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Umhlabathi: On Land, Environment, and Collective Creation

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Nadia Huggins on Freedom, the Ocean, and Re-Presenting the Caribbean

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Working with Elements: Lucas Leffler on Zilverbeek (Silver Creek) and New Possibilities in Photography

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Photography for the Future: Hannah Fletcher and Matt Barker on Sustainable Practices and Why Photography Matters

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Community Submission: Laura Denning’s Toxic Monocultures

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Cultural Partnership! WOPHA Congress

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England's New Lenses, vandalism of exhibition at Wrest Park

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Announcing Heather Agyepong and Joanne Coates Awardees of the fourth Jerwood/Photoworks Awards

Posted on: 20 Sep 2021

Artist Announcement! Picturing England’s High Streets

Posted on: 1 Jul 2021

Photoworks X Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Alix Marie: Styx

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Johny Pitts announced as inaugural Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship recipient

Posted on: 27 May 2021

Welcome to our 2021 Writer in Residence!

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MPB sponsor Photography+ in 2021!

Posted on: 17 Mar 2021

Solidarity with Black Lives Matter and a commitment to be actively anti-racist

Posted on: 8 Jun 2020

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Hi everyone, this is @steffidrerup on the last day of this week’s Photoworks Instagram Takeover. Throughout this week, I have been showing my project ‘ichfolgedessen’, and here I would like to share one last essential image with you.

Huge thanks to @photoworks_uk for giving me this opportunity to show my work!

Ichfolgedessen

A fragment from one of the rejection letters Anna and Friedrich received. This particular one was ordering them to end the relationship immediately, to prevent severe consequences.

The Nazi who had written the letter had made a typo, meaning to write 'Infolgedessen' ('Consequently') but had written 'Ichfolgedessen'.

Although this is not a real word, it could be interpreted as 'I follow his...'
It is an intriguing word, since I am ‘following’ my grandfather's traces, trying to forensically piece together his story. And also, I am ‘following’ him as his descendant.

But, as before with the symbol of the birds and the eye, to ‘follow’ also implies a double meaning: in order to follow somebody, there also needs to be someone leading ahead - and 'leader' in German is 'Fuehrer'.

ID: A photograph of a detail from a document containing just one word, white on black background.

‘ichfolgedessen’ is shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Book Award 2022.

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Hi everyone, this is @steffidrerup, this week’s Photoworks Instagram Takeover, sharing my project ‘ichfolgedessen’

It’s about a man’s life that had been saved by a photograph.

It’s a love story, a piece of German history, a mystery that needed to be solved; it’s my family’s story.

Rock

ID: A black and white image of a rock.

‘ichfolgedessen’ is shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Book Award 2022

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Hi everyone, this is @steffidrerup, this week’s Photoworks Instagram Takeover, sharing my project ‘ichfolgedessen’.

This body of work is about a man’s life that had been saved by a photograph.

It’s a love story, a piece of German history, a mystery that needed to be solved; it’s my family’s story.

Friedrich and Anna were in love, wanting to get married, but when they applied for a marriage license in the 1930s, it was refused. Repeatedly. A Half-Jewish man was not allowed to be with an Aryan woman.

In September 1944 Friedrich was summoned to the Gestapo headquarter and asked whether he had broken off his engagement with Anna, fully aware he would be sent to concentration camp if he gave the wrong answer. Friedrich took a small photograph from his wallet, showing a young dark-haired woman gazing into the distance.

His cousin had written on the back of her portrait ‘To Friedel. With love, Irene.‘ 'See?' he said, 'this is my new love.'

They let him go. He spent the remainder of the war on the run. Always dreaming in black and white, never in colour.

Pure white marble

A dead baby bird. Throughout the book the image of the bird represents freedom, while also alluding to the symbol of terror - the Reichsadler.

ID: A dead baby bird lying on white marble.

‘ichfolgedessen’ is shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Book Award 2022

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