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Thank you for taking the time to find out more about me and my work.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
In short<\/b>: I like to create narratives, primarily visual, and often with materials I unearthed in places that have had some form of conflict.<\/p>\n
These narratives could be a small photo series published in a book, a large-scale archive research with institutional support for a web platform or an artistic rendition of a subject close to my heart that I turn into an exhibition.<\/p>\n
Hashtags to describe me would be #storyteller #conservator #publisher #traveller #photographer #maker #rethinker #afghanboxcameraproject #fraglichpublishing #myanmarphotoarchive #recollective<\/p>\n
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In a few more words<\/b>: My grandfather and father were both very much into making things, documenting their world with a camera and exploring other cultures. Although they did not become professional photographers or voyageurs, their lives were very much engaged with their passions, and my father had passed these onto me from a very young age. I reflected on this deep influence in the project FERNWEH<\/a> with the help of curator Natasha Christia.<\/p>\n
My research in Afghanistan, alongside Irish Ethnographer Sean Foley, and the subsequent book, Afghan Box Camera<\/a>, has allowed me to give a voice to Afghan photographers and have inspired a global audience to keep a vanishing form of fascinating image making alive. This research has lead to a further publication titled Photo Peshawar<\/a> exploring photo culture in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan. Sean and I first collaborated in 2005 on a project called Kafkanistan<\/a>, a mixture of documentary materials and performance on tourism to conflict zones around Afghanistan. We released a book, films and a travelling exhibition. <\/p>\n
While living in Beijing, I produced a photo series titled Polaroids from the Middle Kingdom.<\/a> A reflection on how I experienced the rapidly changing Chinese society.<\/p>\n
The materials and experiences I collect through my extensive travels around the globe are transformed into everything from artist books to sculptural objects and are merged with Polaroid images, prose writing, and poetry or anything else I might come across. In x=y<\/a> \u2013 an ongoing project conceived from another travel experience at a border crossing in Iran, I started to explore the concept of crafted identities\u2026 since 2008 I have created more than 100 identifications and have used some of them. The project also culminated in a book.<\/a><\/p>\n
I co-founded the Austro Sino Arts Program<\/a> in China with Karel Dudesek in 2009. We published 5 annual books and organised exhibitions, film festivals, and large-scale installations across China and Hong Kong. In Yogyakarta, Indonesia we founded SewonArtSpace<\/a> \u2013 a residency program that hosts artists from our native Austria and other countries, creating a space for collaboration with the local arts-community in 2013.<\/p>\n
Having always been interested in books and book-making I started my own publishing house in 2007; Fraglich Publishing<\/a>. In the first 10 years I released sporadically books and zines of my own work and research. In the last years, I invested a lot more energy into the publishing house and started to release books by other authors with a focus on photographic history as well. Examples of books released so far are: G\u00fclistan<\/a>, Chongqing Souvenir<\/a>, Fernweh \u2013 a man\u2019s journey<\/a>, My name is Noor Mohammad Khan,<\/a> My Universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n
My main efforts these days go into the Myanmar Photo Archive<\/a> \u2013 an endeavour to re-interpret and tell the story of Myanmar\u2019s photographic history. I started to collect photographs around the country in 2013 and have since gathered more than 20.000 images. I set up exhibitions and publish books locally in Yangon. Franz Xaver Augustin (former director of the Goethe-Institut<\/a>) and Christophe Loviny (director of the Yangon Photo Festival<\/a>) have been great supporters of these public displays. Currently, I am working on a bilingual archive platform and App that will allow public access to the entire archive; currently the largest in the world. This will be the first time that the Burmese public will have an open resource to their recent photographic history. The project is supported by the Goethe-Institut and the European Union \u2013 the website is no online www.myanmarphotoarchive.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Books released in Myanmar so far are: Burmese Photographers<\/a> \/ One year in Yanon 1978<\/a> \/ U Than Maung<\/a> \/ Reproduced<\/a> \/ Irene \u2013 a Burmese Icon<\/a> \/ Yangon Fashion 1979<\/a><\/p>\n
I am also working on a community platform for Box Camera Photographers around the world www.boxcameranow.com. <\/a>This is a project growing out of my research on Box Camera Photography in several countries. The book is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Projects: www.myanmarphotoarchive.org<\/a> \/ www.fraglich.com<\/a> \/ www.afghanboxcamera.com<\/a> \/ www.boxcameranow.com<\/a>\/ www.sewonartspace.org<\/a> \/ www.austrosinoartsprogram.org<\/a> <\/p>\n
Publications: Kafkanistan \u2013 tourism to conflict zones<\/a> \/ Afghan Box Camera<\/a> \/ Polaroids from the Middle Kingdom<\/a> \/ 35 Bilder Krieg<\/a> \/ Photo Peshawar<\/a>\/ Burmese Photographers<\/a>\/ G\u00fclistan<\/a> \/ Chongqing Souvenir<\/a><\/p>\n