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May 2021
Aliona and Max are currently part of an exhibiton at Horbach Stiftung Cologne, which features the topics of environmental pollution, climate change and migration.
May 2021
Ingmar won the Grand Prix at the ADC Awards together with ZEIT Magazin for the publication of his work on COVID in Germany.
May 2021
Max was a guest of the “dieMotive” Podcast, moderated by Alexander Hagmann. They talked about World Press Photo, documentary photography and his photo-essays.
April 2021
Max and Arne’s photo-essay “The Longest Night” is exhibited in Brückstraße 64, Dortmund until 20.05.2021.
March 2021
Ingmar was invited as a guest at SWR2 Tandem. One year after the start of the first COVID lockdown in Germany, he discussed his project “about the days ahead”, the changing society and DOCKS collective.
March 2021
An article about Ingmar’s COVID-19 project has been published in the culture section of the weekend edition of the Tagesspiegel. Words by Joana Nietfeld.
March 2021
Ingmar’s long-term project “about the days ahead” has been shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards, for Copenhagen Photofestival and is among the finalists for PORTRAITS Hellerau Award.
The work is currently on exhibit at Technische Sammlung Dresden.
February 2021
Ingmar’s second chapter of “About the days ahead” has been published in ZEIT Magazin, along with a text by Christoph Amend.
Have a look at the first chapter here︎
February 2021
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January 2021
Fabian’s photo-essay “The Long Days of Hanau” has been published in ZEIT magazine.
Just two days after the attack in Hanau, Fabian visited the city for ten days. Over the last eleven months, he came back regularly to accompany friends and relatives of those murdered in Hanau after the tragic incident.
Text by Johannes Dudziak
January 2021
A selection of Max and Arne's photo essay "The Longest Night" has been published in L’Espresso.
January 2021
A selection of Max and Arne's photo essay "The Longest Night" has been published in the TAZ.
Since November, Arne and Max have been photographing people who are particularly affected by Corona and its restrictions. In their essay they tell personal stories of emotional complexity and psychological exceptional situations during this dark season.
December 2020
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The Museum of Art and Cultural History Dortmund bought 27 prints of Ingmar’s “About the days ahead” project for their art collection.
December 2020
Ingmar’s photo-essay “About the days ahead” is on display in a window exhibition in Minden.
November 2020
Arne and Ingmar are among the winners of Photo Annual in the category Student Work.
November 2020
Ingmar’s photo-essay “About the days ahead” has been published on decoder.org alongside a russian Interview about his project.
October 2020
In connection with the Word Press Photo Exhibition at Depot Dortmund, Max gave a presentation on his awarded work Fading Flamingos, and his latests photo-essays Ger District and Road of Kolyma.
Photos by Anna Roters
October 2020
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Ingmar won the 2020 Highly Commended Award at the Ian Parry Scholarship and has been shortlisted for the Emerging Artist Scholarship of LUCIE Foundation.
September 2020
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Ingmar’s photo-essay “About the days ahead” has been published in GEOkompakt alongside a text on resilience in times of Corona.
September 2020
Arne is finalist for the Kaunas Photo Star Award. His ongoing photo-essay “Anecdotes from an unfamiliar Land” is exhibited at Kaunas from 03 September until 31 October.
September 2020
Ingmar’s photo-essay “Behind Facades” is published in the current DUMMY issue.
September 2020
Arne and Ingmar are among the finalists of 6mois prix du photojournalisme with their poto-essays “Anecdotes from an unfamiliar Land” and “About the days ahead”.
September 2020
Ingmar’s photo-essay “About the days ahead” is exhibited at Athen Photo Festival.
September 2020
Arne’s photo-essay “Faith, Custom, Home” was published in the SOCIETY magazine.
September 2020
Ingmar is part of the "The Pandemic" collective exhibition at this years edition of Visa pour l'image, Perpignan, with his photo-essay “About the days ahead”.
September 2020
A portrait of Arne’s photo-essay “Faith, Custom, Home” is featured in the Portrait of Humanity Vol 2 book.
August 2020
Ingmar is among the finalists of the W. Eugene Smith Student Grant
August 2020
Ingmars photo-essay "Measure and Middle" won the World Report Award of the Festival della Fotografica Etica in the student category. His project will be exhibited in the annual edition of the Festival from September 26th to October 25th, 2020 in Lodi, Italy.
August 2020
A picture from “Fading Flamingos” by Max is in the current issue of Chrismon. The magazine is available as a supplement this week in the “SZ”, “DIE ZEIT”, “Faz”, “Welt am Sonntag” and others.
July 2020
Max got interviewed by rbb Kultur for his project Fading Flamingos, which was awarded with the 2nd Prize by World Press Photo in the “Evironment” category. You can listen to the interview here︎
July 2020
For his project “Measure and Middle”
Ingmar got interviewed by WDR5.
You can listen to the interview here︎
June 2020
Ingmar got interviewed about his photo-essay “Behind Facades” in the newspaper Hannoverschen Allgemeinen Zeitung.
June 2020
Arne is finalist of the New Visions - Cortona on the Move with his photo-essay “Red Hero”.
June 2020
Ingmar gave an interview to SWR and talked about his new photo essay "Measure and Middle" - a journey through Germany during COVID-19.
June 2020
Ingmar’s photo-essay “Measure and Middle” is published in ZEIT Magazine. He got interviewed by Christoph Amend about his two-month journey through Germany during the COVID-19 crisis.
May 2020
Max is winner of the Bartur Photo Award in the category Judges Choice Student - Climate Change with his work “Fading Flamingos”
April 2020
Ingmar’s ongoing photo-essay “Measure and Middle”, a journey through Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic, is published on TIME.
“For the past month, the 24-year-old photographer has been traveling around Germany under strict precautions to document how different groups of people, from medical workers to asylum seekers to couples separated by newly erected border fences, have adapted to life in lockdown and sought to find some normalcy and creativity in these times.“
April 2020
Max won the 2nd prize of World Press Photo in the category environment stories with his work Fading Flamingos.
April 2020
After the plagiarism accusations by and on behalf of Solmaz Daryani against our member Maximilian, World Press Photo has now published a statement due to his nomination. Read their statement here ︎
“(...)As a result, the Post Award Review Panel has concluded Mann’s entry has not broken either the World Press Photo Contest Code of Ethics or the 2020 Photo Contest Entry Rules, more specifically no breach of article 19 of the 2020 Photo
Contest Entry Rules.(...)”
World Press Photo statement from 14.04.2020
April 2020
Arne won the Grand Prize of PDNedu Student Photo Contest 2020 in the category Documentary & Photojournalism with his photo-essay “Faith, Custom, Home”
April 2020
Arne and Max are recipients of the >>follow up project funding. They are going to continue their projects “Anecdotes from an unfamiliar Land” and “Ger District”.
March 2020
As a collective we would like to support institutions in their work in times of COVID-19. Therefore we are starting a print sale from which the proceeds will be donated to Caritas international .
March 2020
Ingmar is Hansel-Mieth Award nominee with his work “Behind Facades”.
March 2020
Ingmars work Somaliland was exhibited at RAW Phototriennale Worpswede, Galery Altes Rathaus.
February 2020
Ingmar is awardee of German Youth Photography Award with his photo-essay Somaliland.
February 2020
Max is nominated for the World Press Photo Award 2020 in the category environment with his work "Fading Flamingos".
In his photo-essay he deals with the desertification of Lake Urmia in Iran.
February 2020
Ingmar is Hellerau PORTRAITS Award finalist with his photo-essay from Somaliland “The Dream of the Poets”.
February 2020
In September last year four of us went to Ulaanbaatar to work on individual photo-essays that question existing stereotypes about the Mongolian capital. Our new limited publication УЛААНБААТАР shows photo-essays whose structure and interplay tell of increasing western influences, the gap between rich and poor, the rural exodus, the construction boom and the related urbanization of Ulaanbaatar.
Introduction text by Bolorma Boldbaatar.
Thank you to Dirk Gebhardt,
Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture and Goethe-Institute Mongolia
January 2020
The photo-essays „Fading Flamingos“ (Max) and „Somaliland“ (Ingmar) are among the winners of Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Award. Max project is also awarded with the cash prize.
Both projects are going to be exhibited in the Aperture Gallery in New York.
January 2020
Ingmar is shortlisted for Gomma Grant with his work Somaliland.
December 2019
Fabian, Max and Ingmar received VG Bild-Kunst Grant to work on new photo essays.
December 2019
Ingmar’s new photo-essay "Somaliland" was awarded with the BFF Förderpreis. He is going to continue his work in January.
November 2019
Ingmar won the 2nd Place Silver Medal of ND Award with his photo-essay Somaliland.
November 2019
Fabi and Max are part of the exhibition “Heimwärts - Wandering Home” at the university of applied sciences in Darmstadt.
November 2019
October 2019
Max was awarded with a silver medal in the documentary category by CPOY - College Photographer of the year
October 2019
Ingmars’s photo-essay “Behind Facades” has been published as a photo-tableau in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Texts by Kathrin Klette.
October 2019
Max won the Felix Schoeller Photo Award in the category “best work by an emerging photographer” with his photo-essay “Fading Flamingos”.
October 2019
Ingmar received an honorable mention by Otto-Steinert- Prize of DGPh with his ongoing photo-essay Somaliland.
October 2019
We are very happy to announce our new member Aliona Kardash.
Have a look at her project Babushka.
She is currently working on her long-term project about Russian-Germans, the second largest national minority in Germany.
We are looking forward to work on collective projects as a new team!
Photo: Max Slobodda
October 2019
Arne was invited to the Festival della Fotografia Etica in Lodi/Italy to do two presentations of his work.
He won the World Report Award in the student category with his work “Glaube, Sitte, Heimat”.
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He won the World Report Award in the student category with his work “Glaube, Sitte, Heimat”.
September 2019
We did a 5-day workshop about visual storytelling at the State University in Ulaanbaatar/Monoglia for the new opened photography class.
September 2019
With his new photo-essay “Somaliland”, Ingmar got shortlisted for the Fujifilm Young Talent Award 2019 by Burn Magazine.
August 2019
Arne’s photo-essay “Glaube, Sitte, Heimat” (Faith, Custom, Home) has been published as a photo-tableau in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Texts by Angela Schader.
July 2019
Max is among the finalists for the W. Eugene Smith Student Grant with his work Fading Flamingos.
July 2019
Ingmar participated in a panel discussion in Barlingen in connection with the World Press Photo Contest. They discussed about what content medias are allowed to and what they need to show.
Beside that the Göttiner Tageblatt published an article about his photo-essay Behind Facades.
July 2019
On 14th of July our exhibition “encounters” came to an end after being displayed for three weeks at Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund.
Thank you everyone who came to our finissage.
Thank you Aliona Kardash for the photos.
July 2019
Arne won the Student Award of World.Report Award with his work "Glaube, Sitte, Heimat". His work will be exhibited at Festival della Fotografia Etica.
Beside that the work got published by the slow journalism magazine “tortoise”.
July 2019
Max was nominated for the 'Voies Off' award. His work "Fading Flamingos" was part of the screenings during the festival in Arles.
June 2019
Our exhibition “encounters” at Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund from 21.06.2019 - 14.07.2019.
How do we face the world? What connects us with our fellow human beings? How do we deal with them?
In our exhibition "encounters" we show personal narratives that document social as well as ecological conditions and developments. For our long-term projects, we spent time on the margins of society, travelled to areas threatened by climate change, and devoted to the traditions of the province. With our photographic essays, we focus on the human being and ask how they live current times, influenced by their environment and history.
June 2019
Arne’s long-term photo-essay “Glaube, Sitte, Heimat” (Faith, Custom, Home) has been published in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Woche” magazine.
June 2019
An article about us and our exhibition in the current issue of PHOTONEWS.
May 2019
Arne’s photo-essay „Abkhazia“ was shortlisted for Kolga Award in the reportage category. The work is displayed at Baratashvili Bridge in Tbilisi for one year.
Picture’s from Max’s project „Fading Flamingos“ were shortlisted for the best shot.
Picture’s from Max’s project „Fading Flamingos“ were shortlisted for the best shot.
May 2019
Fabian‘s and Max’s longterm projects were shown in an outdoor exhibition in Amman, Jordan.
Thank you to Goethe-Institut for organising the exhibition.
May 2019
Max’s photo-essay „Fading Flamingos" won the third prize at BFF Förderpreis.
His work is currently on display at the Umweltfotofestival „Horizonte Zingst“ and featured in the catalogue.
May 2019
Ingmar’s photo-essay “Behind Facades” got published in STERN on 8 pages. The text was written by Josef Saller and Ingmar got supported by Emerge - Magazine for young Photojournalism.
April 2019
Arne gave a presentation about his work “Glaube, Sitte, Heimat” at the marksmen’s hall in Brunskappel. He invited different Clubs, which he had photographed over the years and talked about his workflow, his motivation and how his attituted and photographes developed throught the project.
photos by Anna RotersApril 2019
“My photo-essay deals with the everyday lives, environments and emotional worlds of people who currently live in the residential complex. I built personal relationships with drug addicts, welfare recipients, refugees as well as students and poverty-stricken old age pensioners for the last 2,5 years to understand what makes their life in this formerly prestigious building. Therefore I moved into the housing block myself for the last five months. With my long-term project I want to tell about realities of life that do not only exist in the “deprived areas” of larger cities but also right in the middle of smaller wealthy German towns. “
April 2019
Arne and Max were selected for the New York Portfolio reviews and presented their works at the Bronx Documentary Center.
December 2018
Max is currently working on a new photo-essay with which he was awarded for the BFF Förderpreis.
December 2018
Ingmar won the Emerge Visual Journalism Grant with his long-term photo-essay "Behind Facades".
November 2018
Fabian, Ingmar and Arne are shortlisted for the Vonovia Photography Award.
October 2018
Arne is among the finalists of W. Eugene Smith Student Grant with his work “Glaube, Sitte, Heimat”.
“ ‘Because documentary photography is so fragmentary,’ Piepke says, ‘I believe the right context and honesty of the photographer is very important.’ One way Piepke remains honest is by revealing his presence in the images. ‘Being honest with the protagonist, the viewer and the medium itself’ brings humanistic values to the work, he says.”
September 2018
Fabian is among the winners of Germany Youth Photoprize with his work Safetyzone II.
The work documents the side stages of the OSCE and G20 political summits in Hamburg. Fabian wants to invite the viewer to an alternative reflection of the events.
The work documents the side stages of the OSCE and G20 political summits in Hamburg. Fabian wants to invite the viewer to an alternative reflection of the events.
September 2018
We organised a screening at Fontaine de Perpignan during Visa pour l'image. Thanks to everyone who came around.
Special thanks to Christoph Bangert and Fotobus Society!
August 2018
Ingmar is among the finalists of Lugano PhotoDays Emerging Photographers with his work “Behind Facades”.
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“I think that working together requires trust and honesty. You totally rely on each other. There’s more to it than simply having a similar photographic approach. Being friends and working together at the same time shaped us a lot. When you share the same vision of a project it can even strengthen a body of work.”
July 2018
Pankisi got feautred on HUCK Magazine. Tim and Max were also interviewed an talked about their photographic apprach as well as how they experienced the valley in Georgia.
Despite a widespread distrust of journalists in the Pankisi region, the photographers say that most bad experiences had occurred because journalists had typically stayed for a very short time. “With a deep interest in people and enough time, trust develops on both sides. That was very important to us,” they say. - HUCK
July 2018
Some impressions of the opening week of Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles. We hang 35 DOCKS-Posters all around the beautiful city center, prepared a guerilla exhibition as well as a screening at Place Voltaire.
June 2018
In the framework program to the World Press photo exhibition at Depot Dortmund, Ingmar joind a conversation about photography and society and presented DOCKS’18.
Max and Ingmar also presented our newspaper at the “Editorial Lab #2” at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund.
Max and Ingmar also presented our newspaper at the “Editorial Lab #2” at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund.
June 2018
The work Remains of a Soviet Utopia got featured on Huck Magazine. Arne and Ingmar were interviewed about their photographic approach, the teamwork and their attitude and values in photography.
“Motivating each other and constantly reflecting on the work is one of the main advantages of working in a team. Our criticism is very honest. As friends working together at the same time, it shaped us a lot. When you share the same vision of a project, it can strengthen a body of work.”
June 2018
We were invited to take part in a discussion about the importance of collectives at Lumix Photofestival Hannover.
Tim and Arne were on stage with Christoph Bangert and photographers from MINT Collective, Kollektiv 25 and Goethe Exil.
May 2018
Fabian got shortlisted for Kolga Photo Award 2018 with his work Tamera.
His photos were included in the exhibition of the opening ceremony in Tbilisi as well as in the festival catalogue.
April 2018
Arne is among the winners of PDN Emerging Photographers and got featured in the Spring 2018 issue with his work “Faith, Custom, Home”.
March 2018
Arne won the PDNedu Student Contest in the category “Documentary/Photojournalism” with his work Abkhazia.
January 2018
The work Pankisi by Tim and Max got featured by
emerge.
The Pankisi Valley is usually a quiet place in northern Georgia. However the calm facade of the beautiful landscape would not make anyone think that the small region near the Chechen border was internationally known as “The Valley of Terror”.
emerge.
The Pankisi Valley is usually a quiet place in northern Georgia. However the calm facade of the beautiful landscape would not make anyone think that the small region near the Chechen border was internationally known as “The Valley of Terror”.
December 2017
Fabian’s soloexhibition of his work Safteyzone II at the gallery Rekorder II in Dortmund on 16th December 2017.
He shows a different, subject view on the G20 and OSZE summits in Hamburg.
November 2017
Arne got nominated for the Photogrvphy Grant in the category “Journalism” and shortlisted for the “Emerging Scholarship” by LUCIE Foundation.
His work Abkhazia documents the present condition in a barely recognised state, while focussing on the younger generation.
Maximilian, Tim, Arne and Ingmar were shortlisted for Felix Schoeller Photo Award, Best emerging Photographer.
May 2017
Max, Tim, Arne and Ingmar were nominated for the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Newcomer Award. Their works Transnistria, Pankisi and Remains of a Soviet Utopia got featured in the exhibition and in the catalogue.
Pankisi and Remains of a Soviet Utopia were also among the three finalist for the Newcomer Award.
18th of May 2018
DOCKS Collective Release Party
With our newspaper “DOCKS’18” designed by Simon Schulz and financed by Nikon Germany.
Thanks to everyone who joined us at our release-party in Rekorder II, Dortmund.
