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Photography students from the HGB Leipzig and book art students from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle are designing their own display at the Leipzig Photobook Festival.

Photography is the most popular image medium of our time and at the same time a central instrument of artistic discourse. At the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, the medium is explored beyond its original boundaries in the class for photography in the field of contemporary art. The interdisciplinary, post-photographic and peripheral approach questions: What comes after photography? The presentation was created in collaboration with Professor Anna Ehrenstein 's class and shows photography as a medium that expands into text, book art and site-specific installations and enables new forms of artistic practice.

The handling of paper, text, typography, image and binding are important elements in the artistic exploration in the field of book art at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. With an interest in the visual arts and literature, the students visualise the interrelationship between word and image. Photographic realisation is one way of translating and shaping content.

The fourth Leipzig Photobook Festival is dedicated to the theme of "Intimate Structures". On the one hand, intimate structures refer to personal relationships on various levels - or the lack thereof; on the other hand, a close-knit community, a village, is also such a social structure. In addition to the photo book market, there will be an extensive programme of photography and photo book exhibitions as well as panel discussions, project presentations and workshops. To the festival programme...