EAST by Regina Maria Anzenberger (editor)

Essay: Ingo Petz
Texte: Robert Haidinger
published by moser verlag, Munich, in May 2008.
languages: German and English.
288 pages, cover and portfolio insight titles in gold, slipcase in gold, special binding
size: 24,5×29,4 cm.
ISBN 978-3-9812344-0-4
Price: Euro 59,-
To order at: www.anzenbergergallery.com or at the book-shops

Vienna has always been a meeting point between the East and the West. That’s why ANZENBERGER AGENCY – founded in 1989 and based in Vienna – has chosen this as a main subject for the 20th anniversary of the agency. This celebration will already start a year before with the first of two volumes of the anniversary publication – the book EAST of Anzenberger. At the same time an exhibition on YOUNG EASTERN EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY will be shown. For this exhibition the curators Regina Maria Anzenberger and the photographer Reiner Riedler (since 1992 in the agency and most successful and internationally working Austrian photographer of the agency) have chosen about 100 photographs of 12 young award-winning photographers from Albania, Belarus, Czech Republic, Latvia, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia – all of them between 25 and 35 years old.

“The agency remains – is perhaps now more than ever – a place for photojournalists with the ambition to witness the world and produce exciting photo-essays that are visually interesting and journalistically relevant. A meeting place for photographers from both East and West. A family, not a factory, dedicated to photography and quality. A place for people with passion. A virtual home for photography in the midst of Europe, the beautiful city of Vienna.”
Regina Maria Anzenberger, Vienna, April 2008

Photographers and themes:

Andrej Balco – Slovakia – Suburbia – Life in a Block of Flats
Ivan Blazhev – Macedonia – Macedonia Dreaming
Jan Brykczynski – Poland – The Girls from Szymanow – Catholic Boarding School in Poland
Sinan Cakmak – Turkey – The Ferries of Istanbul
Davin Ellicson- Romania – Longing for Maramures
Bevis Fusha – Albania – Ark Albania
Christine de Grancy – Russia – Volga Worlds
Andrei Liankevich – Belarus – Belarus Reality
Daniele Mattioli – China – Chongqing – The Biggest City in the World
Rafal Milach – Russia– Young Russians – The Generation Post-Soviet
Fatih Pinar – Turkey – The Legacy of the Kurds
Dana Popa – Moldova – Not Natascha – Sex Slave Trade in Moldawa
Agnieszka Rayss – Poland – Slavic Chippendales
Max Sher – Russia – Kommunalka Appartments in St. Petersburg
Filip Singer – Russia – The Forgotten Cities of Sibiria
Igor Starkov – Russia – Liquidators of Chernobyl

An exhibition with fine art prints of the same photographers can be seen at ANZENBERGER GALLERY, Zeinlhofergasse 7/7, 1050 Vienna, from May 30 to September 15, 2008. Monday – Friday 10am – 6 pm
Curator: Regina Maria Anzenberger
www.anzenbergergallery.com