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Claudio Pfeifer lives and works in Berlin in different fields of visual arts. After studying Photography & Video at Art School, he moved to Berlin to study Cinematography at German Film School. His Photographic work is abstract, constructed and focuses on movement in still images. He has shot several experimental short films, documentaries and also worked as Director of Photography for Feature Films and Music Videos.

For the past two years, Claudio Pfeifer has been publishing art books and zines with an emphasis on photography. He founded the Publishing House PogoBooks which is the tangible representation of a very vital existing community of young artists.

PogoBooks understands itself as part of a long and rich tradition of other DIY projects and self-publishers. This includes offering publications at low costs. In this way, PogoBooks has already managed to publish 40 titles since 2010.

“This kind of publishing requires handiwork and heart. Nonetheless, the books have to be affordable. That’s what Pogo means to me,” says Pfeifer.

Find out more:
Website | Flickr | Facebook | Twitter

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‘Where I Make’ invites readers behind the scenes of artists from many disciplines to share photographs and a little insight about where they create their masterpieces. See more from the series here.

Nick Cocozza is an illustration graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee who is now based in Berlin.

We noticed this work by Nick on our Behance community and thought it should be shared.

Here is what Nick has to say about it:
“This pop-up book was a piece that i produced in response to a live brief from the German Embassy in London as part of a design competition for DAAD.

Following the brief to create a modern day fairytale, i chose to put a modern twist on my favourite childhood fairytale; ‘Hansel and Gretel’.”

See the full book here.

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What have we missed? Let us know and join in our focus on Berlin taking place during October.

1. Tender Parodies by pulledup
A 3 day event planned for 2011 including workshops, screenings and performances in a disused theatre in Weissensee, Berlin.

2. Papergirl Berlin by Papergirl
Art distributed by bicycle in cities across the world.

3. Berlin Monument 1 by Buwert

4. Berliner Dom by JENowell

5. Berlin Paint by Recoat

As part of Recoat Gallery’s Fool’s Gold Tour (supported through our Member Fund), grafitti artists Inkie and Insa hit Berlin and made a sprawling spontaneous artwork.

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See more of our Top 5 selections here.