Amelie Sachs

Amelie Sachs, born in Munich in 1996, works as a picture editor and documentary photographer. In her projects she explores possibilities of feminist resistance to patriarchal structures and incorporates fictional elements into her documentary practice. The dialogical and participatory process through which her pictures are created is an important part of her work.

Contact
+49 157 52960546
amelie.larissa.sachs@gmail.com

www.ameliesachs.com

Amelie’s articles:

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Water

The fisherwoman of Memmingen: the row over the Fischertag

Can a single woman break open a centuries-old male ritual? A small town in the Allgäu is struggling to find an answer.

After dark

Pankower Tor: the toads missing from the building plan

Berlin wants to build 2,000 homes here – but strictly protected amphibians are holding up the major project. A case study.

Traces

From outlaw to spiritual healer

Alexander Golandsky was a criminal biker and cocaine dealer. Then he changed his life radically.

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.

On the margins

‘People here knock on a lot of doors’

In eastern Malmö, a neighbourhood is struggling with its reputation – and with the hope that doors will open for the people who live there.

On the margins

Sunday morning on the city’s edge: a walk along Hannover’s fringes

Quiet streets, empty squares, early light: a photographic approach to the fringes of a city.

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