Raphael Knipping

Raphael Knipping

Raphael Knipping works as a freelance journalist, photographer and camera operator. His mostly multimedia work deals with social movements, migration and the climate crisis. He is currently studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover.

Contact:
info@raphaelknipping.com

Water

Water privatisation in Chile: a village fights for its water.

In hardly any other country is this resource so completely in private hands. In Patagonia, one community is fighting back against the consequences.

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Traces

The neighbour nobody knew

A stranger’s bicycle in the cellar, a faded letterbox – and between them the life of a man who is suddenly gone. Who was he?

Traces

Life in Transnistria: a state without recognition

What is it like to live in a place that doesn’t even exist on most maps? Young people tell their stories.

A young couple sit in an empty grandstand at dusk, the girl leaning on the boy’s shoulder; both wear casual clothes. The background shows an urban setting with trees and a building.

Advice

How to create a photo series.

Ideas, tips and examples from our professors.

Photo series by Andy Happel with young people in China in reddish light.

Silence

Between silence and storm surge: a hermit on the Hallig

Nick, 48, from Berlin has swapped his old life for solitude off the coast of North Frisia. A visit.

Silence

What is silence? Ten people, ten answers

Ten very different lives, one question – captured in short, powerful video portraits.

Silence

Toxic silence: when silence becomes torture

No word, no explanation, no look: how deliberately ignoring someone hurts – and leaves its mark on many people from childhood.

A little girl sits on her bed with her face in her hands, clearly distressed. The room is decorated with a mural of ducks and fish. The scene illustrates the idea of toxic silence, in which emotional harm is caused by ignoring or shutting someone out.

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