The photo series "ESSEN 51" deals with the post-industrial transformation of an urban landscape. The Krupp cast steel factory, the nucleus of the later Krupp armaments group and German heavy industry, was built on the site shown at the beginning of the 19th century. Strongly destroyed in World War II,...
Nanna Heitmann: Gone From The Window – The End Of An Era
Coal mining enabled Germany‘s participation in the industrial revolution and contributed to the German 'Wirtschaftswunder' after World War II; resulting in the development of today‘s key industries. That is all history. Prosper Haniel, the last remaining colliery, closes in 2018. Coal mining had once attracted countless people from all over...
Christina Czybik: The Beauty of Traditional Wedding Costumes in Germany
"Traditional Costumes in Germany" is a documentary portraiture series about traditional bridal costumes of Germany with the aim to preserve significant cultural-historical heritage. This project opens up the chance to discuss the role of women in our society and the process of emancipation. Christina Czybik - born and raised in Germany,...
Helena Falabino: Talk to Us
About her project says Helena: I strongly believe that the way we think about sex work has directly to do with how we perceive sexuality, our own and in general. I used to have an idea of sex work built upon what I knew from mainstream media, that hardly ever makes...
Frédérick Carnet: The Last First Day
A photographic essay by Frédérick Carnet: First of January 2106. Rügen. An island in northern Germany plunged into a strange atmosphere, post-apocalyptic, that reminds me of the movie The Road (2009, John Hillcoat). And if that day was the last first day of a fragile peace? This photographic essay, like...
Emil Otto Hoppé: The German Work
Between 1925 and 1938, photographer E.O. Hoppé traveled the length and breadth of Germany, recording people and places at one of the most tumultuous times in the country’s history. He photographed movie stars and captains of industry, workers and peasants, and captured the birth of the Autobahn and UFA film...
PhotoBiography: Joern Vanhoefen
Jörn Vanhöfen (born 1961 in Dinslaken, Lower Rhine) studied photography at the Folkwang School in Essen and the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) in Leipzig. He works for international magazines and other publications. In 2001 he joined Manfred Schmalriede and Arno Fisher to found a photography...
PhotoBiography: Josef Schulz
Josef Schulz (born 1966) is a "photographer" of modern warehouses and factories - trite industrial buildings that nobody would want to consider to be of any major architectural interest. All over the world these buildings are mass-produced, built for all kinds of industrial production processes using identical plans and blueprints....
PhotoBiography: Meike Nixdorf
Meike Nixdorf, born 1976, is a German visual artist. She holds a B.Sc. in Psychology from Freie Universitaet Berlin and was educated in photography and video at the School of the International Center of Photography during her three year stay in New York, 2005-2008. Her work has been exhibited in...
PhotoBiography: Loretta Lux
Loretta Lux was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1969. In 1989 she left East Germany for Munich, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. From 1990–96, she studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. Trained as a painter, Lux began taking photographs in 1999. Although...