About RAY
The international Triennial of Photography RAY, organized by Fotografieprojekte gGmbH, was founded in 2010 on the initiative of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain to bundle and highlight the expertise and diversity of artistic photography and related media in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region.
Echoes – i.e., not just one echo, but a multitude of echoes: an exciting, oscillating idea. For photographers, an ‘object’ triggers an association – they respond through framing, angle, shadow and light, colour or black and white mixes. This in turn triggers an echo in the viewer: a spontaneous ‘yes, that’s exactly how it is’, and the start of a longer reflection or resistance. Or sometimes all of the above. From May to September, this year’s RAY Triennial of Photography once again unites several renowned cultural institutions in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region with photography and video exhibitions on the theme of Echoes. The aim is to raise awareness of the medium of photography throughout the region. I wish everyone
an open-minded, receptive audience, one that is not noncommittal – contemplating photographs, debating, discussing, and developing their own strategies for action. Photographs show and desire: an attitude.
Karin Wolff, Managing Director Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain
Review
The premiere edition, RAY 2012, titled MAKING HISTORY, focused on the contemplation of publicly available images and offered perspectives on ways that images in the media can be used to convey a particular impression of reality.
RAY 2015, whose theme was IMAGINE REALITY, explored the question of how photography not only depicts our reality, but also creates new realities.
In exhibitions about the EXTREME, RAY 2018 featured artists who address global socio-economic changes as well as explore the role and purpose of the kind of photography that focuses not on normal situations, but on grey areas.
In the fourth triennial, RAY 2021 IDEOLOGIES, contemporary artists considered how ideologies have been expressed in the past and in the here and now, what effect this has, and to what extent this facilitates power, manipulation, abuse, exclusion and exploitation.
Team
Curatorial team
Anne-Marie Beckmann (Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation), Alexandra Lechner (Freie Kuratorin), Celina Lunsford (Fotografie Forum Frankfurt), Matthias Wagner K (Museum Angewandte Kunst)
Curatorial assistance
David Beikirch, Andrea Horvay, Cornelia Siebert
Project sponsor
Fotografieprojekte gGmbH
Braubachstr. 30–32
60311 Frankfurt am Main
Project Management/ Managing Direction
Antje Erdmann, Sabine Schirdewahn
Communication
Uta Wolf
Communication assistance
Sarah Wolf
Press and public relations
Carola Schaffrath, Anne Schütz (Filmpresse Meuser)
Communication advice
Bureau Mueller
Social Media
Katrin Kobberger
Program coordination / RAY Plus
Jacqueline Jakobi
RAY Master Class assistence
Tatiana Vdovenko
RAY Junior Art mediation
Jutta Stocksiefen, Lisa Weber
Graphic design
Jonas Deuter und Max Pietro Hoffmann
Translations
Gérard Goodrow
Press contacts for the RAY Echoes exhibitions
Isabelle Hammer, Andrea Horvay, Lucy Nixon
