Paul Sullivan rounds up some of the best places to see local and international photography…

Anyone who has visited the Berlinische Galerie will know, the city has a rich tradition of photography, and has birthed and hosted plenty of incredible photographers.

Starting with early pioneers like Waldemar Titzenthaler and Max Missmann, there has been a constant flow of visual chroniclers. To pick just one from each major era, Heinrich Zille, despite being more known for his caricatures, was a keen photographer and captured Berlin at the turn-of the-century; Willy Römer documented much of the Weimar era; Friedrich Seidenstücker photographed the aftermath of World War Two, while Harald Hauswald reported vividly on life in the former GDR.

The works of these photographers, and many more like them, are on more or less permanent rotation around the city at venues like the Märkisches Museum, which often puts on exhibitions of ninteenth-century photography, and the afore-mentioned Berlinische Galerie, whose photographic collection comprises some 70,000 images.

The Helmut Newton Foundation, named after the city’s most famous fashion photographer, also showcases works from the vast archives of the Kunstbibliothek’s Collection of Photography.

Of course much of the focus today for galleries is not on exhibiting photos of local photographers but on hosting international works. Venues such as C/O Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau and Camera Work (named after the legendary journal run by American photograher Alfred Stieglitz) are part of a network of global galleries showcasing contemporary works across a variety of photographic fields.

It’s well worth keeping an eye on the smaller galleries too, such as Fenster 61 and Photo Edition, which tend to mix local and international photographers, with a focus on emerging talent and niche themes.

C/O Berlin

Formerly housed inside a beautiful main post office (Postfuhramt), Berlin’s predominant photographic and visual arts space is nowadays in the west; Charlottenburg to be precise. With a heavyweight exhibition history (Annie Liebowitz, Gregory Crewdson, Robert Mapplethorpe), the space now inhabits the historic