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Welcome to The Photo Vault.
Our host, Lukas Birk, takes you on a voyage filled with exclusive on sight interviews featuring renowned artists who draw inspiration from vernacular photography, collectors who have dedicated their lives to amassing incredible troves of images, and curators who curate exhibitions that bridge the gap between past and present.
The Photo Vault steps into a hidden world filled with forgotten snapshots, dusty family albums, and gems of visual history to be uncovered. Join us as we embark on an exhilarating tour into the heart of collecting, curating and creating artworks and photobooks with archival materials around the globe.
The Photo Vault is part of the Vernacular Social Club, a platform that brings together people who share a common interest in the Vernacular world www.vernacularsocialclub.com
The host:
Lukas Birk, is an Austrian researcher, artist, and publisher who primarily focuses on archival narratives and edits stories from South and Southeast Asia. He founded the Myanmar Photo Archive, the Afghan Box Camera Project, SewonArtSpace in Yogyakarta, and the Austro Sino Arts Program in Beijing. As well as a boutique camera Manufacture producing the Instant Box Camera and an independent photobook publishing project called Fraglich Publishing.
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Erik Kessels - say no and get disrupted
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Mar 09, 2024 |
Thomas Sauvin - a mine full of silver
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Feb 15, 2024 |
Everyday imaging - the analogue and the digital realm
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Thweep Rittinaphakorn - learning about yourself through collecting
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Jan 16, 2024 |
Annebella Pollen - rejects are the majority and why we should study packaging
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Jan 04, 2024 |
Lucy Sante - on being a bilingual writer and how vernacular photography changed her life
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Dec 21, 2023 |
Joachim Schmid - on authorship, Flickr and NOT collecting
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Dec 06, 2023 |
Natasha Christia - Three books that inspired you / Emmanuell Carrere / Ariella Azoulay
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Nov 29, 2023 |
Cemre Yeşil Gönenli - seeking the hidden in photography and being an artist in todays Istanbul
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Nov 22, 2023 |
Erik Kessels - Three Books that inspired you
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Nov 17, 2023 |
Geoffrey Batchen on vernacular photography and appreciating the banal
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Nov 07, 2023 |
[Version française] Inauguration du Vernacular Social Club et du journal REVU
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Nov 06, 2023 |
Inauguration of the Photo Vault & definition of what Vernacular Photography is
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Oct 25, 2023 |