Amir Khalifa

Amir Khalifa has been studying journalism at Hochschule Hannover since September 2022. The 24-year-old comes from near Bielefeld and discovered his enthusiasm for all kinds of creative work as a child. Today, what he likes best is presenting interesting people and their stories to the world.

Amir’s articles:

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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Collecting

The world’s largest Playmobil collection: 400,000 figures

It all began in a child’s bedroom – today Oliver Schaffer owns the world’s largest Playmobil collection, with more than 400,000 figures. A visit to his high-bay warehouse.

Masculinity

‘Being gay is not a choice’

Dirk and Thomas came out to their families only recently. Today they live together as a couple. In an interview with our author, they talk about their path to an open life.

Masculinity

‘I was a Hitler caricature from a bad Hollywood film’

He used to march through the streets in a leather coat, carrying the Reich war flag, giving hate speeches and dreaming of the great revolution. Today Axel Reitz works in extremism prevention.

Advice

Lightroom Classic: organising your photos – a simple workflow for your catalogue.

Losing track in Lightroom Classic? This guide shows you a simple workflow for importing, organising and selecting your photos quickly.

What holds us together

Record of a disappearance: a Belarusian photographer in exile

He documented the protests, was persecuted and had to flee. His pictures tell of violence, of hope – and of holding on to memory.

Award winners

“For a long time, parents in Iran believed that good girls would not dance in public.”

Shirin Abedi returns to her native Tehran for a report on ballerinas.

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