Sibylle Fendt
Sibylle Fendt (born July 19, 1974 in Karlsruhe ) is a German photographer .
Life
After studying philosophy , Sibylle Fendt studied photography from 1996 to 2002 at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and from 2004 to 2006 with Wolfgang Tillmans at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . She has been working as an independent photographer since 2002 and won the Kodak Young Talent Award in the same year . In 2003 she took part in the exhibition V. Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine in Bamako / Mali and was a participant in the Joop Swart Master Class of World Press Photo. Her topics are mostly socially critical, she thematizes people from outside society, such as the mentally ill or those who have failed in life, with a strong focus on feminist aspects.
Sibylle Fendt lives and works in Berlin . She teaches at the Ostkreuz School for Photography and Design in Berlin-Weißensee and is a member of the Ostkreuz Agency . She is also the administrator of a professorship for design and media at the University of Hanover.
In 2006 NEON magazine ranked her among the 100 most important young Germans.
Web links
- Homepage
- Fendt's biography on the Goethe-Institut website
- List of the 100 most important young Germans in NEON magazine
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sibylle Fendt with an administrative professorship: fotostudenten.de. Accessed November 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Person - Faculty III. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fendt, Sibylle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |