In der GoSeeAWARDS Spezialdisziplin SCREENINGS für das kreativste und inspirierendste Online-Portfolio gewann in 2015 der Amsterdamer Fotografie-Quereinsteiger-Fotograf Maarten Schröder Gold.

Without having studied photography, Maarten Schröder (1987, The Netherlands) has developed himself in little over a year to be a notable photographer. There has been a lot of positive feedback from the people who came in contact with his work, even the well-known Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf has expressed his support.

In his work, Maarten searches for the ultimate form of simplicity, but at the same time manages to capture reality in an estranging way. He has been collaborating with many Dutch modelling agencies, as some in Milan, which helped him develop his portfolio which contains so many interesting faces.

For an exhibition in Amsterdam, a select group of artists were chosen to display some of their creations - and three of Maarten's photographs were selected to debut as the first photographic work shown. /maartenschroder

SCREENINGS-Gold für Studio Schall & Schnabel, gegründet in 2012 von den zwei Künstlern Pierre Horn & Eileen Huhn. Das Spektrum ihrer Arbeiten reicht von konzeptueller Modefotografie für internationale Magazine über raumgreifende Videoinstallationen und Performances bis hin zu freien, künstlerischen und multimedialen Arbeiten. In ihren Arbeiten finden sich Einflüsse aus Literatur, Theater, Popkultur und Film wieder. Und gemeinsam mit anderen Künstlern, Musikern und Tänzern initierten sie darüberhinaus diverse kollaborative Kunstprojekte. Wir gratulieren! /schallundschnabel

Ninette Schostak gewinnt Silber in der Kategorie SCREENINGS der GoSeeAWARDS15. Ninette is a photographer specialized in menswear and still life photography. She lives and works in Amsterdam. In 2003 she moved from Germany to the Netherlands to follow a four-year study of photography at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague. After graduating she started working as an assistant for various photographers as well as developing her own view and style as a photographer, focusing on accessories and menswear.

"Dear GoSee, thank you very much for the great news. I am very happy and of course very proud to hear this."  Ninette Schostak

Clients (selection) - Dutch Elle, de Bijenkorf, Mascolori, NONBYKIM, Undog, PUP, Mister Motley… Exhibitions (selection) - Affordable Art Fair, Walls Gallery, Salon/2 Winter & Summer, Foto Festival Naarden, Photo Academy Award Exhibition tour NL & BE, PANL Masterclass Exhibition, P/f photo exhibition, ....

Bronze in 2015 for Italian photographer Nicola Carignani, based in Milan. As a teenager, NICOLA CARIGNANI got rescued by the hard-core punk scene from an apparently bourgeois, middle-class upbringing. He started meeting people from different walks of life and got into more interesting circles, like skateparks and snowboard spots. In those years his father, an atheist communist engineer became a practising Hare Krishna. Still underage at that time, Nicola discovers the wonders of British magazine publishing. One day he finds himself looking at The Face and had a glimpse of what he would like to become as an adult. On the front cover the singer of Prodigy was posing with a hideous grimace on his face: it’s shocking, some photographers not only portray people, but they help them bringing terrible truths up to light.

During the years studying photography he draws closer to Contemporary Art. He shows some of his first works in several exhibitions and he meets his future business partner Ivan. Together they founded Boiler Magazine, first online and then on paper. Nicola was Art Director with Macs Iotti. Everything run smoothly for three or four years until perhaps due to genetic causes, a sudden urge for a mystical experience struck him. Nicola decided to leave and meditate at a Buddhist monastery in Ceylon and he then arrived in India at the Osho commune, where he stayed much longer than expected. Coming back in Italy to work as a photographer needed a new sparkle, which he found in experimentation. Fashion, portraiture and sport culture all blend in into the mix that defines the unique style of his images, all containing the same dose of cheekiness, elegancy, irony and wildness. Open to collaborating with other artists who share the same eclectic vision, he yielded into his passion for filming. He recently started to direct music videos and small experimental projects. He has never stopped having fun.

Nowadays he shoots a variety of different projects for an international roster of clients. A great sense of color and a sleek mix of elegance and irony have become his signature.

"Dear GoSee, thanks again for the support and the beautiful UPDATE15BERLIN Party." Nicola Carignani.

EDUCATION

2012 Film Factory Italia, filmmaking workshop at Officine/IED, directed by Silvio Soldini

2010 Cinematography workshop with Luca Bigazzi

2000 Three year Photography Program at Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence

Exchange Student Program in Photography, London College of Printing, London

Workshops with Franco Vaccari and Daniel Meadows

1999 Workshops with Martin Parr, Gilbert Fastenaekens, Antonio Biasiucci

1998 Workshop with Nick Waplington

Das Credo der GoSeeAWARDS15 - SCREENINGS Public Vote-Gewinnerin Kerstin Kuntze ist: "...and most of all it's about passion." Kerstin studierte von 89-95 Kommunikationsdesign und schloss an der Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, als Diplom Designerin ab. Im Anschluss arbeitete sie als Art-Director in namhaften Agenturen bevor sie sich in 2000 selbständig machte.

Wasser ist ien zentrales Thema ihrer Arbeit. Hier ihr Statement zu ihrem Lieblings-Element: "In der Serie Wasserlust° verbinde ich meinen leidenschaftlichen Gestaltungsdrang mit der Lust am Schwimmen. Was ich zeigen will, ist die Intensität des Gefühls, wenn man das Leben hautnah spürt. Meine Kunst soll das atmen, was ich am Schwimmen so liebe. Die Kraft des Wasser, die auf den Körper trifft - das Ausatmen aller Unbilden - die Verbundenheit - das Getragenwerden - im besten Falle ein "sich auflösen" - eine Urkraft, die einen das Leben in aller Wucht spüren lässt. Meine Bilder sollen über das Schwimmen hinaus gehen - ich sehe sie als ein

Gleichnis fürs "Sein" und als eine Hommage an das Leben - an die Unendlichkeit, die ein Moment in sich tragen kann." Wir zeigen Euch ein Portfolio auf GoSee.

Ausstellungen

August 2015 • Musee du Louvre, Paris - Bild "Ikarus" - The Exposure Award

Feb./März 2015 • Galerie Phoenix, Köln - "Wasserlust"

Nov. 2014 • Galerie Lukas Bär, Winterthur/Schweiz - "20x20"

Aug.-Okt. 2014 • Stadtmuseum Schwabach - "Gold"

Juni 2012 • St. Pölten/Österreich - „Components“

Merits in der Kategorie SCREENINGS der GoSeeAWARDS15 gingen an die Amsterdamerin Kerstin Schostak (/ninette), den Londoner Armando Ferrari (/armandoferrari) und die Berlinerin Eva Tuerbl (/evatuerbl).