AND "EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING [...]".

Photography has become a global visual language like no other medium. It is read, exchanged and communicated across cultural borders. Since its invention, it has constructed our view of the world. However, it does not only act as a universal medium of information and communication. Photography also serves to visualise our own perception and idea of the world.

The students of the Folkwang University of the Arts have taken this year's festival theme as an opportunity to question their own work from a different perspective. What is the role of photography in the age of globalisation? What expectations are linked to it? How can we look at our own work in a new way in this context? Reflecting on the concept invited us to think about the complexity, diversity, contrasts and contradictions inherent in global change. Thus, the students' work, all of which is characterised by an experimental approach, reveals the local and the global, the individual and the collective experience as a consequence of complex interactions.

Students: Moayad Balo & Gregor Leiprecht, Charlotte Chapuis, Leon Düllberg, Luisa Feier, Gustav Glas, Elisa Heinrichs, Jonathan Heitkämper, Anthonja Herold, Marie Laforge, Julius Schmidt, Kelun Wang, Kristina Wolf, Moritz Wondrak, Larissa Zauser

Cover Photo: Jonathan Heitkämper

Venue: Superraum, Brückstraße 64, 44135 Dortmund, Germany

Opening: FRI 02.06.2023 at 16:30 (open from 16:00).