Minoo Hassanzadeh

Minoo Hassanzadeh, born in Tehran, Iran, in 1990, first studied animation and is now studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover.

She began her career in documentary photography in 2014. Her interest in the environment and social issues, and her critical view of her surroundings, led her to documentary photography. In her photographs she looks for human traces in urban space and in the places around her.

Stories by Minoo

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Traces

‘Bend a tree while it is young’

Burcu, 26, on her background, expectations and what it means to shape your own life.

Final projects

Sex work in the pandemic.

Helena Lea Manhartsberger researched Austria’s red-light districts for her bachelor’s thesis.

Coco, 32, smokes a cigarette in red light, her arm tattooed, Salzburg – Helena Lea Manhartsberger’s bachelor’s thesis on sex work in Austria during the coronavirus pandemic

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

On the margins

The war that stays invisible: exploring Poland and Moldova

How the Russian invasion shows itself in the border regions – and at the same time stays hidden. Pictures from the threshold of Europe.

Ideals

#BodyPositivity – the fight for respect

The self-love trend obscures the idea behind body positivity – and clouds the real problem in society.

Hannover, 30 January 2022: a chest with hair, pressed together. Model: Konrad Bürgi, photo: Larissa Bürgi

What holds us together

Record of a disappearance: a Belarusian photographer in exile

He documented the protests, was persecuted and had to flee. His pictures tell of violence, of hope – and of holding on to memory.

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