Julia Baier (born 1971) studied photography in Bremen and then taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (college of arts and design) in Karlsruhe. Her works have been shown in many solo and group exhibitions in various countries including France, Japan and Hungary. Julia Baier has been living in Berlin since 2005. She has received numerous scholarships and prizes, including the BFF Förderpreis (award for photo design) in 2003 and the Europäischer Architekturfotografie-Preis (European award for architectural photography) in 2015.
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Paula Duvå (b. 1991, Copenhagen) is an artist working with photography, video and text. Paula graduated from Copenhagen Film and Photo School in 2011 and holds a BA (Hons.), First Class in Fine Art Photography from the Glasgow School of Art. Her work has been exhibited at Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, Six Foot Gallery in Glasgow, Museumsbygningen in Copenhagen and many other venues. Paula is an editor of the magazine visAvis - voices on asylum and migration.
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Otto Hainzl (born in Linz) has been developing an individual photographic ouvre since 2005. In direct portraits, he reflects on society and the tracks it has left. He questions the meaning of being human, predominantly within European culture. His artistic series include 'WE – Dramaturgy of Social Life,' 'Defense de Cracher,' 'Hotels I Know, Sarajevo' and 'Europastrasse.' His works have been shown in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Kunst Haus, Vienna and the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki. In 2016, Hainzl was accepted into the artistic association, MAERZ.
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Andreas Herzau (born 1962), photographer, lecturer and author, closely examines photography from the artistic and theoretical viewpoint. He is a dedicated photo journalist with an independent and often surprising visual language. In his works he expands the limits of classical photo coverage, breaches our visual expectations and ultimately challenges our peceived social stereotypes. Essay-like narrative and analysis-like abstract elements are compacted in his works to an intensive visual language which he publicises in book projects, exhibitions and magazines. Besides his artistic work, he writes texts and essays about photography.
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Mads Holm (b. 1990, Copenhagen) is an artist working primarily with photography and writing. Mads studied at Fatamorgana, Copenhagen in 2009 and International Center of Photography, New York in 2011 and most recently he received his BA (Hons.), First Class in Fine Art Photography from the Glasgow School of Art. Mads has exhibited at the Royal Danish Embassy in London, Stills Gallery and Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Four Boxes in Skive, Fotografisk Center and at Banja Rathnov Gallery in Copenhagen.
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Tomohide Ikeya was born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1974 and today lives in Tokyo. He attended the Tokyo College of Photography and has been a free-lance photographer since 2002. The artistic work of the hobby diver is devoted to water and he has exhibited in Japan, Europe and USA. He has received prizes such as the International Photography Awards in 2007 and 2009 (first place) and the Moscow International Photo Awards in 2004 (bronze).
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Rudolf Klaffenböck (born 1952) collects traces, records changes and observes space and time. Once a political satirist, as a photographer he turns his eye to the absurd reality of everyday life. Klaffenböck often discovers connections in the periphery, frequently paired with deeper implications. His works have been shown in many individual and group exhibitions and published in journalistic media.
Rudolf Klaffenböck (born 1952) is a photographer who collects traces, records changes and observes space and time. Once a political satirist, as a photographer he turns his eye to the absurd reality of everyday life. Klaffenböck often discovers connections in the periphery, frequently paired with deeper implications. His works have been shown in many individual and group exhibitions and published in journalistic media.
His series 'Schleuserfahrzeuge' (human trafficker vehicle) in the SZ magazine in 2016 won gold in the LeadAwards. Rudolf Klaffenböck lives in Passau.
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Paul Kranzler, born in 1979 in Austria, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. His work is exhibited and published internationally and is found in important public collections such as the Albertina or the Photographic Collection at the Rupertinum in Vienna.
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Born in East Berlin in 1965 Krauss lives and works in Berlin and Oderbruch. He has taken part in many international exhibitions, including the Hayward Gallery, London, the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence and the ICP in New York.
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Simon Lehner (1996) is currently living in and working from Vienna, Austria and in his graduating/diploma semester in Applied Photography and Time-based Media at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. His work comes from personal experiences and has a documentary core as it explores contemporary issues, social structures, psychology and its relation to current human and social developments.
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Evi Lemberger (born 1983 in Lam) graduated from the London College of Communication and also completed a short exchange course at the Academy of Art and Design in Leipzig. In 2010 she won a scholarship to study documentary photography at the International Center of Photography in New York and graduated as Master in multi-media and authorship from Halle (Saale) in 2013. During her studies she worked free-lance for galleries, magazines, daily newspapers and businesses in USA, Bangladesh, India, Spain and Germany.
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Andrew Phelps (born 1967) is an American photographer who has been living in Salzburg since 1990. His work is influenced by his cross-cultural background. He spends his time in the deserts of Arizona just as much as in the Austrian Alps. Phelps is curator and member of the board of the Galerie Fotohof in Salzburg. His artistic work is represented by well-known galleries in Austria and Germany. Besides his new photographic projects, Phelps has a blog about photographic special editions and books and is a member of the project 'Piece of Cake.' When he is not taking photos, Phelps spends his time with his wife and two daughters, kayaking or mountaineering.
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Torsten Schumann (born 1975 in Dresden) lives and works in Berlin. He photographs situations and things which he has stumbled across in urban areas. Schuman has won many prizes: Art Laguna award in Venice 2012, Berliner Liste 2014, OPUS culture magazine photo prize 2015, PDN street photography contest 2015 and PDN Annual Photo Awards 2017 for books. He has exhibited at international festivals such as Circulation(s) Paris 2015, Kaunas Photo Festival 2016 and HeadOn Photofestival in Sydney. His works have been shown in group exhibitions at the Royal Photographic Society in London 2014, the Filter Photo Festival in Chicago, Context 2015 as well as the Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins. His works are, among others, in the JPMorgan Chase art collection in New York.
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The Czech photographer Jindřich Štreit (born 1946) teaches at Opava University's Institute of Creative Photography, holds workshops and organizes exhibitions. His social documentary works have been shown world-wide in more than a thousand exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art in Passau in 2008. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s with his photographs of day-to-day life in the rural Bruntál region under the communist regime. In 1982 Štreit was accused of defamation and sentenced to many months of imprisonment. In 1994 he began a career as a free-lance photographer and also taught at the Academy of Art in Prague and Bratislava. In 1991 Jindřich Štreit began teaching at the University of Opava. In 2009, the then Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, honoured him with the title of professor.
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Andreas Trogisch was born in 1959 in Riesa on the River Elbe and studied graphic design, photography and exhibition design in Berlin. He has been a free-lance photographer and partner in a graphic-art studio since the end of the 1980s. From 2006 to 2007 he was a guest professor at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. Since 2010, Andreas Trogisch has published photo books with Peperoni Books in Berlin and shown his works in exhibitions, including the Triennal of Photography Hamburg.
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Sanne De Wilde is a graduate of the International School of Arts in Ghent. Her photo series 'The Dwarf Empire'received two Photo Academy Awards 2012 as well as the International Photography Award Emergentes DST in 2013. Her portrait work on albinism 'Snow White' was awarded 16ème Prix National Photographie Ouverte and NuWork Award for Photographic Excellence. and its continuation, 'Samoa Kekea', was awarded the Nikon Press Award 2014 for most Promising Young Photographer. The British Journal of Photography selected De Wilde as one of 'the best emerging talents from around the world' in 2014.
Her work has been internationally published (New Yorker, The Guardian, Le Monde, BBC, CNN, Vogue) and exhibited; Voies Off (Arles, FR), Tribeca Filmfestival (NY, US), Circulations (Paris, FR), LagosPhoto (Lagos, NG), Pingyao Photofestival (Pingyao, CN) Kolga Tbilisi Photo (Tbilisi, GE) Athens Photofestival (Athens, GR) Format Festival (Derby, ENG) Lodz Fotofestiwal (Lodz, PL) IDFA (Amsterdam, NL) with solo exhibitions in de Brakke Grond (Amsterdam, NL), Evans Contemporary Gallery (Peterborough, CA) Le Petit Espace Gallery (Paris, FR), Encontros da Imagem (Braga, PT), Museo Minicipal Ourense (Ourense, ES), STAM (Ghent, BE), Fotoforum Brasschaat (Antwerp, BE), CC Hasselt (Hasselt, BE), MAS (Antwerp, BE).
Sanne's new body of work The Island of The Colorblind which looks at the the results of a catastrophic typhoon swept over Pingelap, a tiny atoll in the Pacific Ocean in the late 18th century. One of the survivors, the king, carried the rare achromatopsia-gen that causes complete colorblindness. The king went on to have many children and as time passed by, the hereditary condition affected the isolated community and the islanders started seeing the world in black and white.
Sanne received the Firecracker Grant 2016 award for this work, an award which specifically promotes women working in photography and also the Nikon Press Award 2016, she was also a finalist for FCB Photo Awards. Since 2013 De Wilde has worked as a photographer for the Dutch newspaper & magazine De Volkskrant in Amsterdam. She joined the NOOR agency as a nominee in 2017.
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Anna Katharina Zeitler studied photography at the Munich Academy of Photographic Design. After receiving her BFA in 2003 she moved to New York City to pursue her work. Between 2006 and 2010 she received five grants to live and work in Chile, Spain and India. Her work was been awarded several times, most recently she was a 2017 Head on Portrait Award Finalist, a Moscow International Photography Award Winner and a 2019 American Photography Winner. Zeitler has taken part in exhibitions at relevant institutions for contemporary photography all over the world including the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Lucie Foundation, the Head on Photography Festival, the Museum of Sydney, the Pingyao China International Photography Festival, the Indian Photography Festival, the Munich City Museums and the Wiesbadener Fototage. Since 2017 she has been teaching workshops with children and adolescents at the Berlin State Museums.
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