Moritz Schorpp

Moritz Schorpp was born in the Black Forest in 1994. He has been studying at Hochschule Hannover since 2021. His photographic focus is on portrait and reportage photography, marked above all by a sensitive eye for light and shadow. Everyday details become cinematic images. He came to photography through skateboarding, which over time became almost secondary – instead he bought a camera and documented his trips in photographs.

www.moritzschorpp.de

Articles by Moritz:

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.

A river with a snowy bank reflects trees and buildings in the morning light on the outskirts of Hannover

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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

Masculinity

‘Being gay is not a choice’

Dirk and Thomas came out to their families only recently. Today they live together as a couple. In an interview with our author, they talk about their path to an open life.

Advice

Off-camera flash: how to use a speedlight on the go.

Artificial light opens up new creative possibilities – but it can be a challenge for beginners. We show you how to get started with off-camera flash: what equipment you need and how to use flash confidently on the move.

Award winners

Youth in Lockdown.

In the project “Between the Years”, student Valentin Goppel deals with the effects of the pandemic on his generation.

Flatmates drink at a secret party in an attic room – Valentin Goppel’s photo series ‘Zwischen den Jahren’ about young people in the coronavirus lockdown

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.

On the margins

Fleeing the GDR in a car boot: ‘Inside, I was still on the run’

Veronika Schneider fled the GDR as a young woman – and only realised decades later how long the fear had kept its grip on her.

Black-and-white photo: a border guard’s office at the former inner-German border crossing Marienborn with a desk, telephone and uniform jacket

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