Frank Machalowski
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German, born 1971
Projects/Portfolios
multiexpo
Introduction
In this series i show analog multiple exposures of european citys sightseeing hotspots photographed from several positions on one frame. The buildings, structures and sculptures are taken from different perspectives, as well as the different visitors they look. The multiplication and intensification of positions and fields of view appears to distort the structures and reduce them to their core. They literally vibrate under the attempt to capture the time even in the pictures.
tierwald
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Is it fiction or reality, is it a warm rain forest or a cold german mixed forest, are these animals real live in this forest or is it a giant zoo, maybe is it a future look to a world without humans? These are the questions behind this series. I think these photos gives no answers to this questions, they should not also. Rather, they should just raise these questions and may even allow the viewer room for more questions unanswered.
monster
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Festivals, concerts, demos, sports events, tourist crowds. The downtown appears to be a place that never sleeps. These long-exposure photographs from 2011 to 2015 depict the people pouring through the streets as ghostly traces of a moving mass, making them seem almost menacing, like a faceless monster working its way through the city, the line between monstrosity and humanity dissolving in a mist of motion.
ghosts of...
Introduction
I often visit flea markets looking for old cameras or something like this. One day I saw a stand from a Frenchman who was selling a mass of very old photographs, only portraits. I bought some pictures from him. I had an idea in mind to do something with old vintage photographs but didn't know what. When I viewed the pictures at home I decided to transform all these people adding them to the present.
It's about time, the past and the present. All people in these pictures are strangers from the past, most probably dead for a long time. Now they all come together in the present, like ghostly appearance on different locations and cities.
For these series, I combined two photographs - one picture I took with my own self-made anamorphic pinhole camera and one old vintage photograph. The pinhole images are all 6x6 film photographs which I developed on my own and scanned the negatives. Then I also scanned the portraits. At the end, I combined these pictures using photoshop and added some 'ghostly' effects.
stadtbaum
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Another side project from my series multiexpo. It's about urban trees and their resistance against the high urbanization level.
november
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These are darkroom handprinted photographs from the series 'november'. In this series I tried to catch a feeling somewhere between despair and hope.
Carpentier Galerie, Berlin, Germany
»tierwald | mutliexpo«, Frank Machalowski, Edition Carpentier, Berlin, 2015
Tierwald, Frank Machalowski, Susanne Thiele, selfpublished, Berlin/Leipzig, 2015
Artist Statement
I am always looking for other representation of frequently seen pictures, like in my series 'multiexpo'. I'm fascinated by the contrasts of urban life and deserted landscapes. I simply want that people looking at my works and start to ask themselves, how on earth he did that and they getting stuck on the picture.
All of my projects were fully or involving made with analog technique.
Frank Machalowski is a German award winning photographic artist and photographer, who lives and work in Leipzig. After studying economic studies in Berlin and applying himself to various trades he works today as a freelance photographer and artist. His majors on the city and the countryside type of photography - two opposite fields, with all their major differences and their potential for a perfect interaction.
Some photographs of his series 'monster' and 'multiexpo' were shown in Germany, France, USA, Spain, UK, Italy, India and Argentinia at renowned galleries and festivals. He is part of a permanent collection of the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris.
Since 2014 he is a part of the project "Berlin-Photography" represented by the Carpentier Gallery in Berlin (www.berlin-photography.de). It is a collective of 32 photographer who are engaged with the city of Berlin in photographic art.
Selected works were offered for sale at YDP (YourDailyPhotograph.com), a resource for collectors of fineart photography from the California Duncan Miller Gallery and at CAZALE - Art.Bureau.Berlin (cazale.net).
Besides artistic activity, he works for musicians and private persons as an portrait and stills photographer.
selected exhibitions:
09/12 – Neonchocolate Gallery / Berlin – group exhibition
03/13 – Fenster 61 / Berlin – solo exhibition
03/13 – Arte Laguna Prize / Venedig IT – group exhibition
05/13 – Lomography Gallery Store / Berlin – solo exhibition
05/13 – Darkroom Gallery / Vermont USA – group exhibition
08/13 – aff – atelier freier fotografen / Berlin – group exhibition
11/13 – Grand Prix de la Decouverte / Paris F – group exhibition
05/14 – Fotogalerie Potsdam / Potsdam – solo exhibition
01/15 – Industrie- und Handelskammer / Karlsruhe – group exhibition
03/15 - National Museum of T.Shevchenko / Kiev UA - Winners Gallery - group exhibition
04/15 – Carpentier Galerie / Berlin – group exhibition
09/15 – Carpentier Galerie / Berlin – solo exhibition
10/15 - Royal Albert Hall / London - International Print Exhibition 158 - group exhibition
03/16 - The Hive / Worcester UK - IPE 158 - group exhibition
05/16 - Municipal Gallery / Dublin IRL - IPE 158 - group exhibition
05/16 - The Crypt, St George the Martyr Church / London UK - Abstract FineArt - group exhibition
05/16 - Revela-T Photography Festival / Barcelona E - multiexpo/tierwald/monster - group exhibition
09/16 - IHK Leipzig / Leipzig D - Tiere, Monster, Geister - solo exhibition
04/17 - Somerset House / London UK- Sony World Photography Awards & Martin Parr 2017 - group exhibition
04/17 - Photo Patagonia / Rio Gallegos Santa Cruz Argentina - Festival 2017 - group exhibition
05/17 - Decumanus Gallery / Krk HRV - Mass tourism - group exhibition
07/17 - Münsters / Leipzig D - Four series - solo exhibition
08/17 - Pulp Gallery / Vancouver CAN - FotoFilmic17 summer shortlist show - group exhibition
09/17 - Indian Photography Festival / Hyderabad IND - group exhibition
10/17 - Carpentier Galerie / Berlin - Monsters & Ghosts - solo exhibition
11/17 - Willy Brandt Haus / Berlin - Sony World Photography Awards 2017 - group exhibition
02/18 - Fang Studio / Leipzig D - monster - solo exhibition
selected awards:
2013 - Grand Prix de la Decouverte / Paris F – 1st place architecture
2013 - Arte Laguna Prize / Venice IT – Finalist
2014 - Moscow International Foto Award – 2nd place architecture
2014 - ND Awards – 3rd place architecture
2014 - Hoepfner Stiftung – Europäischer Förderpreis für Fotografie
2014 - Monochrome Awards 2014 – 1st place Photomanipulation
2015 - Golden Camera Award / Kiev UA - 1st Place in professional Architecture
2015 - Tetenal B/W European Classics Award – 1st Place Germany in Animals
2015 - Motif Collective Photography May 2015 - 1st and 3rd Place in Architecture
2015 - Fine Art Photography Awards 2015 - 1st Place in Architecture
2015 - The Royal Photographic Society / UK - Silver Award - International Print Exhibition
2016 - Gomma Grant - shortlisted
2016 - Monochrome Awards 2015 - 2nd Place - Architecture (Professional)
2016 - Golden Orchid International Art Festival - 2nd Place - Series
2016 - London Photo Festival - 1st Place (Abstract FineArt)
2016 - La Grande Photo – Highly Commended – Architecture
2017 - London Photo Festival - 1st Place - Architecture
2017 - Sony World Photography Awards 2017 - Shortlist - Open Architecture
2017 - Fine Art Photography Awards 2017 – 2nd Place – Fine Art (Professional)
2017 - Moscow International Foto Award 2017 – 2nd Place – Architecture - Buildings (Professional)
2017 - SIENA International Photo Award 2017 - Remarkable Award - Architecture & Urban Spaces
2017 - Chromatic Awards 2017 – 2 x Honorable Mention – FineArt
2018 - Monochrome Awards 2017 - 1st Place - Fine Art Photographer of the year (Professional)
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