Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Braubachstraße 30-32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
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MARINA PLANAS ANTICH“HIDDEN ARCHIVES: TOURISM, PHOTOGRAPHY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY – Frankfurt”
MARINA PLANAS ANTICH
“HIDDEN ARCHIVES: TOURISM, PHOTOGRAPHY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY – Frankfurt”
Saturday, June 28/29, 2025, 10 am–5 pm
Subjects
Tourism, Photography, Archive, Postcard, Collective Memory, Hypertourism, Cultural Landscape, Collective Creation, Sustainability, Identity, Critical Image Studies
Equipment
Pen and paper, camera equipment, laptop or tablet
Location
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Braubachstraße 30–32, 60311 Frankfurt
Marina Planas, © Diego Menjíbar, 2025
Language: English
Duration: 2 days
This workshop invites participants to reflect on the impact of tourism on urban and identity spaces. Participants will explore touristified spaces through a photographic conceptual framework, using the postcard as a starting point, to create a collective work in the form of a visual archive. Through critical analysis, discussions will focus on how images construct and transform our perception of territories and national identity. Using Frankfurt as a case study, the goal is to create a collaborative series that examines the interaction between photography, postcards, tourism, and cultural landscapes.
The workshop begins with a conceptual introduction to the impact of mass tourism on cultural landscapes and the role of postcard photography as an identity-building tool based on clichés and stereotypes. Through a critical analysis, participants will engage in a collective creation exercise. Using guidelines on appropriation, expanded photography, and archival practices, we will create a collective work reflecting on the past, present, and future.
Ficha Mohamed, © Marina Planas Antich, 2025
The artistic practice of Marina Planas Antich focuses on deciphering the relationship between tourism and visual memory. By working with photographic archives and postcards, she examines the transformation of natural and cultural landscapes through tourism exploitation. Her critical approach addresses themes such as sustainability, cultural appropriation, and the shifting narratives of identity, encouraging viewers to reflect on the consequences of mass tourism. Marina combines contemporary practices with documentary techniques, creating spaces for dialogue on social responsibility and the preservation of collective memory.
This workshop will explore concepts of contemporary photography, archival practices, relational art, imagination, and the role of imagery in tourism logics.
Marina Planas Antich is a visual artist and photographer based in Mallorca. Her work focuses on the critical analysis of mass tourism’s impact on cultural and natural landscapes. By activating her family’s photographic archive, the “Planas Archive,” she explores territorial transformations and collective memory. She has exhibited her work at national and international events such as the Cortona Fest, Houston Foto Fest, and LensCulture, fostering debates on sustainability, tourism, and cultural heritage preservation. In 2024, she was awarded the Contemporary Photography Prize by the Consell de Mallorca.
FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT
The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) is one of the leading centres of photography in Europe. As an exhibition space, institution and event forum the FFF deals with all types and aspects of photography. Since its founding in 1984 it has presented more than 300 exhibitions with historic and contemporary artists. Additionally, the programme of the FFF comprises of regular workshops, talks and discussions with internationally renowned photographers, artists and experts.
