Annabel Karmelk

Annabel Karmelk

Annabel Karmelk (born 1996) was born and raised in the Netherlands. After completing a bachelor’s degree in law in 2019, she devoted herself to photography during long periods of travel and volunteering abroad.

Since 2023 she has been studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover, focusing on documentary and portrait photography. She is particularly interested in socially critical topics linked to animal and environmental issues.

She lives and works in Berlin and Hannover.

@annabelkarmelk

Stories by Annabel:

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.

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Advice

Photography law for photojournalists: image rights and press freedom explained.

What are photojournalists allowed to photograph and publish? This guide explains the right to one’s own image under German law, where press freedom ends and personality rights begin – and how to work on the right side of the law.

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

Advice

Journalism internships: how to find a placement and write an application that stands out.

How do you find the right internship in journalism, how do you make your application convincing, and what should you bear in mind during the internship? With concrete tips from professors and students.

Five people in the F.A.Z. photo studio stage a creative scene with frying pans. At the centre: Sophie Boyer and Stefan Nieland, both doing journalism internships from the Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography programme in Hannover. The scene shows collaboration and creative practice during an editorial internship.

Ideals

#BodyPositivity – the fight for respect

The self-love trend obscures the idea behind body positivity – and clouds the real problem in society.

Hannover, 30 January 2022: a chest with hair, pressed together. Model: Konrad Bürgi, photo: Larissa Bürgi

Ideals

How bombs change ideals

The war in Ukraine has not only devastated lives and landscapes – it has also changed what many Ukrainians hope for. What are their new priorities?

Tania Piliavska, autor of "Bombed Ukrainians’ ideals of life". Photo: Momen Mostafa

Work

New Work: the philosopher who emptied the offices

New Work didn’t start with the pandemic but with the radical vision of a thinker in the 1980s. His ideas are more relevant today than ever.

A young man with light brown curls sits on a folding chair against a bright orange background. He wears a burgundy jumper over a light blue shirt. He isn’t wearing proper trousers, but colourful socks with a comic-strip pattern. His legs are crossed. Beside him stands a white three-legged coffee table with a grey plant pot and a pink mug. He looks intently at the laptop on his lap and wears wireless earbuds.

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