Franziska Rieder - New York Diary war photography

Franziska Rieder - New York Diary war photographyHappy Press 2026 "() New York Diary is neither a monograph nor a memoir. But it is a bit of both. It tells the story of a girl from East Germany who comes of age discovered as a photo model on the streets of New York City in the late 1990s. The story is told in three parts: through photographic snapshots of the city and its people, through messages on an answering machine and finally through ephemera and memorabilia such as personal notes, polaroids,

Edited by Mathias Bertram

adding new techniques and views along the way

A large portion of the images

and the fragile fate of democratic ideals

which the artist encountered while growing up

Aperture 2016

Koenig Books 2023

Self-congratulatory art fairs

was built in the 1960s and re-clad in 2009

but I make it hard for those that are

and unfiltered

whose work explores the aesthetic and political possibilities of the colour