Moritz Heck

A man with glasses holding a camera in the snow

Moritz Heck, born in 2002 in North Rhine-Westphalia, lives and works in Hannover. After a voluntary service placement in Hamburg, he began a degree in media and communication studies, which eventually led him to photography and photojournalism.

Subjects: His work deals with social movements, especially the German climate justice movement, and with the different realities of life and work in our society.

Contact:
Email: info@moritzheck.de
Website: www.moritzheck.de
Instagram: @heck.moritz

Stories by Moritz

Collecting

Hannover’s hidden source of raw materials: recycling at the Nordhafen.

Uncertain trade routes, wars and new regulations are putting the recycling industry to the test. At the TSR site in Hannover’s Nordhafen, a whole sector can be seen changing.

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Water

The fisherwoman of Memmingen: the row over the Fischertag

Can a single woman break open a centuries-old male ritual? A small town in the Allgäu is struggling to find an answer.

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’.

Advice

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.

On the margins

‘I can shop whenever I want’

Open around the clock, almost without staff: how a self-service shop makes village life more relaxed.

On the margins

Sunday morning on the city’s edge: a walk along Hannover’s fringes

Quiet streets, empty squares, early light: a photographic approach to the fringes of a city.

Ideals

Giving birth in a safe place

Birth centres are seen as an alternative to overcrowded delivery rooms. How do the midwives there work? A visit to Hannover-Herrenhausen.

A doll, a model of a pelvis and a fabric placenta with amniotic sac and umbilical cord lie on the floor. In the antenatal class, the objects illustrate how a birth unfolds.

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