Lina Kühne

Lina Kühne (born 2000) was born and grew up in Braunschweig. In 2023 she completed a bachelor’s degree in International Business in Groningen (Netherlands). In 2024 she decided to follow her long-standing interest in photography and began studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography in Hannover. In her documentary work, she wants to make socially relevant issues visible and use her photographs to raise awareness and create empathy.

Contact:

kuehne.lina@t-online.de
Instagram: @linakhne

Stories by Lina:

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

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Advice

How to create a photo series.

Ideas, tips and examples from our professors.

Photo series by Andy Happel with young people in China in reddish light.

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.

Comment and debate

Forever in your bytes

A conversation with ChatGPT about morality, diversity and parallels with Spike Jonze’s film ‘Her’

Collecting

Habibi Funk: on exploitation and musical heritage

What does cultural responsibility mean in the music business? A Berlin label is giving forgotten Arabic music a stage – and asking who that heritage belongs to.

Power and control

Botanical tricks: power and control in Hannover’s Berggarten

Milan Lenau grows and protects rare species – and shows how much steering goes on in a famous garden.

Award winners

My house wrapped in clouds

Armina Ahmadinia returns to the Caspian Sea. Her photographic work tells of the retreating water, the loss of familiar places and a quiet longing for closeness and home.

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