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Teaching areas:<\/strong> Visual language, Photo Project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario Wezel (*1988 in N\u00fcrtingen) lives and works in Hannover. He uses imaging techniques such as digital and analogue photography, digital and analogue video and thermal imaging cameras as the basis of his artistic-documentary practice. Drawing on his own biography, Wezel addresses social themes around identity, fatherhood and family structures.
His first monograph, \u2018Das Ende der Unsterblichkeit\u2019, was published by FOTOHOFedition in 2023, followed in 2025 by \u2018Voyage Voyage\u2019, a self-published artist\u2019s book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work has received awards including the Images Vevey Book Award, the Sony World Photography Awards and the Ian Parry Scholarship, and has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Museum Hilversum (NL), Copenhagen Photofestival (DK), Somerset House (GB) and Galerie Bohai (D).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For publications and commissions, Mario Wezel works for Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Zeit Magazin and The New York Times, among others. He has taught at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2021.
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