Kai Spoonbein

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Kai Löffelbein as part of the 20th Zinnober Kunstvolkslauf in September 2017 in the Goethe Exil studio community

Kai Löffelbein (* 1981 in Siegen ) is a German photojournalist and documentary photographer .

Life

After graduating from school, Kai Löffelbein first studied political science at the Philipps University in Marburg and at the Free University of Berlin . From 2009 he studied photo journalism and documentary photography at the University of Hanover . During his studies, he worked as a freelance photographer.

In the meantime ,öffelbein had traveled to Ukraine in 2009 to produce a photo report on former forced laborers from German labor and concentration camps such as the Salzgitter-Drütte or Bergen-Belsen satellite camps .

Spoonbone has already gained international attention with his series of photos “Kids of Sodom”, which show children between toxic fumes in a junkyard in Ghana, cannibalizing electronic waste from Europe. The student at the University of Applied Sciences for Design and Media received the Unicef ​​Photo Award 2011 for one of the pictures, subtitled “Our garbage in Africa” .

Jairo Lugo-Ocando and An Nguyen wrote in English about the work of the documentary photographer:

"Spoonbone is one of those photojournalists who manages to create that necessairy connection between our own life styles in the West and the lives of those living in poverty in the Global South."

In the photo competition “ Islam in Germany?” Announced by the magazine Zenith - the magazine for the Orient in 2011 , spoonbein's work entitled “Fremde Heimat” was awarded first prize.

In 2012 Kai Löffelbein was honored with the award of the Henri Nannen Prize .

For his photo report, created in the city of Guiyu in the south of China , about the work and living environment of the people there, which appeared in the magazine Geo under the title “The poisonous treasure inside the garbage heap” and again the recycling of the toxic electronic waste from the West under “ Third World Conditions ”came into focus, Löffelbein was nominated for the CNN Journalist Award .

Spoonbein's photographs are in part marketed by the Cologne-based Laif photo agency .

Kai Löffelbein is a member of the Goethe Exil photography studio community , which has been set up in Hanover in 2016 , which was held at the beginning of September 2017 as part of the 20th Zinnober Kunstvolkslauf with funds from the studio and project space funding of the cultural office of the state capital Hanover in cooperation with the Sparda-Bank Foundation Hannover published the catalog “Inside Goethe Exil” with the number 1.

Publications

  • Ctrl-X. A topography of e-waste , 1st edition, Göttingen: Steidl, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86930-970-5 and ISBN 3-86930-970-9 ; Content text (in English)
  • oV : China at work , in: Inside Goethe Exil. Zinnober 2017 , number 1, publisher: Goethe Exil Hannover in cooperation with the cultural office of the state capital Hannover and the Sparda-Bank Foundation Hannover, Hannover: Goethe Exil, [undated, 2017], pp. 46–51

Web links

Commons : Kai Löffelbein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jens Plaum: Photojournalism - The downside of our prosperity on the page of the daily newspaper Westfalenpost from March 26, 2014, last accessed on September 4, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d Lisa Günther: Interview with photographer Kai Löffelbein: “You have to overcome borders” on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung on September 27, 2012, updated on September 28, 2012, last accessed on September 4, 2017
  3. ↑ a b ahem / rus: photographer Kai Löffelbein / “There is the right camera for every story” on the Süddeutsche Zeitung page of October 1, 2013, last accessed on September 4, 2017
  4. ↑ Compare the subtitles of his photo in the picture gallery on the page UNICEF Photo of the Year , last accessed on September 4, 2017
  5. ↑ Jairo Lugo-Ocando, An Nguyen: Developing News. Global Journalism and the Coverage of "Third World" Development , London; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017, ISBN 9780415621823 , p. IX; preview by Google Books
  6. ^ Sarah Dornhof : Alternating Views on Islam and Europe , Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7705-5867-4 and ISBN 3-7705-5867-7 , p. 116; Preview over google books |
  7. ↑ above: China at work , in: Inside Goethe Exil. Zinnober 2017 , number 1, publisher: Goethe Exil Hannover in cooperation with the cultural office of the state capital Hannover and the Sparda-Bank Foundation Hannover, Hannover: Goethe Exil, [undated, 2017], pp. 46–51
personal data
SURNAME Spoonbone, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photojournalist and documentary photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins