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    6 months ago

    Foward Festivals 2022: Connecting Creatives!

    We can barely believe it ourselves, but this is the 8th year that we will inspire you during our Forward Festivals! For this year's theme “Connect, Create, Collaborate” we curated an amazing line-up with over 50 speakers coming to Berlin and Vienna! Forward Berlin will be taking place from September 22nd - 23rd at Kino International. For Forward Vienna we will be from October 6th-7th at the Gartenbaukino.

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    6 months ago

    Wolfgang Tillmans. An urge for freedom

    Few artists have shaped the scope of contemporary art and influenced a younger generation more than Wolfgang Tillmans. He has been such an inventive and prominent visual artist that it has become dangerously easy to take his work for granted. You often feel privileged to be there with him, appreciating fleeting moments, sharing a laugh at the picnics with friends or waking up after the sweaty nightclub. Through seamless integration of genres, subjects and exhibition strategies, the artist conjures a youthful, messy utopia and expands conventional ways of approaching the medium. So what does it mean to create pictures in an increasingly image-saturated world?

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    7 months ago

    Explore the World of Color with Wade & Leta

    How do Wade and Leta make music for your eyes? What drives them to keep trying new things, and how did they get to this point? Having started as graphic designers, Wade & Leta did not stop there. The couple and their work are constantly adapting, changing, and striving for the next new thing, and thankfully they have no plans to change that or stop anytime soon. Explore their world of Color, Movement, and Emotion using all possible disciplines of design, art, fashion, and architecture. In this conversation with Wade and Leta, you'll find in-depth answers about your favourite dream team. Wade & Leta will speak at the Forward Festival Berlin in September. Next to them, you will be able to hear Creatives like Alice Isaac, Anna Ginsburg, Grilli Type and many more.

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    8 months ago

    "Each work that I create is based on memory". - In conversation with Stefanie Moshammer

    Are you ever struck by the transcendent mysticism of life and the human condition? Stefanie Moshammer explores these little moments of wonder through memories and formulates them to the outside. Incorporating photography with moving images, pre-existing material and textile elements, Moshammer’s work reveals various life structures, sparks intrigue and a warm rush of feelings. Her ability to make subtle observations shines through her personal work and collaborations with Harper’s Bazaar, Atmos, Fendi, Numero China and many others. We chat with Stefanie about her visual language, workflow and insights on her latest solo show. Stefanie Moshammer will speak at the Forward Festival Vienna in October. Next to her, you will be able to hear Creatives like Kelli Anderson, Erik Kessels, Kelly Anna and many more.

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    10 months ago

    What if the dark side is addictive? Boogie's reflections on photography

    Street photography became his inevitable creative escape in 90’s when the former Yugoslavia and Boogie’s crib was facing a civil war. Since then he has been granting his audience rare access to a real world, often defined by truth, poverty and passionate documentation of life as it is. Being exhibited and published all around the world, Boogie collaborates with high profiled clients like Nike, Gucci, Adidas, HBO and others. From Belgrade to Brooklyn - where he was born and is currently based, his intimate images reveal a vivid portrait of metropolitan cities and their raw culture. We caught up online to talk about his aspirations, workflow and addictive dark side. Boogie is also one of 30+ speakers at Forward Festival Berlin on September 22nd-23rd.

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    10 months ago

    "Choose life" got the nod for the 100 best Posters!

    The joined forces of Forward Festival and photographer Maša Stanic turned out to be a viral Choose life poster, hitting a home run as one of the 100 best-printed posters contests. We are thrilled to the bits to join the gang of 2021 edition, and honored to spread our vision and word further down the road. “100 beste Plakate” is a creative community of a longstanding passion for printed posters and a natural curiosity about the world and the people in it.

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    10 months ago

    "Each Poison, A Pillow" new work by Stefanie Moshammer

    First part of Stefanie Moshammer’s work “Each Poison, A Pillow” is a personal project on the relationship between mother and daughter, transformed into objects, videos and images. Stefanie constructs a chronological mind-map in a number of chapters within frames of her Solo Show at KOENIG2 by_robbygreif exhibited during 10 Mar – 23 Apr 2022. “Each Poison, A Pillow” is a vulnerable narrative that suggests an intense absorbing materials, blurs the perception and offers absolute complicity.

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    a year ago

    Emotional outburst through a zucchini. Interview with photographer and graphic designer Nicolas Polli

    Swiss photographer, publisher and graphic designer Nicolas Polli has a magnificent style, bold contrasts and emotional attached compositions in his still life creations. In 2012 Nicolas and Salvatore Vitale founded YET Magazine, which later became the recipient of the Swiss Design Award. After his studies in Art direction at ECAL in Lausanne, Polli found his own publishing house CIAO PRESS, which became a laboratory to push his ideas even further and work with photographers, artists and designers with a similar approach and fresh energy. Nicolas told us about his garden in Biel/Bienne, lack of rules and why he never looked for clients himself. He has almost revealed the secrets of a perfect still life, but, you know, how rotten your aubergine is - is only a tiny part of the perfect composition.

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    a year ago

    The magical world of photographer Zhong Lin

    Photographer Zhonglin has made the most out of the lockdown days: With Project 365 the Malaysian-Chinese photographer challenged herself to publish one image for one whole year, capturing the subtleties of everyday life. Her photographs are cinematic, dreamy, and surreal. Find out about the photographer’s endless inspiration, the challenges, and the outcome of her project.

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    a year ago

    Photographer Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek reveals the secrets of dog life

    The very limited edition of the Doggystyle Calendar 2022 by photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek is a newly released gem you can’t just flick through. With his new passion project, Daniel is once again up to make us happy showing hip doggos in an everyday life habitat. 

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    a year ago

    Falling in love with the ugly with Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek

    In a world flooded with images, eye- and attention-catching photos are a rarity. With his humorous and on-point photography, Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek has found a way of catching the eye and actually staying in one’s mind. After interning with photo agency Magnum, de Koekkoek started working as a freelance photographer focusing on fashion and animals. Welcome inside the creative mind of Austrian artist Daniel Gebhardt de Koekkoek!

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    a year ago

    Art for Afghanistan

    Photography has always allowed artists to capture the world how they see it, to show their feelings and to raise awareness for important issues. In solidarity with Afghan artists, the Connected Archives have now established an online photography fundraiser collection with pieces by 30+ artists, where all profits are donated to help Afghan refugees.

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    a year ago

    Creativity, culture and city life in 2020 and beyond: an interview with photographer Sven Marquardt

    Sven Marquardt is one of the most prominent figures of the Berlin underground scene. Back in the ‘80s he was portraying GDR’s underground scene using black and white film and an analogue camera. These days he is steeped in the club scene which he perfectly captures mostly in black and white. You might also know him from the documentaries Beauty and Decay and Berlin Bouncer about his photography, his contribution to the infamous Berlin club scene and making Berghain one of the most famous clubs in the world. We spoke to him about his art, changes in the cultural world and how the pandemic has affected it all. by Ana  Maria Carabelea

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    2 years ago

    JR: Chronicles showing the artist’s best

    JR is an artist until he finds a real job - says his Instagram Bio. And in the meantime, he has created an impressive body of work ranging from his early documentation of the Paris’ graffiti scene, large-scale architectural interventions in cities worldwide to recent digitally installed murals. “JR: Chronicles”, shown at Saachi Gallery in London, honors the artist in the best way presenting the largest JR solo show to date.

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    2 years ago

    Match made in heaven: Martin Parr x Toiletpaper Magazine

    It’s a collaboration sent from heaven: Photography icon Martin Parr joins forces with the two creators of Toiletpaper Magazine, Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, for a journey into the heart of a visual repertoire bursting with colours. The exhibition is called “Villa Toilet Martin Medici Paper Parr” is currently shown at Villa Médicis in Rome.

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    2 years ago

    Make your work stand out with Erik Kessels

    If you have ever wondered whether your personality is more important than your portfolio, artist Erik Kessels has a very clear answer for you: yes. Creatives are very good in the works they create but often lack the ability to communicate about it and about themselves as artists. Erik Kessels' masterclass at the Forward Festival Hamburg is here to change that: In an exclusive on-site masterclass, Erik Kessels will teach you how to make your work stand out from the crowd, no matter what industry you’re in.

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    2 years ago

    Impulsive, foolish, spirited: The creative mind of photographer Maša Stanić

    Maša Stanić has made a name of herself within the creative scene with kind of a laissez-faire approach to photography. Her photos often show nudity, middle fingers, and the most ordinary motives. While some may see her as a provocateur, the artist would never describe herself like that. We had a chat with Maša about what she is doing, doubting, and what she is dreaming of.

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    2 years ago

    Unique and unusual: Martin Parr presenting his finest

    With his unusual and sometimes grotesque photographs, Martin Parr has managed to show us the world from his point of view and has become a chronicler of our age. Martin Parr´s finest is currently shown in an online exhibition by Janet Borden Inc. to brighten up our lockdown days until his talk at the Forward Online Festival.

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    2 years ago

    Two of a kind: Street portraits of identical twins

    Over the last years, the London-based photographer Peter Zelewski took portraits of identical twins, which resulted in his project “Alike But Not Alike.” He explores the similarities as well as the striking differences between twins and askes: how identical are they really?

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    2 years ago

    Photographer Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek presenting Pin-Up Guinea Pigs 2021

    It is the newest edition of the calendar you definitely want, but never knew you needed. After Jumping Cats, Floating Afghans, and The Secret Life of Alpacas, photographer Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek releases his latest masterpiece: the 2021 Pin-Up Guinea Pigs calendar.

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    2 years ago

    The Bizarre World of Chicken Beauty Pageants

    We’ve all seen our fair share of cocky dancers, but they’re usually in a club after 2am pretending they’ve got “swagger” and they rarely look anything like this. Photographer and visual artist Ernest Goh, however, has created a series of images that highlight the beauty and character that chickens can exhibit when given a chance.

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    2 years ago

    Naked, raw, rebellious: Ren Hang exhibition showing in Italy

    Even after his death in 2017 the Chinese photographer and poet still remains a leading light in China's late photography and art scene. An exhibition in Tuscany is featuring Ren Hang's iconic works.

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    2 years ago

    Sarah Bahbah is giving you a glimpse of people's most intimate moments

    A beautiful, brunette woman is holding her face in both of her hands, her head turned away from the camera. "Fuck! I fell in love, how did this happen? He looked at me in French. I thought that kiss meant we were going to be lovers" Two pictures later, she is laying on her bed sideways, looking into the camera. "But I look at him, he looks out the window."

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    2 years ago

    Interview with Laura Schaeffer: 'Being well prepared gives you the freedom to be spontaneous'

    The Berlin-based photographer Laura Schaeffer just recently graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and already has an impressive portfolio of clients and projects to offer. We had a chat with her about what's to be found on the camera roll of her phone, how to overcome creative blockades, and her conceptual approach towards photography.

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    3 years ago

    Prosecco guns & VR-kisses

    The last couple of months surely took a toll on our carefreeness towards physical contact with people in our close environment and especially towards people we don’t know (yet). Shaking hands or the french Bisou-Bisou have been somewhat eliminated from our gestural repertoire and leave us awkwardly waving at our friends instead of giving them a hug.

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    3 years ago

    Inside the creative mind of Stefanie Moshammer

    We met the Austrian-born photographer and spoke to her about becoming who she is, her creative process, the value of construction and deconstruction and other key points of her career and work experience. Besides being nominated for multiple awards, Stefanie has already published multiple photo books and her work is frequently displayed in magazines, festivals and galleries around the globe, as well as used in advertising.

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    3 years ago

    Get a glimpse of Laurie Simmons' dollhouse

    Back in the 1970s Laurie Simmons took a job in a factory which produced dolls and dollhouses. This was a determining step for her career, since she used the miniature objects for her own artistic work. She started to take photographs of everyday scenes, which she recreated with the toys. Laurie focused on her own experience during her childhood in the 1950s. The motives were defined by stern gender roles and the domestic ideal of the time – channeling the myth of the American dream.

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    3 years ago

    Forward speakers through the lens of Stefan Grau

    At Forward Festival Munich, we invited photographer Stefan Grau to look through his Digital Eyes and take one-of-a-kind portraits of our speakers.  

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    3 years ago

    Made by & for creatives - Art Aid Austria offers beautiful prints by local artists

    Now, more than ever before, it is vital to find alternative solutions for artists, photographers, illustrators and designers to present and sell their art. Fortunately, more and more of these platforms have been popping up and we'd like to introduce one of them: Art Aid.

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    3 years ago

    TOILETPAPA by Max and Eckhard Siedentopf

    Max Siedentopf's latest book is the first bootleg copy of the infamous Toiletpaper Magazine by Mauricio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. TOILETPAPA shows some of Toiletpaper's most iconic photos reenacted by big fans of the magazine, Max Siedentopf himself, and - hence the name of the project - his father Eckhard.  

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    3 years ago

    Identity for sale

    Can you put a price on identity? Well, if you sell it on eBay, yes.

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    3 years ago

    The advantages of the aerodynamic figure of afghans

    Let us introduce you to the most elegant creatures to ever float in pools: The floating Afghans.

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    3 years ago

    Tokyo Compression

    Humid, crammed, compressed. Photographer Michael Wolf captures the everyday horrors imposed on Japanese commuters by Tokyo's underground system.

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    3 years ago

    Daniel Gebhart shoots wedding-portraits of DIYers and their tools

    Whether it be cats hurling through the air, the impact alpacas could have on our private life or the world’s most useless inventions: Viennese photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek has a special knack for all things odd and we love it!

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    4 years ago

    Roger Ballen x Die Antwoord

    When looking at Roger Ballen’s photographs you might think “What the fuck?!, “Who are these people?”, “Where do they live?” and “Jesus, who the hell took these pictures?”. Well at least that was, what Yolandi & Ninja, better known as Die Antwoord, thought when they saw his work for the first time. They knew instantly that they have found the identity and style for their music project that was still in its infancy at that time.

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    4 years ago

    Max Siedentopf's new magazine issue is all about toilet paper

    Issue 8 of Max Siedentopf's magazine Ordinary puts a spotlight on toilet paper. From Siedentopf, one of our upcoming speakers at Forward Festival Munich and Hamburg, we didn't expect anything less odd and hilarious as this.

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    4 years ago

    Larry Clark and his unadorned view at youth culture

    Raw, unfiltered, provocative – just a few words that come to one’s mind while looking at the artistic work of Larry Clark. Regardless of whether it is about his photography or his films, the expressive images move anybody and everyone has their opinion. His main motive is youth culture and everything regarding it, from sexuality and violence to skateboards and drugs.

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    4 years ago

    Odd everyday-life-enhancers grasped by Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek

    Gebhart latest work A Guide To Better Being draws attention to the art of inventing practical but useless tools - called Chindōgu. Chin..what? Chindōgu is Japanese and literally means "useless/weird tool". The term was coined in the 90ies by Kenji Kawakami who used it in his comical section in his monthly magazine Mail Order Life. Popularised in the English-speaking community through Kawakami's and Dan Papia's magazine Tokyo Journal, a fan base for odd tools grew steadily. Chindōgu as such is the perfect balance between creativity and absurdity.

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    4 years ago

    Oliviero Toscani and why successful advertising has to polarize

    There was a time when you could only love or hate Benetton ads. There was no in between. This was largely due to the work of Benetton's Art Director Oliviero Toscani. Whether genital calendars, gay and lesbian couples with baby carriages or a nun kissing a priest - Toscani’s advertising campaigns for Benetton provide a topic of conversation.

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    4 years ago

    Let Charley Williams take you to queer Britain

    Great Britain is known for it’s grey and rainy weather, but where there’s rain, there might also be a rainbow. In this case a very colourful and shimmering rainbow: The drag queens and LGBTQI party-goers. Photographer Charley Williams portrays the queer community of her hometown Bristol, one of the most progressive and vibrant places in Britain. She manages to catch this liberating spirit in her work.

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    4 years ago

    Photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek shows the secret life of alpacas

    “Better Living with Alpacas” by Austrian photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek is the calendar you never knew you needed. With his new project Daniel has unearthed the secret to eternal happiness. It isn’t money, fame or love — it’s alpacas.

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    4 years ago

    Docubyte presents the icons of the Space Race in their best light yet

    "At first there was a beep" - this is the introductory phrase of Docubytes description of his work Cosmic Pop! Documenting objects, in celebration both of the achievements of the Soviet space program and these early charming but brutal designs, in a flashing and poppy pink.

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    4 years ago

    Artist Olivia Erlanger takes mermaids from the ocean to your local laundromat

    A short while ago, by the end of summer, a couple of fishlike tails appeared at a laundromat in Downtown LA. On a closer look they seem to be tails of mermaids, hanging out of the big washing machines at the Laundry Zone in Arlington Heights. But how and why did they get there? Artist and author Olivia Erlanger has the answer.

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    4 years ago

    Ellie Davies' photography brings out the beauty of the forest

    UK-based land-artist Ellie Davies constructed pathways through the New Forest in New South England for her 2011 series “Come With Me”. Built from wool, powder, paint, wood or dirt, the pathways create a natural curvature around trees and bushes, incorporating the labour itself as a central concept to her work process. With the title of the piece, Davies invites you to follow her through the scenery.

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    4 years ago

    Kessels' "Group Show" and the renaissance of vinyl imagery

    Dutch graphic designer, advertising manager, editor, collector, exhibition curator and artist Erik Kessels is well known for his versatile projects. He is a creator of the digital age who, in his work, pays close attention to the most popular or trivial forms of photography. May this be family albums, commercial documentation or others, normally rejected by canon-defining museums. In his newest exhibition “Group Show” he shows an extensive collection of ‘vernacular’ vinyl records with, simply spoken, large groups of people on the cover.

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    4 years ago

    Vicente Munoz’s infrared series displays dystopic sublimity

    Deep red masses of trees bleeding within an ocean of concrete buildings presented in muted tones, an unpleasant yellow sky dominating the atmosphere. At first glance, the pictures of Vicente Munoz’s ongoing series „Sublimis“ seem to throw the observer into a dystopic, yet fictional world. But taking a closer look, one realizes that the images portray the photographer’s hometown Guayaquil, a 16th century port city and Ecuador’s commercial capital.

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    4 years ago

    Fake or real? “Icons” challenges the facts we take for certain

    In their series “Icons”, Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger recreate some of the most famous photographs in recent history. The seamlessly perfect illusions are immediately broken by the invasion of the work process.

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    4 years ago

    Stephan Zirwes’ “Pools” challenges you to rethink your water usage

    In his newest series „Pools“, the German photographer Stephan Zirwes presents intriguing drone shots of public swimming pools.

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    5 years ago

    Artist gives vintage ads a feminist makeover

    Whether attempting to sell clothing, coffee, or food, vintage ads from the mid-20th century were often riddled with sexism, forcing women into traditional gender roles. Now, however, a Lebanon-based artist has changed these out-of-date ads.

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    5 years ago

    Peter Funch takes a new approach to street photography

    Peter Funch has photographed the same people on the same street for nine years.

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    5 years ago

    Polaroid's new brand Polaroid Originals revives analogue photography

    After a 10-year-long hiatus Polaroid turns toward analogue instant photography again. Last week the company launched its new brand Polaroid Originals, that focuses solely on analogue photography.  

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    5 years ago

    A closer look at Apple’s new Instagram account

    What you should know first of all is that Apple doesn’t really do social media, except for Instagram. It has official Facebook and Twitter accounts, but hasn’t posted anything on there yet. However, it does have multipible Instagram accounts for Apple Music, iTunes, Beats 1, iBooks, Carpool Karaoke, and even Planet of the Apps.

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    6 years ago

    Cats Might Fly: The Weird World Of Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek

    Winter-time camping enthusiasts, Jehovah’s Witnesses and curious Tyrolean traditions: Viennese photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek, speaker at Forward Festival 2015, has an eye for the bizarre. His latest project is a comic and surreal 12-image set (and calendar) titled Jumping Cats.

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