography and fiction at the University of Westminster. She works independently and for international institutions, collections, festivals and fairs, including the Kunsthalle Budapest, the V&A, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton Photo Biennial, the London Art Fair and the Archive of Modern Conflict. Her writing has appeared in Der Greif, Photoworks,Foam, Objektiv, Unseen Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, Co-curate, EXTRA, The Photographers’ Gallery Blog and MAPP Editions (MACK).

Salvatore Vitale is a Swiss-based photographer born and raised in Palermo. In 2014 he attended the International Center of Photography—ICP’s class with Allen Frame, and was selected for the ISSP International Masterclass by Andrei Polikanov and Yuri Kozyrev. In 2015 he was named among Die Besten 2014 at Swiss Photo Awards. In 2015-2016 he is a recipient of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia’s grant for his long-term research on the production of security in Switzerland. He is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of YET magazine, a triannual Swiss photography magazine which showcases works by both emerging and established photographers as well as in-depth content focusing on the evolution of photography with a particular eye on the contemporary field. He has been featured and published internationally, and also gives lectures and talks about his work.

Simon Karlstetter lives and works in Augsburg and Munich. He is using photography, drawing, manual printing-techniques, performance, music and sound in his works. He is the founder and one of the artistic directors of the internationally renowned and award-winning project for photography and literature "Der Greif". He is also a co-founder of the interdisciplinary artist-collective STUDIO FURIO, that unites dance, theatre, music and media art. He is giving lectures and talks about his work.