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May 2023
We celebrated the 5th anniversary of the founding of DOCKS. Looking back, we are glad to have found each other in this group. Thanks to everyone who has supported us along the way.


April 2023





We are on the shortlist of this year's Stern Prize with our work "A Year Along the Banks" (The Flood in Western Germany) in the category “photo story of the year”. We are very happy to be part of this selection.
The work was published in GEO Magazin.
January 2023
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Arne and Fabian gave a presentation at ONN! Room in Braunschweig. They presented our collective project The Flood in Western Germany, as well as their exhibited projects "Youth of Kyiv", "Antechamber of War" and "Anecdotes from an unfamiliar Land".
Photos by Mel Rangel.
January 2023
Ingmar won a Honorable Mention at TruePictures Grant. TruePicture is a support and mentoring program for young, committed photojournalists. Its aim is to strengthen the professional career of the mentees and to produce photo reports with social relevance.

October 2022


Ingmar successfully finished his Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. His book "About the Days Ahead" will be published in cooperation with the Kettler publishing house.
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
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.


May 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




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




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


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.





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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