Triennial of Photography Hamburg | Breaking Point is the catalogue published by Hartmann Books for the 2018 Triennial of Photography Hamburg, held June 7 to September 2018. The seventh edition of the festival, which has taken place every three years since 1999, brought together around 80 exhibitors and more than 300 artists, with major Hamburg institutions such as the Kunsthalle, the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe, and the Deichtorhallen presenting their own exhibitions. The book shares its subtitle with the event’s contextual focus: “Breaking Point: Searching for Change.”
The volume is edited as the book of the triennial, with texts by Krzysztof Candrowicz and other authors and museum curators. Candrowicz is credited as author of the publication; no individual photographer is named in the verified bibliographic record, so the book is best described as a multi-contributor exhibition catalogue rather than the work of a single photographer. The essays and the collected works address a world shaped by accelerating processes of change: digitalization, climate change, migration, population growth, and globalization. Under the motto “Breaking Point: Searching for Change,” the triennial asked what answers artists can contribute to this debate and what tasks photography might take on.
The hardcover with dustjacket measures 20 by 27 centimeters and runs 352 pages with approximately 300 illustrations. Texts are in German and English, and the graphic design is by Büro Sauhaus, Berlin. The ISBN is 978-3-96070-020-3. The book documents the 2018 triennial’s exhibitions and artistic positions and accompanies the festival’s programme.
