{"id":75182,"date":"2025-03-28T18:59:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75182"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:30:49","slug":"paul-geiersbach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/paul-geiersbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Geiersbach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Paul Geiersbach<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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Paul Geiersbach<\/strong>, born in 2002, grew up in a small village near Kassel. After finishing school, he began studying visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. After a year, in 2023, he decided to move to Hochschule Hannover to study Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography.

He is particularly interested in digital spaces and digital identities, and in rural areas \u2013 most recently North Hesse, the region he comes from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website: paulgeiersbach.de <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instagram: @paulgeiersbach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Stories by Paul:<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n
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\n\tCollecting<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t

\u2018Magic Nordhessen!!!\u2019: a Kassel shop full of collections for almost 100 years.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

Kassel, Vorderer Westen: a shop where things have been collected for almost a century. We took a look inside.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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The architecture of the data trade.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

Few systems are as invisible \u2013 and at the same time as far-reaching \u2013 as the trade in user data. What we click on, search for or visit becomes a signal in a global market that sorts people into categories and targets information at them.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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Arolsen Archives: when remembering becomes work.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

A small town in Hesse looks after one of the largest collections on Nazi persecution. There\u2019s a specific reason why its location isn\u2019t public.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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\r\n Seeing is no longer believing. <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Photorealistic AI images are almost impossible to spot. What it means when a picture no longer proves anything but merely asserts.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Between reasons of state and journalistic integrity <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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The German-Palestinian journalist Farid Dabour on media, power and responsibility<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n The drawer analysis: what our storage spaces reveal about us <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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From odds and ends to keepsakes: a tongue-in-cheek look at what we stash away \u2013 and why.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n The Blatten landslide: when permafrost makes the Alps unstable <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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When warming sets the rock sliding: how climate change is putting entire high-mountain communities at risk.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Groundhog Day for the humble sandwich: a homage <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Simple, familiar, underrated: a photographic declaration of love to the simplest meal of the day.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Peatland protection: why bogs are among our most important climate savers <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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From carbon store to political issue: why wet soils matter so much for the climate \u2013 and four people who are fighting for them.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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