Atlas Gallery presents The Archive of Elsewhere, a visual journal through twenty years of Lukas Birk’s work as an artist, photographer researcher, archivist and travelling publisher. Moving across continents, cultures and photographic traditions, the exhibition explores his encounters with photography as a way of understanding and engaging with the world. At the centre of the exhibition are Birk’s many publications accompanied by new photographic works that engage on an emotional level with his in-depth research primarily in conflict-areas around the world.
The gallery invites you to experience Lukas Birk’s extensive projects with his large-scale unique photographic montages, limited edition prints drawn from overlooked photographic histories, a wide collection of books from Birk’s publishing company Fraglich, live portrait sessions with a working box camera, and artist talks, in which travel, geography, memory and the material life of photography continuously intersect.
