{"id":75063,"date":"2024-07-10T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T11:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75063"},"modified":"2026-10-29T20:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:59:04","slug":"jana-junker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/jana-junker\/","title":{"rendered":"Jana Junker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Jana Junker
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Jana Junker<\/strong> was born in the Ruhr in 1979. Today she lives with her three children in L\u00fcneburg, close to where she grew up. Inspired by her father and by travelling all over the world, she more or less grew up with a camera in her hand. Alongside painting, photography remains her great passion. After a voluntary social year, she first trained as a nursery teacher and then worked in family and youth services. But documentary photography, and the dream of making it her career, never let her go. Having found in photography a creative way to bring sensitive, unfamiliar or hidden subjects closer to other people means a great deal to her. She has been studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography since 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stories by Jana:<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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I’m fine, thanks.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

For a year, Jana Junker photographed herself every day and wrote down what she had long kept to herself: she lives with an eating disorder.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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\n\tMasculinity<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t

\u2018I want men to hug each other\u2019.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

More and more men are looking for role models who show their feelings. Valerio, Frank, Noah and Tom do just that. Four perspectives that show masculinity is something you can shape.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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\n\tWhat holds us together<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t

Closeness without sex: a visit to a cuddle party in Hamburg.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

Clear rules, lots of mindfulness, no ulterior motives: what an evening of touching strangers feels like.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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The neighbour nobody knew.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

A stranger\u2019s bicycle in the cellar, a faded letterbox \u2013 and between them the life of a man who is suddenly gone. Who was he?<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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In 2022 Austria\u2019s largest lake was at risk of drying up for the first time in 150 years. Our photographer Florian Sulzer investigated the causes.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n MS Norr\u00f6na: by ferry across the North Atlantic to Iceland <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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From Denmark via the Faroe Islands to the far north: a passage through the rugged beauty of the sea.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Life in Transnistria: a state without recognition <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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What is it like to live in a place that doesn\u2019t even exist on most maps? Young people tell their stories.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Reality TV: life in front of the cameras <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Millions watch as strangers fall in love, fight and fail. But how much reality is there really in it?<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Elias Holzknecht sheds light on the consequences of climate change in the Alps.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Circle in the air: a performance artist between the circus and the Reeperbahn <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Greta lived between the circus ring and the nightclub \u2013 and struggled with a strain that hardly anyone talks about.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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