First plenary annual meeting of the German Photo Council.
The newspaper of the German Cultural Council is published with a focus on photography.
The founding of the German Photo Council and its application for membership in the German Cultural Council made the cultural and photography scene sit up and take notice last year. Now the first plenary meeting of the young umbrella organisation coincides with a comprehensive review of photography in the March issue of "Politik & Kultur", the newspaper of the German Cultural Council. Here as PDF:
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The main topic comprehensively shows the diversity of photographic media. Authors from member associations of the German Photo Council wrote articles on photocultural heritage, photography as an art form, the history of photographic technology, photography in books, professional and amateur photography, the genre of street photography and gender stereotypes in photography.
For the umbrella organisation, the cooperation is part of its bid to be accepted as an independent section in the German Cultural Council. After the last general meeting of the Cultural Council could not yet agree on a unified stance towards the newcomers, a decision on the application is to be made in September this year.
The German Photo Council, founded in 2021, already represents all areas of photography with the long-established photography associations Deutsche Fotografische Akademie (DFA), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh), BFF - Berufsverband Freier Fotografen und Filmgestalter (professional association of freelance photographers and film designers) as well as FREELENS: art, photojournalism, documentation, design and advertising as well as science, mediation and education.
True to its vision of becoming the first newly founded section since the establishment of the Cultural Council 40 years ago, the Fotorat is expanding its membership from now on. Already at the first online annual meeting on 1 March 2022, two more nationwide photography associations and societies were newly admitted: the BVAF - Bundesverband Architekturfotografie e.V. and Fotobus e.V..
The members of the German Photo Council also adopted new rules of procedure and elected their spokespersons and deputies for the first time.
The spokespersons are Julia Laatsch (FREELENS) and Anna Gripp (DGPh);
The deputies are Christian Klant (BFF) and Ingo Taubhorn (DFA).
Thus, all founding associations and at the same time different areas of the medium are represented: from photographic professional practice, journalism and education to artistic photography.
The Deutscher Fotorat is already in talks with other interested associations.
"We are enormously pleased about the interest, and about the fact that after long years of discussion, there is now movement on the question of how photography, which now touches every area of our lives, can also be given a voice in cultural policy," says spokesperson Anna Gripp.
Contact for enquiries:
post@deutscher-fotorat.de
