Fotomuseum Winterthur | Events | Friday, 23.01. – Sunday, 25.01.2015

Plat(t)form 2015

The ninth curated international portfolio viewing featuring young emerging European photographers will be held on the weekend of 23 to 25 January 2015. Under the new direction of Duncan Forbes and Thomas Seelig, Fotomuseum Winterthur has invited 42 photographers to present their work for two hours to the public and a selected team of experts. The participants have been chosen from among some 150 nominated photographers. Plat(t)form 2015 is aimed at professionals such as curators, gallery owners, publishers, editors and photographers. At the same time the event offers interested visitors an opportunity of discovering the work of young photographers and artists and of meeting them in person.

Experts
Pieter Hugo, photographer, Johannesburg; Hester Keijser, Stead Bureau, The Hague, Andrea Wiegelmann, archithese, Zurich; Pierre Brahm, collector, London; Thomas Duncan Forbes & Thomas Seelig, both Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Pro Helvetia guests
Sabeena Gadihoke, Jamia University, New Delhi; Rima Mokaiesh, Arab Image Foundation, Beirut; Patrick Mudekereza, Picha Art Center, Lubumbashi; Ram Rahman, photographer and curator, New Delhi; Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; Shi Hantao, Ray Art Center, Shanghai.

Participants
Yvan Alvarez (CH), Magdalena Baranya (CH), Fabrizio Bellomo (IT), Petter Berg (SE), Osman Bozkurt (TR), Giliane Cachin & Benoît Jeannet (CH), Alessandro Calabrese (IT), Philippine Chaumont & Agathe Zaerpour (FR/CH), Alicja Dobrucka (PL), Lisa Domin (DE), ED (Sterre Sprengers, Ola Lanko & Nikki Brormann (NL), Pauline Fargue (FR), Alberto Feijóo (ES), Teresa Giannico (IT), Samuel Gratacap (FR), Antje Guenther (DE), Kerstin Hamilton (SE), Ina Hengstler (DE), Jan Hoek (NL), Daniel Hofer (DE), Aapo Huhta (FI), Nikolai Ishchuk (UK), Tamara Janes (CH), Taisuke Koyama (JP/UK), Tina Lechner (AT), Douglas Mandry (CH), Theresa Martinat (DE), Georg Petermichl (AT), Magdalena Pilko (AT), Joanna Piotrowska (PL), Jan Rosseel (BE), Cheryl Schurgers (NL), Anika Schwarzlose (DE), Jean-Vincent Simonet (CH), The Cool Couple (Niccolò Benetton & Simone Santilli, IT), Danila Tkachenko (RU), Anastasia Tsayder (RU), Erik Viklund (SE), Saana Wang (FI), Christina Werner (AT), Bruno Zhu (PT), Myriam Ziehli (CH)

TO THE PARTICIPANTS AND WORKS