11 July 2018

MKG Hamburg exhibition 'Delete. Selection and Censorship in Photojournalism' introduces into the process of making up public opinion

Currently, MKG Hamburg (Germany) presents works by selected photojournalists whose pictures made already history and have built people's collective consciousness. By showing the work process of photographers, contractual relationships and selection practices by publishers, the exhibition curators make aware of the 'gate keeper' function of media, editors, publishers who determine what gets the chance to reach the public and how topics - from massacres over wars to racism, are evaluated. One of the central points is the influence of editors, publishers on setting images into - literally - 'con-text' and the photographers' individually contracted rights to co-direct the contextualisation.

The exhibition 'Delete. Selection and Censorship in Photojournalism' throws light on the work of five photojournalists; one of them is André Brutmann (1947–2002) whose contact prints are set into the narrative art-film-documentary 'Printed Matter' by Sirah Foighel Brutmann (daughter of the photographer) and Eitan Efrat about the selective process of building memory. The film roll prints show André Brutmann's professional pictures together with private photos of his family captured between 1982 and 2002.

fig.: Sirah Foighel Brutmann (*1983) & Eitan Efrat (*1983), Printed Matter, 2011, 30min, 16mm / HD video, Videostill, © Sirah Foighel Brutmann/Eitan Efrat.

Note: Closer information about the art film 'Printed Matter' at kunsthallebasel.ch.

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