{"id":75993,"date":"2024-01-16T14:55:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75993"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:31:50","slug":"bastian-betz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/bastian-betz\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastian Betz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Bastian Betz<\/strong>, born in 1991, grew up near Frankfurt am Main. Having been interested in art and photography since childhood, he studied communication design at the European School of Design in Frankfurt after his Abitur, civilian service and a year abroad. He then worked as an art director at advertising agencies in Frankfurt and Hamburg, where he was part of the team responsible for the creative concept and design of advertising campaigns for Lufthansa, Globetrotter, Aldi and many others. In 2022 he left advertising to take a new path in life. Since then he has been studying Visual Journalism at Hochschule Hannover, to devote himself fully to photography and to more socially relevant topics.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Stories by Bastian<\/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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Recommended by the editors<\/h2>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n\n\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\r\n Unexploded bombs beneath the city: the dangerous job of bomb disposal <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Painstaking precision with deadly risk: a look at a profession in which every move has to be exactly right.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Cold and deep: how water shapes Iceland\u2019s culture <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Surrounded by ocean, criss-crossed by glaciers, enlivened by hot springs: one element shapes the identity of an entire nation.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n \u2018Das G\u00fcnther\u2019: a band that invents its songs live <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Three musicians, zero planning: how pure spontaneity creates something new every night.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Turkey earthquake 2023: how a bereaved man is fighting for justice <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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A man loses his grandmother when a hospital building collapses in the earthquake \u2013 and takes up the fight against those responsible.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Shopping with autism: too bright, too loud, too much <\/h3>\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 The architecture of the data trade <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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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 <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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