Dokumentarfotografie Förderpreise 15 der Wüstenrot Stiftung

The Wüstenrot Foundation is showing works by Nazanin Hafez, Kristina Lenz and Alex Simon Klug, Malte Uchtmann, Hannah Wolf, which were created as part of the Documentary Photography Awards 15, at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

The Wüstenrot Foundation's Documentary Photography Awards are the most important awards of their kind in Germany. Together with the Photographic Collection of the Museum Folkwang in Essen, they have been awarded every two years since 1994 to young artists from German universities and academies who question the present with contemporary documentary image strategies and forms of representation.

Nazanin Hafez (*1991), Kristina Lenz (*1992) & Alex Simon Klug (*1991), Malte Uchtmann (*1996) and Hannah Wolf (*1988) will be honored in the 15th edition of the sponsorship awards. The artists deal in different ways with existing "truths" of the world that affect society and the individual. The documentary strategies and forms used here range between documentary-fictional and AI-generated imagery. They are techniques that move on the edges of the documentary, touching and oscillating them without being documentary photographs in the conventional sense.