{"id":67350,"date":"2025-12-28T22:50:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=67350"},"modified":"2025-12-28T22:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:53:44","slug":"rafael-heygster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/rafael-heygster\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Heygster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Rafael Heygster<\/strong> (*1990) studierte Kulturanthropologie, Politikwissenschaften und Fotojournalismus in Hamburg, Hannover und Aarhus. In Langzeitprojekten untersucht er das Verh\u00e4ltnis von Menschen zu ihrem kulturellen und politischen Umfeld. Seine Arbeiten wurden vielfach international ausgestellt und u.a. 2025 mit einem World Press Award ausgezeichnet.



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Beitr\u00e4ge von Rafael:<\/h2>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n\n\n\n\n
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On the edge of the hail of bullets.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

Rafael Heygster questions society’s approach to war in “I Died 22 Times.”<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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Two current and two former students of the Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography programme have been awarded.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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Was, wenn der Ursprung der Menschheit nicht der Speer, sondern der Beutel war? Ursula K. Le Guin stellt die Geschichte auf den Kopf und macht aus dem Beutel ein Symbol f\u00fcr Menschlichkeit.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Klack-Kulis, Sondereditionen, Werbegeschenke: Heinz-Hermann hat sie alle. \u00dcber 200.000 Kugelschreiber finden in seiner Sammlung Platz. Eine Geschichte des Kulis \u2013 von Budapest bis Brockel.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Die Welt wird lauter, die Jugend ersch\u00f6pfter \u2013 und Selbstf\u00fcrsorge zum Privileg. Wo junge Menschen heute noch Kraft finden.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Analog oder digital, Vollformat oder APSC, Spiegelreflex oder spiegellos: Die Magnum-Fotografin Nanna Heitmann und Lehrende der Hochschule Hannover zeigen, warum am Ende nicht die Technik, sondern die Person entscheidend ist.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Wie findest du das richtige Praktikum? Wie \u00fcberzeugst du in der Bewerbung? Und was solltest du w\u00e4hrend des Praktikums unbedingt beachten? Mit Tipps und Tricks von unseren Professor*innen und Studierenden.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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