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Tout va bien maman

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:57:19 +0000

Tout va bien maman brings together 60 photographs taken by Sandrine Marc in her neighborhood in Paris during the covid related lockdown in spring 2020. This photographs depict urban landscape in transformation in Ivry-sur-Seine and Nanterre. The zine, Tout va bien maman, published in 100 copies, is handmade. The pages, bound with gray thread, were printed on a Xerox copier. The zine was published by Sandrine Marc on the occasion of her solo exhibition at the Galerie du Crous (Nov 2022, PhotoSaintGermain Festival). It is a sequel to the work entitled “Change plus vite que le cœur”, which was self-published in 2018.

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Puddle Watching

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:15:17 +0000

Booklet about the nature and behavior of puddles in the city. In addition to observations on specific puddles, the book by Mirja Busch offers a new terminology and language to speak about puddles in a more differentiated way.
With an integrated map for a self-guided puddle walk in Berlin.

Available in German or English

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Sakae Osugi

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:23:34 +0000

Sakae Ōsugi (*1885, †1923) was a Japanese anarchist. He traveled to Europe in 1923 and gave a May Day speech in Saint-Denis. There he was arrested by civilian police. He was sentenced to three weeks in prison and deportation for passport offences. On 2 June he was sent back to Japan where he later was murdered in the »Amakasu Incident«. In his book »My escapes from Japan« he mentiones a »workers’ hall« near the Basilica in Saint-Denis. Most likely he refers to the »Bourse du Travail« of Saint-Denis which was located in the Hotel de Ville at that time. In Feb 2023, almost 100 years after Sakae Ōsugi’s experiences in Saint-Denis, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber walked from Hotel de Ville past Passage Saulger, rue des Ursulines and rue Suger until they finally reached Rue Génin, where you find the current Bourse du Travail«. Marie Tesson, the author of the text, constructed an itinerary, taking as her starting point the building where Stuke and Sieber ended their walk: the Bourse du Travail in Saint-Denis. She wanders through this area that is undergoing transformation until reaching the Tour Pleyel, attracted by the melancholy of its already outdated architecture.

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Le Monde de demain: A prologue

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:45:56 +0000

Le Monde de Demain examines the transformation of urban spaces, the influence of hip-hop culture and the impact of the Olympic Games on the dynamics of the Greater Paris region. In January 2023, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber had the privilege of meeting contemporary dancer Eman Hussein in Paris, whose dance practice is inspired by workers’ movements. This zine, Le Monde de Demain: A prologue, contains new works from their artistic research project Le Monde de Demain and additional photographs.

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L’ombre d’un doute (Shadow of a doubt)

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 13:54:56 +0000

“A thought for you during my journey, I can’t wait to tell you all about it. Thank you for the books, they accompany my walks well. A photo reminded me of our last conversation. You will understand.”

L’ombre d’un doute is a black and white edition of a hundred pages, printed at the end of 2020 and limited to 50 copies. It presents a body of photographs taken between 2018 and 2020 in Brussels and especially its outlying suburbs, as well as during walks and cycle rides in the French, Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg countryside.

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Paris, 8 Dec 2018 — La Ville Lumière

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:49:17 +0000

“Oliver Sieber and Katja Stuke […] are not permanent fixtures in this society: however, as resident artists at the Cité internationale des arts, they were confronted with the first “acts” of the yellow vest movement. In this sense, they are distanced observers and do not take sides, although they are not indifferent: they observe how the conflict writes itself into the city’s narrative. Their route follows and intersects with that of the actors involved that day, leading them along Rue de Rivoli, past the Louvre to La Madeleine, on to Gare Saint-Lazare, past the Métro Liège to the Galleries Lafayette, along Boulevard Haussmann to Place de la République, and at night back to the Bastille and the Cité des arts. Their perspectives keep shifting between the side of the road and the middle of the street, locating the actors—in the midst of all the activity on the street—in relation to the setting, recording the lesser defilements as well as the greater devastation, individual passersby being checked by plainclothes police officers and the wholesale deployment of the security forces. Their 113 photographs depict nothing more and nothing less than six hours of a day of protest, one act in this social drama, one more dies irae for French society, of which there have been an abundance recently, from the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan attacks to the general strike and the demonstrations against police brutality. They capture the visible configurations of a social protest, whose political rhetoric remains unclear, and are thus equally eloquent as an account of the social fault lines within society. […]” — Florian Ebner

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En Route

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 13:37:20 +0000

This artist publication consists of tiny pinhole images made by Babs Cruyenaere during several walks through the port of Antwerp, Belgium.

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Beyond Cold War – Collectors Edition

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 17:03:43 +0000

Beyond Cold War is based on the examination of confrontation areas of the Cold War in Europe. Border regions on which the NATO states and those of the Warsaw Pact stood face to face to each other.
During the Cold War the observers were always observed, too. The feeling of observing and simultaneously being observed, the assumed harassment through the antagonist, the alertness and awaiting (action and reaction) are the central starting points of my work. For both sides there was the question about the world behind the border, because both were stamped by massive cultural and political differences, laboured by analogous propaganda.

Jürgen Kühner on Beyond Cold War

“[…] Schlotter’s photographs only take effect at second glance. It is only through the context that they change from generic landscape photographs to a socio-political analysis with the conclusion that borders can run anywhere and at any time, that no structures are needed to separate countries and people.”

https://framesandfascination.com/2019/09/02/robert-schlotter-beyond-cold-war/

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Beyond Cold War

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 10:16:31 +0000

https://framesandfascination.com/2022/01/22/robert-schlotter-beyond-cold-war/

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Between Spaces

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:49:04 +0000

Whilst there is a photography tradition of documenting the American road trip, I felt that traveling by bike would expose me to opportunities and encounters that could be overlooked if travelled by car or bus. Taking a slower pace and being on my own speed allowed me, as an observer passing through small American towns, to see the beauty in the banality of everyday life. I feel the decision to cycle not only gave me a stronger connection the landscape but also to the people I met along the way. — Garry Loughlin

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