Borders and Transgression
A project of photographers’ commissions
On the occasion of the
50th anniversary of signing the Treaties of Rome, the basis of the
European Union, the Transphotography festival collaborating with the
French Institute in Warsaw, prepared an international exhibition on
various phenomena connected with the idea of borders and transgression
in Eastern and Central Europe.
A group of 5 photographers worked on the project:
Tomasz Rykaczewski (PL) who made a series of photographs dedicated
to transvestites and transsexuals in Poland,
Julien Goldstein (F) portrayed a Romanian village from which almost
all adults leave in spring to pick strawberries in Spain,
Tomas Pospech (CZ) showed a peculiar world of international corporations
in Czech Republic and Slovakia,
François Daumerie (F) created a kind of diary of a trip along
the Black Sea coast,
Kai Ziegner (D) whose series Dreiland makes up a personal essay on
a traingle located on the border of three already non-existing countries
: Czechoslovakia, GDR and FRG.
François Daumerie
Lives and works in the North of France.
He is self-taught and has been engaged in photography for about 30
years.
Julien Goldstein
born 1979 ; he began his carreer as an assistant in Magnum Photos
(between 1998 and 2001). Since then he has been working as a photographer
mainly in Romania and former USSR republics. He had a solo exhibition
at the Visa pour l’Image festival in Perpignan, his photos are
being published in Geo Grance, National Geographic France, Le Monde,
Courrier International, The New Yorker, La Vanguardia, De Standaard
Magazine, D della Republica, Le Temps. Since 2007 he has been a New
York Times photographer.
Tomas Pospech
born in 1974 in Hranica. He graduated from
history of art at the Olomuniec and Prague universities (1999) as
well as photography at Creative Photography Institute of the Silesia
University in Opava. In his circle of interest there are documentary
photography, modern still life and performance. His works are being
published in Ateliér, Umení, Prostor, Listy o fotografii,
Camera Austria, Imago, Fotograf, Dart, Fotografie Magazín,
Kamera obskura, Reflex, MF Dnes, Právo, Hospodárské
noviny.
Tomasz Rykaczewski
born 1978. Self taught. For photography he renounced studies in Law
and Sociology.
Kai
Ziegner
born 1975 in Plauen/Vogtland, 1993; 1994-1999
he studied German philology, political science and journalism in Leipzig;
1996-2003 he was a TV journalist and author in Leipzig, Magdeburg,
Munich, Hamburg and Berlin. Since 1999 he has been making his own
documentary and feature films. During the years 2003-2004 he studied
photography in Werner Mahler and Wiebke Loeper’s class. In 2004
he took part in a photography project Werben (Elbe). Since 2005 he
has been studying at the Berlin School of Photography Ostkreuz. He
has worked in photography since 2003 (portrait, photo journalism,
landscape), he is collaborating with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, die Tageszeitung (taz) Berlin,
DIE ZEIT Geschichte Hamburg and Handelsblatt Düsseldorf.
