Fotograf Magazine

I assume that people have had the same feeling all over the globe, in various places and at various times. Photographers – today rather ‘artists working with photography’ – curators, critics and art historians with a focus on photography all have the increasing feeling that they lack a platform for the confrontation of visual and textual information trends from the field, a place for an active exchange of opinions and information. I imagine how all these people, who still do not know that they are connected in any way, for a long time push this idea into the background and try to make do with their own projects, their cameras and laptops, their libraries conscientiously supplemented with the latest catalogues and publications from their ever rapidly developing field. Maybe some of them, from time to time, try to find the desired platform in the existing commercial or amateur photography journals, of which there are so many all over the world. I assume that this attempt throws them back into a state of hopelessness. Then somewhere, at some point, a series of coincidences, an encounter between the right people at the right time, results in a change and gives the impetus to the founding of a journal that will fulfil that expectation and resist the overwhelming power of commercialism and populism.