{"id":75202,"date":"2025-10-17T16:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75202"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:30:34","slug":"max-schlag","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/max-schlag\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Schlag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Max Schlag<\/strong><\/h1>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Max Schlag<\/strong> was born in southern Germany in 2001. After spending the first 20 years of his life in Berlin, he moved first to Leipzig and later to Hannover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subjects:<\/strong> In his work, Max always tries to tell stories that stay close to the people he photographs. He focuses on social issues, often linked to personal stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work has already been published in several newspapers and magazines. Alongside his work as a photojournalist, Max works as a freelance portrait photographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Email: maxschlag@mail.de
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Cigarette cult and cancer romance: a photobook about smoking.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

On cigarettes, addiction and smoking biographies: \u2018Pleasure to Burn\u2019 glorifies smoking \u2013 and is only half serious about it.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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Ideas, tips and examples from our professors.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n The image of women \u2013 who actually decides? <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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An interview with photographer and author Franziska Gilli about being a woman in Italy.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Irmela Mensah-Schramm: fighting Nazi slogans with a scraper and a heart <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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For decades one woman has been scraping messages of hate out of public spaces \u2013 she has removed more than 140,000 of them. The attacks go on.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Travelling shepherds are slowly disappearing from the pastures. Why there are still good reasons not to let the profession die out.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Staging mortality: two photographers in a coffin <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Two photographers lie down in a coffin and photograph each other. What sounds like breaking a taboo is an exploration of commerce and ritual \u2013 and of the question: is this allowed?<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n On the edge of the hail of bullets. <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Rafael Heygster questions society’s approach to war in “I Died 22 Times.”<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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