Berlin, Autumn/Winter 2012 – Last week we anticipated the show of the photographer Alasdair McLellan at 032C Workshop. The list of suggestions for exhibitions that are happening simultaneously to Berlin Fashion Week would be incomplete without some other tips. So try to catch up if you are in town:

-  “Nudi”, by Paolo Roversi at Camera Work
The Italian fashion photographer is showing the beautiful series of nudes developed over the last 25 years with some of the most important top models. Very few photographers can do a frontal nude look classy. Roversi does it. The nudes presented at Camera Work have that devilish aspect that became his brand mark along the years. The portrait of Kate Moss is the most sold so far: 7 prints out of 17. Each for 6.900 Euros.

- “Faceless Bullets”, by Anna Kahn at Andreas Murkudis Shop
Anna is a Brazilian photographer and is presenting photographs of empty places she found in her hometown, Rio de Janeiro. Each image actually reveals the place where someone died, victim of “bala perdida” – term in Portuguese to describe a stray bullet. Anna said to The Gentleman website that her work is about “a city where you are in heaven at the same time you can be in hell”. It’s a very interesting and touching work, without being emotional, very far from the obviousness that violence is often approached in photography. I would say her images are “anti-post-cards from Rio”, where an inconvenient truth is told.

- “Helmut Newton Polaroids” at Helmut Newton Foundation
A great chance to see the polaroids of one of the latest masters of fashion photography – especially when it comes to the combination of sex and clothes. The polaroids, important to say, were often used as a test proof for the photographers check light exposure and composition during their shootings in the past – a process that disappeared with the introduction of digital photography. The exhibition is a wonderful opportunity to see how he reached the result of the perfect shot – including all the little mistakes that make us engage with the image.

-  “Gundula Schulze Eldowy, The Early Years” at C/O Berlin
Weirdly beautiful and hard-hitting sometimes. Gundula is a German photographer that lived in former East Berlin. Her work is a documentary of a city that no longer exists, with its miserable characters in ghostly streets. During the opening of the show Gundula, who now lives in Peru, said to the audience: “Berlin made me a photographer”. Her dedication to the craft is now shared with the Berliners and her images well celebrated in the amazing space of C/O Berlin museum.

- “Ron Galella, Paparazzo Extraordinaire” at C/O Berlin
The American paparazzo that revolted and enchanted the world is in town. Not to photograph the celebrities – since in Berlin they are treated like any other human being because no one cares about their presence. He is in town with a retrospective presenting the best of his snapshots. Expect real celebrities like Mick Jagger, Marlon Brando and Sean Penn “on the verge of a nervous breakdown”. Dedicate special attention to the prints (Galella printed all images himself in the darkroom he keeps at home).

Photo: Hermano Silva ©  Berlin 2012