A rather challenging project has landed on my desk. It is confidential, so I cannot talk of specifics here, save to say that it is to do with human rights, that it will be created in sisomo – sight, sound, motion, and that the stories must be told with complete anonymity – no recognizable names, [...]

Does he have enough mantlepiece space to hold all the awards for photojournalism that he has won over the years, one wonders? Australian Bangkok-based photographer Philip Blenkinsop – subject of the documentary film now in production titled My Asian Heart – has won the 2008 Visa d’Or News Award for his work in China where he [...]

[/caption] Great news just in, with more details to come… my documentary film on the great Australian photojournalist Philip Blenkinsop – working title My Asian Heart – has just received the second lot of funding, enabling the director, two-times Academy Award-nominated David Bradbury, [...]

As someone pointed out to me the other day, I was there during “The Revolution,” right there in the trenches in London, smack bang in the very middle of it all. The Online Revolution, that is, the one where the Web as we know it, and especially Web 2.0, was born. Right in the Middle of The [...]

Black+White magazine was an Australian cultural icon for the 1990s and well into the 2000s, until its relatively recent demise. A surprisingly large percentage of the population of Australia loyally bought every highly priced issue of the magazine, up until about number 50. It was even wellknown and subscribed-to at ruinous expense by advertising agencies and [...]

I have just placed a freely downloadable e-book into the e-Books page of this website. It’s named 9 Lessons from “Black+White” and it is a summary in brief of the most valuable lessons I learned from conceiving and cofounding Black+White magazine – for which I was also European Contributing Editor – in the previous decade. Black+White [...]

I have uploaded a number of new downloadable magazine article PDFs to the Magazine Articles page. Most of them are articles on famous photographers, many of them in-person interviews. Here is a list of my subjects: Albert Watson Anderson & Low Andrew Douglas Brian Griffin Bruce Weber Daniela Federici David Bailey David Burnett Duane Michals Geof Kern Guzman Jan Saudek Joyce Baronio Joyce Tenneson Mario Testino Olaf Martens More to come later!

I have added a PDF portfolio page sample of a press advertising campaign I wrote for a client in Western Australia. KubanEmpire, a small but high quality web design firm in East Perth, discovered that their potential clients had dismissed the Web as a toy for geeks and nerds. In fact, KubanEmpire found that the entire [...]

Hello everyone! I have added quite a few downloadable PDFs as of today. So… it looks like KarinGottschalk.com is now open for business! The files I have added include brand advertising examples from my portfolio, PDFs about magazines I have been involved in, magazine articles from Black+White magazine, bad poetry, e-books, and a few other assorted things.