{"id":76129,"date":"2024-04-19T07:27:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T05:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=76129"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:31:38","slug":"martin-steger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/martin-steger\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Steger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Martin Steger<\/strong> lives in Berlin and Hannover. As a photographer he works in portraiture and documentary photography. After training as a media designer, he assisted various architectural photographers in Germany, Italy and Brazil. From 2018 to 2020 he studied and attended seminars at the Ostkreuzschule f\u00fcr Fotografie in Berlin. Since 2019 he has been studying photojournalism and documentary photography at Hochschule Hannover. Martin\u2019s work focuses on social documentary subjects and political photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Steger\u2019s work has been published in DIE ZEIT, on ZEIT ONLINE, in Greenpeace Magazin, in DER SPIEGEL and in stern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\tPower and control<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t

Friedrich Merz: between BlackRock and the Chancellery.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

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\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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\r\n The drawer analysis: what our storage spaces reveal about us <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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From odds and ends to keepsakes: a tongue-in-cheek look at what we stash away \u2013 and why.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n The social pull of masculinity <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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What does it mean to be a man today? On the pressure to conform, on uncertainty \u2013 and why simple answers are so seductive.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Flexibility, timing and blind trust: how a demanding sport shapes young athletes.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n \u2018A pub is an honest business\u2019 <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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The artist Renate Marek runs the \u2018Nordstadtbraut\u2019 in Hannover. Why profit is not what matters most to her.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Do friendships last longer in the countryside? A visit to Hettenkirchen <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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A self-built party hut, fixed rituals, the same faces: on a closeness that in rural areas sometimes lasts a lifetime.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Giving birth in a safe place <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Birth centres are seen as an alternative to overcrowded delivery rooms. How do the midwives there work? A visit to Hannover-Herrenhausen.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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