White-bearded man with glasses in front of red background, pixels on screen, approx. 2017

© www.clauslanger.de

Just two more days till the opening of Jump #4, the fourth event in a series of exhibitions of the BFF in North Rhine-Westphalia.

This time we’ll take the opportunity of this year’s Düsseldorf Photo Weekend 2017 to have our group exhibition in a fabulous environment. Das Historische Depot der Rheinbahn is a huge space full of historical tramways with great ways to present the exhibits.

During the opening day a food truck and bar will make the evening even more enjoyable.

RAW – The Decisive Moment
1 Exhibition – 64 Photographers

Vernissage
3rd of February 1800h

Opening times
3rd of February 1800h – 2300h
4th of February 1200h – 2000h
5th of February 1200h – 1800h

Historisches Depot der Rheinbahn
Am Steinberg 35
40225 Düsseldorf – Bilk

Have a wonderful xmas and a perfect 2017.

Festhalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 9th of March 1991 – © by Thomas Mangold

Festhalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 9th of March 1991 – © by Thomas Mangold

On the 18th of June 2015 the BFF Germany (Association of Freelance Photographers) hosted almost simultaneously its latest exhibition project in three major German metropolises, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart.

Contrary to all its former exhibition projects no images were presented directly in the exhibition rooms. The visitors, equipped with their smart phones, tablets and an augmented reality app discovered the images via visual bar codes attached to the walls and stands. Once scanned the images from the phtographers appeared on the screen, following the movements of the digital device in space perspectivly correct.

The event received an enormous media echo in more than 70 print publications and on German television. The background of the exhibition that images nowadays are consumed more and more solely through digitial media was depicted in almost all articles.

I’m glad that I was part of the team of exhibiting photographers. Thanks Axel for all the photos shot on the evening!

All photos shot by Axel M. Mosler.

Yesterday evening we were invited to the 10 year anniversary party of the Regielounge at Düsseldorf’s Nachtresidenz. The BFF created especially for this event a showreel which presents the work of its photographers in Nordrhein-Westfalen which was well received.

Apart from the usual nice party atmosphere, several nice showreels from different directors made it a worthwhile and fun evening.

“Save the ingots” receives next nomination for Design Award.

The “Save the ingots” animation just won a Red Dot Design Award and already the next possible award might wait for the small metal cylinders. I just received a notice that the Germanan Design Council nominated the animation for the German Design Award in the category “Excellent communications design – Audiovisual and digital media”.
 
Let’s hope that they are as successful as at the latest Red Dot Award ceremony.

Good news: The animation “Save the Ingots – Use Crypton” is Red Dot Design Award – Winner 2013!
The accolade of the Red Dot Design Award, the “Red Dot”, is an internationally recognised quality label for excellent design in several design disciplines. Quoting Red Dot: “Red Dot represents more than just a design competition: as design promoters we spread the idea of design internationally; we highlight the importance of design for business and society, and as trend experts present the latest developments in design”.
This year´s Red Dot Competition attracted 6,800 competitors from 43 nations. The Ingots were some of the lucky ones – get the party started!