Isabel Reda

Isabel Reda was born in Lower Saxony in 1993. After leaving school, she studied social work in Hannover (bachelor’s) and then Education, Culture and Anthropology in Jena (master’s). For five years she has been working in Saxony as a civic education officer specialising in news and information literacy.

Since 2023 Isabel has been studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover. She uses photography to understand people better, and is particularly interested in subjects of social and political relevance.

Contact:

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www.isabelreda.com
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Stories by Isabel

Masculinity

Born to perform?

From engine to muscle, from horsepower to watts: a bike shop reveals how men relate to technology and status today – and whether anything has really changed.

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.

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Traces

Irmela Mensah-Schramm: fighting Nazi slogans with a scraper and a heart

For decades one woman has been scraping messages of hate out of public spaces – she has removed more than 140,000 of them. The attacks go on.

After dark

‘You have to make your boundaries clear’

During the week Selma works at a nursery; at weekends she works the door of a club. On respect, safety and standing your ground as a woman in nightlife.

Comment and debate

The image of women – who actually decides?

An interview with photographer and author Franziska Gilli about being a woman in Italy.

Silence

Groundhog Day for the humble sandwich: a homage

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

Collecting

Hannover’s hidden source of raw materials: recycling at the Nordhafen

Uncertain trade routes, wars and new regulations are putting the recycling industry to the test. At the TSR site in Hannover’s Nordhafen, a whole sector can be seen changing.

Power and control

‘A coffee, please, sweetie’

On civil courage – and why, in tricky moments, we often look away rather than step in.

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