About the photographers agency Ostkreuz

Ostkreuz is a Berlin photographer agency with an attached image archive. Its name is derived from the traffic junction of the same name in Berlin. Ostkreuz was founded in 1990 by seven photographers. The founding was preceded by an initiative by Stern photo journalist Petra Göllnitz. Sibylle Bergemann, Ute and Werner Mahler, Jens Rötzsch, Harald Hauswald, Thomas Sandberg and Harf Zimmermann were important photographers in the GDR. The Parisian photo agency Magnum was the model for visual language and the cooperative professional organization.

Photographers at the agency Ostkreuz, their photo books and photo books with their works

The Ostkreuz agency currently has 22 members (as of October 2020): Sibylle Bergemann, Jörg Brüggemann, Espen Eichhöfer, Sibylle Fendt, Johanna-Maria Fritz, Annette Hauschild, Harald Hauswald, Heinrich Holtgreve, Tobias Kruse, Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler, Dawin Meckel, Thomas Meyer, Frank Schinski, Jordis A. Schlösser, Ina Schoenenburg, Anne Schönharting, Linn Schröder, Stephanie Steinkopf, Mila Teshaieva, Heinrich Völkel, Maurice Weiss, Sebastian Wells


HC, 15 x 20 cm., 128 pp., 100 ills., bilingual text: German / ENglish
0,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
'Sibylle' showcases photographers, fashion- & graphic designers, models, writers as well as its political & sociocultural background of almost 50 year long publishing history as the definitive publication on an important chapter of German media history.
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2nd printrun, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 28,5 cm., 84 pp., 39 ills., Ltd to 100 signed & numbered copies (156 copies in total)
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The pictures contained in 'Promising Waters' by ukrainian photographer Mila TESHAIEVA show an atmosphere of uncertainty in which people place their hopes on a transformation whose direction remains uncertain. Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award 2012.
9,90 € * Weight 0.8 kg
The photographs by Sibylle BERGEMANN illustrate the volume 'Himmelhölle Manhattan' by Irene Runge, which was published in the former GDR in the late 1980s. Classic street photography that captures the events of the day - with a dash of social criticism.
34,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
In discreet and yet intimate photographs, Sibylle FENDT tells in 'Gärtners Reise' a love story of growing apart, finding each other again, and then disappearing. The images are not documents of the trip but symbols for a journey into unknown territory.
35,00 € *
Photo book 'Autobahn' by Berlin based Ostkreuz photographer Jörg BRÜGGEMANN contains color photographs of German motorways that were taken between 2014 and 2019. It questions the present and future significance of the achievement from the Weimar Republic.
from 38,00 € Weight 1.2 kg
In 'Papa, Gerd und der Nordmann', Ostkreuz photographer Espen EICHHÖFER explores central questions about his origins: Where do I come from? Where am I at home? What is home? His photos were taken between 2009 & 2019 on vacation trips to his Norwegian home
38,00 € *
The long-time project by the Ostkreuz photographer documents the emptiness of the refugee accommodation H8 - not a place, but only a street and a stream in the middle of the forest. Three years behind closed curtains - outside the beautiful Black Forest.
38,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
In 'Daughters of Magic' Ostkreuz agency photographer FRITZ documents Mihaela Minca, the most powerful witch in Romania. Magic & mysticism are part of everyday life in her Roma family & closely knit community, witchcraft is an expression of female strength
38,00 € *