An absolute highlight is this exciting collection of 16 exceptional photographs compiled for the PHOTOPIA in Hamburg. 

Internationally renowned and award-winning top photographers have each donated one of their works to the fair's first NFT Drop Open Edition.

Visitors will be able to mine one randomly selected work each during the PHOTOPIA period from 13 to 16 October. 

All incidental costs will be covered at PHOTOPIA. This means that new digital art collectors will receive a work of art by an internationally renowned artist free of charge. 

The aim of the campaign is to make NFT technology better known and accessible to photographers and photo enthusiasts alike.

In this way, PHOTOPIA Hamburg makes it easier for art enthusiasts to enter the digital art world.In so doing, the fair also becomes a pioneer internationally, as it directly brings visitors and artists together on the Web3.

Photopia

Jan von Holleben 

 Born in 1977 in southern Germany, Jan von Holleben lived most of his youth in an alternative commune and identifies a strong connection between the development of his photographic work and the influence of his parents, a cinematographer and child therapist. At the age of thirteen, he was picking up a camera and experimenting with all sorts of magical tricks, developing his photographic imagination and skills. After pursuing studies in teaching children with disabilities, he moved to London, earned a degree in the Theory and History of Photography at Surrey Institute of Art and Design and became submerged within the London photographic scene. He quickly set up two photographic collectives, Young Photographers United and Photodebut, followed more recently by the Photographers Office and the publishing house Tarzipan. His body of photographic work focusing on the homo ludens  the man who learns through play  is itself built from a playful integration of pedagogical theory with his own personal experiences of play and memories of childhood. Von Hollebens idiosyncratic images have become part of the contemporary German photographic imagination. Shifting between fine art and editorial projects, Holleben is known as much for his collaborations with the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, London and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin as for his editorial work for Spiegel, Zeit, DU Magazin, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Geo, and Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin as well as his ad campaigns for the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Brsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (to name only a few). His books have been published in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and North America and are translated into seventeen languages.