Michael Kochs latest series post mortem is related to the uncanny. Analysing images coming from recurring nightmares and phobia, he shows the dualism of comfort and pain, life and death and past and present. Some of the pictures were taken in a small village in his hometown and other motives were arranged in his studio.

"The work In Pictures is a playful investigation of how images and texts can be perceived and read. Over a two month period Bengtsson sent in submissions to the Guardian Weekend Magazine’s picture of the week competition, until she eventually won. By framing the magazine pages and email notifications of her unsuccessful submissions and declaring them an artwork, Bengtsson opens up a critical dialogue between what is considered to be ‘amateur photography’ and ‘art photography’. Kristina Bengtsson is a Swedish artist working and living in Copenhagen. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. Her practice is centred around a contemporary understanding of the mythogenic power of images, with a particular interest in the viewers’ role in its creation. She mainly works with photography, sculpture and text. Her aim is to work un-categorically, to mix genres and styles to allow the work to question assumptions as to the nature and meaning of objects and events. And to point out, that things are seldom carved in stone."

"With a cast of colorful characters who would do justice to any repertory stage, Iwajla Klinke infuses portrait photography with the magic and elegance of its early years, when one of its primary goals was to document and celebrate ritual moments in an individual’s life. The snapshot aesthetic of the last century and the ubiquity of digital images today has diminished the ceremonial aspect of picture-taking in favor of what William Eggleston once termed the “democratic camera.” In contrast, ceremony is at the core of Klinke’s approach. Her camera records subjects whose very clothing points to individuality, even to eccentricity, and where ritual is implicit. All of these studies are presented in a formal manner that sometimes recalls the conventions of the painted portrait. (The fact that Klinke’s works are printed with pigments on handmade paper further strengthens this link to classical traditions of picture-making.) With minimalist means, she achieves results of immense visual authority. (more…)

"From the very first day that I meet my partner Peter, I started taking photographs of us together. Chamber Music depicts a couple in a very frank and intimate manner, capturing the patterns of the quotidian in their lives. This work for me is as much about the touch perceived between the two subjects and their world, as it is the potential for touch between the photograph and the viewer. The situation of sight here becomes the rite of contact. This visual contact between viewer and viewed, I would say, is the basis for the political dimension of the work and to activate this, the subjects make themselves vulnerable in the space of the photograph. Born in Sydney in 1976, Paul Knight graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Australia) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (hons) in photography in 2001. In 2007 Knight was awarded the Ann & Gordon Samstag Traveling Visual Arts Scholarship, which led him to the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland, United Kingdom) where he graduated with a Master of Fine Art degree in 2009. Knight now lives and works in London UK. Amongst others, Knight has exhibited at the A Foundation (London), Cornerhouse (Manchester), Chelsea Art Museum (New York), the Palazzo Delle Arti (Naples) and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. In 2009 Knight was selected for the New Contemporaries exhibitions (UK) and won the William and Winifred Bowness Photography prize at the Monash gallery of Art (Australia) and in 2010 Knight presented a solo exhibition in the Open Space section at the 44th Art Cologne (Germany) and his work was the subject of a documentary commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation entitled Nerve. In 2012, Knight in collaboration with Tobias Yves Zintel presented the performance project, The Genetic Drive at the Glasgow International Festival for Visual Arts (UK)."

frame src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ago1YZKnYbE?rel=0" height="506" width="900" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"> Germiston (2008) HD-Video, Colour, 12’00

"Germiston was filmed very early in the morning in the identically named district in the Northeast of Glasgow. The video shows the demolition of one of the two highrises at Forge Place. Caused by the detonation a huge dust cloud moves with the wind across the urban landscape in the morning light. After a while the underlying rubble is uncovered. This piece was filmed in the attempt to capture a very simple event, enclosed in a certain timeframe, undistracted by side activites and essential or archetypical in style. This video was the first of a few works along these lines."