{"id":75968,"date":"2024-01-26T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T08:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75968"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:31:44","slug":"miriam-schwab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/miriam-schwab\/","title":{"rendered":"Miriam Schwab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Miriam Schwab<\/strong> develops the themes of her long-term photographic projects from her own experiences, which grow out of an engagement with the human psyche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By allowing associations and a certain ambiguity, she aims to overcome the separation between the person telling the story and the person looking at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this way she uses photography as a medium of mediation.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Stories by Miriam<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\r\n Night-time in the village: shisha in the barn, joyrides through the middle of nowhere <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Where nothing seems to happen in the evening, yet everything does: young people in a village in Lower Saxony after dark.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Journalism internships: how to find a placement and write an application that stands out. <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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How do you find the right internship in journalism, how do you make your application convincing, and what should you bear in mind during the internship? With concrete tips from professors and students.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Portrait ideas for stronger pictures: rethinking portrait photography. <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Strong portraits move us, shake us up and hold us spellbound. These creative portrait ideas and approaches from working professionals will help you achieve exactly that.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Cannabis as a career: how a dealer became a businessman <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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He cycled through the suburbs with bags full of weed \u2013 and everything went to plan. A former dealer explains why the cannabis trade made more sense to him than any shift job.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n City of steel. <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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In Zenica, Bosnia, student Lasse Branding documents the impact of the local steel mill on the people of the town.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Small but defiant <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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While they were stranded during the pandemic, Circus Siola\u2019s caravans were shot at and its performers insulted as \u2018scum\u2019. Is there no place in our society for Siola\u2019s \u2018classical old-European circus art\u2019?<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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