Andrea Künzig

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Andrea Künzig (* 1963 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German photographer .

life and work

Andrea Künzig completed her diploma studies at the Free University of Berlin in 1991 in political science with a focus on the Middle East and international politics. From 1994 to 1996 she lived and worked as a freelance photographer in Jerusalem and documented the peace efforts in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

1998/99 she worked more than six months in Kenya and started for the magazine Geo the 2019 ongoing long-term project "Basic Needs. Human children "(How does a child live in Africa?). During this period of two decades she photographed the life story of the boy Francis Mutia at regular intervals on location in Kenya . The photographer expanded the focus of the project to include everyday life, living conditions and the development of the residents of the Kenyan village of Musalala.

From 2001 to 2004 Andrea Künzig attended the master class “ Photography on Schiffbauerdamm ” with Arno Fischer . In addition, further commissioned trips for aid organizations, magazines and newspapers to the Middle East and East Africa followed until 2004. From 2009 to 2014 she lived and worked in Istanbul. Her base has been in Berlin since 2014.

She received teaching assignments and organized photo workshops a. a. 2004 for Inwent in Mongolia, 2007 for the Goethe-Institut in Mumbai and 2014 in Istanbul. From 2012 to 2014, Andrea Künzig was a photo expert on the jury of the Robert Bosch Foundation's “Grenzgänger” program .

Andrea Künzig mainly works on reports and long-term projects on socio-political and humanitarian issues around the world. She carried out orders and her own projects. a. to India, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Micronesia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Bahrain, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa and Swaziland. The living environment of women and children is often the focus of photographic work. In her social documentary photo reports, Andrea Künzig u. a. the subjects of HIV, fistula, child labor, debt bondage, migrant labor, medical care or FGM (female genital mutilation) are documented. Another focus of the photographer is the documentation of societies or ethnic groups between tradition and modernity.

After her long stay in the Middle East, the photo book “Visions: Palestine” was created in 2004 and during her time in Istanbul the photo book “Istanbulum” (My Istanbul) was published in 2010.

In 2017 Andrea Künzig began working on a new, free long-term project on the subject of "nature" in different regions of Germany. To do this, she takes photos in forests, biosphere reserves and national parks and uses the camera to investigate the originality and change in forests, also in the context of the climate crisis . The first results were presented in the exhibition "NATURE_up side down".

Andrea Künzig is represented by the agency "laif - Photos & Reportages". She photographs freelance u. a. for National Geographic Traveler, GEO, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, DIE ZEIT, Brigitte and Deutsche Welle. She also works as a photographer for international organizations: u. a. for the German Foundation for World Population, SOS Children's Villages , Terre des Femmes and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Your photos will also be exhibited internationally.

Awards / grants

Andrea Künzig received several awards for her photographic work. She was u. a. 2001 nominated by UNICEF as one of the outstanding child photographers and most recently received the Kinderothilfe media prize in 2013 for a photo report on “The brave children from Kampala”. She has already received a grant from VG Bild Kunst twice (2004 and 2008) .

  • 2013: Kinderothilfe media award with the topic: "The brave children from Kampala", (Kindernothilfe)
  • 2010: Prize for the essay “African Football: Focus on the Background”, Dokfünf, Hamburg
  • 2010: “European Journalist Award of Excellence in Journalism”, photo essay about the Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia with Angelika Gardiner, World Population Foundation, Amsterdam
  • 2009: "German Journalist Prize" on the subject of development with Angelika Gardiner, German Foundation for World Population, Berlin
  • 2008: Scholarship VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
  • 2005: “Photographer of the Month”, with portfolio “Visions: Palestine”, GEO
  • 2004: Scholarship VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
  • 2001: nominated by UNICEF as "Child Photographer of the Year"
  • 2000: 1st prize “Bild der Wissenschaft” for the photo book “Menschenkinder”, GEO, Gruner and Jahr Verlag

Books (selection)

Exhibitions

  • 2019: "NATURE_up side down", Werderpark, Werder, Brandenburg 2019
  • 2018: "NATURE_up side down", Art Moorburg, Hamburg
  • 2016: "Arrived !? Photographs on Flight and Arrival in Germany ", FREELENS joint project, Representation of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Berlin (23 September to 7 October 2016)
  • 2016: “Leaving. Arrive. Escape + Departure in Europe ", Atelier + Kantine Dömitz, Hamburg (April 9 to May 29, 2016)
  • 2015: "DAY BY DAY - In Kambaland", Listros Gallery Berlin
  • 2012–2013 “People and their Stories”, traveling exhibition of the Foreign Office's cultural department, Turkey
  • 2011 “Istanbulum”, ARTHOUSE Arnavutkoy and Goethe-Institut, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2010 “African Football: Focus on the Background”, Dokfünf, Kunstleben, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2009 “One World I”, photographs from Africa, Princess, Berlin
  • 2009 "Grenzland", Art Landing, Aschaffenburg
  • 2009 "Grenzland", Römer 9, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2009 “No Cut Into Life”, traveling exhibition against female genital mutilation in Africa, Terres des Femmes, Switzerland
  • 2009 “The Germans and their National Symbols”, House of History, Bonn
  • 2008 “No Cut Into Life”, traveling exhibition against female genital mutilation in Africa, Terres des Femmes, in Germany
  • 2007 “Promised Land”, Art Landing, Aschaffenburg, Germany
  • 2007 “Il corpo imprigionato, African Images”, Cross-Cultural Center, Turin, Italy
  • 2006 “Visions: Palestine”, Al Riwaq Gallery, Bahrain
  • 2005 “Millennium Development Goals 2015”, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion)
  • 2004 “Visions: Palestine”, University of Hamburg
  • 2004 “Promised Land”, Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2003 “Visions: Palestine”, Emerson Gallery, Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geo Perpective 2019, special issue "The youth of the world - What they want, what they feel" [1] - In it: Long-term study: Born in 1998 - what became of the GEO people ?, accessed on December 19, 2019.
  2. ^ Johanna Wieland: "Three countries, three fates" [2] - five years ago GEO reporters portrayed three children. One from Kenya, one from Vietnam, one from Germany. Now they have revisited them, geolino, 2003, accessed on December 19, 2019.
  3. ↑ [3] , Goethe-Institut Mumbai, 2007, accessed on August 10, 2017.
  4. ↑ World Population Foundation: Fight Fistula , accessed on July 13, 2015.
  5. ↑ Edith Krebs: About the photo book "Visions: Palestine" , In: Die Wochenzeitung No. 01/2006. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
  6. ↑ Carina Risse: About the illustrated book "Istanbulum" , accessed July 13, 2015.
  7. ↑ Homepage Andrea Künzig NATURE_up side down , accessed on February 9, 2019.
  8. ^ Photos for a campaign by the German Foundation for World Population for the 8th “International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development” 2010 [4] , accessed on December 19, 2019.
  9. ↑ The 2nd place is perfect ( Memento from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Wide World November 2013, accessed on July 17, 2015.
  10. ↑ Angelika Gardiner: The Brave Children of Kampala ( Memento of July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Worldwide September 10, 2012, accessed on July 17, 2015.
  11. ↑ Kindernothilfe Medienpreis 2013, Prize of the Children's Jury for “The Brave Children of Kampala” Kindernothilfe, Media Awards, accessed on July 17, 2015.
  12. ↑ [5] : [Dokfünf photo competition 2010: "Keyword football: focus on the background"] , accessed on September 20, 2017.
  13. ↑ Dutch journalist wins European Journalist Award for Excellence in Journalism ( Memento of April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (eng), accessed on July 17, 2015.
  14. ↑ journalistenpreise.de : Winner: World Population 2009 , accessed on July 17, 2015.
  15. ↑ www.bmz.de : [6] , accessed on September 20, 2017.
  16. ↑ www.weltbevoelkerung.de : German Foundation for World Population awards journalist prize , March 17, 2010, accessed on July 17, 2015.
  17. ↑ VG Bild-Kunst grant, Bonn 2008 [7] , accessed on December 19, 2019.
  18. ↑ VG Bild-Kunst grant, Bonn [8] , accessed on December 19, 2019.
  19. ↑ www.unicef.de : Homepage Unicef , accessed on September 20, 2017.
  20. ↑ Ulrike Baureithel / Anna Bergmann: The Books of the Year 2000 , Bild der Wissenschaft, December 1, 2000, accessed on July 17, 2015.
  21. ↑ Online portal "We are Werder" [9] accessed on December 19, 2019.
  22. ↑ www.moorburger-art.de: [10] , accessed on February 7, 2019.
  23. ↑ www.freelens.de: [11] , accessed on August 10, 2017.
  24. ↑ www.atelierundkantine.de: [12] , accessed on August 10, 2017.
  25. ↑ Ruth Eichhorn: "DAY BY DAY" IN KAMBALAND , listros.de, accessed on July 17, 2015.
  26. ^ Event information "Andrea Künzig: Day by Day in Kambaland" - Galerie Listros 2015 [13] , accessed on July 19, 2019.
  27. ↑ www.goethe.de : ANDREA KÜNZIG - ISTANBULUM (MEIN ISTANBUL) , accessed on July 17, 2015.
  28. ↑ www.photopresse.de : Award ceremony of the national winners of the 2014 performance competition of the CV / Bundesinnungsverband , March 18, 2015, accessed on July 17, 2015.
  29. ↑ a b www.photography-now.com : Andrea Künzig , accessed on July 17, 2015.
  30. ↑ a b Katharina Deschka-Hoeck: From distant life beyond the river , faz, October 21, 2009, accessed on July 17, 2015.
  31. ↑ www.hdg.de : Show the flag? The Germans and their national symbols , accessed September 20, 2017.
  32. ↑ Horst Köhler: Address by Federal President Horst Köhler on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Show the flag? The Germans and their national symbols" , Der Bundespräsident, December 4, 2008, accessed on July 17, 2015.
  33. ↑ [14] : "You promised me a wonderful party ..." , accessed on August 10, 2017.
  34. ↑ www.alriwaqartspace.com , accessed July 17, 2015.
  35. ↑ Photo exhibition “Millennium Development Goals 2015 - Acting Global for Poverty Reduction, Development and Peace” (en), Bonn International Center for Conversion, accessed on July 17, 2015.
  36. ↑ Andrea Künzig - PROMISED LAND ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on December 19, 2019.
  37. ↑ [15] : INTERMEZZO I: ANDREA KÜNZIG - Silver and Gold: Visions Palestine (photographs) , November 18, 2003, accessed on February 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kunzig, Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuenzig, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg