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The TASWIR Exhibition -  as explained by Curator, A.S. Bruckstein ÇoruhJanuary 27, 2010

Merit Fakler, video artist, worked with A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, curator of TASWIR - Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam, in filming an explanation of the exhibition I’ve spent the last 3 months photographing in Berlin ...

TASWIR - Curator’s Desk from Merit Fakler on Vimeo.

Oleg Grabar, Historian and ArcheologistJanuary 27, 2010

I had the pleasure of hearing Oleg Grabar speak recently.  This was taken at TASWIR - a ha’atelier event, inside the Martin Gropius Bau museum, Berlin.  Low difficult light - no problem for my exquisite Canon EOS 5D Mk II, using the telephoto lens here, handheld.

The TASWIR Project - Ha’atelier Platform for Philosophy and Art, BerlinJanuary 05, 2010

This is the project I’ve been involved in since late October, 2009. 

The brainchild of curator, Dr Almut Sh. Bruckstein, the word TASWIR is the Arabic, Persian and Ottoman-Turkish term for mapping, visualizing, describing and outlining.  The exhibition has placed classical objects, usually labelled as ‘Islamic art’, in the context of contemporary artist positions in graphics, drawing, painting, photography, video and installation following a narrative parcours which ha’atelier…

Winter, BerlinDecember 19, 2009

And just as I adjust to this Berlin life ... of coffee in my fabulous little Vespress Nero coffee pot, a single bed, no curtains and a spartan kind of existence, it’s time to go home again.  This morning I delighted myself by sleeping until 9.30am, a feat rarely achieved any place.  I discovered the ice on the window as I heated my coffeee on the little hotplate I have here and muttered as I found myself…

The TASWIR Project - Ha’atelier Platform for Philosophy and Art Presents ...December 17, 2009

Berlin today - needless to say, I go nowhere without my socks, as per the photograph,the ones quietly tucked away in my Hush Puppy boots.

Today, 17 December 2009, between 5:30 – 7:30 pm you will find me in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Atrium, photographing: Mirror and Veil – ‘Breathing the Water’

In an author’s Reading: Navid Kermani reads from new work - In both his literary and his academic work, Cologne-based author and orientalist scholar Navid Kermani…

The Camera and Di, BerlinDecember 16, 2009

It seems that I come fully alive with a camera in my hands ...

I was pondering this while photographing an artist today.  Once again, I found myself in the extraordinarily privileged position of documenting a conversation between artist and curator.  This is the stuff of life for me.  I can hold a 920g camera body, with the additional weight of a 70-200mm zoom lens, for as long as it takes for me to capture whatever it is that I…

Can you imagine how interesting this discussion was ...December 05, 2009

Palestinian author and Cultural Studies scholar Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh from Birzeit University in Ramallah and Israeli historian Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin from Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, discussed with others, the performance installation ‘Human Writes’ (2005) by William Forsythe and the portraits of Palestinian martyrs by artist Taysir Batniji

The context was, ‘Human Rights’ as an act of writing, the nomadic existence of the Palestinian art scene, the loss of language and memory, the…

Ali Kaaf, ArtistNovember 10, 2009

I was fortunate to not only meet Ali Kaaf but photograph him too.  And it was a pleasure.

Ali is exhibiting work in the exhibition TASWIR: Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam, in the Martin-Gropius-Bau from November 4 till January 18, 2010. 

TASWIR – Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam. The Opening, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2009November 10, 2009

I found this group really rather beautiful and couldn’t resist photographing them as they sat there on the stairs inside the Martin Gropius Bau here in Berlin.

TASWIR – Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam. The Opening, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2009November 10, 2009

I loved the way this woman’s hat matched in with the colour of my photographs here in this shot.

TASWIR – Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam. The Opening, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2009November 10, 2009

TASWIR – Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam. The Opening, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2009November 10, 2009

The opening was superb.  Here’s a small taste ...

TASWIR – Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam.  The Opening, Berlin 2009November 10, 2009

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