Currently setting up our new exhibition Claudia Andujar – The Yanomami Struggle. Join us for the opening on Friday, October 22! 🤗 • The exhibition will be on show from October 23, 2021 to February 13, 2022. • Image: Claudia Andujar, Susi Korihana thëri, Catrimani, Roraima State, Brazil, 1972-1974 © Claudia Andujar • #fotomuseumwinterthur #lovewinterthur #claudiaandujar #yanomami

With his work Away with You, artist Rindon Johnson criticises the way games limit the possibilities for creating avatars, as they often reproduce sexist and racist stereotypes. He illustrates how representation is still shaped by discrimination. • The work is part of our exhibition How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play. On show only until Sunday! 👀 • Photo by @conradinfrei • #fotomuseumwinterthur

Who will be crowned the winner of in-game photography? 👑 • As a finissage event of the exhibition How to Win at Photography a playful tournament will take place: Curators Matteo Bittanti and Marco De Mutiis present artistic projects that have been created using in-game photography. Together with the audience they will ultimately choose what they consider to be the most exciting and best work. • Join us on the October 9 at 4pm. Get your ticket now – link in bio! • Image: Akihiko Taniguchi, screenshot from Practice for in-game photography / virtual photography © Akihiko Taniguchi • #fotomuseumwinterthur #photorealism #Ingamephotography

Last days of our current exhibition How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play! 🔥😍 The show creates unexpected connections between photography and play and explores the relationship between the two. • On show until Sunday, October 10! 👊 • Photos by @conradinfrei • #fotomuseumwinterthur #lovewinterthur

How can we extend the limits of our ability to observe? 👁👁 • In @florianamoser’s work physical reality begins to imitate a new digital reality. • Together with interaction designer Pietro Alberti he introduces his practice in this week’s Screen Walk and takes viewers along on a drone and synthesizer experience through the Swiss Alps! 🛸 • Join us on October 6 at 7pm CET on Zoom – link in our bio! • In Screen Walks selected artists and researchers investigate artistic strategies taking place online. The format is a collaboration between Fotomuseum Winterthur and @thephotographersgallery • Kindly supported by: @Prohelvetia, Swiss Arts Council • Image: © Florian Amoser • #screenwalks #fotomuseumwinterthur #droneflight #droneperfomance #florianamoser

Only two more weeks of How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play! 😳⚡️ The exhibition explores the relationship between photography and play and includes more than forty positions from contemporary and 20th century photography. • On show until October 10 🎈 • Photos by @conradinfrei • #ingamephotography #fotomuseumwinterthur #lovewinterthur

Love is love! ❤️🌈❤️ • Image from our collection: David Armstrong, Nan and Siobhan at Miaumet, Nantucket, 1990 © David Armstrong • #loveislove

What happens when non-player characters leave their gaming habitats and enter the realm of social media platforms? 👀👀 • For their project FELT REAL MIGHT DELETE LATER media guerilla collective Total Refusal transforms a number of selected additional characters in video games (so-called non-player characters or NPCs) into social media influencers. By doing so the collective investigates current excesses of late capitalism media. 👊 • Join us on Wednesday, September 22 at 7pm CET on Zoom – link in our bio! • In Screen Walks, selected artists and researchers investigate artistic strategies taking place online. The format is a collaboration between Fotomuseum Winterthur and @thephotographersgallery • Kindly supported by: @Prohelvetia, Swiss Arts Council • Image: © @totalrefusal • #screenwalks #fotomuseumwinterthur #npc #totalrefusal

It is not only games that are governed by certain rules: photography is also subject to them. 👀 This is particularly evident on Instagram, as illustrated by Emma Agnes Sheffer’s profile @insta_repeat: The more likes, clicks and shares a picture gets, the more influence it has on visual idioms which ends up in unwritten aesthetic rules and a process of standardisation – a phenomena that is explored in our current exhibition How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play. 🔥🏕🌲 • On show until October 10! • Pictured: Emma Agnes Sheffer, image collection from Instagram, 2021 © The authors and Insta Repeat • #gamification #instarepeat #fotomuseumwinterthur

In-game photography has become commonplace within video game culture. 🎮📸 Often disregarding the game’s intended goals, photographers and artists choose instead to visually document what they encounter. They deconstruct these spaces and, in some cases, their activity is a form of resistance, a refusal to accept the rules. ❌ Game Travel – Playing Tourist is one of the chapters of our current show How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play. • On show until October 10! ✌️ • Photo by @conradinfrei • #ingamephotography #fotomuseumwinterthur

Book launch and artist talk with Pascal Greco! 📖 ⚡️ • During last year’s lockdown, artist Pascal Greco had planned a trip to Iceland to photograph the country. Due to travel restrictions, he was unable to set out on the journey. He discovered the game #deathstranding with its landscapes reminiscent of Iceland and instead started taking pictures in the game. • The project will be published as a book titled Place(s) and will be officially released on October 18. A limited number of copies will be available exclusively at the event at Fotomuseum Winterthur. 📌📌 • During the artist talk, Greco, a self-taught filmmaker, cinematographer and photographer living in Geneva, will present his work and approach in conversation with Marco De Mutiis, curator of the exhibition How to Win at Photography. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience and a book signing. • Saturday, September 11 at 4pm ✌️ • Images: Pascal Greco, from the series Place(s), 2021 © Pascal Greco • #fotomuseumwinterthur #lovewinterthur #ingamephotography

Employing game mechanics the artist Akihiko Taniguchi explores the possibilities of rethinking the act of taking pictures within computer games. 🎮 🎮 🎮 From virtual self(ies) to image search engine filters, from green screens to multiplied screenshots flying through surreal spaces, his work Parallax immerses players within the machinic processes that regulate contemporary image-making – through a game-like interaction, the players experience photographic capture as a form of play. • Part of our current show How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play ✌️ • Photo by @conradinfrei