Anastasia Shvachko

Anastasia Shvachko was born in Tomsk, Russia, in 1991. She graduated in journalism there in 2013 and moved to Hannover in 2014 to study photojournalism and documentary photography. In 2018 she spent six months as an intern on the picture desk of STERN magazine. Anastasia Shvachko now lives in Hannover and works as a staff camerawoman at a film agency.

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Anastasia’s articles:

Final projects

Do svidaniya, mama.

Anastasia Shvachko explores her home country of Russia, her family and the war in her final project.

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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.

Work

Kidfluencers as a business model: when children become a commodity

Child influencers earn their parents a lot of money – but who protects the youngest when their privacy is marketed in public?

Posed photo of a teenage kidfluencer sitting on a chair in her darkened room. She is putting on make-up for social media while looking at her smartphone, which is framed by a bright LED ring light.

Advice

Hannover? Go and study somewhere else.

That’s what our author thought, too. Until he moved there. Why the city is worth it once you stop comparing it with Berlin or Munich.

Award winners

Youth in Lockdown.

In the project “Between the Years”, student Valentin Goppel deals with the effects of the pandemic on his generation.

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