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We are incredibly proud to donate 12 signed books to Friedrichshain .friedrichshain as part of the Berlin Book Meet. As...
28/07/2025

We are incredibly proud to donate 12 signed books to Friedrichshain .friedrichshain as part of the Berlin Book Meet. As a non-profit institution and a pillar of photographic history in Europe, the gallery depends on the generosity of its community, and all proceeds from these book sales will go toward supporting its ongoing work.
We warmly invite you to join us for an unforgettable evening for an exclusive and intimate conversation on contemporary African photography, held at HELSINGFORSER PL. 1, BERLIN, on Thursday, July 31st, 2025, from 7 PM to 10 PM.
More than a book meet, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to gather together and breathe new life into an iconic space, engage with thought-provoking photography, and play an active role in preserving one of Europe’s most important cultural institutions.

This year, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain also celebrates its 40th anniversary on August 14th, 2025, a monumental milestone we are deeply honored to be part of. Photographers from our community will be exhibiting alongside German photographic legends such as Sibylle Bergemann, Ulrich Wüst, Harald Hauswald, and Evelyn Richter, celebrating a legacy of visual storytelling while looking boldly toward photography’s future. Let’s come together to honor the past, inspire the present, and invest in the future through photography.

IT TAKES TIME TO BUILD TRUST: NATALIJA GORMALOVA’S VISUAL ODE TO GHANA: By Natalija Gormalova for All images ©️ Natali...
15/07/2025

IT TAKES TIME TO BUILD TRUST: NATALIJA GORMALOVA’S VISUAL ODE TO GHANA: By Natalija Gormalova for

All images ©️ Natalija Gormalova

In this interview we had a long conversation with Natalija Gormalova on her “Slow photography” approach, and how she re...
15/07/2025

In this interview we had a long conversation with Natalija Gormalova on her “Slow photography” approach, and how she rejects the hurried rhythms of mainstream media.

Full link to interview in bio ⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥✨

From Jamestown all the way to Cape Three Points, in the quiet pull of the tide, where sea meets worn boats and laughter ...
15/07/2025

From Jamestown all the way to Cape Three Points, in the quiet pull of the tide, where sea meets worn boats and laughter echoes across salt-stained rocks, Natalija Gormalova () waits with her camera, not as an intruder, but a star witness. Natalija’s photographs are not snapshots of fleeting African beauty or curated festival spectacle. They are invitations. To feel, to partake, to remember. Her work, keenly rooted in documentary yet elevated by a poetic sensitivity, pulses with emotional honesty. Whether while photographing fishermen at dawn, a wooden bridge silhouetted against a burning sky, or young men, her imagery offers something rare: Truth. “I make time for people,” Natalija explains. “When I do documentary assignments, especially in unfamiliar or vulnerable communities, trust takes time, and I give it all the time it needs.”
Through photography she has found more than just stories, she found a home. For years now, the Lithuanian-born photographer has been living in Ghana, not as a visitor passing through, but as a friend of the land. A part of the fabric she so carefully documents. Her photographs, rich in feeling and layered with spoken histories, reflect this rootedness. Whether while capturing fishermen navigating the tide at dawn, a wooden bridge silhouetted in the last light of day, or the quiet intimacy of a portrait dusted with glitter and shadow, Gormalova’s work does more than observe. It belongs. “There’s a reason I stay,” she says. “I don’t just photograph communities, I become part of them. That’s the only way I can do the kind of work I believe in.” In an era of quick-turn storytelling and parachute journalism, Gormalova‘s approach is deliberate, and human. Before lifting her camera, she listens, shares meals, plays with children, and sits for hours simply noticing. Kino‘s long-standing connection to Ghana, both personal and professional, infuses her photographs with a sense of care that cannot be imitated. Now a mother herself, her understanding of community, protection, and legacy has only deepened.

BETWEEN WORLDS: THE INTIMATE DISCOVERIES OF DIANA SMYKOVA: By Diana Smykova for All Images ©️ Diana Smykova
11/07/2025

BETWEEN WORLDS: THE INTIMATE DISCOVERIES OF DIANA SMYKOVA: By Diana Smykova for

All Images ©️ Diana Smykova

These are not images that claim to “capture” a place or a people. They witness. They honor oral histories, like the Nubi...
11/07/2025

These are not images that claim to “capture” a place or a people. They witness. They honor oral histories, like the Nubian woman’s submerged love story, and trace the unseen afterlives of state-driven modernization projects. Her photography holds space for myth, displacement, and the small, sustaining rituals of daily survival — tea poured slowly, conversations beneath red tent cloth, and the endless cycle of leaving and returning.

Read full interview with Link in Bio! ⛓️‍💥✨

For the past three years, photographer Diana Smykova has quietly carved out a space within Egypt’s visual narrative — a...
11/07/2025

For the past three years, photographer Diana Smykova has quietly carved out a space within Egypt’s visual narrative — a space that listens more than it interrupts, watches more than it imposes. Her work is not the sweeping, exoticizing lens so often turned on North Africa, but an intimate, human-centered gaze rooted in lived encounters, myth, memory, and the politics of place. Her most recent photographs for made along the banks of the Nile River and deep within the Sinai Peninsula, form a quietly radical body of work: portraits, landscapes, and interior studies that weave together folklore, displacement, and the resilience of everyday life.
While traveling by felucca — a traditional wooden boat — through Aswan and its neighboring Nubian villages, Smykova became fascinated by a local belief in the People of the Nile, an unseen race inhabiting a mirror-world beneath the river. “Only those with a pure heart and soul can see them,” a man told her in Aswan.

Smykova’s work also revisits the social aftermath of the Aswan High Dam, whose construction submerged hundreds of ancestral Nubian villages beneath Lake Nasser in the 1960s. The tahjir — Arabic for displacement — forced thousands to resettle in poorly planned villages on barren lands, severing centuries-old ties to the fertile banks of the Nile.

Two boys sleeping on the floor. Lagos Island, Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. RPJ©️
10/07/2025

Two boys sleeping on the floor. Lagos Island, Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. RPJ©️

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