OPEN Call! SHOW US YOUR WEDDING PHOTO!
+++Attention+++ New deadline+++25 June 2016+++
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Vom Heiraten – On Marriage
With the patronage of Bundestagsmember Volker Beck
02/07 – 31/07/2016
Opening: Saturday 2 July 2016, 4pm
Live music by Max Freytag
OPEN CALL! SHOW US YOUR WEDDING PHOTO!
Within this year’s ColognePride programme Fotoraum
presents the exhibition On Marriage.
Be part of it! Send your wedding photo until 20/06/2016 to
info@fotoraum-koeln.de or bring it already framed – max A4 – to the opening (2 July 2016).
Participation terms
On Marriage
Marriage for all. That is the theme of the exhibition On Marriage. In other countries, the complete equality of lesbians and gays in marriage has already become reality. 15 years ago, the introduction of the ‘civil union’ in Germany was a first step. But in many areas of law, same-sex couples are still disadvantaged. While the majority of the population, when speaking of marriage and getting married, does not make a distinction for same-sex couples, there is still a lack of true equal treatment.
As patron of the exhibition, we welcome Bundestagsmember Mr. Volker Beck, who for years has championed the equality of LGBT: “We want a society in which it is possible to be different without fear. We do not want any special institutions for homosexual couples, but rather marriage for all.” (www.volkerbeck.de/kategorie/politik/lgbt/)
“anders.Leben!”( “different.Life!”) is the theme of this year’s ColognePride. In this sense we call upon you: “Open Call: Show us wedding photo!”
Inspiration for this exhibition were family portraits of the wedding of two men by Verena Jaekel. A Fotoraum curator on the portraits: “Looking at the pictures I noticed how much I was focussed on a man/woman couple constellation. So I was searching the picture for possible couple combinations, although I knew the picture shows a wedding of two men! In her work, the artist Verena Jaekel explores the contemporary image of the family and considers this complex issue from different perspectives. Already in 2005 she portrayed same-sex couples who had fulfilled their wish of becoming parents. Fotoraum Köln e.V. presented the series “New Family Portraits” in 2014 in the context of ColognePride under the patronage of Volker Beck (MP).
Opening hours: Sundays, 4 – 6 pm and by appointment. Closing: Sunday 31 July 2016, 4 – 6 pm
MAX FREYTAG
For the opening we are pleased to present multi-instrumentalist Christian Dreher alias MAX FREYTAG: Piano Pop at its best.
Live-Concert, about 5pm. www.maxfreytag.de
Fotoraum Köln e.V. combines studio and exhibition venue. Whether documentary photography, photojournalism or landscape, experimental, staged or conceptual photography: the interdisciplinary exhibition series Wir haben Gäste (we have guests) confronts international contemporary photography at the openings with music, performance or moving images.
