FOTOCREW
FOTOINITIATORS
Florian Geiss is an internationally active photographer and director and has been working in the field of advertising and artistic projects for over 25 years. As a member of BFF, AOP, ADC and DGPH, he has a broad network in the photo scene.
“In addition to my own work as a photographer and director, I have had the idea of strengthening and making photography more visible in the public-cultural sector for a long time.
Through photography I have been able to gain incredibly exciting and stimulating opportunities and experiences - and I have the desire to want to pass some of them on. This gave rise to the idea for FOTOKAMP, a space for the exchange with and about photography on socially relevant topics.
Hardly any political and / or social process in our time has not been communicated, accompanied, observed and sometimes even initiated through photos.
We are experiencing a phase of change and change worldwide - socially, politically and climatically.
FOTOKAMP is intended to promote a joint dialogue on possible solutions and create suggestions for a stronger exchange within the various groups in our society. My own interdisciplinary work has shown me how much can be moved and achieved through networking. Taking up the social discourse together and wanting to accompany the powerful authors and idea generators in and alongside photography is an important task and responsibility.
In order to bring ideas, work and opinions closer together within various groups and to make them more visible, there is currently no offer in Hamburg - I would like to make this possible with FOTOKAMP. "
(* 1969), graduate designer
since 1988 studio / atelier in Hamburg.
Internationally active mainly in advertising photography and film.
Well over 400 campaigns from major brands and corporations worldwide are visualized.
Is represented through agents in London and New York.
Member of the Art Director’s Club (ADC), German Society for Photography
(DGPh), Federal Association of Freelance Photographers and Film Designers (BFF), Association of Photographers (AOP).
An insight into the projects can be found at: www.floriangeiss.com
Email: florian.geiss@floriangeiss.com
Sebastian Lux, langjähriger Kurator und Geschäftsführer der Stiftung F.C. Gundlach, welche engagiert und vernetzt ist in der künstlerischen Fotografie und ihren Institutionen.
Er gehörte in seiner Funktion zum Gründungsteam des Hauses der Photographie in Hamburg.
„Dasvielfältige Medium Fotografie fasziniert mich immer wieder aufs Neue.
In Gesprächen mit Fotograf*innen und Ausstellungsmacher*innen überraschen und begeistern mich neue kreative, ästhetische und konzeptuelle Strategien und einfach tolle Bilder.
In großen und kleinen Ausstellungen habe ich in Kooperation mit Museen und Galerien in aller Welt viele unterschiedliche Aspekte der Fotografie herausgearbeitet.
Die Stiftung F.C. Gundlach mit ihren reichhaltigen Sammlungen sowie die Vernetzung in der fotografischen Kunst- und Archivszene bieten mir eine feste Basis und einen unerschöpflichen Fundus. Vieles habe ich von F.C. Gundlach und seinen Kontakten in die Welt der Fotografie gelernt und freue mich darauf, und noch vieles sehen, lernen und selbst kuratieren und zeigen zu dürfen.
Die gesellschaftliche Relevanz von Fotografie, historischer aber vor allem auch ganz gegenwärtiger ist mir immer bewusster geworden. Unser Verständnis der Welt ist visuell geprägt, und Fotografie spielt im Konzert der Bildmedien eine wesentliche Rolle.
Der Austausch über neue Werkserien, über Präsentationsformen im Buch, an der Wand und im Netz, über fotografisch vermittelte Themen und über künstlerische Trends sind für mich sehr wichtig.
Gemeinsam mit dem Fotografen und Filmemacher Florian Geiss wollen wir mit FOTOKAMP einen Ort schaffen, an dem dieser Austausch in der Begegnung mit Menschen, Projekten und Ideen möglich wird.“
(*1971), Kunsthistoriker und Germanist
seit 2003 Kurator der Stiftung F.C. Gundlach in Hamburg, seit 2010 deren Geschäftsführer.
2012 Mitbegründer des Archivs der Fotografen in der Deutschen Fotothek Dresden. Ausstellungskurator und Fotobuch-Autor, u.a. verantwortlich für die internationale Tournee der Ausstellung Martin Munkacsi – Think while you shoot! 2005 - 2012, für die Ausstellungen F.C. Gundlach. Das fotografische Werk 2008 - 2013 und Peter Keetman. Gestaltete Welt 2016 - 2017, Fotografie in der Weimarer Republik 2019 und Schaut her! Toni Schneiders 2020.
Mitbegründer des Archivs der Fotografen in der Deutschen Fotothek Dresden, Mitglied in der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie ( DGPh ) und im künstlerischen Beirat der Hamburger Kulturstiftung
Einblick zu der Stiftung gibt: www.fcgundlach.de
Email: lux@fcgundlach.de
FOTO SUPERVISORY BOARD
THE PRESIDENT
Sebastian Lux
MEMBERS
Andreas Schiemenz
"When Florian Geiss and Sebastian Lux presented their FOTOKAMP concept to me, I was immediately enthusiastic as a person who is committed to art, culture and society.
An enthusiasm that today sustains me as a member of the supervisory board of the non-profit FOTOKAMP gGmbH in my voluntary work. "
During his interdisciplinary studies in economics, law and sociology, the later graduate economist Andreas Schiemenz founded the Hamburg-Bahrenfeld youth and leisure center to support and motivate young people from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.
After a few years as a management consultant in the field of branding and sales strategies, he switched to the non-profit sector. As Head of Marketing, he expanded fundraising in the Berlin City Mission Association at the end of the 1990s. In the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. he worked as a regional director in Berlin and later as head of fundraising in the federal association. As part of this activity, he supported the establishment and expansion of the disaster relief alliance Aktion Deutschland Hilft (ADH Deutschlande).
As Director Philanthropy and Foundations in Wealth Management at the former HSH Nordbank, Andreas Schiemenz built up the advisory service for high-net-worth individuals, families and companies and is also responsible for asset management, among other things.
With the founding of SCHOMERUS Consulting for Social Commitment, he built up one of the leading consulting companies for non-profit actors, which was able to build up an international reputation as a brand and fundraising consultancy.
Since 2021, the philanthropy and non-profit expert has been building a family office for philanthropy with the Hope Carrier Foundation, which will be active on the market on July 1, 2021 under the name SINNGEBER gGmbH.
Andreas Schiemenz is active on a voluntary basis in various non-profit organizations and foundations as a board of directors or supervisory board. He also publishes specialist articles and is the author of a specialist book on large-scale donation fundraising.
FOTOTEAM
ASSISTANCE MANAGEMENT
Bianca Muellner
"I am committed to this promising project, which is necessary for Hamburg and which represents a contemporary and interactive link between photography, science and education. As a freelance artist, curator and cultural and political activist, I am happy about the new creative challenges that I see as open artistic advisor to FOTOKAMP. "
Bianca Müllner (* 1973) studied at the Blankenese Art School with Jens Hasenberg and at the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Department of Design, Illustration / Communication Design, Degree: Diploma (2006). Since 2008 her work can be seen in exhibitions in Hamburg, Leipzig, Essen, Freiburg and Aveiro (PT), among others. Her focus is on painting and extends to installation, object and video. Working with artists and groups, such as The Current Dance Collective, expands the spectrum of their installations and opens up space for interdisciplinary work.
Since 2011 she has curated a series of exhibitions in her studio and exhibition rooms with guest artists from Hamburg. In 2019, an exhibition was designed and realized for the first time in cooperation with SALOON Hamburg. As chairman of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg, she is the director of the annual exhibitions 2019 to 22 and organizer / curator of the POSITION series of events. Forum / Exhibition 2019. She is the exclusive curator of the series “Flags” by the artist Penny Monogiou. At the end of 2019 she took over the management of the private museum and project space L’apotheque together with the artist and initiator Anna Genger. She has been working as an artistic consultant for the interdisciplinary project location FOTOKAMP since October 2021.
