F-Stop 2008: Leipzig photography exhibition
A weekend where we don't travel out of Leipzig? Who ever heard of such a thing? What will we do with ourselves? No tickets to book, no hotels to compare, no tours to pick between, no getting up early in the morning to catch a train. This calls for something different. Something cultural. Something like F-Stop 2008.
The Spinnerei
We rode down to the south of Leipzig with our friends to an old cotton mill called the Spinnerei. It's a rather large complex of old brick buildings that used to be a bustling centre for trade and manufacture that fell into disrepair and ruin once the bottom fell out of the textile market. It's now a very funky space for artists and small businesses that have moved in and set up shop in the old buildings. Most of the previous fixtures and bits and pieces were left behind and so there's an accretion of stuff behind just about every door.
Some of the cool photos on display
F-Stop is a yearly photography exhibition that is held in Leipzig and is spread over a couple of dozen buildings in both the Spinnerei and up and down Karl Heine Strasse. The photos on display in this year's exhibit were pretty cool, but they were outshone by the buildings that the exhibition was housed in and the photographic opportunities that abounded at every turn. There were so many people toting cameras around the exhibition that I wasn't sure whether it was more fun looking at the photos or looking at the people taking photos of photos or taking photos of people looking at photos. The funniest of all was seeing this really bohemian looking dude with the long dreads, a scruffy bit of facial hair, hemp clothes and bare feet - the real struggling artist/uni student look - wandering around with a $5000 camera and a high end lens probably worth more than the camera. Ironic.
300 - The Locker
To Betty?
Crumbling room, photos of crumbling photos - very post-modern
The Spinnerei
We rode down to the south of Leipzig with our friends to an old cotton mill called the Spinnerei. It's a rather large complex of old brick buildings that used to be a bustling centre for trade and manufacture that fell into disrepair and ruin once the bottom fell out of the textile market. It's now a very funky space for artists and small businesses that have moved in and set up shop in the old buildings. Most of the previous fixtures and bits and pieces were left behind and so there's an accretion of stuff behind just about every door.
Some of the cool photos on display
F-Stop is a yearly photography exhibition that is held in Leipzig and is spread over a couple of dozen buildings in both the Spinnerei and up and down Karl Heine Strasse. The photos on display in this year's exhibit were pretty cool, but they were outshone by the buildings that the exhibition was housed in and the photographic opportunities that abounded at every turn. There were so many people toting cameras around the exhibition that I wasn't sure whether it was more fun looking at the photos or looking at the people taking photos of photos or taking photos of people looking at photos. The funniest of all was seeing this really bohemian looking dude with the long dreads, a scruffy bit of facial hair, hemp clothes and bare feet - the real struggling artist/uni student look - wandering around with a $5000 camera and a high end lens probably worth more than the camera. Ironic.
300 - The Locker
To Betty?
Crumbling room, photos of crumbling photos - very post-modern
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