As part of the 13th International Photography Festival VIZUALIZATOR, the Center for the Development of Photography and ASMEDI are hosting a conversation with Swiss photographer Meinrad Schade, who opens one of the key questions of contemporary documentary photography: how do you photograph a conflict that officially does not exist, yet people continue to live it every day?
Drawing from his long-term project War Without War, Schade will discuss what it means to work in places where war has retreated from the media but not from life. The chapter Unresolved, which he will present in Belgrade, depicts daily life in Israel and Palestine: landscapes of scars, architectures of surveillance, quiet fears, but also unexpected moments of hope and encounter.
The workshop is intended for young photographers, students, journalists, and anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of the ethical, aesthetic, and human dimensions of documentary photography.
The talk with the author will be held on Saturday, 22 November, at 6 p.m. at the Nikola Radošević Gallery. Immediately after, at 7 p.m., the exhibition War Without War will officially open.
The number of participants is limited.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/MvQpDiQvNPgTbp2FA
About the Author
Meinrad Schade (Switzerland, 1968), originally trained as a biologist, studied photography at Gruppe Autodidaktischer FotografInnen and later specialized in photojournalism at the Swiss School of Journalism (MAZ). After working for the newspaper St. Galler Tagblatt, he became an independent portrait and documentary photographer in 2002. A major retrospective of War Without War was presented in 2015 at Fotostiftung Schweiz in Winterthur, and the accompanying monograph received the silver medal at the German Photobook Award. Schade is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the Swiss Photo Award, the n-ost Reportage Prize, and the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis (silver, 2015). He is a member of the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie (DFA) and teaches regularly at universities and photography programs (MAZ, HWZ, Zürich University).
About the Project
The workshop is organized as part of the project “Photography Without Artificial Additives: For Media Literacy and Visual Truth in the Age of AI Images.” The project is implemented within the EU Resource Center for Civil Society in Serbia, led by the Belgrade Open School in partnership with civil society organizations—Novosadska novinarska škola, ENECA, Užice Child Rights Centre, Nova planska praksa, Sigurne staze, Young Farmers of Serbia—and the international partner Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. The project is supported by the European Union and implemented from 2023 to 2026.