ME, MYSELF AND THE FUTURE

What role do you want to play in the future? In this workshop, we will be inspired by the video installation Manifesto by artist Julian Rosefeldt, which will be on show at C/O Berlin in the exhibition Nothing is Original. In this artwork, the actress Cate Blanchett embodies various characters who demand social change. Together we will talk about our present and our personal visions of the future.

We will then explore your visions and stage them photographically in the urban space. You can develop a character and a photographic situation that expresses your hopes, fears or confidence. Transform yourself, choose a disguise and find the right backdrop for the realization. Whether you stand in front of the camera yourself or stage someone from the group, you create your own personal image of the future.

Iris Janke studied visual communication in Berlin and fine arts in Stockholm. She also trained as a picture editor at the Ostkreuz School of Photography. She works as a freelance photographer for magazines and institutions and realizes her own projects with a special focus on analogue photography. Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and photo festivals worldwide. In 2011 she was honored and exhibited as a talent at C/O Berlin. Since 2014 she has been working as a workshop leader in the education team at C/O Berlin and has realized several exhibitions and publications as part of her workshop leadership, especially in the Perspectives program.

Julian Hemelberg was born in Colombia and began studying photo production at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá in 2003. In 2011, he presented the exhibition Una mirada en un viaje a Berlín, a project produced in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut in Bogotá for audiences across Latin America. Following this, he moved to Berlin to study photographic design at the Lette Verein. He now works as a freelance photographer for RBB (Berlin-Brandenburg public broadcasting) and is active in various photography, music, and film productions in Berlin, specializing in both photography and lighting.