“Photo journalism has congealed more and more into a kind of attitude or stand, which suggests social critic without actually giving it. I don’t want to blame the editors and photographer alone for this, because I’ve also come to the conclusion that it is nearly impossible to take a strong stand on anything nowadays. The conditions are often too complex for us to give “either or” answers. As a rule, we find our answers oscillating within the conflict area of “as well as”. As an author of two dimensional pictures, this development made my job increasingly difficult as it still does today”
Vita
© Martin Jehnichen
> Read the coversation between
Gilles Peress and Andreas Herzau,
published in ART-Magazin
> Read the portrait "He, himself and Herzau"
written by Ralf Geissler,
published in "Journalist" 02/2008
Andreas Herzau was born in 1962 in Mainz, Germany. After his apprenticeship as a type-setter he absolves an internship as a political editor. After an accident during police-riots he spends a lot of time in the hospital and starts to take photos.
Since 1992 he is working as a freelance photographer for Magazins and for his private assignments worldwide. He recieves numerous awards and grants for his work. He also teaches photography at different universities, at last he was a visiting professor at the „Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe".
Andreas Herzau is based in Hamburg and he lives and works along with the sociologist Dr. Renate Ruhne.
Prices, Grants, Awards
1997 Received the Euro Press Photo Award for the feature
"The Expulsion from Paradise" - a photo essay about life in a deportation prison in Hamburg.
1999 Received third prize from the Photo Symposium for Documentary
Photography in Bad Herrenalb.
1999 Received the Hansel Mieth Prize for the feature "Human Remains,
110 kilograms" - a feature about the suicide of an Indian refugee in
Germany.
2001 Received the "Hansel Mieth Prize"
2002 Received the Euro Press Photo Award for the photo series „The
Other City – New York after September 11th“
2002 Grant from the cultural foundation of VG Bild-Kunst GmbH
2005 Grant from the cultural foundation of VG Bild-Kunst GmbH
2008 Artist in residenz (Nowosibirsk) grant from Goethe Institut
Since 1992 he is working as a freelance photographer for Magazins and for his private assignments worldwide. He recieves numerous awards and grants for his work. He also teaches photography at different universities, at last he was a visiting professor at the „Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe".
Andreas Herzau is based in Hamburg and he lives and works along with the sociologist Dr. Renate Ruhne.
Prices, Grants, Awards
1997 Received the Euro Press Photo Award for the feature
"The Expulsion from Paradise" - a photo essay about life in a deportation prison in Hamburg.
1999 Received third prize from the Photo Symposium for Documentary
Photography in Bad Herrenalb.
1999 Received the Hansel Mieth Prize for the feature "Human Remains,
110 kilograms" - a feature about the suicide of an Indian refugee in
Germany.
2001 Received the "Hansel Mieth Prize"
2002 Received the Euro Press Photo Award for the photo series „The
Other City – New York after September 11th“
2002 Grant from the cultural foundation of VG Bild-Kunst GmbH
2005 Grant from the cultural foundation of VG Bild-Kunst GmbH
2008 Artist in residenz (Nowosibirsk) grant from Goethe Institut
