photography – Munich Artists

February 22, 2017February 22, 2017

Picter- A New Photo Submissions Platform

Guess what I got in my email today? A new submission platform for photographers.

PICTER

Picter is a new project by the creators of Der Greif. The platform allows photographers to manage their submissions to different open calls. The program is in Beta mode and currently has nine open calls for you to submit photographs.

Archive 01-09 from THE SMELL OF DUST on Vimeo. (One of the projects looking for submissions.)

Please Give Picter feedback so that it can grow up to be like FilmFreeway.

FILMFREEWAY

If you are into films or writing screenplays try using the website Filmfreeway. I talked to munich-based cinematographer Markus Ziegler and this is the platform he likes using. There are currently more than 5000 festivals to choose from with a little under 300 having no submissions fees.

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INSPIRATION

If you need inspiration, to get you motivated to enter some photography or film or writing competitions, watch Markus Ziegler’s video series. Markus spent 100 days creating short videos each day based on a favourite phrase from Pulp Fiction.

After spending more than three months creating the videos, Markus is now ready to think about submitting The Markus Situation to festivals.

September 27, 2016

Guest Post – Nir Avner – Dog Photography

We love dogs and are happy to share with you Nir Avner‘s dog photography.

Artist Nir Avner

Nir sent this group of photographs to Munich Artists when we asked artists to help out during the summer holidays with guest posts.

If you are a Munich Artist and you want to help me out during the winter Holiday season you are welcome to submit portfolios for review.

I would like to focus on photography and print work (screenprinting, lithographs, linocuts, risographs & monoprints.) for the holiday weeks.

You can send photos to emmy at kyfio dot com through a we transfer or dropbox share. If you are a street artist, video artist or jewellery artist you are also welcome to submit work. I will share the photos along with your website address.

May 5, 2016May 20, 2016

Stroke Art Fair 2016 – Part II

PART II go here for Part I

Walk past the ISPO installation and enter the Ponyhof artclub room Displayed on the back wall are a few very large pieces. The one below is priced under 7000 Euro. All the pieces by the artist Jakub Hubalek are monochromatic and I took a photo of the female portrait and a group scene. They both look like they are based on old photographs. They look pretty straight forward but if you need more of a story, talk to the gallerist.

Artwork by Jakub Hubalek Stroke Art Fair 2016

In the same room, there are these two concrete blocks that I would have lugged home if I was looking for big sculptural pieces for a larger flat. I like Valentina Murabito’s technique and the way she executed the work.

Stroke Art Fair 2016 – Valentina Murabito – Analog photograph, photoemulsion on Concrete

INNERFIELDS

The artwork below is by Innerfields and I love Innerfields’ work. Innerfields is a group of three street artists with a studio practice. The cool thing about this group is that all three work on the artworks together and it really is seamless. The work isn’t a collage of styles together but an Innerfields style. The collection this year seems to be focused on the absence of the technology gadget – Let your brain insert the data. Please don’t miss them. The three artists are present I think. I saw two of them wandering around yesterday so I’m assuming the trio made the trip down from Berlin.

HNRX

We saw his work in two locations. We’ve talked to HNRX and we want to make sure he continues making art so go buy some of his artwork.

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Provenzano Fine Art

Below is an artwork brought all the way from Brazil. The gallery is on the bottom floor of the main building in a corridor gallery space. I really liked the work of Nick Alive but he didn’t fly to Munich from Brazil. You are welcome to talk to the two very friendly gallerists who are present and the other artists in the booth. I don’t have a price for you.. I think this piece was under 1k Euro.

FullSizeRender (5) — Nick Alive -Brazilian Artist at Stroke Art Fair 2016

For the Artists. If you are part of Munich Artists or a Munich Artist and I didn’t capture your pretty face, I’m sorry. I didn’t realise there would be so many of you! I went on the press tour and you or your artwork were not there yet or, you were so busy I didn’t get to talk with you, or, you didn’t scream at me to stop and pay attention. I’m sorry. I love all Munich Artists and I’m encouraging people to go find you at the fair but, because of International Print Day, I don’t know if I will make it back out to the Island so we will have to do a little game planning for next year.

For collectors. I did a quick breakdown of the galleries present.

14 galleries/art collectives are from Munich.
10 galleries are from other areas of Germany.
2 galleries are from Switzerland.
10 galleries are from Turkey, UK, Netherlands, Brazil, Spain and the US. (Numbers are approximate, I’m an artist not an accountant.)

You will find excellent artwork at the fair and I’ve shown you photos of some of my favourites that were hanging or displayed when I walked with the press tour.

You will be happy with most of the prices. I’m not a big fan of paying high prices for unknown artists even those I love. When you go, buy what you love and can afford. There is plenty of artwork to choose from and many of the artists have created artwork that is small and can be carted home on the subway without leaving you with a hole in your pocket. (Except for Valentina Murabitos Cement rectangles. You will need a forklift to get those home.)

If you are looking for more international artists, you may get a tad grumpy. I pointed out the artists from Paris, Brazil, Turkey and Spain and you can hunt down the Polish and British & Dutch artists.

If you are a street artist and I didn’t say hello, please email me and I will go photograph your work on the streets of Munich, Germany and share it on the website. If you are a street artist and you didn’t create street art pieces while in Munich…. shame on you.

Have fun everyone this weekend. I wish the artists amazing sales and I wish the collectors a good art hunt.

November 4, 2015October 29, 2015

Guest Post: Peter Untermaierhofer – Lost Italy

Below are photographs from Peter Untermaierhofer’s Lost Italy Series. If you are interested in seeing more of Peter’s work, visit his website.

Peter published a book and a calendar sharing his photography (calendar is available for 20 Euro plus shipping from his website.) Peter’s book may be purchased here.

If you want to follow Peter on Facebook, like his Facebook page.

October 30, 2015October 29, 2015

Emmy Horstkamp -Walking Through Munich on an Autumn Day

I will miss you. But, I will be back in one week.

While I’m gone, Munich Artists will be sharing their artwork in guest posts. If you have any questions, you can email me at emmy@kyfio.com.

I will be connected on Instagram sharing photographs from NYC. Regular blogging will start again when I return on November 7th or 8th.

Emmy Horstkamp - Walk though Munich October 30 2015 — Emmy Horstkamp – Walk though Munich October 30 2015

October 26, 2015October 27, 2015

Feeling a Need For Black And White? Hubert Juranek Photography May Do The Trick

Auf Null – Hubert Juranek

To see his current work, walk over to Munique Art located at Schleißheimerstr. 26. They are not open on Mondays so don’t wander over there today. How about going to his finissage on Thursday starting at 1600. Brigitte Pruchnow has painted Hubert so you will recognize him if you have seen her paintings.

October 8, 2015October 8, 2015

Roy Hessing Hunts Down ShabbyShabby Apartments in Munich, Germany

Shabbyshabby Apartments ist ein Kunstprojekt der Münchner Kammerspiele, von raumlaborberlin und ARTE Creative. In Zusammenarbeit mit der Technischen Universität München, Fakultät für Architektur. Gefördert durch die Bundeszentrale für politische Bil — Foto: Roy Hessing
Apartment: BESENKAMMER

Have you seen those strange little buildings around town? I see the one above every time I head into the office. At first I thought it was a hunter’s perch transplanted by some Bayerish teenagers into town. Then I saw the one below at Gartnerplatz and knew something was up.

If you have not seen them, you have until October 13th to hunt them down and snap a photo for your personal use. Roy Hessing has permission to snap photos from the organisation and is sharing the photos on his Flickr account. I asked Roy if we could share his photos on the website and he said yes which made me super happy. (You know Roy, he published a book about Munich Street art and will be creating one of the art books for Munich Artists about art studios.)

Here are a few of Roy Hessings Photos of ShabbyShabby Apartments Munich. If you want to see all of them, please visit his Flickr account.

Interested in seeing the inside of the spaces? You can rent the apartments until October 13, 2015. The cost of renting the space is 35 Euro for one person and 28 Euro per person if there is two people in the space. You can contact the box office Munich Kammerspiele at Maximilianstr. 28, 80539 to reserve a space or call them at 089/233/97224.

Here is some background text about the project:

Munich is not always part of the avant-garde, but with the prices for living space it has reached European top level. Many people pay more than 50% of Their Income For their apartment. Residents without a continuous cash flow are Endangered always having to leave the city. It is hard for Small Businesses to survive. Most artists can not afford a studio. No one can afford to hang out in public space. Currently the real estate market drains our cities from everything we love about them, CityLife Becomes shopping life, Becomes WorkWorkWork.

Shabbyshabby Apartments is not an answer to this problem, it’s asking questions: How can we remain lazy, creative, political, helpful and Charlie? How can we show hospitality? Should architects go on building for the market? We need low cost housing in our cities. Space is not a luxury – space but a necessity! Housing Should be a Public Value That Relates to other common goods. We have to reinvent the idea of housing, ground and soil. We need new ways to build without using up the world’s resources. We have to find ways to to work and live together, to welcome people, to make experiments.

Want to know more? Go visit the shabbyshabby Apartment project website and Facebook page. I’m sure we will be seeing more of this kind of project as the prices of property in Munich keeps going up, up, up!

( Thank you universe for bringing this interesting project to Munich, Germany.)

October 2, 2015October 2, 2015

Munich Artists Friday Gallery – Chris Tomas – Writer / Photographer

For the Friday Gallery project 3.0, Munich Artists will be selecting a Munich Artist and sharing their artwork in a gallery on our front page. For October we chose Chris Tomas. Chris has a studio located at Max Weber Platz 9 in Haidhausen and her main art focus is photography.

Q: Why are you a Munich Artist?

A: I’m an artist so I can leave something in this world when I leave myself… one day.

Q: Why are you in Munich, Germany?

A: All my attempts to go away have failed. There is always some U-turn that brings me back to Munich.

Q: What is your favourite idiom?

A: “Sitzfleisch” = Sit-flesh. Sitzfleisch is the ability to endure boring or difficult situations – or just long bar nights.

The following images will be in a gallery on the front page of Munich Artists during the Month of October. If you would like to see more artwork by Chris Tomas, please let me know. If you would like to see a few more photos by Chris Tomas, visit her website.

chris tomas – am strand #1 dutch coast in november digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas – am strand #1
dutch coast in november
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas -- wiese backyard scene close to the swiss border digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas — wiese
backyard scene close to the swiss border
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas – valparaíso #3 house in valparaíso, chile digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas – valparaíso #3
house in valparaíso, chile
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas – valparaíso #2 house in valparaíso, chile digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas – valparaíso #2
house in valparaíso, chile
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas – valparaíso #1 house in valparaíso, chile digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas – valparaíso #1
house in valparaíso, chile
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas -- park park in mostar, seen from snipers’ tower digital photopraphy -- 2013 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas — park
park in mostar, seen from snipers’ tower
digital photopraphy — 2013 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas -- licht street lamp in shymkent, kazakhstan digital photopraphy -- 2015 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas — licht
street lamp in shymkent, kazakhstan
digital photopraphy — 2015 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas -- dort alpine trail in march digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas — dort
alpine trail in march
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas – am strand #4 dutch coast in november digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas – am strand #4
dutch coast in november
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas – am strand #3 dutch coast in november digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas – am strand #3
dutch coast in november
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas – am strand #2 dutch coast in november digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas – am strand #2
dutch coast in november
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas – adria -- silba fishing cutter mirroring in the sea digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas – adria — silba
fishing cutter mirroring in the sea
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas – adria -- mate fishing cutter mirroring in the sea digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas – adria — mate
fishing cutter mirroring in the sea
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas -- adria - marea fishing cutter mirroring in the sea digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas — adria – marea
fishing cutter mirroring in the sea
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

chris tomas -- adria - kapo #1 fishing cutter mirroring in the sea digital photopraphy -- 2014 -- 1/10 price on request, depending on size — chris tomas — adria – kapo #1
fishing cutter mirroring in the sea
digital photopraphy — 2014 — 1/10
price on request, depending on size

The application form for submitting your work can be found here. You must be an artist in Munich actively working as an artist and we must have met for you to be chosen. There are no exceptions. If you have not met me, you are welcome to make an appointment for after November 10, 2015. For this project, I will select only 12 artists and November is already filled.

September 21, 2015September 21, 2015

Walking Along – Munich Artists Play on the Road – 30 day Challenge Day 21

Happy Monday! Here is the image for today’s challenge.

unsplash-photo-boardwalk — photo for day 22 – boardwalk

If you are following along with the challenge, you can find the list of images on our challenge page.

Over the weekend, the artists created artwork based on a photo of a desktop and of a man walking on the road. Below, you can see the images of their creations. If you would like to share your work, you are welcome to join our challenge group where artists are posting their work.

Munich Artists Emmy Horstkamp - Man walking into Crazy - road — Munich Artists Emmy Horstkamp – Man walking into Crazy – road

Munich Artists Angelica Zeller-Michaelson - Road — Munich Artists Angelica Zeller-Michaelson – Road

Munich Artists Gabriela Popp - Road — Munich Artists Gabriela Popp – Road

Munich Artists Michael Pitschke - Road — Munich Artists Michael Pitschke – Road

Munich Artists Bobbie Dunn Komarek - Worry - Road — Munich Artists Bobbie Dunn Komarek – Worry – Road

Munich Artists Gabriela Popp - Desktop — Munich Artists Gabriela Popp – Desktop

Munich Artists Angela Josupeit - Desktop — Munich Artists Angela Josupeit – Desktop

Munich Artists Michael Pitschke - Desktop — Munich Artists Michael Pitschke – Desktop

Munich Artists Bobbie Dunn Komarek - desktop — Munich Artists Bobbie Dunn Komarek – desktop

Munich Artists Emmy Horstkamp - Desktop — Munich Artists Emmy Horstkamp – Desktop

Munich Artists Katrin Klug - Road - — Munich Artists Katrin Klug – Road

Munich Artists Angelica Zeller Michaelson - Desktop — Munich Artists Angelica Zeller Michaelson – Desktop

September 9, 2015

Day 10 Behind Door Number 3 Tell Me What You See – Three Red Doors – Munich Artists 30 Day Photo Inspired Challenge

Day 10-masse-hall-three-doors-woman-walking — Day 10 Three red doors

Today’s image focuses on a woman and three red doors. I’m overdosing on iphone app spiel so I might have to wait until later to post my version of this image. I will either go offline and cut up images or work in photoshop today. I hoped I could go thirty days of just iphone app filters and layering but 9 days seems to be my limit.

If you are interested in joining the challenge, you can find the images on our challenge page along with a few rules. We have a Facebook group where you can post your work and we share some of the images on the website.

Here are a few of the images from yesterday’s girl at the subway:

Munich Artists- Brigitte Hoppstock – Day 9 – Girl on Subway

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Munich Artists Bobbie Dunn-Komarek – Day 9 – Girl on Subway

Munich Artists Michael Pitschke – Day 9 – Girl on Subway

Munich Artists Bernhard Rusch – Day 9 – Girl on Subway

Munich Artists Katrin Klug – Day 9 – Girl on Subway

Munich Artists Sam Malviya – Day 9 – Girl on Subway

Munich Artists Nia Leitl – Day 9 – Girl on Subway

Munich Artists – Emmy Horstkamp – Day 9 Girl on Subway

Munich Artists Angela Josupeit – Day 9 – Girl on Subway

Munich Artists Gabriela Popp – Day 9 – Girl at Subway

Munich Artists Dean Pasch – Day 9 – Girl at Subway

Munich Artists Angelica Zeller Michaelson – Day 9 – Girl on Subway

September 7, 2015September 7, 2015

Day 8 – Mirror Mirror Show Me What You See – Munich Artists Photo Inspired Challenge

Here is the image for you to play with today.

Day 8 -sukanto-debnath- — Day 8 – Mirrors

I’ve found over the last few days, that I can play for about an hour on my iphone creating layered pieces using the photos from the challenge. Before this weekend, I was capping myself at ten minutes but, on Saturday, I was waiting at the airport for a delayed flight and had time on my hands and now I can’t stop myself. I must try to see how many different version I can make before becoming saturated by two images which is about an hour.

Today, I took the photo of the mirrors and combined it with the previous photo of the disk and water. I put the photos into the following iphone apps: snapseed,Fused, Multi Expo and PicLabHD. Over and Over and Over again. I will share my experiments with you on my personal blog later today since they are quite a few of them.

If you would like to participate in the challenge, head over to the challenge page and read the rules. All the images we are using as inspiration are from the creative commons and you have full permission to do what you want with them (Even in Germany.) If you would like to share your work, please join our Facebook Challenge group. I will pick a photo to share from each day on instagram and will upload a gallery to the Challenge FB page and the Munich Artists website.

Here are some of the images from Day 7 of the challenge:

Munich Artists -Bobbie Dunn – Komarek – Day 7 Hats

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Munich Artists Katrin Klug – Day 7 – Hats

Munich Artists – Gabriela Popp – Day 7 – Hats

Munich Artists Bernhard Rusch – Day 7 – Hats

Munich Artists – Michael Pitschke – Day 7 – Hats

Munich Artists – Emmy Horstkamp – Hats – Day 7

Munich artists – Dean Pasch – Day 7 – Hats

Munich Artists Angela Josupeit – Hats – day 7

Munich Artists Sam Malviya – Day 7 – hats

September 6, 2015September 6, 2015

Day 7 – Take Off Your Hat and Stay Awhile – Munich Artists Photo Inspired Challenge

This is an illustrated images found in the creative commons on Flickr. The creative commons on Flickr offers an interesting archive of photos offered to the public by different cultural institutions from around the world. Sometimes you need to refer to the originating organisation and sometimes you don’t. Check the rules for each image on Flickr before using them on the internet or in your art projects.

Did you enjoy creating an image with the beach and the mailbox?

Here are the Galleries from Day 5 and 6. If you would like to participate in the challenge, please check out our challenge page. If you would like to share your completed artwork with us, please join our Facebook group.

Day 5

Munich Artists Bobbie Dunn Komarek – Day 5 – Mailbox

Munich Artists Brigitte Hoppstock – Day 5 – Mailbox

Munich Artists – Gabriela Popp – Day 5 – Mailbox

Munich Artists Michael Pitschke – Day 5 – Mailbox

Munich Artists Bartolome – Day 5 – Mailbox

Munich Artists Sam Malviya – Day 5 Mailbox

Munich Artists Nia Leitl – Day 5 – Mailbox

Munich Artists Dean Pasch – Day 5 – Mailbox

Munich Artists Angela Josupeit – Day 5 – Mailbox

Munich Artists Emmy Horstkamp- Day 5 – Mailbox

Munich Artists Bernhard Rusch – Day 5 – Mailbox

Day 6

Munich Artists Dean Pasch – Day 6 – Beach

Munich Artists Angela Josupeit – Day 6 – Beach

Munich Artists Michael Pitschke – Day 6 – Beach

Munich Artists Emmy Horstkamp – Day 6 – Beach

Munich Artists Gabriela Popp – Day 6 – Beach

Munich Artists Bobbie Dunn Komarek – Day 6 – Beach

Munich Artists Sam Malviya – Day 6 – Beach

September 2, 2015September 2, 2015

Day 3 Munich Artists Challenge – Spinning Wheels Go Round Even in the Rain

Welcome to day 3 of our 30 day challenge. Here is the image for today. A ferris wheel.

It is a wet and soggy day in Munich and as I walked passed my neighbour’s car, I saw this little guy making his way through the raindrops. I decided to use him for the digital collage today. This was done on my iphone 6 plus using snapseed for color and Multi expo to combine the two photos.

Yesterday, Munich Artists created some great images using the hands. Here are a few examples:

Munich Artists Brigitte Hoppstock

Munich Artists Gabriela Popp – Day 2 Hands

Munich Artists Brigitte Hopptsock- Hands – Day 2

Munich Artists Sam Malviya Day 2 – Hands

Munich Artists Michael Pitschke day 2 hands

Munich Artists Nia Leitl – Day 2 – Hands

Munich Artists – Angela Josupeit – Hands – Day 2

Munich Artists – Edina Fischer – Day 2 – Hands

Holger Kern – Day 2 – Hands

Munich Artists – Gabriela Popp-hands day 2

Munich Artists Bobbie Dunn – Komarek – Hands

Munich Artists Dagmar Bartolome Day 2 Hands

Munich Artists Emmy Horstkamp Day 2 Hands

September 1, 2015

Day 2 Munich Artists 30 Day challenge – Photo and Illustration Inspiration

Day 2. Can you see them? All nestled together in a pair of protective hands. The image above inspired me to illustrate this idea of trust and protection and I will be working on this after I finish working my day job. I’ve set myself a time limit of one hour to finish an art piece each day that is offline. My digital art pieces have a time limit of ten minutes. I could spend hours tweaking colors and layers in photoshop but I wanted to challenge and encourage you to take a coffee break and create a piece of digital art. By sharing artwork that I do in ten minutes using iphone apps, you can feel free to play with your photos while sipping your coffee and sharing your mini masterpieces with me on social media.

Please remember that when you create artwork using iphone apps some of the images are small in size and will not reproduce well when printed. If you want to import the images into photoshop, you will be limited on how large you can make a printed piece. If you are going to spend hours working on a digital piece, make sure the resolution and file sizes are appropriate for your intended output (digital web presentation, printing, publishing offline). Because I know the files are too small to use for large digital art pieces, I set myself a time limit of 10 minutes so that I’m happy with the art piece and don’t feel like I’ve wasted my time.

If you would like to participate in the current 30 day challenge, please read the rules of our Munich Artists challenge page and don’t worry that we already started. We are flexible. The point of the challenges is to set the goal to create artwork everyday. Someday you may actually reach this goal. Luckily, I live in Munich, Germany where artists are inspired to create even during the holiday season and artists like, Michael Pitschke, have been creating artwork everyday for years.

Below are a few of the photos shared in our Facebook group. I’ve created a group specifically for our challenges and you are welcome to join the group and share your artwork there. I’ve created a Public Page where I will also share the artwork. Please remember, any artwork you share with me, will be used for social media and may go into our challenge book series.

Have fun creating. I look forward to seeing your artwork.

Munich Artists Manuela Illera – Windows – Day 1

Munich Artists Sam Malviya – Windows

Munich Artists Bobbie Dunn-Komarek – Windows- Day 1

Munich ArtistsMichael Pitschke- Windows- Day 1

Munich Artists Angela Josupeit – Windows- Day 1

Munich Artists – Emmy Horstkamp- Windows – Day 1

August 31, 2015

Day 1 – Munich Artists 30 Day Photography and Illustration Challenge

8-unsplash-photos-orange-windows — Click on the photo and you will go to the media file. Once you get to the media file, save image to your desktop. (please only do this with photos from this challenge.)

Our 30 day photography and illustration challenge starts today. I will be posting examples of the two art pieces I create today on our instagram feed tomorrow. If you would like to participate in the challenge, please read through the challenge page. If you are an artist in Munich, you can submit your work to our closed Facebook group. If you are an artist from some other region of the world, you are welcome to join the challenge group and post your work there.

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This challenge can be difficult or it can be very easy depending on whether you decide to collage two photos using Multi Expo or PicLabHD or if you decide to dedicate a few hours and create artwork offline. For this challenge, I will be creating a digital art piece and also creating a piece offline.

Our last challenge was a photo self portrait challenge. I will be posting the gallery of images later this week. If you want to see the themes for the self portrait challenge, you can check out the self portrait challenge page.

August 24, 2015August 25, 2015

Munich Artists Challenge Starts Monday August 31st

Are you Ready? Below are the photos for the challenge. You can download the photos from the Munich Artists Photo Inspired Art Challenge page.

Please read through the challenge.

We are using creative commons photos so you have permission to use the photos to create artwork without referencing the artist. There is only one image by a German photographer in the extra photos where you will need to reference the German photographer in the final art piece you create. She is the only photographer you need to specifically reference. Everyone else has released their rights to the images so you can play with them as much as you want without using their names. I picked the photos from the Creative Commons on Flickr and from a weekly email I get from Unsplash. We will be doing this challenge again next year so if you want us to use your photos, you can send them to me and I will put them in a special file for the challenge.

All finished art pieces which are sent to me, may be shared on Facebook, Instagram and Pintrest and other social media channels and associated websites. If you do not want to have your artwork shared, please do not send it to me. If you have any questions, you can email me at emmy@kyfio.com with the subject line – photo inspired art challenge.

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unsplash-kazuend-man-walking-on-road

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Day 23 women-in-an-air-balloon

Portrait

Day 24 – Hands

day 7- hats

Day 14-women-at-lunch-machine

Day 4 – illustration –

Day 8 – Mirrors

Day 30 Clouds

Day 9 Subway Girl

Day 10 Three red doors

day 26-lake-mountain-twighlight-photo

day 17-unsplash-child-running-on-tracks

day 20-daisy-flower-from-underneath

Extra 4- swimmer-on-the-river

Day 29-surfer-

photo by Sandra Druschke -check-in, Hyatt Düsseldorf (German Photographer) Must reference her as photographer

August 23, 2015March 14, 2016

Munich Artists 30 day Challenge – Photo Inspired Art – Photography and Illustration Challenge

The next challenge starts on Monday August 31, 2015

Our next Munich Artists 30 day Challenge Begins on August 31, 2015 and will combine photography and illustration. There are no limitations on the way you use the photographs I’m providing you. There are backup photographs just in case the assigned photograph does not inspire you. You can use any of the extra photographs once each during the 30 day Challenge.

The theme for the day is the composition of the photograph. For A few options include:

Combining different photographs digitally – Take your own photograph and the photograph that I am providing you and photoshop them or, use a program on your smart phone to layer the photos like the image below:

Munich Artists Angela Josupeit Subway — Munich Artists – Angela Josupeit Subway

Combining different photographs collage – Print out the photograph and then use the photograph within your photo composition like this:

Artist Emmy Horstkamp Plan B Dorothy — Artist Emmy Horstkamp – Plan B Dorothy – Collage

or like this:

Artist Ines Seidel – Hiding behind myself – Photograph

Combining photography and illustration – You can either download and draw directly on the photograph that I’ve provided you or create an illustration that combines elements of the photograph and then photograph it. Examples of this type of artwork include:

Ben Heine

and Neal Murren

Because of the flexibility of the challenge, artists can make art that takes minutes or hours depending on their schedule over the upcoming 30 days. I will try to make a simple piece and a more complicated piece each day.

The Instructions above will be on the challenge page starting on Monday August 24, 2015. I am providing you with the photographs a week in advance so you can prepare yourself for the challenge. Please do not post any images before the challenge day. I want to give your work my full attention and I can’t do that if it shows up out of order.

If you decide to participate in this challenge, your work will be shared on Facebook and Instagram and possibly printed in the Challenge book. I will not use it for any other purpose without your permission. If you do not want your work used, I would ask you to specifically state that when you post the image in our closed Facebook group or when you email it to me (why would you email me a photo if I can’t use it? That would be just silly. Don’t email me things I can’t use.)

All the photographs provided for this challenge are in the creative commons so you can do whatever you want with them. I do have one photograph that is by a German photographer so you will need to reference her name in your credits. I will use her piece in the extra photos. There are no other copyright restrictions on your final artwork except for your own personal copyright for the finished artwork.

Please remember this is to inspire and challenge you. I do not accept archival work as a submission but you can use archival photographs for your digital collaging. You must use the daily photograph or one of the Extras every day of the 30 day photo and illustration challenge.

I look forward to seeing your work!

August 16, 2015

The last self portrait

Dear Munich Artists,

I will miss seeing your faces but it feels great to be done!!!!!!

Thank you so much for creating photos with me for thirty days. I am really lucky to be surrounded by so many creative Munich Artists.
The next challenge starts August 31st. I will post the challenge page next Monday so you can mentally prepare yourself.

Have an awesome creative break. I hope you will join me starting on August 31st.

Hugs,

Emmy horstkamp

August 15, 2015August 15, 2015

Munich Artists Self Portrait Challenge – The Theme Today is Museum – Are You a Work of Art?

Nina Schmid is an Insomniac and spends many late nights creating art. For today’s museum theme, I assumed photos would trickle in when the museums opened but Munich Artists are more creative than that. When I woke up this morning there was already a photograph by Nina Schmid posted at 4 a.m. No musuem is open at 4a.m. Nina used her creativity and made herself one of the art pieces in the Schmid Museum of art. I like how she has all the angels pointing arrows at her head and how she incorporated the one element that goes against our whole challenge – the do not take photographs sign.

Nina has been setting the bar high for the other artists during this challenge which is exactly what I want artists to do. I want them to push each other and me to make more interesting artwork. Jeffrey Ely, Katrin Klug and Berit Opelt also excelled with the self portraits challenge sending in very unique shots and compositions. If you are new to our challenges, we post the challenge themes on a challenge page and then the artists share their work with us on our closed Facebook group. We have one day left in this challenge but you can still send in a photo if you want. I don’t mind people catching up, I just don’t want them working ahead or digging in their archives. If you are creative, you can be creative everyday for 30 days.

The last day to send in photos is tomorrow which is the last day of the challenge. I will be taking the challenge photos and creating a Munich Artists 30 day self portrait challenge book. I want to thank all the artists who participated in this challenge and their great contributions. I look forward to seeing more museum photos as the day progresses. (Now I’m going to head off and rethink my shot for this theme!)

One of Nina Schmid's nocturnal art pieces. Ladybug is watercolour the background is a print created using wallpaper and acrylic. — One of Nina Schmid’s nocturnal art pieces. Ladybug is watercolour the background is a print created using wallpaper and acrylic.

August 10, 2015August 10, 2015

Munich Self Portrait Challenge Day 26! Trams

Trams is the theme for today’s Munich Artists Self Portrait Challenge. The challenge goes on for 30 days so we have 4 more themes before we celebrate the end of the challenge.

We will be selecting images from the 30 days to be included in our Munich Artists Challenge book. It has been great to see how creative Munich Artists are with photography and I hope they continue to experiment with photography as a source of inspiration for their other artwork.

This morning, these shots came through my feed from Katrin Klug, Angela Josupeit, Nina Schmid and Jeffrey Ely. I look forward to seeing more images as the day progresses.

Munich Artists Katrin Klug Tram

Munich Artists Angela Josupeit Tram

Munich Artists Nina Schmid Tram

Munich Artists Jeffrey Ely Tram

August 5, 2015August 5, 2015

Day 19 Munich Artists Self Portrait Challenge – Square

The theme challenge for today is square. If you are following the Munich Artists self portrait challenge or would like to participate, check out the themes on our theme page. Here are a few squares that filled my inbox this morning.

Munich Artists Nina Schmid Square

Munich Artists Jeffrey Ely Square

Munich Artists – Katrin Klug Square

I’m still working on my idea for square. I took the photo this morning but I think I’m going to snap a few more throughout the day. If you are a Munich based artist, you can share your image in our closed group.

My initial idea for square was a city square or German “platz” but I know that we have artists living outside of the city limits who may not be able to find a city square to photograph. As you can see, leaving the interpretation open allows artists to get creative and send in some wonderful photographs to share with you.

Note: During the month of August, I will be working on our Munich Artists Self Portrait Challenge book and setting up the next challenge which Starts in September. If you have something specific you want to focus on, please let me know. We will have one or two more 30 day challenges this year and then we will do a few shorter challenges during the holiday season. (Maybe make them group photo events at different Christmas markets.)

August 4, 2015August 7, 2015

Day 18 Munich Artists self portrait challenge – paper

I laughed when the photos started coming in. Here is Gabriela Popp wearing a paper hat and hiding behind her morning read. I thought about making myself a paper smock but decided to bury myself in paper instead.

Brigitte Hoppstock chose to share a Haiku

I will add more photos after lunch.

If you are doing our 30 day self portrait challenge, the themes are on the challenge page.

Have a great day gathering paper and snapping photos. Maybe it will spur you to do a bit of good old fashion German cleaning.(Germans clean 2-4 hours a day. I would rather make art.)

August 3, 2015

Day 17 – Munich Artists Self Portrait Challenge -Trees

This morning, Nina Schmid and Katrin Klug sent in some great photos of themselves with trees. If you are participating in our 30 day self portrait challenge, today’s theme is… trees.

Munich Artists – Katrin Klug – Trees

Nina Schmid – Munich Artists – Trees

NOTE:

The month of August is Vlog everyday. I used to vlog quite a bit but then I stopped for personal reasons. For the month of August, I’m going to make short videos about Munich and share them on our Munich Artists Instagram feed and on Youtube. If you are a vlogger, let me know! I will be vlogging for Munich Artists, Vivamb and then my personal vlog during this month. All vlogging will be done on my iphone 6 plus because I don’t have time to play with final cut pro during my vacation!

August 2, 2015October 11, 2015

Day 16 – Munich Artists Self Portrait Challenge – Munich Artists Hit the Sidewalk

Munich Artists Jeffrey Ely - Sidewalk — Munich Artists Jeffrey Ely – Sidewalk

Happy Sunday. The rain didn’t stop Munich Artists from going outside and taking photos on the sidewalk. There are still plenty of hours in the day for you to go out and capture a unique selfie on the sidewalk. Don’t let the rain stop you!

We allow photoshop and app photos in this challenge so please go out and have some fun creating unique selfies. The only requirement that we have imposed is that the self portrait photograph must be taken on the day of the challenge. No archival photos should be used.

For my photo below, I used the multiexpo app on my iphone 6 plus. The raw shots are on my art website along with all the other versions I played with this morning. I have so many versions today because the app allows the user to merge 2 photos at a time and I had so much fun making different combinations from my photographs.

Nina used little toy men in two of her portrait shots and I was thinking it would be fun to make a challenge where we use lego/playmobil people and children’s toys. I saw a recent art exhibition where the artist took photographs of children’s toy trucks and cars. I really liked the idea of making that a 30 day challenge.

Thinking about the 30 day challenges, I thought we could do 30 different fruits and vegetables. 30 different books. 30 different household objects. 30 different locations in Munich. You get the idea. We are making our lists for future challenges inspired by Munich Artists. If you have a list of 30 that you want to try, let me know.

I also would like to do a graffiti challenge. If you have a favourite piece of street art, please let me know. I will need 30 pieces of long term street art for that challenge. (work that will be around awhile so it can’t be on the regular graffiti walls or be small sticker art.)

If you want to participate in the 30 day self portrait challenge, you can find the themes on our challenge page. If you would like to share a photo of your work, you can add it to the post on Facebook as a comment. If you are an artist in Munich, you can also share your photo in our Closed Facebook group.

Munich Artists – Jeffrey Ely – Sidewalk

Munich Artists – Nina Schmid Sidewalk

NOTE:

The Bavarian summer holidays started Friday which means that I will be spending more time away from Frauenstrasse 18 and hanging out in Sendling with my younger daughter. If you need to see me or discuss a project, please schedule an appointment. I look forward to seeing what you’ve created during your holidays!

July 30, 2015July 30, 2015

Day 13 and Munich Artists are into Music Big Time.

Day 13 and Munich Artists dug deep into their treasure troves and dusted off instruments, records and even some cassette tapes. If you want to follow along with our 30 day photo self portrait challenge, you can find the list here.

Today the weather is beautiful outside. If you want to take a little excursion, go GEMA’s office in Haidhausen and take a selfie with enormous instrumental sculptures in their courtyard outside. I’ve never been inside so I don’t know if they have sculptures inside. Directions are below our music photo gallery.

Munich Artists Jeffrey Ely – Music

Munich Artists Edina Fischer – Music

Munich Artists Angela Josupeit – Music

Munich Artists – Brigitte Hoppstock – Music

Munich Artists Sonia Boening music

Munich Artists Bernhard Rusch – Music

Munich Artists – Nina Schmid – Music

Munich Artists – Katrin Klug – Music

Munich Artists – Michael Pitschke – Music

Munich Artists Gabriela Popp – Music

Gema where are you? In Munich, GEMA’s instrumental sculptures are located here. Rosenheimer Str. 11, 81667 München. It is behind the Gasteig heading into Haidhausen. There are a few sculptures so go have fun snapping photos.

photo by Alessandro hansschnier

Alessandro took this shot.

July 29, 2015July 30, 2015

Day 12 Munich Artists Self Portrait Challenge – A Bag Maybe Even Your Own Bag

Nina Schmid submitted this great shot early this morning for our theme bags. Thanks Nina!

July 28, 2015July 28, 2015

Day 11 and We are Looking for Chairs – My Chair and Me is the Theme.

We are heading towards the midpoint of our challenge and the pressure is on to finish. Munich Artists are not breaking a sweat and sent in lots of photos today of themselves with chairs. If you want to join in on the fun, follow the themes on our 30 day self portrait challenge page. Look forward to hearing about your work on our Facebook page.

Angelica Zeller – Michaelson

Munich Artists – Michael Pitschke – Chair

Munich Artists – Katrin Klug- Chair

Munich Artists Davina Goldammer Utz

Munich Artists Brigitte Hoppstock

Munich Artists – Nir Avner – Chair

Munich Artists -Gabriele Rothweiler – chair

Munich Artists Edina Fischer – Chair

Munich Artists – Angela Josupeit – Chair

Munich Artists -Marianne Ward – chair

Munich Artists – Jeffrey Ely – Chair

Munich Artists – Bernhard Rusch – Chair

Emmy Horstkamp – Self Portrait Series -Chair

Munich Artists – Nina Schmid – Chair

Instructions to clean a Chair.

Munich Artists – Sonia Boening – Chair

Munich Artists – Gabriela Popp

Sara Serrano -Chair

July 27, 2015July 27, 2015

Day 10 – Daily Ritual

What is yours?

Munich Artists - Nina Schmid — Munich Artists – Nina Schmid

July 25, 2015July 25, 2015

Day 8 Good Morning. Good night. – Munich Artists 30 Day Self Portrait Challenge

I hope you enjoy our candid shots taken when artistic brains are not working at 110 percent.

Munich Artists – Michael Pitschke

Munich Artists – Nina Schmid

Munich Artists – Katrin Klug

Munich Artist – Isadora Romani

Munich Artist – Jeffrey Ely

Munich Artists – Angela Josupeit

Emmy Horstkamp – Self Portrait Series

Munich Artists – Gabriele Rothweiler

Munich Artists – Mariane Ward

Munich Artist – Gabriela Popp

Waking up to a stream of photos, I thought about the following phrase, “Because you know what I can do with my little finger.” This is a pop culture reference to the talent of the artists in the Munich Artists group. The classic quote would be Munich artists have more talent in their little fingers then ———- have in their whole bodies. Those are fighting words which is why I did not designate any particular city because Munich Artists are too laid back and happy to start having an ego fight about their talent and the talent of other artists. Munich Artists would rather create art and then go to the beer garden or down to the Isar or climb into a comfy bed.

If you feel like joining in on our photo challenge, you can find the themes here. For today, you can still take a photo of yourself before going to bed or if you are in America, waking up!

Today, I have to drive to the mountains so I can’t give the artists until noon but if they are getting up at noon, I know they are laid back enough not to care. Stay cool and create some great art today.

July 23, 2015

Day 6 Umbrella me please for the Munich Artists 30 Day Self Portrait Photo Challenge

Today the challenge is to shoot a self portrait using an Umbrella.

If you live in Munich, you may have found yourself carrying an umbrella this morning just in case last night’s torrential storms continued to pour water down on the city. Leaving my car and walking to the studio, it was pretty easy to snap a shot of myself, a puddle and my umbrella. Some artists did not have rain so they used the umbrella as a prop or chose the alternate theme – sunglasses. Lets see how a mixed weather day inspires Munich Artists and what kinds of self-portraits they decide to create.

July 22, 2015July 22, 2015

Day 5 – 30 day Munich Artists Self Portrait photo challenge – Phew that is a long name abbreviated it would be MASPPC

My Titles are getting longer and longer. Today is day 5 of the Munich artists self portrait photo challenge. The theme for today is lines. I don’t think you need an explanation for lines – It’s very straight forward. Yes, it is going to be that kind of day so settle down and start snapping some photos. Here are a few examples of what Munich Artists have been sending in to me today. They get to send photos to me until 1200 so I will be adding a few more after lunch. If you are an artist, feel free to join in on the fun. Artists who finish the 30 days will get a special treat. Maybe a beer at the beergarden after the summer holidays? If you want to share your images, it is best to join our closed group on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/munichartists. If I don’t know you, please be aware that I will share images on the website, on Instagram and on Facebook. Also, if I don’t know you, send me a message before trying to join or ask a Munich Artist already in the group to add you. We do this to keep spammers out of the group. Also, If you don’t want images shared, please let me know. Not everyone loves the internet as much as I do and I want to respect your artwork as much as possible. Here is a link to day 1, 2, 3, 4. From today onwards I will give you the links to a couple of days before unless you want a list of numbers at the end of each post. That could be kind of funny. The link to all of the themes for the challenge can be found here.

Edina Fischer- Lines - Day 5 - Munich artists Challenge

Munich Artists – Edina Fischer – Day 5 Line

Munich Artists Bernhard Rusch – Day 5- Lines

Nina Schmid - Day 5 - Line - Munich Artists

Munich Artists – Nina Schmid Day 5 – Line

Day 5 Munich Artists Angela josupeit lines

Munich Artists Angela Josupeit – Lines – Day 5

Munich Artists Emmy Horstkamp – Day 5 – Lines

gabriele-rothweiler-lines-day-five

Munich Artists – Jeffrey Ely – Day 5 – line

munich artists michael pitschke day 5 – line

Bobbi Dunn – Komarek

Brigitte Hoppstock – day 5-photograph – lines

July 21, 2015July 21, 2015

Day 4 – Munich Artists Self Portrait Challenge – Words and the Artist

The theme for day 4 is Words. I don’t care if you write words, find words in your environment or create an art piece of words. Whatever you do, the image for today must contain the written word and you.

Below, two Munich Artists, Nina Schmid and Katrin Klug, share with us their day 4 self portraits which focus on their love of body art and words.

Katrin Klug Tattoo Ainsi Day 4 — Katrin Klug – Day 4 – Words – Self Portrait – July 2015

Nina Schmid Day 4 Tattoo knife — Nina Schmid – Day 4 – Words – Self Portrait – July 2015

July 19, 2015July 19, 2015

Day 2 self portrait challenge- high contrasting on a Sunday

This is the progression of shots as I waited for a plane to land at the airport. As you can see, the sun came out strong.

More shots while I waited are on my personal website. Have fun taking photos and staying cool on a sweltering day. If you forgot where the information is for the 30 day challenge, you can find our daily themes on the challenge page. With today’s sun, it should be pretty easy to get a self portrait photo that fits with the theme and your personal style. I’m a street photographer so no studio bare bulbs for me. I’m all for the outdoors but if you need to be surrounded by the familiar, you can forgo the sun and use your lamps. I promise not to judge. If you missed out on day 1, here it is.

July 18, 2015July 18, 2015

Day 1 Self Portrait Photo Challenge

Theme for day 1 is Encounter (meeting) – a chance meeting. Today you will be photographing yourself interacting with someone or something unplanned. The exact definition of encounter is:

Unexpectedly be faced with or experience (something hostile or difficult). “we have encountered one small problem”
Meet (someone) unexpectedly. “what do we know about the people we encounter in our daily lives?”
An unexpected or casual meeting with someone or something. “she felt totally unnerved by the encounter”

I wanted to share the full definition so you don’t feel like you must interact with someone else for this first day’s challenge. When I went out this morning to take photos, this is what I came up with: I stepped out of my car and there was my shadow on both sides of the white line. I liked the contrast between my shoes and my shadow. I also liked how surprised I felt at seeing my shadow being sliced in half by the white line. It felt like I was sliced in half or the peter pan part of me was. Luckily it looks like my shadow is firmly attached to my feet so I don’t need to be doing any sewing on this Saturday morning. I had a few unexpected meetings this morning before I was mentally ready to start snapping photos. While walking my dogs, I met a neighbour as she went out for a walk. We never talk because she is always on a bike but today, she was walking and we chatted for about 20 minutes. I could have taken a photo of the two of us but I wanted to save a full self portrait or selfie for the last day of this challenge. Continuing with my morning routine, a child happily ran into me with her bike. I could have taken a photo of her but I didn’t want to ask for permission from her dad. The last interaction was this one below where an older woman was walking ahead of me with her trolly of groceries. I felt like this represented a future version of myself. I thought about how I’m walking behind her in both the physical sense of a Saturday shopping morning but also in the sense that she is old and I’m not yet old. I’m behind her in the timeline of life and the timeline of our morning errands. I will play with the two photos a bit and add a selfie that I took today for a digital collage but I wanted to share with you the raw photos so you can see how I was thinking about this idea. I look forward to seeing how you think about encounter and what kind of photographs you decide to take today. (All the photos were shot with my iphone 6plus) Remember, you do not have to use photoshop, you can share raw photos. You can play with the idea of photos but whatever art piece you make must include a photograph self portrait using the theme. To prep yourself for the next 30 days, here is the full list of themes.

July 7, 2015July 7, 2015

30 Day Self Portrait Challenge Starts July 18, 2015

The Next Munich Artists 30 Day Challenge: Photos – Self Portraits

Starts July 18, 2015.

For this challenge, you can use any camera, use any style but it must be a self-portrait. For the photo to qualify, it has to be taken by you and feature YOU in the photo, you can have more people but you must be in the shot. No taking photos of just your personal belongings. The photo must contain a part of your physical body in the shot. I want to make this into one of the photo books so please think about that when you are taking your shots. We have a group of great photographers who will be shooting artists and their studios (each with their own book) but I want one of the books to be artist self portraits. Each of the 30 days will be themed and those themes are shared below and on the challenge page. I know we have some digital wiz kids in the group so If you go crazy on photoshop for 30 days that will be ok but the photo of you must be taken that day and fit in with the theme. If I find out the photographs are from your archives I will get grumpy, you don’t want that.

Here are the themes for 30 days:

Encounter (meeting)
Hi Contrast Black and White
Glass
Words
Lines
Umbrella
Tools
Sleep
Ribbon
Ritual
Chair
Bag
Music
Dress Up
Hallway
Sidewalk
Tree
Paper
Frame
Produce (Groceries)
Beer Garden
Isar
Bridge
Tram
Subway
Tor (Isar, Sendling)
English Garden
Bike
Museum
Studio (your own studio and artwork)

A more detailed description will be posted on the Challenge Page. I look forward to doing this challenge with you. Photo is much more my thing.

July 2, 2015July 3, 2015

The Sky Over Munich – Photos Snapped on July 2nd by Munich Artists

It started with my daughter’s whatsapp feed from school.

“Look at the sky.” My daughter said as she moved her phone towards me.

“hmmmm.” I said as a bunch of cloud photos streamed by my view at super sonic speed.

I didn’t think about the clouds again until we headed for the car.

“I can see why your friends are all snapping photos.”

It was the clouds. The sky looked like hundreds of puffy cotton balls on a blue cloth.

By the time I got to work, the sky looked like this and I snapped this photograph:

Sitting down at my computer, I asked Munich Artists to send me photos of what the sky looked like where they were in the city and this is what I got:

Andreas Hirsch Summery Sky Munich

Angela Josupeit Summer Sky Munich

Bobbie Dunn Summer Sky Munich

Emmy Horstkamp Summer Sky Munich

Gabriela Popp Summer Sky Munich

Davina Goldammer Utz Summer Sky Munich

Katrin Klug Summer Sky Munich

Michael Pitschke Summer Sky Munich

Adriana Bergstrom Summer Sky Munich

Lise Mittermeier Summer Sky Munich

Nia Leitl Summer Sky Munich

NiaLeitl-munich-artists-july-2nd

Sonia Boening

Ulli Schmelling Summer Sky Way Up North …

Isidora Romani summer sky munich

Natascha Barascha summer sky munich

Bernhard Rusch summer sky munich

Nasser Ash summer sky Munich

Brigitte Hoppstock-summer-sky-july-2

andrea-peipe-summer-sky-munich

Inge Frank Summery sky Munich

Jennifer Palmer Albrecht-Buehler Summer Sky Munich

I went out around ten and wanted to take a few more photographs but the sun was already too strong and my will to endure the heat was not. I did get this shot before heading back indoors. (i phone 6 unedited)

Did you capture a photo of Munich’s summer sky? How about the full moon?

June 26, 2015June 28, 2015

Summer 2015 Arrived

June 24, 2015June 24, 2015

Live. Yeah Panic! Motto for the Day

“Live. Yeah panic!” That is the motto for today. We are not in a Zen frame of mind. #quote #streetphotography #paper #emmyhorstkamp #munichartists

A photo posted by Munich Artists | BCA (@munichartists) on Jun 24, 2015 at 7:29am PDT

June 18, 2015

“The Silence” by Andrea Peipe

June 8, 2015June 8, 2015

Not Into Drawing? How about Playing with this Photo?

Like playing with photoshop? How about adding some text to this image of my dog Winston. Winston decided to smell the paper that was holding my coffee capsules and his eyes bugged out. I thought it was funny. If you create an image with a caption, I will add it to a gallery on this page. Winston is happy to let you use his image for something creative. Happy Monday! Tag it on Instagram with #munichartists and #winston. If you are in our Facebook group, just add it and I will get it from there. If you are not on social media, you can email it to Emmy@kyfio.com.

May 8, 2015June 4, 2015

Technical Perfection Does not Express Nothing – Video Interview with Andre Kertesz

Excellent interview with Andre Kertesz. As an artist/photographer I appreciate hearing how he felt about his photography and capturing the moment. In the interview he makes a statement that technical perfection does not express anything. The artist must have the ability to capture a moment. That statement resonates with me and I encourage you to watch the interview.

May 8, 2015June 4, 2015

Public Art Photo Challenge Starts Monday May 11

On Monday we start a public art photo challenge. For 7 days, we want you to share photos of public art in your area. We will try digging up info using the Photographs and the location.

April 20, 2015June 4, 2015

Photography Exhibition by Hubert Juranek Opens on Friday April 24, 2015 @1900

Hubert Juranek is a Munich artist, photographer and architect. This Friday, April 24@1900, Hubert will be exhibiting his analog photography in special frames he collected from flea markets and other nooks and crannies. Refurbishing the frames, Hubert used them as part of his art pieces printing the photographs smaller which I feel makes you pay more attention to the images.

It seems like there is a trend happening in photography to create art pieces that are smaller which is a relief for someone who doesn’t live in a mansion and likes to display and likes to change her artwork on a regular basis.

This is my favourite selection from this series. Hubert has a book/catalog for sale for this exhibition. He worked hard on it. I think it costs 38 Euro. You can Hubert Juranek more about his photography and his catalog. I’m sure he would be happy to hear from you.

Exhibition Information:
Location: Cafe Hueller – Eduard-Schmid-Straße 8, 81541 Munich, Germany

Date: April, May, June, July 2015 Vernissage on April 24, 2015 @1900

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Here are the details in German:

AUSSTELLUNG Café Hüller
24. APR/MAI/JUN/JUL 25. //// 2015

“Stadt. Land. Fluss. Grenzen, die für Hubert Juranek keine sind. Er hebt sie auf in seinen Ansichten, zieht sie neu und wird zum Architekten einer eigenen Wirklichkeit.

Die Straße, die Mauer, der Baum – Linien, die Juranek zu einer Realität graziler Spannung und vollkommener Stille zusammenfügt. Aufregend und apart zugleich erfasst er den Moment, den EINEN Augenblick, und bannt ihn auf das mit Silberhalogenid beschichtete Trägermaterial. Und so entstehen Arbeiten, die den Betrachter fühlen, innehalten lassen. „Berührend“, wie er selber sagt.

So EINZIG A R TI G, wie der Rahmen, der sie fasst.”

Ein Kommentar von Stefanie Koller

September 4, 2014September 22, 2015

Day 11 Raw Photo Challenge – Boxed in with Fences, Gates and Walls

Today’s challenge is a trifecta (If you are up to the challenge). I’m going to spend an hour this afternoon looking for a good shot downtown but you don’t have to focus on all three. Pick a fence, a wall or a gate and take a good composition. Think about why someone would want to see what you are seeing. Is there something really cool hidden behind or is the object just really well designed? We all love stories -let your photograph tell one.

September 2, 2014October 11, 2015

Day 9 Munich Artists Raw Photo Challenge and

Day 9 is a real challenge if you live in Munich, Germany. The city cleaners spend lots of time running around in little orange cars cleaning and Mingas use the trash cans which are filled to overflowing. This need to clean makes shooting debris on the ground almost the same as trying to find gold at the end of the rainbow but it is not impossible. You, the artist must open your eyes and pay attention to those lost buttons, discarded receipts and maybe even a stray cigarette lighter.

As a street photographer, I like to shoot what is in my environment. Today, I’m asking you to be a street photographer and shoot a composition around something that is already on the ground. Think about that piece of trash or forgotten pair of socks as the main character to your visual story that you are creating. Do you want people to know where the debris was located? If so, get down close to the ground and shoot up. Do you want to make an abstract like I did with the piece of tape? If so, position the object so it makes an interesting design with the environment around it and shot directly above the object. Do you want to show how beautiful the piece is? Get down real close and show the texture of the debris left on the ground. Have fun today capturing a composition based on an object already on the ground and if you are a Munich based artist, share your shot in our facebook group.

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One Munich artist who loves to use debris and old papers in his artwork is Cyril Mariaux. We will be showing some of Cyril’s artwork at the Friday gallery Frauenstrasse 18 starting on September 12, 2014. Come celebrate the end of our raw photo challenge and Cyril Mariaux’s artwork with a glass of wine and some good company.