Andreas Herzau

Andreas Herzau (* 1962 in Mainz ) is a German photographer and lecturer in photography who lives in Hamburg .

life and work

Andreas Herzau trained as a typesetter from 1979 to 1982 . After completing his traineeship at the magazine specifically in 1985 in Hamburg, he worked as a freelance author from 1988 to 1991.

Since 1992 Andreas Herzau has dedicated himself exclusively to photography. In 1994 he photographed the drug scene in Germany. From 1994 to 1995 he produced photographic works on the civil war in Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In 1996 he photographed a series about a deportation prison in Germany. From 1997 to 2001 he dealt with the project Me, Myself + I , a photographic examination of the self-portrayal of young people. From 2000 to 2002 he worked on the book Andreas Herzau - New York, a photographic essay of the city of New York, before and after the attacks of September 11, 2001. In 2006, the illustrated book deutsch land - a journey to the germans , a subjective inventory, was published about Germany a good 15 years after reunification. After that, other books about Istanbul and Moscow were written.

Andreas Herzau has been a member of the laif photo agency since 1999.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2001 “ME Inc.”, Goethe Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• 2002 “Me, Myself & I”, Museum of Labor in Hamburg, Germany
• 2002 "NY 00/02", Galerie laif in Cologne, Germany
• 2003 “NY 00/02”, Goethe-Institut, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• 2005 "Calcutta-Bombay. Eight days by taxi. ”Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg
• 2005 "Deutschland.Deutschland." (Work in progress) International Photography Days, Mannheim / Ludwigshafen
• 2008 "Deutsch Land", Kunstverein Pforzheim
• 2009 “Pieces”, State Museum of the Arts, Novosibirsk, Goethe Institute
• 2010 "Neighborhood", Neues Museum, Nuremberg
• 2010 "Normal", SoviArt Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
• 2012 "Sputnik", Robert Morat Gallery
• 2016 “#francke”, Franckesche Stiftungen Halle
• 2017 "Helvetica", Soiz Gallery, Passau
• 2018 "AM", f³ - freedom for photography, Berlin

Books (photo books, selection)

• 1997: Exodus - 50 million people on the run, Edition Stemmle
• 2000: Catalog, April, Mes International de la Fotografia, Mexico, Yucatan
• 2002: Me, Myself + I, Edition Braus, Heidelberg
• 2003: New York, Edition Braus, Heidelberg
• 2005: Calcutta-Bombay. Eight days by taxi, Edition Braus, Heidelberg
• 2006: Deutsch Land - A Journey to the Germans, Edition Braus, Heidelberg
• 2009: Neighborhood , Callwey Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3766718174
• 2010: Istanbul, with a foreword by Elif Shafak , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-77572615-3 .
• 2012: Moscow Moscow Mockba Street, with an essay by Victor Jerofejew, Edition Braus, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8622-8028-5 .
• 2016: Bamberg Symphony , together with the poet Nora Eugenie Gomringer, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4112-5
• 2016: #francke , with a text by Hortensia Völckers, Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle, ISBN 978-3-447-10556-9
• 2017: HELVETICA , with poems by Nora Gomringer and Eugen Gomringer, Nimbus-Books, Wädenswil (CH), ISBN 978-3-03850-039-1
• 2018: AM , a photographic study of Angela Merkel, Nimbus-Books, Wädenswil (CH), ISBN 978-3-03850-053-7

Prices (selection)

• 1997: Awarded the Euro Press Photo Award for the report Die Aus dem Paradies - a photo report about life in a deportation prison in Hamburg
• 1999: Awarded the Hansel Mieth Prize for the report on human remains, 110 kilograms - a report on the suicide of an Indian refugee in Germany.
• 2001: Awarded the Hansel Mieth Prize
• 2002: Received the Euro Press Photo Award for the picture series The Other City - New York after September 11th
• 2004: PDN Award for the book Andreas Herzau - New York
• 2013: German photo book award for "Moscow Moskau Mockba Street"
• 2018 Flashback 2017 - for the best political photography of 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Herzau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Andreas Herzau
• Andreas Herzau's blog