Thomas Ernsting

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Thomas Ernsting (born June 10, 1959 in Bevergern ) is a German reportage and industrial photographer .

Life

After graduating from high school in Ibbenbüren , he studied geodesy in Stuttgart and Bonn . He has been working as a freelance photographer since 1987. He is married, has two grown children and lives in Bonn.

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Ernsting is a self-taught photographer . At the beginning he devoted himself exclusively to reportage photography and from the beginning worked worldwide for the various editions of GEO , but also published regularly in Stern , Merian and - since the magazine was founded - also in National Geographic Germany .

Ernsting avoids thematic specialization in his work; the topics of his reports are very diverse. Previous topics were, for example: the life of old peasant women, everyday life in the South Seas, the emotional life of plants, paleoanthropologists in Africa, the collapse of communism, shamanism in Germany, children of war in Yugoslavia, the drug scene in Germany or the Khasi in Meghalaya. Ernsting has received the World Press Photo Award four times for this alone . Well over 100 photo reports appeared in the major magazines worldwide. In 1996 he was accepted into the Art Directors Club New York . Ernsting is a member of the Laif agency (Cologne).

At the end of the 1990s, another focus was added with technical, industrial and scientific photography. His approach, always combining the representation of technology with people, sets the style.

Major projects in this area include: construction of the new Gotthard tunnel , creation of the Columbus space laboratory, development of the Bugatti Veyron , research by the Fraunhofer Society , work by the German Aerospace Center , Germany as a high-tech location. In addition to the magazines, Ernsting also works for companies such as Airbus , Siemens , Volkswagen and General Motors .

  • Wallpecker 1989

  • DLR satellite technology

  • Gotthard tunnel

  • shaman

Awards (selection)

  • 1988: 1st Prize World Press Photo (Daily Life)
  • 1992: 1st Prize World Press Photo (Daily Life)
  • 1992: Prague Award (Photo Prize of the City of Prague)
  • 1993: 2nd Prize World Press Photo (science and technology)
  • 1994: Awarded by the Art Director's Club Germany
  • 1997: 2nd Prize World Press Photo (science and technology)
  • 1997: 1st and 2nd prize of the award for science photography, science visual ´97
  • 2006: Punkt (journalist award) for the best technical journalism by Acatech
  • 2007: Another award from Acatech for the best technical photo
  • 2014: Award by the ZVEI for the best technical photo
  • 2015: Winner of the European Science Photo Competition Award

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1992: Photo Festival, Perpignan
  • 1997: Exhibition in the House of German Business, Berlin.
  • 1999: State Museum for Technology and Work, Mannheim
  • 2000: World Exhibition EXPO 2000
  • 2009: Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart
  • 2010: Technoseum, Mannheim
  • 2010: Audiforum, Ingolstadt
  • 2010: Industrial Museum, Chemnitz
  • 2011: Technology Museum, Kassel
  • 2011: Hamburg Airport
  • 2012: Ludwig-Erhard-Haus, Berlin
  • 2015: Osthaus Museum, Hagen

Book publications (selection)

  • Of people and machines - a journey through pictures through Germany as a business location. Edited by German Industry and Trade Day. Berlin 1999.
  • Venice. With texts by Joseph Brodsky. Editor: Barbara Sternthal. Brandstätter, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85498-295-X .
  • The new Gotthard tunnel. Edited by Herrenknecht AG. Texts v. Philipp Maußhardt, Ruedi Suter. Editor: Achim Kühn. Photogr. by Thomas Ernsting. ISBN 978-3-7688-1945-9 .
  • German technology route. Ed .: Charlotte von Saurma. Jahreszeiten-Verlag, Hamburg 2009 (Merian; Jg. 62, Extra) ISBN 978-3-8342-0913-9 .
  • Shamanism: everything is alive! Neue Erde, Saarbrücken 2015, ISBN 978-3-89060-665-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Press Photo - collections 1988 photo contest
  2. ↑ World Press Photo - collections 1992 photo contest
  3. ↑ World Press Photo - collections 1993 photo contest
  4. ↑ World Press Photo - collections 1997 photo contest
  5. ↑ Science photography , science visuell ´97 - Wissenschaft.de
  6. ↑ Press release - TU Berlin
  7. ↑ Photo & Photo Grant 2006 - acatech point
  8. ↑ Photo & Photo Grant 2007 - acatech-Punkt
  9. ↑ Winner European Science Photo Competition 2015 Wikimedia Commons
personal data
SURNAME Ernsting, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bevergern