Our latest artist feature shows the melancholy characters of german artist Sebastian Otto painted mainly on canvas or card-board.

See Sebastian Otto’s feature here.

Visit the artist’s website: Sebastian Otto

Here are some impressions of the VERVE-Exhibition of this year’s winter Bright Tradeshow in Frankfurt. The exhibtion was showing photography only.

As this was the last time in the very unique location in Franfurt we would like to say good bye and thank you for the great time we had the last couple of years. We look forward to seeing what will happen when the Bright moved to Berlin this summer.

Our guest this time was photographer Jens Kaesemann showing his work titled “fuck us now love us later”.

And beside the VERVE-Exhibition we found excellent photography of Lozza exhibited at the STWD booth and Crista Leonard at the booth of our friends les ettes.

BRIGHT Tradeshow in Frankfurt is on again and so is our VERVE-Exhibition in Room #192. Special guest this time is Hamburg based photographer Jens Kaesemann exhibiting his work titled “fuck us now love us later”. Come by.. visit us and dive into Jens’ world.

Exhibition
January 16th - 17th

Further information
BRIGHT Tradeshow
Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 13
60327 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

www.brighttradeshow.com

“Trashion” is the collaboration between Parisian design collective Andrea Crews and the capital’s Lala Berlin. Their works create a completely new taste out of old ingredients. This “trashion” is shown with photography by Rachel de Joode.

Go to the feature “Trashion”

Visit the website of the Andrea Crews and Lala Berlin

This post may appear off topic as this is a magazine about photography and not about photo gear.

But the new Leica M9 is not just a camera. The Leica M is the camera that enabled for decades many famous reportage photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson to capture the decisive moment. The M9 seems to be the perfect adaptation of the magic rangefinder concept into the digital age. An impressive 18 Megapixel full-frame sensor built into a very compact, rock solid and retro styled body. The simple and intuitive handling of the M9 concentrates on the essentials of photography - compared to those feature overloaded monsters of japanese camera manufactures.

I really can’t wait to get one in my hand.. definitely a wanna-have tool for any photographer. But take care: the handling of the camera, the feeling and sound of the shutter and the quality of the razor-sharp and contrasty images of a Leica M can be highly addictive.

Leica Camera

From October 16th to November 1st the Illustrative goes to Berlin and so does VERVE-MAGAZINE next week as we are media partners of this unique art festival for contemporary illustration and graphics. After successful shows in Paris and Zürich the last couple of years, the Illustrative now returns to Berlin.

The exhibition features famous illustration artists like art directors David Polonsky and Tomer Hanuka, the 73-year-old Japanese Pop-Art-illustrator Keiichi Tanaami, German illustrator Olaf Hajek, Hamburg-based comic artist Line Hoven, US-American artists John Casey, Erik Mark Sandberg, Erik Nyquist, Japanese illustrator Aya Kato, Skandinavion designers Yokoland, Siggi Eggertsson and Jesse Auersalo, the award-winning German duo Pixelgarten and many more.

The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive program. Please see the website of the Illustrative for detailed information.

Exhibition dates
October 16th – November 1st, 2009
Open daily 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.

www.illustrative.de