„#homebase“: What makes a house a home? This was the question posed by BilderBewegungBerlin in 2018. Seeking photographic answers, 23 young people, some with and some without refugee experience, came to the wannseeFORUM from July 21st to 28th. Traveling from Berlin, Brandenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Schleswig-Holstein, they brought diverse perspectives due to their varying ages, backgrounds, experiences, and other factors. The result was a collection of very different photography-based works employing a variety of artistic techniques.
All participants kicked off BBB18 with a "homebase lab": In the "Pixel-Home" station, a house with a garden was created from numerous sticky notes exploring the concept of home. A short animation on Vimeo shows the creation process. (To play, you must click on the image below. Please note that by starting the video, data will be transmitted to Vimeo.)
BilderBewegungBerlin also means: photographic experiments, here cyanotype on the question "What can you hold/touch at home?"„
Intensive work was carried out in the three workshop groups: black and white photography, digital photography and photographic film The discussion focused on what being at home and a concept like homeland means to each individual. The flipchart from the photo film workshop's work process visualizes the exchange on the question of visions for home – alongside "Roots" and "Re-Start," one of the three categories of the nationwide project. „eye_land: homeland, escape, photography“/eye-land.org , all of which served as inspiration for the exchange on “homebase”. Peter Liedke presented the project for the cooperation partner of BBB18, which German Children's and Youth Film Center, also on site.
Participants also received inspiration for developing their own visual concepts through excursions, including one on Sunday to various exhibitions in Berlin, such as the tour of the University of the Arts. Further trips to Berlin followed – in line with the developed concepts and for exploring the city together.
The ideas ranged from staged scenes to street photography and were further developed and implemented in the following days under scorching heat:
Experimenting with light and sun for a Photo filmproject,
write and record your own texts for a photo film,
Exercises with the analog camera in the Black and white photography workshop,
Viewings of self-developed films,
Trying out settings in the workshop Digital photography
and intensive work on each individual image up to the presentation.
On the penultimate day of BBB18, BilderBewegten 2018 presented their „#homebase“ works to guests.
The opening act was the Exhibition of the Black and White Photography Workshop Group.
Some of the work can also be seen on Flickr.
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e.g. „"Outdoors at home"“, photographic series by Marc Angeloff,
„"Analog Eyes"“ by Sayad Bayeqra, „"A house"“ Jonas Surel, „"Hometown"“ by Rama and Ranin, „What is a home made of?“ by Elisa Karstädt, „Concepts of home“ by Anahita Khamseh and „Dandelions“ by Salma Jaber, „Four Portraits“ by Jonathan Paul, „"Personal"“ by Kai Otte
The second stop was the Exhibition of the Digital Photography Workshop, the selected works showed:
Exhibition setup…
…and presentation.
Some of the work from this workshop group has also been published on Flickr.Note: Clicking on the following photo will take you to the Flickr album featuring works from the digital photography workshop group. Clicking the image will transmit data to Flickr.
„Homebase“, photographic work by Azizullah Fasaili,
Further works by Anna Surel, work by Nele Anna Freese, Judy, Gheyas Amiri, and others.
The final step was the screening of the resulting material. Photographic films
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„Homeland“, a photo film by Ahmad Hboubati, Talisa Frenschkowski and Ehimwema Mabel Omosigho
“I keep dreaming about it”, Photo film by Ziyad Ahmed
“Homebase“, photo film by Henrik Holst
More photo videos will be added here soon.
The ImagesMovementBerlin 2018 The event, held in the heat of this year's Berlin summer, involved a lot of activity, and many moving images from "#homebase" will remain. Some will soon be available at „eye_land: homeland, escape, photography“/eye-land.org to be seen again.
We are already looking forward to BBB19: October 12th to 19th, 2019.
Impressions from BBB18 „#homebase“ on Flickr
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