Bakeer Bakeer

Bakeer Bakeer, born in Kuwait in 2001, has been studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover since 2024. He took up photography in 2019, documenting the stories of his friends in Syria and, later, hikes through the Syrian countryside. He believes that great photographs can be made with whatever means are available.

Stories by Bakeer:

Masculinity

‘You’ll never be a man’ – or will you?

Growing up in Afghanistan, Sajad never fitted the usual image of masculinity. Today he is looking for his own definition of it – and for the courage to reinvent himself.

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Masculinity

Masculinity can be deadly

Women attempt suicide more often – and yet 71.5 per cent of people who die by suicide in Germany are men. A search for answers.

Blurred silhouette of an upper body against an orange background

After dark

Femicide: the crime scenes of deadly misogyny

Almost every day in Germany, a woman is killed because she is a woman. Photographer Selma von Hennigs documents the crime scenes in her home town of Regensburg.

After dark

‘Das Günther’: a band that invents its songs live

Three musicians, zero planning: how pure spontaneity creates something new every night.

Wearing oversized neon-green glasses, Alex, the voice of ‘Das Günther’, sits in front of us and looks into the camera.

Award winners

The dying river.

Jonas Kako documents the water crisis along the Colorado River.

Sediment deposits on truck tyres on the shore of Lake Powell, photographed by Jonas Kako.

Silence

Groundhog Day for the humble sandwich: a homage

Simple, familiar, underrated: a photographic declaration of love to the simplest meal of the day.

What holds us together

All sweetness and light in the Ore Mountains? When staying put becomes resistance

Altenberg in Saxony looks idyllic – until you look more closely. A portrait of a young man standing up to the rise of the far right.

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