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‘Utopians – Visionary People’ - a new book of portraits by photographer Felix Lammers & makeup artist Yasmin Heinz - book presentation & signing on 15 March 2024 in Berlin

Berlin-based photographer Felix Lammers and visagist Yasmin Heinz, who lives in London, are celebrating the publication of their photo book ‘Utopians – Visionary People’, a creative snapshot of our time and its longing.

Over 200 pages of striking portraits of pioneering individuals from the worlds of art, culture, and science, who share their unique utopian visions with readers. These aesthetic icons and groundbreaking innovators represent various areas including activism, architecture, fashion, film, nature, music, science, sports, and street art. Among them are acclaimed actors Clemens Schick and Albrecht Schuch, comedic genius Gayle Tufts, the cult DJs Itamar Asher and Cosmic Caz as well as the energetic Twiin Dance Company, the vibrant Ukrainian Cultural Community of Berlin, and the inspiring Paralympic Champion Florence Garrett. 

The project by the creatives unfolded across two distinct locations, Berlin and London, capturing the urban atmosphere of these two melting pots and documenting the lives of their protagonists during a time of radical transitions.

Felix Lammers: “As a portrait photographer, I am always fascinated with capturing the magic moment when the nature of a person reveals itself. Throughout my international career, I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with highly talented people. Whether for campaigns with high-end clients in the fashion and beauty industry or editorials for prestigious magazines, I love working in teams. Yasmin and I, through our a long-term collaboration, have developed a deep creative synergy and created many impressive images. Our latest venture ‘Utopians’ takes this dynamic to a whole new level.”

Yasmin Heinz: “Having lived and worked as a makeup artist in New York and Paris, I am based in London. I love to be among those out there, the so-called outsider creative street artists known for breaking boundaries. It was amazing to meet all these visionary people during our new project. Transforming them into utopian artworks was the biggest challenge for me.”

Book presentation & signing: Friday, 15 March 2024, 6pm – 10pm
Attending the event: Thomas Bading, Albrecht Schuch, Lazlo Fanning among others
Location: The Lovers & Leaders Space, Torstraße 101, 10119 Berlin

‘Utopians – Visionary People’ by Felix Lammers & Yasmin Heinz
Design: Printkultur (Munich, Germany), preface: Joachim Baldauf, interview: Melissa Moore, retouch: Valentina D’Ettore, size: 18 x 27 cm, large softcover, approx. 200 pages, price: 45 EUR, ISBN: 978-3-9824241-94, limited edition of 600 copies. The book can be ordered at: www.utopians.land.


For further information, please contact Nadine Dinter PR at www.nadine-dinter.de.
 
04.03.2024 show complete article

 

GoSee Book Tip : Michael Joseph 'Lost & Found' - the story of American wanderlust, told through portraits of travelers, appearing at Kehrer Publishing

Lost & Found’ documents a contemporary American subculture of young travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These travelers, as they are referred to, abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. On their personal journey, driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends. The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence.

Like graffiti on the walls of the city streets they inhabit and the trains they ride, their bodies and faces become the visual storybook of their lives. Their clothing is often a mismatch of found items. Jackets, pants and vests are self-made like a patchwork quilt, using fabric pieces of a fellow traveler’s clothing embellished by metal bottle caps, buttons, safety pins, lighter parts, syringe caps, and patches.

Joseph’s black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. His portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

Michael Joseph is a photographer who documents subculture through street portraiture. Raised just outside of New York City, his inspirations are drawn from interactions with strangers on city streets and aims to afford his audience the same experience through his photographs. His portraits are made unplanned and up close to allow the viewer to explore the immediate and unseen.

Michael’s work has been shown online on CNN, Vice, AnotherMan and PaperMag and published in international magazines, including Elle, Inked, 1814, and SHOTS. He has held solo exhibitions at Daniel Cooney Fine Art (New York, NY), in Soho Photo Gallery (New York, NY) and at the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts (Rochester, NH).

Linen hardcover with title shield 26 x 33 cm,
168 pages, 93 duplex illustrations,
English, ISBN 978-3-96900-138-7 2023
Texts: Michael Joseph, Paige Stevens
Design: Benjamin Wolbergs
07.02.2024 show complete article

 

‘Broken Silence, Unbroken Heart’ – ARTHELPS presents RESISTRUMENTS, music from weaponry, played by young people surviving the horror in Ukraine

Unfortunately, we will soon be remembering the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago for the second time. For this reason, ARTHELPS knew it had to send a message of hope : “Especially at this time, we don’t want to forget the children and young people in Ukraine. The music video with the RESISTRUMENTS was only the beginning. It is meant to break the silence and show that the courage of the Ukrainian children and young people remains unbroken.”

In the media, things have gotten quieter about the war in Ukraine. Even more reason for ARTHELPS to draw attention to the work it does in the wartorn country. In close cooperation with local partners, ARTHELPS supports numerous children and young people who are all severely traumatized by the ongoing war.

The children and young people not only receive art therapy treatment but also psychological care and support. The number of traumatized people in the Ukraine is continuously increasing.

“The therapists are coached by us specifically in the area of art therapy to expand their repertoire of methods and possible interventions. In addition, we also hold several creative workshops there. For our latest project, ‘RESISTRUMENTS’, we had the idea of making instruments out of Russian weapons of war.” ARTHELPS.

We present you the music video here on GoSee, which was created in a workshop with Ukrainian young people at the new ARTHELPS creative hub:




We also present you a video here with several impressions from the workshop as well as the building within which the new creative hub for art therapy has been established in cooperation with Saving an Angel (Rea Garvey) and Save Ukraine:



For further information on the project, click the link below.

GoSee : ukraine.arthelps.de
06.02.2024 show complete article