About ACMV

Hello there!
A quick note: From 2010 – 2015 we, that is Oliver & Julia, ran Actual Colors May Vary {ACMV} as a curated blog for contemporary photography. You can explore those contents here on this website.
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From 2023 on, we decided to start using that name for our new bike tours blog, which you can now find at this location ☞ www.actualcolorsmayvary.com
We hope you’ll like those contents as well. Happy riding!

Feature Photography

Richard Wade | Human Chassis

„Human Chassis is a Photographic study of the special isolation that links a driver to their vehicle, effecting a unique and introverted process of thought that could only occur in this private sanctuary.“

I originally wanted to make work on the subject after becoming bored of driving the same routes over and over and over again. I would find myself at a destination with little memory of the journey. I found that really intriguing (as well as terrifying from a road safety standpoint). There is something uniquely private and lonely about being in a car, I really wanted to photograph it. (mehr …)

Photography Print Magazine

romka magazine #7

…is out now!

Since 4 years the independent photography magazine has been offering a platform for photographs that really mean something. People from all over the world submit their favorite pictures and tell the stories that lie behind them. romka is a collective photo album in which both amateurs and professionals archive their memories. The readers are encouraged to submit their own favorite photographs to participate in the ongoing project.

Issue 7 collects the most treasured pictures of 58 photographers from 21 countries, ranging from Japan to Belgium and Argentina. No difference is made between amateur hobbyists and renowned photo artists. (mehr …)

Exhibition Feature Photobook Photography Solo Exhibition

Amaury da Cunha | Après tout

Après tout (After All) represents a turning point in the work of Amaury da Cunha.
His previous series, Saccades (Jolts), was somewhat luminous, infused with a sense of wonder facing the world. Après tout darkens in tone, as wonder gives way to bewilderment. Invading shadows are the backdrop for a photographer depicting himself as blinded. Death and sex are less allusive. A dog bares its fangs, while a bird of prey claws a branch. Yet shafts of light or a glimpsed road suggest that the end is not as impending as we may think. (mehr …)

ACMV/Berlin Exhibition Feature Photobook Solo Exhibition

Lars Tunbjörk | Vinter

Snowbound streets, buildings and abandoned cars, a dirty snowman standing forlorn in a garden.
But interiors too, and portraits of people in their homes, at work, in cafés and at parties.

For his series Vinter (Winter), Lars Tunbjörk travelled through Sweden from 2004 to 2007 capturing the melancholy winter atmosphere of Northern Europe and recording the mental state that closes in on the people of Scandinavia in the dark months of the year. For Tunbjörk himself, the project was originally primarily a creative way to cope with his own depressive mood, which regularly beset him in the winter months. (mehr …)

ACMV/Berlin Art Photography Seminar Workshop

PICTURE BERLIN

PICTURE BERLIN, founded in 2009, is a nonprofit artist initiated hybrid residency/art academy which encourages participating artists to engage in an active discourse surrounding art and contemporary photography while simultaneously giving them a chance to develop their work. This perspective is unusual within a European residency context as the program facilitates each individual approach by offering close mentoring from internationally practicing artists and free-lance curators based in Berlin. Next summer, 2013, will mark the fourth Summer Session. PICTURE BERLIN is a 5 week program. (mehr …)

Event Multimedia Photography

Instant Coffees – Students Edition Photography Screening Show | Finalists

The finalists for the Instant Coffees – Students Edition Photography Screening Show have been announced. Congratulations to the following participants: Ignacio Navas – LINDE Tatjiana Schorl – DAS WESEN Jose Manuel Fernandez – BARRIO Alexander Kreher – ALL THOSE WONDERFUL THINGS Vilhem Stockstad – REFUGEE THE KING OF PING PONG Clara Chichin – AND NOW …