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A cup of closeness.

A table, two chairs and an attempt to start talking to each other again. Five encounters between strangers explore the art of talking – and listening.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Focus topics

#11 Masculinity

#10 Collecting

Close-up of a multi-tiered shelf holding brightly coloured boxes, each filled to the brim with ballpoint pens.

#9 What holds us together

#8 After dark

A cyanotype: a photograph of a person, in blue.

#7 Work

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.

#6 Traces

#5 Water

#4 Power and control

A man, the CDU politician Friedrich Merz, stands with his back to the camera in front of two bright spotlights. A microphone hangs above him, and a few people can be made out in the background.

#3 Silence

A car park on the former Expo site in Hannover. A single car is parked in this deserted car park next to one of the many pavilions. The pavilion’s façade is covered in red tiles, and a tree stands in the background.

#2 On the margins

A group of people, children and adults, play tennis on an urban square in Malmö-Rosengård, surrounded by blocks of flats – a lively community scene. The picture was taken by a photography student.

#1 Ideals

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

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Advice

Polaroid emulsion lift: how to make little works of art with minimal effort.

Bored with your pictures? With the emulsion lift technique, you can turn Polaroids into small, unique works of art with very little effort. Explained step by step.

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Studio lighting: techniques, lighting set-ups and tips for photographers.

The right light makes or breaks a studio shot. We explain the most important techniques and lighting set-ups – and how to achieve perfect studio lighting step by step.

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360-degree video in journalism: how to produce immersive reportage.

360-degree video puts the audience right in the middle of the action. We show you how to produce immersive reportage – from the technology to the edit – and tell stories from every angle.

Advice

Portrait photography: 9 expert tips for expressive portraits.

Renowned portrait photographers share their tips: how they deal with problems during a shoot, how they put people at ease and why posing is often more honest than you might think.

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Which camera for photography? Professionals explain why the technology comes second.

Analogue or digital, full frame or APS-C, mirrorless or DSLR? Magnum photographer Nanna Heitmann and lecturers at Hochschule Hannover explain why good photos depend not on the camera brand but on the person behind it.

Photo stories

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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.

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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.

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City of steel.

In Zenica, Bosnia, student Lasse Branding documents the impact of the local steel mill on the people of the town.

Comment and debate

The image of women – who actually decides?

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

Comment and debate

Forever in your bytes.

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

Comment and debate

‘Why should I watch this right now?’.

TikTok researcher Marcus Bösch on attitude, platforms and why good journalism should still be seen today.

Comment and debate

‘It was really lovely here!’.

Thoughts on the temporality of photography – and what Roland Barthes might have said about Nina Hagen’s pop hit ‘Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen’.

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What some people see in a picture – and others miss.

Transcultural perspectives show how differently people read images – and which hidden clues only some can see.

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Images in spite of all: photographic testimony from Auschwitz.

In his groundbreaking study ‘Images malgré tout’, Georges Didi-Huberman contradicts the thesis that the Holocaust cannot be represented. His approach to the photographs from Auschwitz sparked a controversy.

Reconstruction of a negative strip by Alberto Errera, taken in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944

Editorial team

Antonia Bretschkow

Michael Hauri

Elena Prudlik

Keidy Pech

Students and lecturers from the bachelor’s programmes in Journalism and in Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover run this digital magazine with great dedication. We keep adding new stories to the current focus topic.

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