Flamingos, family and fear of nuclear disaster: award-winning photos at C/O Berlin
The exhibition space is showing work from the winners of the Ulrike Crespo photography prize – inspired by everything from Chernobyl to migrating birds
TL;DR
- C/O Berlin is showcasing work by Stelios Kallinikou and Susanne Kriemann, winners of the After Nature, Ulrike Crespo photography prize.
- Kallinikou's series 'Cliffs Among Dreams' explores the Akrotiri peninsula, a site of ecological diversity and British military control.
- Kriemann's series 'In the Fever of the Sun, Butterflies Flutter in the Stomach' examines industrial and atomic age remnants, inspired by the Chernobyl disaster.
- Carrie Mae Weems' retrospective 'The Heart of the Matter' is also on display, focusing on power, memory, race, and femininity.
- Both Kallinikou and Kriemann's work delves into how photographic images can represent conditions that are not sensorially perceptible.
- Kallinikou's work intersects geopolitical questions, geological periods, and themes of migration and extinction.
- Kriemann's research centers on landscapes of former uranium extraction sites, where radiation is a tangible presence.