Zwei Bier für Haiti

Photographs inside a homeless shelter. When an earthquake shook Haiti in january 2010, Margitta started a fundraising campaign called "Two beers for Haiti".The Idea was for every resident to drink two beers less a day. She collected a total of 15 Euros.

For several years the artist Nathalie Mohadjer took photographs in a homeless shelter in Weimar. She spent a great deal of time with the residents, but never tried to hide her identity as an outside visitor. Her photographs hence suggest at once closeness and distance. The viewer can sense an ambivalence in them that is as fascinating as it is touching. Mohadjer's artistic strategy and choice of motifs rely on careful arrangements and a sensitivity to quiet, shy gestures, along with the use of (extra) light and clear pictorial compositions. Her formal and aesthetic language may be nothing unusual in the art world, but nowhere else it is applied to the same themes, social conditions and corresponding objects and people as the ones that interest Mohadjer. Starting out from a journalistic approach, Mohadjer's images, usually conceived as series, are marked by a clear visual language and artistic aesthetic. The series received the german Abisag Tüllman Pice and was a special mention at the Levallois photo price and Magnum in motion award. It has been exhibited at the Goethe Institute in Lyon, Kunsthalle Weimar, Kaunas Photo Festival, and Visa pour l'image festival in Perpignan. Zwei Bier für Haiti has been published by Kehrer Verlag germany and received the german photo book price in 2013.