EMOP2008_PARIS_OPENING2

EMOP2008_VIENNA_OPENING

(photo: Gunda Achleitner)

Mutations2 in LeMonde

EMOPBerlin2008 - Press meeting

Berlin opening of Mutations 2 Moving stills

Fantastic venue at the Berlinische galerie for the opening of mutations 2- moving stills in Berlin this evening. More than 1300 people were attending. Introductory speech by the director of the Berlinische Galerie, Dr. Thomas Köhler followed by Dr Walter Momper and Thomas Friedrich, main curator of the European Month of photography in Berlin.

Véronique de Fournoux Alcatel representative

Madame Véronique de Fournoux, corporate image director of our main sponsor Alcatel-Lucent is introducing the the winner of the European Month of photography price young Finnish artist Tuomo Rainio.

mobile Sneja

Thomas Friedrich head curator of the Emop Berlin

Thomas interviewed on emop at the Berlinische Galerie during the press conference Friday morning

Press conference Berlin

After the opening in Vienna on Thursday 30th, press conference in Berlin at the Berlinische Galerie before the opening reception on November 1st ( mobile Sneja )

Catalog of Mutations 2 Moving stills

Open publication

Advertising Emop

At this moment, everybody is busy preparing the main exhibition. Catalogue is about being finalized; we are working on the dvd that is coming with the catalogue. The adds are going out. Here is a model of the add that was recently published in Andreas-Müller Pohle European Photography Magazine.

Emop meeting in Berlin

Dinner at Bützow privat a nice small restaurant at the crossing of Linienstrasse & Tucholsky in this part of Berlin where many contemporary art galleries gather. They were short of Apfelstrudel and we had to share the last two remaining pieces.

Emop meeting in Berlin

Rear view from our conference room at klosterstrasse home of Kulturprojekte Berlin. Chilly and rainy day .

Emop meeting in Berlin

Meeting in Berlin started this morning at a quick pace. Details about the Alcatel price were quickly settled. Unfortunately there were no representatives from Rome and Moscow.

Zuzanna thinks...about this blog

Have been away (Houston -FotoFest) last week. So I am really surprised about a sudden boom of exchange.
To the blog idea - I do not want to sound pesimistic but it will only work if there is somebody as Pierre and Thomas willing to make it live. I would not expect everybody of us to contribute because it has never happened before - and coming back from the Festival of Light meeting (another network) I can only that say we are not the only proof that an active involvement of a majority is not realistic. I am personally out of breath fullfilling only our long-term tasks.
I support the idea of having an exciting, flashy ... whatever presentation on internet, but first I do not have an idea how it should look like and second I cannot promise I will contribute regularly - there is already a website I have to update once a month - this is just what I can manage to do.
What I am trying to say that our network, just as any other such network, is destined to either have somebody eager to do it or we have to accept that we are only able to run a website that can be changed and updated only a few times a year.

I am sorry particularly for Pierre and Thomas who seem really excited about these kind of gadgets (you can see their eyes sparkling - just like some years ago in front of Xmas tree). This is just to say that I am not able to keep up with you in this. Now we have two options - an almost dead website and a blog a bit more alive. Can we look at it realistic next meeting and say honestly what we are all able to support?

What is Emop ?

Short video statement on the European Month of photography project.

Exhibitions and locations 2008/09

Main exhibition spaces of the European Month of photography.
This list is just being started and far from complete. More information will be added as the next events are scheduled october-november 2008 ( Berlin, Bratislava, Paris and Vienna) and spring 2009 ( Luxembourg, Moscow and Rome )

Agrandir le plan

Work session at MUDAM Luxembourg

Work session in Luxembourg at the Musée d art moderne Grand-Duc Jean. This was the first informal meeting with staff members. Some videos were shown and we discussed basic elements of the show like technical requirements as some artists need special installations.We are very happy to have experienced staff to help us set up Mutations 2 in the most prestigious exhbition place in Luxembourg.

Catalogue of the 2006 edition

Catalogue published in 2006 by Contrasto Editore ( Rome ) and the European Month of photography.The catalogue has 160 pages and presents the work of 35 European photographers. Text in English and booklets in French, German, Italian and Slovak. Catalogue designed by A|Part Luxembourg. The European Month of Photography is sponsored by Alcatel.

Berlin is hosting the next meeting

Berlin will host the next meeting of the Emop team where final decisions will be made concerning the concept of the main exhibition ( Mutations 2 ), the catalogue, DVD and Web site. Unfortunately, Rome can not attend because of a very tight schedule. We will try to set up web conferencing to allow Anna or Emiliano to take part in the discussions. Steps were taken to speed up decision making; we all are aware that international collaboration need to adapt strategies to make things move on.

EMOP 2008/09 meeting in Bratislava

Members of the emop team met this time in Bratislava at the House of photography. All cities were present except Rome. Anna Gianesini could not come for personnal reasons. From Paris there was this time a new curator - Jean-Luc Soret- who is going to be in charge of the Paris exhibition at the Maison européenne de la photographie. From Moscow there was Ekaterina Kondradina in replacement of Olga Sviblova. The first day was quite succesfull in achieving some important agreements in money matters. We also heard that our main sponsor is going to maintain the price (Alcatel price for photography ) and it is going to be decided in Paris but announced in Berlin.