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European Photography, the international art magazine for contemporary photography and new media, was founded in 1980 by Andreas Müller-Pohle. It is published bi-annually in English and German. P.O. Box 080227, 10002 Berlin

Thirty international artists who were already presented in earlier editions of European Photography show their most outstanding new work:

Akinbode Akinbiyi | Peter Bialobrzeski | Diana Blok | Dirk Braeckman | Mona Breede | Daniele Buetti
Edward Burtynsky | Gregory Crewdson | Thomas Florschuetz | Gladys | Jim Goldberg | John Gossage | John Hilliard | Noritoshi Hirakawa | Carl de Keyzer | Mark Klett | Miao Xiaochun | Peter Neusser | Erwin Olaf | Roger Palmer | Max Pam | Martin Parr | Bernard Plossu | Ernestine Ruben | Philipp Scholz Rittermann | Heidi Specker | Frank Thiel | Norbert Wiesneth | Erwin Wurm | Martin Zeller

Also featured: new, cutting-edge photography by seven young and mid-career artists:

Paul D. Scott | Charles Fréger | Michael Najjar | Shigeru Takato | Jürgen Chill |
Zhang Xiao | Andreas Machanek

Plus, an in-depth conversation between Hans-Michael Koetzle and artist/publisher Andreas Müller-Pohle on the "secrets" of magazine publishing, on current trends in photography, on how to choose works for publication, on Gruber, Szarkowski, Flusser, and others, and on the artist/publisher role:

"How did the photography scene respond to your dual role as artist and publisher? To say nothing of the other roles, given that you were also teaching, writing theoretical texts and giving lectures.

The reactions were, and still are, very varied. Some found it quite normal to do all those things in parallel, especially as in the 1980s it was active photographers who were mainly stirring up the scene. Others found it pretty useful, some of the Goethe Institutes for example, because they could then take advantage of me in multiple roles. Others couldn't cope with it at all. There were also people who didn't think it was right that I should publish my own work in European Photography - which, if you ask me, is a rather schizophrenic attitude.

But is that attitude not in a way typical of our culture?

Yes, with modernism and the victory of the art market, the "one-idea-artist" has become a major, but also a tragic figure in art: one idea, all the rest being variations or disguises. Year after year, perhaps a whole life long, you build igloos or lay circles of stones, or take photographs in botanical gardens . . . that may ensure in-depth experience, but it's not my cup of tea. I'm interested in the other type of artists, the ones who expand and constantly reinvent themselves. Not faces, but interfaces!"

"It is flourishing . . ." 7 Questions, 119 Answers is a survey done among international critics, curators and photographers of their personal views on questiuons such as: Is there something you collect? What? Fred Baldwin, Chairman of FotoFest: "Mostly bills, and an occasional photograph trade, and by accident - a million books, usually collected as I am going to the airport."