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\n \"Autor\n \n Autor Christian Platz<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Christian Platz<\/strong> (born 1988), from Siegen, works as a freelance photographer in northern Germany for regional newsrooms and local businesses<\/a>, and as a science and museum photographer for institutions. From 2017 to 2023 Christian studied Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover, and he completed his internship at the Weser-Kurier in Bremen. His independent photo projects focus on stories that visually describe human activity in its historical and spatial context. With his final project \u2018Is it Lego or is it real?<\/a>\u2019, Christian set out to deconstruct the Lego cosmos as a parallel reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact<\/strong>
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\n Current fields of work<\/span>\n Business photography, science photography, museum photography<\/span>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\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 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 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 Arolsen Archives: when remembering becomes work <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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A small town in Hesse looks after one of the largest collections on Nazi persecution. There\u2019s a specific reason why its location isn\u2019t public.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Life off the grid: a visit to a commune <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Breakfast by the wood stove, water from a reed-bed treatment system: how practical is a life that does without comforts?<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n No place to retreat: why refugee shelters lack silence <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Constant noise, no room of one\u2019s own: how life in collective shelters wears people down \u2013 as told by a refugee from Ukraine.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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