CALL IT CORONA

Illustrated book published by Edition Bildperlen

Curated by Wolfgang Zurborn

In bookshops from mid October

Book presentation on Sunday, January 7, 2024, 3:00 pm
at Atelier Stammhirn, Stammstraße 44, 50823 Cologne-Ehrenfeld

In attendance will be: The editors Valeska Achenbach, Ralph Pache and Andreas Varnhorn, the project manager Kordula Jambor and the curator Wolfgang Zurborn

Lockdowns, event and travel restrictions - the Corona pandemic shaped everyday life in Germany for two years. How did people experience this exceptional time? 89 photographers (almost all of them FREELENS members) from German-speaking countries set out with their cameras in search of answers, in order to give meaning and structure to their professional lives, which were forced to come to a standstill.

The five-member editorial team Valeska Achenbach, Gustavo Alàbiso, David Baltzer, Ralph Pache and Andreas Varnhorn, together with project manager Kordula Jambor, put a lot of heart and soul into the project over a period of two years. They are pleased that with the well-known Cologne lecturer and photographer Wolfgang Zurborn a prominent photographic person could be won as curator, who detached the respective pictures from their context and put them together in a new, multi-layered overall composition. The book was designed by the renowned Hamburg photographer and graphic designer Nicole Keller. The result is the photo book CALL IT CORONA, an impressive photographic document of our time that, beyond clear and ideologically pointed concepts, raises fundamental questions about living together in a community through precisely seen and subtly felt images.

It includes an essay by author and journalist Johannes von Dohnanyi and epilogues by panikrocker Udo Lindenberg and FREELENS managing director Heike Ollertz.

The project is supported by FREELENS, the professional association for photographers, and is funded by Stiftung Kulturwerk - VG Bild-Kunst.

Facts about the book

Title: CALL IT CORONA
Publisher: Edition Bildperlen https://bildperlen.de/produkt/call-it-corona/
Language: German
Product: Hardcover with Swiss binding
Format: 210 mm x 280 mm
Pages: 256 pages with insert 32 pages
ISBN-Nr.: 978-3-96546-513-8
Price: 49,95 €