{"id":79235,"date":"2026-10-10T10:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=79235"},"modified":"2026-10-10T10:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:43:33","slug":"mats-hoff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/mats-hoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Mats Hoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Mats Hoff<\/strong> (*1995 in Kiel) lives and works in Hamburg. Shaped by skateboarding, he first used photography mainly as a way of documenting. After training as a digital and print media designer, he spent several years working in product design, typography and art direction before his focus increasingly shifted to photography. His interest in design and narrative structures still shapes the way he works today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2024, he has been studying \u2018Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography\u2019 at Hochschule Hannover and works across disciplines as a documentary and portrait photographer. His work has appeared in DIE ZEIT, fluter and Emerge Magazine, among others, and has been exhibited at the Horizonte Zingst photo festival and during the Fotosommer of the Triennale der Photographie Hamburg. In 2026, he was nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, selected for Plat(t)form at Fotomuseum Winterthur and won the Blank Art Foundation Photo Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stories by Mats<\/h1>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n
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More than 6,000 soldiers, two training areas, a town marching in lockstep. In Munster, the \u2018Zeitenwende\u2019 has long been part of everyday life. A photo essay about a place where people applaud the Bundeswehr.<\/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 Learning to dream lucidly: awake in your own mind\u2019s cinema <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Steering your dreams consciously, without apps and without hype: what sleep research knows about lucid dreaming.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Femicide: the crime scenes of deadly misogyny <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Almost every day in Germany, a woman is killed because she is a woman. Photographer Selma von Hennigs documents the crime scenes in her home town of Regensburg.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Forever in your bytes <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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A conversation with ChatGPT about morality, diversity and parallels with Spike Jonze\u2019s film \u2018Her\u2019<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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On civil courage \u2013 and why, in tricky moments, we often look away rather than step in.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Portrait of a displacement <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Vivid graffiti, buzzing events \u2013 the Koch-Areal in Zurich was an alternative place to live. Its eviction sparked a debate about community and gentrification.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n What is silence? Ten people, ten answers <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Ten very different lives, one question \u2013 captured in short, powerful video portraits.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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