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3rd Hamburg Portfolio Review
3rd Hamburg Portfolio Review
September 14, 2023
Toby Binder: #053Kids
Lys Arango, Toby Binder, Ingmar Björn Nolting, Chinky Shukla, Mitar Simikić, Patrick Slesiona, Brais Lorenzo, Bartosz Ludwinski and Chiara Wettmann are the nine photographers selected to have their projects shown at this year’s Hamburg Portfolio Review (HPR) exhibition, which is on view at the city’s Freelens Gallery from September 14 to October 18, 2023.
Launched in 2021, the HPR aims to provide up-and-coming photographers with an opportunity to present their work to international industry experts, and to foster a dynamic exchange of knowledge, ideas and collaborations. The projects featured in the HPR exhibition address some of the most pressing social and political issues affecting our world today.
Among the displayed works are series created in Ukraine, Armenia and Lebanon. Through a variety of narrative approaches, they offer personal insights into individual circumstances and the extreme adaptation processes forced upon the respective population by the realities of an impending or ongoing war.
Also represented: Leica photographer Toby Binder, whose long-term project on disadvantaged youths in Duisburg shines a light on the social injustice affecting families with a migration background. Many of his protagonists have never seen their parents’ home country, but also feel like outsiders in Germany. So they use their city district’s postal code – 053 – as a way to build a sense of identity and belonging. The series, titled #053kids, was the subject of a comprehensive portfolio in LFI 2 /2022.
The exhibition also includes calls for action with regards to the climate and energy crisis, both on a political and personal level. In his photo essay Eviction, Ingmar Björn Nolting, who was shortlisted for the LOBA in 2021, documents how the German hamlet of Lützerath became a symbol for the global climate movement earlier this year. Environmental activists had occupied the site to oppose the large-scale extraction of coal that lies beneath Lützerath’s soil. Amidst the media battle over the necessity of coal mining for the country’s energy supply, Nolting captured the activists’ ever-new attempts to prevent riot police from clearing their protest camp.
Launched in 2021, the HPR aims to provide up-and-coming photographers with an opportunity to present their work to international industry experts, and to foster a dynamic exchange of knowledge, ideas and collaborations. The projects featured in the HPR exhibition address some of the most pressing social and political issues affecting our world today.
Among the displayed works are series created in Ukraine, Armenia and Lebanon. Through a variety of narrative approaches, they offer personal insights into individual circumstances and the extreme adaptation processes forced upon the respective population by the realities of an impending or ongoing war.
Also represented: Leica photographer Toby Binder, whose long-term project on disadvantaged youths in Duisburg shines a light on the social injustice affecting families with a migration background. Many of his protagonists have never seen their parents’ home country, but also feel like outsiders in Germany. So they use their city district’s postal code – 053 – as a way to build a sense of identity and belonging. The series, titled #053kids, was the subject of a comprehensive portfolio in LFI 2 /2022.
The exhibition also includes calls for action with regards to the climate and energy crisis, both on a political and personal level. In his photo essay Eviction, Ingmar Björn Nolting, who was shortlisted for the LOBA in 2021, documents how the German hamlet of Lützerath became a symbol for the global climate movement earlier this year. Environmental activists had occupied the site to oppose the large-scale extraction of coal that lies beneath Lützerath’s soil. Amidst the media battle over the necessity of coal mining for the country’s energy supply, Nolting captured the activists’ ever-new attempts to prevent riot police from clearing their protest camp.
Toby Binder: #053Kids
Chinky Shukla: When Buddha stopped smiling
Ingmar Björn Nolting: The Eviction of Lützerath
Patrick Slesiona: Maybe tomorrow there will be war again
Lys Arango: The river ran black