German Youth Photography Award: two photography students win

^{From the reportage "A summer on the mountain pasture". Photo: Mario Wezel} 

The photography students Robin Hinsch and Mario Wezel are among the winners of this year’s German Youth Photography Award. Their entries have been chosen out of about 7.000 applications.

In his reportage »Strasbourg« Robin Hinsch followed the Protests around the Nato summit in April 2009. His photos range between the contradictory contexts of aesthetics and politics and show the prevalant chaos in a decelerated way. The reportage »A summer on the mountain pasture« by Mario Wezel tells about the life on a remote mountain pasture in the Alps of South Tyrol. He spent one week together with the dairy farmer Alois Joos and the young herders Martin, Peter, Max and René, who allowed him to gain insights in their lives.

The award ceremony of the German Youth Photography Award will take place on September 26^th during the photokina, the world’s largest fair for photography, in Cologne.

^{From the reportage "Strasbourg". Photo: Robin Hinsch}

To the Website of the German Youth Photography Award
To the Website of Mario Wezel

Bachelor und Diploma presentations

Due to the change from the degree »diploma« to »bachelor« there will be final presentations of students for both types of degrees on 7^th July 2010. The candidates are looking forward to welcome a large audience in the auditorium of the Design Center.
Besides that you can visit the exhibition of the final projects until the end of the week during the opening hours of the Design Center (7 am to 9 pm on weekdays) as well as during the showcase, which takes place on July 9th and 10th (12 am to 6 pm).

Lots of hands create something big

The last day of the 2^nd Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism ended with a record number of visitors. More than 20 000 visitors have seen the exhibitions on the Expo grounds this year. 1400 photos of 60 young photographers where presented on the Expo grounds this year, 8 exciting lectures were held by renowned photographers and 20 companies have presented their technical novelties. »Despite all the help of our sponsors, this huge sucess would not have been possible without the outstanding work of our students and numerous colleages, who have worked for it so many days. As professor of this university I am really proud!« summed up Rolf Nobel, head of the festival and professor at the University of Applied Sciences Hannover.

The photography students have worked a long time towards this success. They showed an outstanding teamwork, whether it was in painting more than 200 meters of exhibition walls, or framing more than 1400 pictures, or festival organisation and service during der festival, or the construction and deconstruction of the exhibitions. The enormous interest in young photojournalism and the continuously positive feedback of visitors, picture editors and the media, as well as the exchange with photographers featured in the exhibition and the lectures, more than compensated the students and organisors for the hard work of the last months.

»Finger exercises« ...

... are not only a must for guitar players and pianists, but also for photographers. Besides that during the last weeks and Lumix Festival the photography students had to deal with a lot of other things than with their cameras. Thirty photography students went out during the groupmatch of Germany versus Ghana to capture the atmosphere of this event. Each photographer, including professor Rolf Nobel, got to hand in three photos. These are the results:

Photography competition »Architecture along the Red Thread«

^{Winning picture of the competition »Architecture along the Red Thread«.
Photo: Kristina Jurotschkin}

The sound of cars rushing by and trains thundering above the heads formed the background noise of the award ceremony and exhibition opening of the competition »Architecture along the Red Thread« in the west tunnel of the central station on 19^th June 2010. The photography students of the 2^nd and 4^th semester have handed in about 60 works for this competition, which was organized by the BDA Niedersachsen (German alliance of architects, Lower Saxony) together with Knut Giebel (photography teacher) and Bernd Kreykenbohm (interior design professor). On the occasion of the »Time for Architectur 2010« Jan Grabau, chairman of the BDA Hannover, presented the prizes and certificates to Kristina Jurotschkin (1^st prize), Jonas Wresch (2^nd prize), Christoph Naumann (3^rd prize) und Kiên Hoang Le (3^rd prize).

The four winning pictures can be seen along with 16 other entries in the display cases of the west tunnel of the central station of Hannover until 27^th June. What's extraordinary about this competion is not only the place of the exhibition, but also the kind of prizes that the winners receive. Each winner is given a professional photo assignment for a renowned architect's office, amounting to 1500 euros for the 1^st prize, 1000 euros for the 2^nd prize and 500 euros each for the two 3^rd prizes.

^{2nd prize picture of the competition »Architecture along the Red Thread«. Photo: Jonas Wresch}