Martin Ly

Martin Ly (born 1984) studies photojournalism and documentary photography in Hannover and has worked as a freelance photographer since 2011. He is particularly interested in everyday situations and the structures of living together. He lives and works in the Osnabrück area.

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Final projects

Sex work in the pandemic.

Helena Lea Manhartsberger researched Austria’s red-light districts for her bachelor’s thesis.

Coco, 32, smokes a cigarette in red light, her arm tattooed, Salzburg – Helena Lea Manhartsberger’s bachelor’s thesis on sex work in Austria during the coronavirus pandemic

Traces

‘The wolf is a problem that can be solved’

Protect or shoot? How farmers and conservationists are struggling over the right way to deal with the returning predator.

Traces

‘Bend a tree while it is young’

Burcu, 26, on her background, expectations and what it means to shape your own life.

What holds us together

The Blatten landslide: when permafrost makes the Alps unstable

When warming sets the rock sliding: how climate change is putting entire high-mountain communities at risk.

Work

Juggling family and work: working, being a mother, staying human

A degree, a job and four daughters – Dalila has combined what seemed impossible. One special source of support kept her going again and again.

A woman holds her two daughters in her arms, one on each side. Both children have brown hair and, like their mother, smile happily at the camera. The daughter on the left holds a small blue school cone, the traditional gift for the first day of school; the daughter on the right holds a larger pink one.

Award winners

My house wrapped in clouds

Armina Ahmadinia returns to the Caspian Sea. Her photographic work tells of the retreating water, the loss of familiar places and a quiet longing for closeness and home.

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