Ping Pong is a playfull action/reaction game. For every ping there is a pong. It is about speed, precision and fun.
PING PONG is the title of LOTTERMANN AND FUENTES’ forth exhibition. Originally from Frankfurt, Germany, the two photographers regulary work together as a team. Double trouble.
For PING PONG they joined forces with their gallerist, Kirsten Hermann, founder of Galerie für Moderne Fotografie. After having been shown in Los Angeles in March this year an extended version of the exhibition is now on display in Berlin.
The procedure remained the same: LOTTERMANN AND FUENTES sent e-mails to photographers they admire -- friends, acquaintances, and strangers -- each with one of their specially selected photos. The colleagues on their part were asked to respond with a picture, be it newly taken or chosen from their existing body of work.
The resulting dialogues are lighthearted, touching, and often downright hilarious. What connects every pair of images is often the overall composition or a detail like a colour or a shape. Sometimes they relate in a rather methaphorical, and sometimes in a very literal manner. Blue and blue, two and two, Frau and Sau.
PING PONG is about what is the core of photography: wordless communication.
Words: Anne Waak
PING PONG is the title of LOTTERMANN AND FUENTES’ forth exhibition. Originally from Frankfurt, Germany, the two photographers regulary work together as a team. Double trouble.
For PING PONG they joined forces with their gallerist, Kirsten Hermann, founder of Galerie für Moderne Fotografie. After having been shown in Los Angeles in March this year an extended version of the exhibition is now on display in Berlin.
The procedure remained the same: LOTTERMANN AND FUENTES sent e-mails to photographers they admire -- friends, acquaintances, and strangers -- each with one of their specially selected photos. The colleagues on their part were asked to respond with a picture, be it newly taken or chosen from their existing body of work.
The resulting dialogues are lighthearted, touching, and often downright hilarious. What connects every pair of images is often the overall composition or a detail like a colour or a shape. Sometimes they relate in a rather methaphorical, and sometimes in a very literal manner. Blue and blue, two and two, Frau and Sau.
PING PONG is about what is the core of photography: wordless communication.
Words: Anne Waak
With:
Maxime Ballesteros, branimir, Claire Cotrell, Roger Dekker, Roger Eberhard, David Fischer, Nadine Fraczkowski, Lottermann and Fuentes, Albrecht Fuchs, Frank Griebe, Olaf Heine and Thomas Kretschmann, Frederike Helwig, Ute und Werner Mahler, Markus Jans, Daniel Josefsohn, Ingar Krauss, Peter Langer, Nicky Lesser, Bella Lieberberg, Kristin Loschert,Yiorgos Mavropoulos, Aaron McElroy, Robi Rodriguez, Mary Scherpe, Frank Seidlitz, RJ Shaughnessy, Elfie Semotan, Juergen Teller, Camille Vivier, Andreas Wellnitz
Maxime Ballesteros, branimir, Claire Cotrell, Roger Dekker, Roger Eberhard, David Fischer, Nadine Fraczkowski, Lottermann and Fuentes, Albrecht Fuchs, Frank Griebe, Olaf Heine and Thomas Kretschmann, Frederike Helwig, Ute und Werner Mahler, Markus Jans, Daniel Josefsohn, Ingar Krauss, Peter Langer, Nicky Lesser, Bella Lieberberg, Kristin Loschert,Yiorgos Mavropoulos, Aaron McElroy, Robi Rodriguez, Mary Scherpe, Frank Seidlitz, RJ Shaughnessy, Elfie Semotan, Juergen Teller, Camille Vivier, Andreas Wellnitz