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July 2022
We are happy to be nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022 with our collective work "The Flood in Western Germany". Thank you Malin Schulz for the nomination.
July 2022
For the past year, we have been following the aftermath and reconstruction after the Flood in Western Germany. On the anniversary, our work is featured in GEO Magazine.
June 2022
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June 2022
Arne’s photo-essay “Anecdotes from an unfamiliar Land” is part of the Felix-Shoeller Award exhibition at Willy-Brandt-Haus in Berlin from 31. March till 12. June 2022.
photos: Laila ShubertMay 2022
April 2022
Our collective work “The Flood in Western Germany” as well as Ingmar’s photo essay “About the Days Ahead” are shortlisted for the PH Museum Grant.
March 2022
March 2022
Fabian and Ingmar’s photo-essay “Antechamber of War in Ukraine” has been published in The Guardian.
March 2022
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March 2022
Arne and Max presented our collective work “The Flood in Western Germany” as part of the side program of the World Press Photo exhibition in Oldenburg.
February 2022
Our collective work “The Flood in Western Germany” has been published in GEO Wissen alongside an interview with Max and Fabian.
February 2022
Fabian’s photo-essay “The long Days of Hanau” is among the three finalists of Sony World Photography Awards -
Documentary Projects - Professional competition.
January 2022
We won “Rückblende 2021” - the german award for political photography.
January 2022
Max and Ingmar’s photo essay "Road of Kolyma" was published in M Le Magazine du Monde as an 8-page portfolio.
December 2021
Five images from our collective project “The Flood in Western Germany” are exhibited on billboards in Dortmund, as part of the “DER JAHR100SOMMER” project by Dortmund Kreativ.
November 2021
One image from our collective work “The Flood in Western Germany” is among TIME’s Top Photos of 2021.
October 2021
Our collective photo-essay on the flood in western Germany has been published as 24-page cover story of ZEIT Magazin.
Aliona and Arne gave an interview to Christoph Amend about how their experiences working in the flooded areas also changed their perspective on their profession.
October 2021
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Arne's photo-essay Faith, Custom, Home is currently on exhibition in Noyon, France, as part of 18th Photaumnales C'EST LA FÊTE from 6 october - 2 janaury 2022.
Exhibition photos © Gil Lefauconnier
Photos by Magnus Terhorst
September 2021
A total of 40 photos from our collective project Ruhrgebiet:Notizen were exhibited on billboards in the four Ruhr area cities of Hamm, Gelsenkirchen, Oberhausen and Hagen.
August 2021
Arne is among the nominees of the Felix Shoeller Newcomer Award with his photo-essay “Anecdotes from an unfamiliar land”.
August 2021
Arne is among the finalists of the W. Eugene Smith Student Grant with his photo-essay “Anecdotes from an unfamiliar land”.
July 2021
One of our images of our collective project on the flood in western Germany as cover of Die ZEIT.
June 2021
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May 2021
Aliona and Max are currently part of an exhibition 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.
