Sight-_Seeing1 /
Walking the fine line between documentation and fictionalization: seven photographers provide us with a new picture of Tyrol
2011

Editor Wolfgang Scheppe’s book began as an experiment in visual theory in which a combination of theory and production was to lead to new practices in creating images. Participants in the collective process were photographers Michael Danner, Dominik Gigler, Monika Höfler, Verena Kathrein, Jörg Koopmann, Andrew Phelps, and Matthias Ziegler.
Their pictorial atlas of Tyrolean territory attempts to understand the polarization between tourism’s advertising images and the aesthetic standards of contemporary photography, in the hope that new perspectives will develop out of it.
German Photo Book Award in Gold 2012

ISBN 978-3-7757-3018-1



Born in Brennen
book with a beard N°2
2009


Koopmann´s second monograph explores the critical and humane conditions existing between the poles of protest and routine in a globalized landscape. Photographs  document hastily improvised crowd control barricades and security reinforcements, frumpy camouflage draped over doorways and stairwells, sullen protestors and armored troops at glogab summits. Shot between 2001 and 2009, Born in Brennen features photographic essays shot across the globe, punctuated by conversation, fragments and correspondance with a number of contemporaries…

Design: Thomas Mayfried
ISBN 978-3-00-027707-8

182 photos, 320 pages 
 

BR Radio / Klick!
2013
A short radio feature about one image i made in Tirol 2012. In german:
Zum großen Schafabtrieb in Tarent finden sich jedes Jahre viele Schaulustige ein, Touristen wie Tiroler. Das interessiert sogar die Haustiere; und was Hermes mit dem bunten Treiben zu tun hat, erzählt der Fotograf Jörg Koopmann.
Von: Susanne Lorenz

China in my hands /
Myrzik Jarisch
2013
Text for a selfpublished newspaper-like portfolio of photographer duo Myrzik /Jarisch, designed by Johannes v.Gross
...“Just to lower your expectations in terms of getting authentic specialist info about Chinese life: I have never been there!”...