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Ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, Baltic Sea 2008

During my stay in Helsinki, working for Jari Silomäki, I read 'Amor Vacui', an essay published in the german magazine Bauwelt, which gave the title to my series AMOR VACUI grown by straying through the suburbs of Helsinki and its surrounding cityscapes.

Since more than ten years I'm collecting private super8 and 8mm movies. The collection is still going on but it needs a lot of time to view all the material. A few weeks ago I found a special flowerwork. Using a moviecamera, the author took endless stillpictures of blossoms in his garden. Her are some of the first archive-reproductions. After my works KAMPF and Memories and how to get them, my work with this kind of material is still going on…

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Hotel Belvedere, Dubrovnik/Croatia 2008

In 2007 I was traveling through Croatia. Awaking one morning after a horrible night in the park of Hotel Zagreb, I became aware of these often destroyed and unused hotelcoplexes along the Croatian coast. Again in Croatia in 2008 I started to work on my series Hotel Croatia which at last had been shown at this years Copenhagen Photofestival.

mg class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9680" title="Halle -Neustadt" src="http://dergreif-online.de/www/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/halle-neustadt-scheiben.jpg" alt="Scheiben in Halle-Neustadt, 2005" width="400" height="500" /> A picture I made in Halle-Neustadt in 2005, the first time I've been there. In the same year I started to work in another city quarter, touched by nearly the same shrinking problem like Halle-Neustadt. For about one year I lived in Halle-Silberhöhe, documented the urban shrinking processes and made portraits of the people who were living there.

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One photographic work I really love is Paula Winklers 'Inventory'. Paula made an exclusive and intimate bookedition out of her work which will be presented very soon at malenki.net, a small platform for photobooks and photographic editions I keep on runniung together with Katrin Kamrau. See also Paula Winklers personal website.

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Honeycombs © 2012 Anna Domnick

Three years ago I started the blog Disappearing Architecture together with Marc Marquardt. We're showing photographic works by international Artists, dealing with questions on processes of disappearance and transformation in architecture, urbanism and landscape. The latest shown work is Anna Domnicks Honeycombs. Pictures from disused buildings made with precast concrete slabs in Halle-Neustadt/Germany - one of the former GDRs prestige building projects, designed as an ideal communist city.

mg class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9620" title="Way to Grense Jacobselv, Norway 2010" src="http://dergreif-online.de/www/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/beyond-cold-war-robert-schlotter.jpg" alt="Close to Russia, the way to Grense Jacobselv, Norway 2010" width="500" height="400" /> In my recent work Beyond Cold War I’m travelling along the european borders of the Cold War. I started my work in 2010 in Northern Norway and meanwhile took pictures in the Harz in Germany and Denmark. A first selection of pictures you can see in the domincile of the Artfounation of Saxony and Anhalt in Halle(Saale)/Germany until 19th of August. Soon I will present the latest pictures from Denmark on my Website. The work is still in progress.