Tempo Archive

With a background in documentary photography, Catharina Gotby has developed a personal photographic language in an effort to portray human experiences and existential issues. Beauty is linked with brutality, in complex representations of female identity, violence, underlying causes and the experience of presence. Catharina Gotby works with exhibitions and books and has also expressed herself in film, radio and text.

Catharina Gotby, born 1955 in Stockholm.
Educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts 2008-2009;
Dramatic Institute in 2001, Konstfack in 1997 and GFU 1977-1978.

Catharina Gotby’s work has been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, in Sweden and internationally, including Moderna Museet, Nordiska museet, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Fotograficentrum, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Malmö Konsthall, Dunkers Kulturhus and Rencontre d’Arles, France.

Gotby has published four books: ”Presence” (2011), ”Song” (2008), ”The Body as a Battlefield” (2004) and ”Eternally Burning Time” (1992). She was also nominated for the Swedish Photobook Award in 2006 and 2011.

She now holds the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s ten year working grant, and has received numerous awards such as the European Kodak Award Sweden in 1988, Writers’ Union Radio Scholarship in 1999, KW Gullers scholarship in 2003, and the appointment Swedish Book Art in 2004.

Over the last 10 years Gotby has also worked with film, supported by Swedish Television and the Swedish Film Institute, together with radio documentaries produced for Swedish Radio’s cultural and documentary editorials, as well as working as a writer.

Yasar Kemal (born 1923) is one of Turkey’s most respected authors, both nationally and internationally. He is his country’s most prominent epic poet, who achieved his breakthrough in 1955 with Memed, My Hawk, a bestseller even in Sweden (1970, Gidlunds Förlag). His stories and ideas, together with his more than 50 years struggle for freedom of the press and human rights in Turkey, have been extremely important for the development of democracy in the country, and have made a significant contribution to Turkey’s contemporary history.

The documentary photographer and filmmaker Günes Karabuda’s images of Yasar Kemal’s life and activities will be shown in a retrospective exhibition at CFF – Centre for Photography, in collaboration with the Anatolian Arts and Cultural Centre (AKKC) and Tempo Documentary Festival.

Günes Karabuda is based in Paris, Stockholm and Istanbul and works as a photojournalist, documentary filmmaker, producer and writer. He has, over the last half a century, documented people, countries and cultures, as he has travelled, together with his wife Barbro, from state coups, insurrections, wars and revolutions around the world.

The extensive photographic material presented will also be supported by texts, film and a festival programme. In this way, Tempo intends, from different perspectives, to illuminate Kemal’s magnificent authorship.

OPENING THURSDAY 4TH MARCH, 17.00 – 20.00
CFF – Centrum for Photography, Tjärhovsgatan 44 in Stockholm.
The exhibition continues until Sunday 28th March.
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Friday, 12 – 18, Saturday – Sunday, 12 – 16.

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 13TH MARCH

14.00
A welcome from Gülseren Engström, journalist and chairman of Anatolian Arts and Cultural Centre, and Gunilla Muhr, curator for CFF – Centre for Photography.

14.15
Photographer Günes Karabuda will give a personal presentation of the exhibition – a more than fifty years chronicle of the writer Yasar Kemal, but also an account of a long-standing collaboration and friendship.

15.00
Actor Sven Wollter reads excerpts from Kemal’s work and discusses the making of the film Violbukten (1991) in Turkey.

15.45
Gertrud and Krister Gidlund offer an account of their time as Kemal’s publisher for nearly twenty years.

Wine and buffet will be served! Free Entry!