POPVIEW 2011 & OLAF HEINE

group-exhibition / 14 jan 27 feb 2011

© Dirk Wolf

© Dirk Wolf

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Again this year two exhibitions of pop photography will be opening in the Noorderlicht Photo Gallery during the Eurosonic Noorderslag music festival. POPVIEW 2011 shows the work of the eight nominees for the Lex van Rossen Award 2011. The solo exhibition I Love You but I’ve Chosen Rock by Olaf Heine reads like a visual diary, with intriguing portraits of international pop and rock greats.

Popview 2011

The fourth edition of the annual photo exhibition Popview starts in January, 2011 This European stage for pop photography offers European music photographers under the age of 35 the chance to profile their work for an international audience, outside the normal context of music and news magazines, internet and artwork.In collaboration with Noorderlicht, the curators of Popview have made a selection of eight young, talented music photographers. During the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival, one of them will win the Lex van Rossen Award, an incentive prize for the most promising European pop photographer. The prize is named for the Dutch music photographer Lex van Rossen, who died in 2007 at the age of 57.

Photographers Popview 2011

Antonio Campanella (Italy), Marjolein Hoornaert (Belgium),  Ben Meadows (United Kingdom), Agata Pietron (Poland), Francisco Reina (Spain),  Tim C. Rochels (Germany) , Rob Walbers (Belgium) and Dirk Wolf (Netherlands).

And the winner is the Dutch photographer Dirk Wolf. 

Olaf Heine – I love you but I’ve chosen rock

Olaf Heine (b. 1968) has been noted for years for his detailed and carefully made portraits of musicians, actors, writers and sports figures. For I Love You but I've Chosen Rock Heine, who lives in Berlin, focuses on his most important source of inspiration, music. From this perspective he has assembled 15 years of his work as a music photographer. The result feels like a diary in which casual snapshots and observations have their place next to portraits of international pop and rock celebrities.

 Opening: Thursday, 13  January, at 5:00 p.m., by Luck Fonz III, songwriter and performer. DJ 645 provides the musical setting.

Photogallery

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2009 Photogallery
Popview 2009

2010 Photogallery
Popview 2010 & Dennis Duijnhouwer

Antonio Campanella

  • Dente

    Growing up in the second half of the 1990s, Antonio Campanella (Italy, b. 1978) became fascinated by street art and urban culture. After various detours through the cultural field as a graphic designer and photographer's assistant, since 2009 he has worked as a freelance photographer, to be able to pursue his passion for music photography.

    Dente
  • John Merrich

    John Merrich
  • Ladies

    Ladies
  • Last Century of Love

    Last Century of Love
  • The Mojomatics

    The Mojomatics

Olaf Heine

  • Brandon Boyd, Venice Beach 2010

    Brandon Boyd, Venice Beach 2010
  • The Drums, Berlin 2010

    The Drums, Berlin 2010
  • Coldplay, London 2003

    Coldplay, London 2003
  • Encounter, Hamburg 2010

    Encounter, Hamburg 2010
  • Richard Ashcroft, Cologne 2002

    Richard Ashcroft, Cologne 2002

Marjolein Hoornaert

  • Twenty-one year old Marjolein Hoornaert (Belgium, b. 1989) studied photography in Ghent. Since 2009 she has been a member of the music photography collective Genthology, and already has scored with a publication in the leading music magazine OOR. For the last year she has followed the rising band Kapitan Korsakov from small out-of-the-way venues to the big stage.

Ben Meadows

  • Bonnie Prince Billy

    Ben Meadows (Great Britain, b. 1979), a photographer and filmmaker operating from London, has published in periodicals like Mojo Magazine and Rolling Stone. With a penchant for black and white photography and a passion for live music, he produces portraits of musicians.

    Bonnie Prince Billy
  • Damon Albarn, Gorillaz

    Damon Albarn, Gorillaz
  • GLS

    GLS
  • Seasick Steve

    Seasick Steve

Agata Pietron

  • In the series War Songs: Songs of Congo, documentary photographer Agata Pietron (Poland, b. 1979) shows young hip-hop and R&B musicians who dream of a glorious future, hoping to be able to leave the war and conflict-scarred Congo behind them.

Francisco Reina

  • Uruksoth

    Francisco Reina (Spain, b. 1979) found the inspiration for his project The Fourth Dimension in his youth as a 'metalhead'. He sought to portray the atmosphere, passion and power that is expressed in this aggregate of music and lifestyle in his portraits of amateur Death Metal and Black Metal musicians.

    Uruksoth
  • Angel

    Angel
  • Arjan

    Arjan
  • Davinia

    Davinia
  • Manolo

    Manolo

Tim C. Rochels

  • Cinema Strange

    Tim C. Rochels (Germany, b. 1979), self-taught, began to photograph out of his love for music. With the personal slogan ‘I see what you don't’, he records bands and musicians from his own, often unusual perspective.

    Cinema Strange
  • Emily Autumn

    Emily Autumn

Rob Walbers

  • Meet Vinny

    Rob Walbers (Belgium, b. 1981 ) met Vinny by chance during a vacation in Japan. The freelance photographer became so intrigued by this local punk from Osaka that he followed him for several weeks; the photo report Meet Vinny is the result. ‘This guy is over-the-top with his extreme devotion, but you feel that it is for real, that it comes from his heart.’

    Meet Vinny

Dirk Wolf

  • All-around photographer Dirk Wolf (Netherlands, b. 1976) expresses his passion for music in an atmospheric report on the Belgian band Triggerfinger while they were recording their cd in the legendary Sound City studio in Los Angeles.