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Successful and unsuccessful photo book dramaturgies – Curator Talk with Kristin Dittrich

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 19:00
Softcover, Stumpergasse 53-55, 1060 Vienna

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Talk language: German

95 percent of all photo books worldwide are pure collections of photographic material, without dramaturgy or suspense. In this lecture, independent mentor, art critic and curator Kristin Dittrich presents five photo books from the Softcover product range. How can you curate a good photo book and how is it better not to? What are successful and unsuccessful photo book dramaturgies?

This will be followed by the workshop “Curating Photography – Mastering the Photo Book” with Kristin Dittrich from April 4 to 6.

About Kristin Dittrich:

Kristin Dittrich (born 1977) is the director of the Shift School for Photography in Dresden and Vienna as well as an art expert for contemporary photography. As an independent mentor, art critic and curator, she specializes in photography in the field of high culture. She is the founder of the photo festival F/STOP in Leipzig as well as the Shift School for Photography, which offers a mentoring program for photographers and deals with research on memory, ethics, philosophy, sociology, zeitgeist and biographical work. The Shift School is a member of the German Photography Council.

Kristin Dittrich studied photography research and curating at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was a guest lecturer at the ENSP in Arles, in the Department of Art History at the University of Leipzig as well as at the Anzenberger Masterclass in Vienna and the Month of Photography. As a member of the founding team of Paris Photo and collaborator of the world exhibition DOCUMENTA13 in Kassel, she gained extensive experience in the international art world. She is also the owner and curator of the first photo book library at Steidl Verlag in Göttingen. Through her work as a mentor, she supports photographers from Austria and around the world – regardless of the stage of development of their projects. With a critical eye and great commitment, she accompanies creative projects and artistic goals in photography.