{"id":75956,"date":"2023-05-31T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75956"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:33:00","slug":"sophie-boyer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/sophie-boyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Boyer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Sophie Boyer
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Sophie Boyer<\/strong>, born in 1992 and raised in a village near Lingen (Ems), worked as a social worker in Berlin for seven years. During her master\u2019s degree there, specialising in human rights, she focused on topics such as intersectional feminism, postcolonialism and immigration and flight. Since 2022 she has been studying \u2018Visual Journalism & Documentary Photography\u2019 at Hochschule Hannover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stories by Sophie<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n
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What is silence? Ten people, ten answers.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

Ten very different lives, one question \u2013 captured in short, powerful video portraits.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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\n\tOn the margins<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t

Nordhorn Range: \u2018There\u2019s nothing we can do about it, in court or otherwise\u2019.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

For years, residents have been protesting against low-flying jets and bombing practice \u2013 and keep coming up against limits.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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