Magazin – Page 2 of 2 – Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography

Magazine. Recent work by our students

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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Grey Grounds

More than 6,000 soldiers, two training areas, a town marching in lockstep. In Munster, the ‘Zeitenwende’ has long been part of everyday life. A photo essay about a place where people applaud the Bundeswehr.

Soldier with a rifle in a guardhouse at the entrance to a firing range

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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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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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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

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.

Advice

What makes a good photo reportage: characteristics, examples and tips.

A clear focus on the people in the story, powerful pictures, strong storytelling: using examples, we show you the hallmarks of a photo reportage that grips and stays in the mind.

A woman holds two cameras up to her eyes.

Advice

Portrait ideas for stronger pictures: rethinking portrait photography.

Strong portraits move us, shake us up and hold us spellbound. These creative portrait ideas and approaches from working professionals will help you achieve exactly that.

A selection of six different portraits, alternating between close and distant

Advice

Interviewing like a pro: how to stay in control, even with politicians.

An interview with a politician can quickly turn into a power struggle. We show you how to conduct an interview with confidence, avoid typical interview traps and keep the upper hand even against professionals.

CDU leader Friedrich Merz holding a microphone, talking to former ZDF presenter Klaus Kleber on a stage. In the foreground, two men are seen from behind, lit by flash.

Advice

Hannover? Go and study somewhere else.

That’s what our author thought, too. Until he moved there. Why the city is worth it once you stop comparing it with Berlin or Munich.

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’.

Comment and debate

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.

Comment and debate

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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