Kai Wiedenhöfer

Kai Wiedenhöfer at the opening of his exhibition Wall on Wall (2013)

Kai Wiedenhöfer (* 1966 in Schwenningen ) is a German photojournalist .

Life

Kai Wiedenhöfer studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen - Ruhr "editorial design and documentary photography" and in Damascus , capital of Syria , Arabic .

When he is not abroad for work, Wiedenhöfer lives in his adopted home, Berlin .

Wiedenhöfer has received numerous prestigious awards:

Carl von Ossietzky Medal 2016
Art Prize Photography of the State of Brandenburg Lotto GmbH 2010
Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award 2009 on the Gaza Strip
Moving Walls Exhibition, Open Society Inst. Of the Soros Foundation, New York, 2008
Getty Grant 2005 for documentary photography
Fuji Euro Press Award, 2005.
German Photo Book Prize 2003 for his book Perfect Peace
Alexia Grant 2002 ( Alexia Grant for Cultural Understanding and World Peace )
World Press Photo Award 2002 and 2004
Leica Medal of Excellence 2002
W. Eugene Smith Prize for Humanistic Photographic Art 2002
Hansel Mieth Prize for photo reportage 1998
World Press Masterclass in Amsterdam 1995
International Prize for Young Photojournalists of Agfa and Bilderberg 1995

Wall. Steidl publishing house. Göttingen 2007 ISBN 978-3-86521-117-0 .
Perfect Peace: The Palestinians from Intifada to Intifada. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-88243-814-2 .
Checkpoint Huwara. with Karin Wenger, Neue Zürcher Zeitung Publisher, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7205-3077-4 .
The Book of Destruction. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86930-207-2 .
Confrontier . Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86930-550-9 .

2013: WALL ON WALL . 36 Panoramas 3x9m of seven borders wall covering 364m or 1100sqm of the Berlin Wall West Side Gallery , Mühlenstraße, Berlin

2010: Gaza - The Book of Destruction, a solo exhibition in the Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.