FOTODOKS Team 2023
Photographer
Frank Bauer (he/him)
Frank (*1967) studied photography at the Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich and worked as a photographer in Berlin and London for a number of years before returning to Munich. In his work as a portrait and documentary photographer, people's lives and working environments play a central role. Sharing knowledge is important to Frank: he holds workshops and has been teaching documentary photography and photojournalism at the Faculty of Design at Munich University of Applied Sciences on a semester basis since 2018.
Photographer
Dominik Gigler (he/him)
Dominik (*1968) studied at the Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich and at the London College of Printing in London. In 2009 he was one of the exhibiting artist at the Fotodoks Festival in Bad Aibling, showing his personal project 'Along the River Lea'.
Photographer
Francesco Giordano (he/him)
Francesco (*1992) is a photographer living in Munich. His focus is on LGBTQIA+ topics, migration and intersectionality. In 2017, he completed his photography studies at the University of Applied Sciences Munich. With his collaborative projects such as ‘Rainbow Refugees (Stories)’, ‘377. Inside India's Queer Community’ and ‘queer:raum’ he wants to create more visibility for marginalised groups and queer issues.
Photographer
Tanja Kernweiss (she/her)
Tanja studied photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich and did her post-graduate with Arno Fischer at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin. In 2015 she received the audience award at the Fotodoksfestival with her work "Wishing Well". Tanja lives and works in Munich.
Photographer, Graphic Designer
Nadine Loës (she/her)
Nadine is a freelance Photographer and Graphic designer. After her apprenticeship as a Mediadesigner in Stuttgart she studied first Photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich and then finished her Photography Postgraduate Study at the „Ostkreuzschule“ in Berlin with Ute Mahler and Robert Lyons. She was founder and editor of „salopp – an independent magazine for young photography“.
Photographer
Jakob Schmitt (he/him)
Jakob (*1987) studied Photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich, where he is now based, working as a freelance photographer. His interest in people, his fascination by their behaviour and interaction is what drives him to take pictures. For his personal work, he focuses on certain regions, creating site-specific stories.
Curator
Katharina Zimmermann (she/her)
Katharina (*1986) is a curator and author, holds a Master's degree in Modern and Contemporary Art from the Ruhr University in Bochum and was a scholarship holder of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation as museum curator for photography. She is concerned with contemporary photographic forms of expression and strategies of artistic appropriation. She is a research assistant for the Ströher Collection at the Küppersmühle Museum in Duisburg.
FOTODOKS Team 2019-2021
Photographer
Frank Bauer (he/him)
Frank (*1967) studied photography at the Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich. He works as a freelance photographer with a focus on portraiture and reportage.
Photographer
Inés Duemig (she/her)
Photographer
Dominik Gigler (he/him)
Dominik (*1968) studied at the Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich and at the London College of Printing in London. In 2009 he was one of the exhibiting artist at the Fotodoks Festival in Bad Aibling, showing his personal project 'Along the River Lea'.
Photographer
Lisa Hörterer (she/her)
Lisa (*1980) studied photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich. She works as a freelance photographer and was part of the team that founded the magazine „Salopp - ein junges Heft für freie Fotografie“.
Photographer
Verena Kathrein (she/her)
Verena (*1983) studied photography at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. She works as a freelance photographer. In 2016 she was a recipient of the Rome Scholarship of the Republic of Austria where she initiated the artistic research project "Then I would like to make a happy end for once" in collaboration with the artist Ariane Müller.
Photographer
Tanja Kernweiss (she/her)
Tanja studied photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich and did her post-graduate with Arno Fischer at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin. In 2015 she received the audience award at the Fotodoksfestival with her work "Wishing Well". Tanja lives and works in Munich.
Photographer, Graphic Designer
Nadine Loës (she/her)
Nadine is a freelance Photographer and Graphic designer. After her apprenticeship as a Mediadesigner in Stuttgart she studied first Photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich and then finished her Photography Postgraduate Study at the „Ostkreuzschule“ in Berlin with Ute Mahler and Robert Lyons. She was founder and editor of „salopp – an independent magazine for young photography“.
Photographer
Jakob Schmitt (he/him)
Jakob (*1987) studied Photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich, where he is now based, working as a freelance photographer. His interest in people, his fascination by their behaviour and interaction is what drives him to take pictures. For his personal work, he focuses on certain regions, creating site-specific stories.
Event Manager
Alexandra Schöfberger (she/her)
Photographer, Curator
Lene Harbo Pedersen (she/her)
Lene is a curator, photographer, cultural manager, a MMTCP meditation teacher - and a bar owner. After her studies in Art history, media science & management in digital medias she opened a bar in Copenhagen with her twinsister. Since 2011 she has been shaping photographic exhibitions, organising a yearly music festival and hosting cultural events at her bar. For the Photo Festival FOTODOKS, München 2017 she created a varied program of lectures, panel discussions and film screenings. She also helped setting up the collectively driven festival - and since 2012 she followed and interacted into the proces until the festival was handed over to a new team in 2019. Trademark of that festival was the inclusion, networking, debating and an anually changing partner country that brought an interesting selection of the photographing world to Munich.
Photographer, curator, author
Michaela Obermair (she/her)
Michaela (*1981) studied theater, film and media studies, journalism and art history at the universities of Vienna and Zaragoza, and completed courses in artistic photography at the Academy of Applied Photography (Graz) and fotoK (Vienna). She has been conceiving, curating and organizing art and photography projects since 2009 and works as an archivist, author and photographer.
In 2017 she received a 6-month scholarship from the Austrian Federal Chancellery for Art and Culture and thus immersed herself deeply in the structure of FOTODOKS. She worked extensively on a curatorial and organizational level and was the place where many important strands came together.
Curator and Author
Sophia Greiff (she/her)
Sophia (*1982) is a freelance curator and photographer. From 2011 to 2013 she was a scholar in the program Museum Curators for Photography of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation and joined Fotodoks while working at the Munich City Museum in 2011. In 2014 and 2015 she took over the organizational management of the festival. From 2016 until April 2021 Sophia worked as graduate research assistant in the program for Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Currently she is doing research as a doctoral candidate at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen on photojournalistic forms of narration and presentation in the photobook and supports the new Fotodoks team in an advisory capacity.
Photographer
Hans Herbig (he/him)
Hans (*1973) came to photography via skateboarding and snowboarding. He was co-founder of _Pleasure Snowboard_ magazine and its picture editor, until he joined the magazine _Onboard_ as picture editor-in-chief. His special passion for mountain worlds - he is UIMLA International Mountain Leader -, sports and landscapes characterizes his photography. Hans initiated the Fotodoks Festival together with Robert Pupeter in 2008 in Bad Aibling.
Photographer
Jörg Koopmann (he/him)
Jörg (*1968) 1993 Diploma in photo design, until 1996 photographer at Lenbachhaus. Since 1997 self-employed and mainly working in the field of reportage/portrait. 2001 Photography Award of the City of Munich. Co-founder of the photo forum glossy. 2009 start of the book with a beard publishing house. In 2010 he was co-initiator of the Sight-_seeing project in Tyrol. From 2014 to 2020 he is curator and director of the exhibition hall Lothringer13. Lives in Munich and Copenhagen and works closely with Lene Harbo Pedersen on art and photo projects. Jörg has been co-organizer of the Fotodoks Festival since 2009 and was still involved as consultant for the new Fotodoks team for 2019.
Photographer
Robert Pupeter (he/him)
Robert (*1971) has been working for many years as a photographer in the fields of reportage and portrait photography. He also works on freelance projects dealing with the perception of landscape and the relationship between man and space. He is co-initiator of exhibition projects such as Gruppenzwang, Kurzstrecke, socio-cultural platforms such as hofHaus Weicht and founded the Fotodoks Festival together with Hans Herbig in 2008.
Photographer
Armin Smailovic
Armin (*1968) studied at the Bavarian State School for Photography in Munich. He had his first job during the war in Croatia 1991-93. Since then, he is deeply involved with post-conflict societies and political issues. In the early years Michael Schmidt was his mentor and brought him to author photography. His reportage and portrait photographs were awarded among others, in 2014 with the _Hansel Mieth Award_ and the Award of the City of Munich. 2009 Armin won the Fotodoks Prize and went straight into the organization of the festival.
FOTODOKS Team 2023
Photographer
Frank Bauer (he/him)
Frank (*1967) studied photography at the Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich and worked as a photographer in Berlin and London for a number of years before returning to Munich. In his work as a portrait and documentary photographer, people's lives and working environments play a central role. Sharing knowledge is important to Frank: he holds workshops and has been teaching documentary photography and photojournalism at the Faculty of Design at Munich University of Applied Sciences on a semester basis since 2018.
Photographer
Dominik Gigler (he/him)
Dominik (*1968) studied at the Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich and at the London College of Printing in London. In 2009 he was one of the exhibiting artist at the Fotodoks Festival in Bad Aibling, showing his personal project 'Along the River Lea'.
Photographer
Francesco Giordano (he/him)
Francesco (*1992) is a photographer living in Munich. His focus is on LGBTQIA+ topics, migration and intersectionality. In 2017, he completed his photography studies at the University of Applied Sciences Munich. With his collaborative projects such as ‘Rainbow Refugees (Stories)’, ‘377. Inside India's Queer Community’ and ‘queer:raum’ he wants to create more visibility for marginalised groups and queer issues.
Photographer
Tanja Kernweiss (she/her)
Tanja studied photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich and did her post-graduate with Arno Fischer at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin. In 2015 she received the audience award at the Fotodoksfestival with her work "Wishing Well". Tanja lives and works in Munich.
Photographer, Graphic Designer
Nadine Loës (she/her)
Nadine is a freelance Photographer and Graphic designer. After her apprenticeship as a Mediadesigner in Stuttgart she studied first Photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich and then finished her Photography Postgraduate Study at the „Ostkreuzschule“ in Berlin with Ute Mahler and Robert Lyons. She was founder and editor of „salopp – an independent magazine for young photography“.
Photographer
Jakob Schmitt (he/him)
Jakob (*1987) studied Photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich, where he is now based, working as a freelance photographer. His interest in people, his fascination by their behaviour and interaction is what drives him to take pictures. For his personal work, he focuses on certain regions, creating site-specific stories.
Curator
Katharina Zimmermann (she/her)
Katharina (*1986) is a curator and author, holds a Master's degree in Modern and Contemporary Art from the Ruhr University in Bochum and was a scholarship holder of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation as museum curator for photography. She is concerned with contemporary photographic forms of expression and strategies of artistic appropriation. She is a research assistant for the Ströher Collection at the Küppersmühle Museum in Duisburg.
FOTODOKS Team 2019-2021
Photographer
Frank Bauer (he/him)
Frank (*1967) studied photography at the Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich. He works as a freelance photographer with a focus on portraiture and reportage.
Photographer
Inés Duemig (she/her)
Photographer
Dominik Gigler (he/him)
Dominik (*1968) studied at the Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich and at the London College of Printing in London. In 2009 he was one of the exhibiting artist at the Fotodoks Festival in Bad Aibling, showing his personal project 'Along the River Lea'.
Photographer
Lisa Hörterer (she/her)
Lisa (*1980) studied photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich. She works as a freelance photographer and was part of the team that founded the magazine „Salopp - ein junges Heft für freie Fotografie“.
Photographer
Verena Kathrein (she/her)
Verena (*1983) studied photography at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. She works as a freelance photographer. In 2016 she was a recipient of the Rome Scholarship of the Republic of Austria where she initiated the artistic research project "Then I would like to make a happy end for once" in collaboration with the artist Ariane Müller.
Photographer
Tanja Kernweiss (she/her)
Tanja studied photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich and did her post-graduate with Arno Fischer at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin. In 2015 she received the audience award at the Fotodoksfestival with her work "Wishing Well". Tanja lives and works in Munich.
Photographer, Graphic Designer
Nadine Loës (she/her)
Nadine is a freelance Photographer and Graphic designer. After her apprenticeship as a Mediadesigner in Stuttgart she studied first Photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich and then finished her Photography Postgraduate Study at the „Ostkreuzschule“ in Berlin with Ute Mahler and Robert Lyons. She was founder and editor of „salopp – an independent magazine for young photography“.
Photographer
Jakob Schmitt (he/him)
Jakob (*1987) studied Photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich, where he is now based, working as a freelance photographer. His interest in people, his fascination by their behaviour and interaction is what drives him to take pictures. For his personal work, he focuses on certain regions, creating site-specific stories.
Event Manager
Alexandra Schöfberger (she/her)
Photographer, Curator
Lene Harbo Pedersen (she/her)
Lene is a curator, photographer, cultural manager, a MMTCP meditation teacher - and a bar owner. After her studies in Art history, media science & management in digital medias she opened a bar in Copenhagen with her twinsister. Since 2011 she has been shaping photographic exhibitions, organising a yearly music festival and hosting cultural events at her bar. For the Photo Festival FOTODOKS, München 2017 she created a varied program of lectures, panel discussions and film screenings. She also helped setting up the collectively driven festival - and since 2012 she followed and interacted into the proces until the festival was handed over to a new team in 2019. Trademark of that festival was the inclusion, networking, debating and an anually changing partner country that brought an interesting selection of the photographing world to Munich.
Photographer, curator, author
Michaela Obermair (she/her)
Michaela (*1981) studied theater, film and media studies, journalism and art history at the universities of Vienna and Zaragoza, and completed courses in artistic photography at the Academy of Applied Photography (Graz) and fotoK (Vienna). She has been conceiving, curating and organizing art and photography projects since 2009 and works as an archivist, author and photographer.
In 2017 she received a 6-month scholarship from the Austrian Federal Chancellery for Art and Culture and thus immersed herself deeply in the structure of FOTODOKS. She worked extensively on a curatorial and organizational level and was the place where many important strands came together.
Curator and Author
Sophia Greiff (she/her)
Sophia (*1982) is a freelance curator and photographer. From 2011 to 2013 she was a scholar in the program Museum Curators for Photography of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation and joined Fotodoks while working at the Munich City Museum in 2011. In 2014 and 2015 she took over the organizational management of the festival. From 2016 until April 2021 Sophia worked as graduate research assistant in the program for Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Currently she is doing research as a doctoral candidate at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen on photojournalistic forms of narration and presentation in the photobook and supports the new Fotodoks team in an advisory capacity.
Photographer
Hans Herbig (he/him)
Hans (*1973) came to photography via skateboarding and snowboarding. He was co-founder of _Pleasure Snowboard_ magazine and its picture editor, until he joined the magazine _Onboard_ as picture editor-in-chief. His special passion for mountain worlds - he is UIMLA International Mountain Leader -, sports and landscapes characterizes his photography. Hans initiated the Fotodoks Festival together with Robert Pupeter in 2008 in Bad Aibling.
Photographer
Jörg Koopmann (he/him)
Jörg (*1968) 1993 Diploma in photo design, until 1996 photographer at Lenbachhaus. Since 1997 self-employed and mainly working in the field of reportage/portrait. 2001 Photography Award of the City of Munich. Co-founder of the photo forum glossy. 2009 start of the book with a beard publishing house. In 2010 he was co-initiator of the Sight-_seeing project in Tyrol. From 2014 to 2020 he is curator and director of the exhibition hall Lothringer13. Lives in Munich and Copenhagen and works closely with Lene Harbo Pedersen on art and photo projects. Jörg has been co-organizer of the Fotodoks Festival since 2009 and was still involved as consultant for the new Fotodoks team for 2019.
Photographer
Robert Pupeter (he/him)
Robert (*1971) has been working for many years as a photographer in the fields of reportage and portrait photography. He also works on freelance projects dealing with the perception of landscape and the relationship between man and space. He is co-initiator of exhibition projects such as Gruppenzwang, Kurzstrecke, socio-cultural platforms such as hofHaus Weicht and founded the Fotodoks Festival together with Hans Herbig in 2008.
Photographer
Armin Smailovic
Armin (*1968) studied at the Bavarian State School for Photography in Munich. He had his first job during the war in Croatia 1991-93. Since then, he is deeply involved with post-conflict societies and political issues. In the early years Michael Schmidt was his mentor and brought him to author photography. His reportage and portrait photographs were awarded among others, in 2014 with the _Hansel Mieth Award_ and the Award of the City of Munich. 2009 Armin won the Fotodoks Prize and went straight into the organization of the festival.
contact
office@fotodoks.de
Festival adress
Lothringer 13 Halle
An art space of the city of Munich
Lothringer Str. 13, 81667 Munich
opening hours during exhibitions
Lothringer 13 Halle
Tue — Sun, 11 am — 7 pm
Free entry. Access to the hall is barrier-free.
contact
office@fotodoks.de
Festival adress
Lothringer 13 Halle
An art space of the city of Munich
Lothringer Str. 13, 81667 Munich
opening hours during exhibitions
Lothringer 13 Halle
Tue — Sun, 11 am — 7 pm
Free entry. Access to the hall is barrier-free.