Portfolio

Nature_up side down

The vision of the warrior

Angekommen. Das lange Warten

Istanbulum

A day at school for Francis Mutia

A Family Story
Kenya

Istanbulum

A new home – An Orphanage
Bulgaria

The Brave children of Kampala

People and their stories in turkey

Eastwards - Turkey

In transition
Mongolia

Roses for europe
Ethiopia

NEWS

Group show „100 Jahre Türkische Republik“ Fotografie Dokumentation 29.09. – 10.11. 2023 Gruppenausstellung, a/e Galerie, Potsdam, Germany

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2023 wird Andrea Künzig als Mitglied in die „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie“ (DGPh) berufen.
In 2023, Andrea Künzig has been appointed as a member of the “German Society of Photography” (DGPh).

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Zur Vertiefung ihres Wissens über die Natur ist Andrea zur „Waldführerin“ bei dem Förster und Autor Peter Wohlleben ausgebildet. Waldakademie, Wershofen in Deutschland.
To deepen her knowledge of nature, Andrea is trained as a forest guide from Peter Wohlleben, Forest Academy,  Wershofen, Germany.

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“Shop / Collect is open on this website! Start with my project
“NATURE_upside down”
Shop / Collect ist offen auf dieser Webseite! Der Anfang ist mein Projekt “NATURE_upside down”.
Zum Shop

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"Dirty Laundry"
European Month of Photography 2020
with my work "Überleben"
Exhibition of the FREELENS Group in Berlin.
Photo Gallery Friedrichshain
Duration 8th october until 20th november


Opening of the exhibition // NATURE_up side down - Eröffnung der Fotoausstellung - Themenwochenende 100 Jahre Groß-Berlin in der Waldhalle, Naturschutzzentrum Ökowerk Berlin, 04.10.2020 bis 25.10.2020 // click for information

Interview mit Andrea Künzig im naturmagazin Berlin-Brandenburg Nr. 3/2020

Aus der Serie NATURE_up side down

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Different photo projects in Berlin and at home. And Communication...

Pictures of the documentation to “One of 6 billion” are available at my photo agency laif photos & Reportagen.

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Baum, Baeume, Baumkrone, Natur, Landschaft, Oekologie, Nachhaltigkeit, nachhaltig, Wald, wood, trees, tree, nature, Nature_up side down, Natur, NATURE up side down, Bäume, Wald, Ausstellung, Fotografien, Photoausstellung
Work in Progress : "Nature_up side down"

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Im Rahmen ihres Schwerpunkts »Kriegs-, Krisen- und Konfliktfotografie« sprach Cale Carrido für Freelens mit mir darüber, wie Auslandsaufenthalte mein fotografisches Werk geprägt haben und wie viel intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Politik und Gesellschaft dem Entstehen meiner Bilder angeht. (in German)
Zum Interview

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Interview  mit Margit Miosga über meine Arbeit
  rbb Kultur Radio (in German)
Zum Interview

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I have been working in Kenya for the last 20 years on the long-term photographic GEO project, Basic Needs: "Menschenkinder" - how a child lives in Africa and, in the meantime, young adults in Kenya (1998-2019). Several photographers worked on three continents, Germany, Vietnam and Kenya, to tell the story of humankind's children.
Last published in GEO magazine, 'Perspective' (10/19)

Click on image and take a look:

Long-term photographic GEO project of Kenya


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A coproduction with the flutist Helene Schulthess.
"Sicilienne" from Marcel Poot with Svetlana Emeljanova (piano)
Photographs from the series: NATURE_up side down


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Baum, Baeume, Baumkrone, Natur, Landschaft, Oekologie, Nachhaltigkeit, nachhaltig, Wald, wood, trees, tree, nature, Nature_up side down, Natur, NATURE up side down, Bäume, Wald, Ausstellung, Fotografien, Photoausstellung, Hamburh, Werderpark
Aus der Serie NATURE_up side down

Opening of the exhibition

NATURE_up side down", Werderpark, Brandenburg, Deutschland
11.5. – 30.5. 2019
Information

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Kenya on assignment

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Seit 2017 arbeite ich fortlaufend an meinem freien Projekt zur Natur in Deutschland. Nach mehr als 20 Jahren der Dokumentarfotografie für politische und soziale Themen hat sich mein Verhältnis zur Natur intensiviert. Im Fokus stehen für mich allem die Bäume, für die ich im Laufe der Zeit großen Respekt entwickelt habe: Ihre komplexen Strukturen, ihre Wandlungsfähigkeit und ihre Schönheit. Dabei berücksichtige ich die neuen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse. Das Projekt umfasst alle Jahreszeiten.

Since 2017 I'm working ongoing on an independent project about nature in Germany. After more than 20 years of documentary photography on political and social topics, my relationship to nature has intensified. My focus is on trees, for which I have developed great respect over the years: their complex structures, their ability to change and their beauty. Above all, however, the need for protection - nature does not need us, but we need nature. In doing so, I take into account the new scientific findings. The project covers all seasons.

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Baum, Baeume, Baumkrone, Natur, Landschaft, Oekologie, Nachhaltigkeit, nachhaltig, Wald, wood, trees, tree, nature, Nature_up side down, Natur, NATURE up side down, Bäume, Wald, Ausstellung, Fotografien, Photoausstellung
Aus der Serie NATURE_up side down

Erste Fragen und Antworten von S. Alphonso im Kulturfeuilleton "Tiefgang"

Fotoausstellung NATURE_up side down
26.4.2018 – 10.6.2018
www.moorburger-art.de

Published

selected work

GEO Theme Special

GEO Menschenkinder

11 Freunde

Booklet

Brigitte

Zeitzeichen


Andrea's work has been published in numerous magazines and papers, including; Amnesty International, BMZ, 11 Freunde, Chrismon, Le Monde, Brigitte, Brigitte Woman, ZEIT Magazine, Annabelle, Marie-Claire, Elsevier, Die ZEIT, Focus, LFI, FAZ, Time Out, PHOTO World, Der Spiegel, GEO, GEOlino, Greenpeace magazine, MISSIO, National Geographic Traveller, taz, terres des femmes, TIME Magazine, Tomorrow Focus

Exhibitions & Photography Grants

2023

Andrea Künzig wird in die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh)berufen.

2023

„100 Jahre Türkische Republik“
Fotografie Dokumentation
29.09. – 10.11. 2023
Gruppenausstellung, a/e Galerie, Potsdam, Germany

Photography Exhibition,
group show „100 Jahre Türkische Republik“
a/e Galerie, Potsdam, Germany

2021

VG Bildkunst Grant
NEUSTART KULTUR

2020

"Dirty Laundry",
European Month of Photography 2020
with my work "Überleben"
FREELENS Group Exhibition
Photo Gallery Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany

2019

"NATURE_up side down",
Naturschutzzentrum Ökowerk, Waldhalle, Berlin, Germany

"NATURE_up side down",
Werderpark, Brandenburg, Germany

2018

"NATURE_up side down",
Art Moorburg, Hamburg, Germany

2016

"Angekommen. Das lange Warten."
Vertretung des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz in Berlin,
In den Ministergärten, Berlin, Germany
Group exhibitions at FREELENS Gallery, Hamburg, Germnany
Atelier + Kantine, Dömitz, Germany

2016

"Angekommen. Das lange Warten."
Group exhibitions at FREELENS Gallery,
Hamburg, Germany
+ Atelier + Kantine,
Dömitz, Germany

2015

"Day by Day - in Kambaland"
Gallery LISTROS,
Berlin, Germany

2013 & 2012

"Turkish/German People and their stories in turkey"
in Turkey with the Cultural department of the German Embassy.
Travelling exhibition through Turkey
(Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul, Izmir, ...)

2011

"Istanbulum"
Art gallery together with the Goethe Institute
Istanbul, Turkey

2010

African Football: "Focus on ground"
Kunstleben, Hamburg, Germany

2009

"Borderland/Promised Land"
Art Landing, Aschaffenburg & Römer 9, Frankfurt, Germany

"The Germans and their National Symbols"
Haus der Geschichte, Bonn, Germany

2008

"Exhibition against FGM"
Terre des Femmes
Germany, Switzerland

2007

"Promised Land"
Art Landing, Aschaffenburg, Germany

"Il corpo imprigionato, African Images"
Cross-Cultural Center, Torino, Italy

2006

"Visions : Palestine"
Gallery, Kingdom of Bahrain

"Asian Communities in Berlin"
lueckeundpartner, Berlin, Germany

2005

"Millennium Development Goals 2015"
BICC, Bonn, Germany

2004

"Promised Land"
Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

"Visions : Palestine"
Hamburg University, Germany

2003

"Visions : Palestine"
Emerson Gallery, Berlin, Germany

 

Collections

Photo prints are in private collections:
Aschaffenburg, ART Istanbul,
Bahrain, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Zürich
If you are interested in a print please mail me

For assignments, please contact me directly:
email: info@andreakuenzig.de

For image requests and archive, please contact my agency:
laif agentur für photos & reportagen

About

Andrea Künzig is a photographer based in Berlin. She has lived and worked in various countries in Africa and Asia. One of her latest projects has been documenting People of Turkey, while living for 4 years in Istanbul (2010-14). Since 2017 she 's working ongoing on an independent project about nature in Germany.

Andrea received her degree in Political Science at the Free University Berlin. In 1994 she went to Jerusalem to document the Israeli-Palestinian people between Peace efforts and conflicts.

This was followed by long stays in Israel, the Arab world and in Kenya (1994 to 1998). Much later, she attended a professional class in Photography by Prof. Arno Fischer in Berlin from 2001 to 2004.

Andrea undertakes documentary photography projects worldwide, focusing on political, social and humanitarian themes. Her clients are distinguished magazines and newspapers, including GEO, Time Magazine, The National Geographic Traveller, Deutsche Welle and Die ZEIT as well as NGOs, such as the German Foundation for World Population, SOS Children's Village, Terre des Femmes and UNDP.

She has received several awards and grants for her photographic work, most recently a media prize from "Kindernothilfe" on the theme: "The brave children of Kampala" (2013). She has received two "VG Bild Art" scholarships from Germany, and from 2012 to 2014 she worked at the Robert Bosch Foundation as a Jury member on the "border crossing" program.

Andrea has published two books: " Visions: Palestine", 2004 and "Istanbulum", 2010.

About my work

Freelens: Bilder für ein tiefes Verstehen
Tiefgang: Der Blick auf Welt und Chaos
Naturmagazin: Interview zur Ausstellung in Berlin
Werder life: Baumfotografien
Photography in Berlin (PiB) NATURE_up side down
Photography Now: Day by Day – Kambaland
Life Force photography magazine: Book ISTANBULUM
GEO: Book ISTANBULUM
WOZ: Book Visions : Palestine


Andrea Künzig
©Sandra Lehrke


Awards & Grants

2021

VG Bildkunst Grant
NEUSTART KULTUR

2013

Kindernothilfe Media Award
2nd place, together with the writer A. Gardiner
"The brave children of Kampala"
"Children rights in One World"

2010

European Journalist Award for Excellence in Journalism
for a photo essay about Ethiopian women suffering from fistulas
World Population Foundation, Amsterdam

Prize for an African Football essay
in Dokfünf photo competition

2009

Photojournalism Prize
for a story about "World Population" for DSW

2008

Grant from the cultural foundation of VG Bild-Kunst
for the Turkey Project

2004

Grant from the cultural foundation of VG Bild-Kunst
for the Israel/Palestine Project

Prize from the AUP for Photography
for "Visions : Palestine"

2001

Nominated by UNICEF as international children's photographer of the year

Contact

Andrea Künzig Photography
Berlin / Germany

info@andreakuenzig.de
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