{"id":75194,"date":"2025-12-04T11:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75194"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:30:29","slug":"thomas-mueller-vahl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/thomas-mueller-vahl\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas M\u00fcller-Vahl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Thomas M\u00fcller-Vahl <\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Thomas M\u00fcller-Vahl <\/strong>was born in Hannover in 1999. His interest in photography began at the age of twelve in his school’s darkroom. After completing a degree in product design in Hildesheim, he has been studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography in Hannover since 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his personal and documentary work, he uses photography to get to know new places, always on the lookout for the beauty of a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Stories by Thomas:<\/h2>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n\n\n\n\r\n
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The library of rescued East German books.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

How a pastor in Lower Saxony saved thousands of East German books from destruction \u2013 and why one of them gave space research a crucial lead.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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\r\n What makes a good photo reportage: characteristics, examples and tips. <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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A clear focus on the people in the story, powerful pictures, strong storytelling: using examples, we show you the hallmarks of a photo reportage that grips and stays in the mind.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Women attempt suicide more often \u2013 and yet 71.5 per cent of people who die by suicide in Germany are men. A search for answers.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Almost every day in Germany, a woman is killed because she is a woman. Photographer Selma von Hennigs documents the crime scenes in her home town of Regensburg.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Glaring lights, flashing adverts, a babble of voices: for our author, the supermarket regularly becomes an ordeal.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Habibi Funk: on exploitation and musical heritage <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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What does cultural responsibility mean in the music business? A Berlin label is giving forgotten Arabic music a stage \u2013 and asking who that heritage belongs to.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Friedrich Merz: between BlackRock and the Chancellery <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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The CDU leader presents himself as a man of the people \u2013 despite a multimillion past in the world of finance. Why do so many listen to him?<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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