Andy Spyra

Andy Spyra (* 1984 in Hagen ) is a German photographer and photojournalist. Spyra became known for his mostly black and white photographs from crisis regions.

Life

After graduating from high school in Hagen, Spyra traveled through Central America and Southeast Asia, where he discovered his love for photography. Then he decided to become a professional photographer and worked as a freelance photographer for a newspaper in Hagen for a year. From 2007 to 2009 he studied photo journalism and documentary photography at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences .

Spyra is known for his pictures from Kashmir , the Middle East and Bosnia , which he took with a Holga , a very cheap plastic medium format camera. He works on long-term projects in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East.

His photos appear in TIME Magazine , in GEO , in Stern , in FAZ , in Spiegel , der Zeit , One-Mag, in Middle East Report, the 360 ° Journal , in Profifoto , Photo International, Foto8, GUP, Rearviewmirror, LFI -Leica Photography International, GommaMag, NEON , for GlobalPost , Zenith, in der Welt am Sonntag , Newsweek , The New Yorker , Il Espresso and others.

In March 2018, ZEITmagazin devoted an entire issue to a report by Wolfgang Bauer and Andy Spyra about a fortress in Afghanistan that is supposed to guard a village.

Publications

Andy Spyra: Exodus. The eye against oblivion. Seltmann & Sons, 2012, ISBN 978-3942831543 .
Andy Spyra: Exile. Published by the Märkische Bank Foundation, Hagen. Seltmann & Sons, 2016.
Wolfgang Bauer: The stolen girls. Boko Haram and the terror in the heart of Africa. Photos by Andy Spyra. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42538-1 .
Andy Spyra: Stolen Girls . Illustrated book. With a foreword by Ellen Dietrich. 71 pages, limited edition 500. 2017.

Exhibitions (selection)

2009: Clark / Oshin Gallery at The Icon, Los Angeles: PDN Emerging 30 (group show)
2010: 2nd Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism in Hanover
2010: C / O Berlin : Talents 18. Kashmir.
2010: 10th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition: Documentary Photographers In The New Century (group exhibition)
2011: New York Photo Festival (group exhibition)
2011: Deutsche Börse Frankfurt: Talents 2010 (group exhibition)
2012: Osthaus Museum Hagen : Exodus.
2012: LVR Landesmuseum Bonn (group exhibition)
2013: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken : Faith and Land.
2016: Städtische Galerie Iserlohn: Exilium. The disappearance of Christianity from the Middle East.
2017: Museum Haus Löwenberg, Gengenbach: The stolen girls. Boko Haram and the terror in the heart of Africa. (with Wolfgang Bauer)
2017: Dortmund, International Academy: Boko Haram
2017: Südpark Gallery for Contemporary Art Solingen: Exilium - The Disappearance of Christianity from the Middle East
2018: Felix-Nussbaum-Haus Osnabrück: Hatred and Hope. Afghanistan (with Wolfgang Bauer, texts)
2018: Stadthaus Ulm : The stolen girls. Boko Haram and the terror in the heart of Africa

Prize and awards (selection)

Canon professional advancement award
Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography
International Photography Award
Picture of the Year International
Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award

Web links

official homepage
Journalists and Photographers Collective
Article with interview on the Getty honor
Article in the NZZ ( Memento from February 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Humanity in War | ttt - title, theses, temperaments. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 27, 2017 ; accessed on October 26, 2017 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Andreas Öhler: Andy Spyra: Hope lives first . In: The time . May 12, 2017, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 26, 2017]).
↑ Photographers: Andy Spyra. In: laif Agency for Photos & Reports. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
Jump up ↑ Afghanistan: Hate and Hope . In: ZEITmagazin . ( zeit.de [accessed on May 4, 2018]).
↑ Cashmere . In: C / O Berlin . November 13, 2014 ( co-berlin.org [accessed October 27, 2017]).
^ Osthaus Museum Hagen. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
^ Spyra: The Robbed Girls - BVPA - Federal Association of Professional Image Providers . In: BVPA - Federal Association of Professional Image Providers . March 15, 2017 ( bvpa.org [accessed October 26, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Spyra, Andy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer and photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hagen , Germany

[1] Humanity in War | ttt - title, theses, temperaments. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 27, 2017 ; accessed on October 26, 2017 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Andreas Öhler: Andy Spyra: Hope lives first . In: The time . May 12, 2017, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 26, 2017]).

[3] Photographers: Andy Spyra. In: laif Agency for Photos & Reports. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .

[4] Jump up ↑ Afghanistan: Hate and Hope . In: ZEITmagazin . ( zeit.de [accessed on May 4, 2018]).

[5] Cashmere . In: C / O Berlin . November 13, 2014 ( co-berlin.org [accessed October 27, 2017]).

[6] Osthaus Museum Hagen. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .

[7] Spyra: The Robbed Girls - BVPA - Federal Association of Professional Image Providers . In: BVPA - Federal Association of Professional Image Providers . March 15, 2017 ( bvpa.org [accessed October 26, 2017]).