Award winners The Abortion Plot. Noemi Ehrat shows abortion as an everyday practice. Her long-term project asks not why but how: matter-of-fact, calm and beyond the political headlines.
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.
Award winners In the land of the white mountains. Jasper Hill makes visible what a century of potash mining has left behind. Caught between food security and environmental damage, an industry faces a turning point.
Award winners Dreamed for us. Markus Heft portrays older queer people in Germany. Since 2022, he has been creating intimate portraits collaboratively, complemented by still lifes and places. The project preserves queer history and makes visible the double marginalisation of old age.
Award winners The invisible people on the waiting list. Germany lags behind the rest of Europe on organ donation – we show those who can’t wait any longer.
Award winners Journey along the Yenisei River. For her work "Hiding from Baba Yaga" Nanna Heitmann crosses Siberia, as her grandmother once did.
Award winners From trying to photograph the wind. Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in Europe. Hannes Jung examines the background in his work.
Award winners "For a long time, parents in Iran believed that good girls would not dance in public.". Shirin Abedi returns to her native Tehran for a report on ballerinas.
Award winners Hospital on wheels. In "Diagnosis", Emile Ducke photographs the unusual health care in the Russian hinterland.
Award winners "Let there be snow.". Elias Holzknecht sheds light on the consequences of climate change in the Alps.
Award winners City of steel. In Zenica, Bosnia, student Lasse Branding documents the impact of the local steel mill on the people of the town.
Award winners Youth in Lockdown. In the project "Between the Years", student Valentin Goppel deals with the effects of the pandemic on his generation.
Award winners Coal mining. Since 2017, graduate Daniel Chatard has been documenting the conflict in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Award winners On the edge of the hail of bullets. Rafael Heygster questions society's approach to war in "I Died 22 Times."
