“I’m very careful with the word „feeling“ because it can easily be misconstrued as: one does “zealous photojournalism”.
I do not want to be understood as a photographer as such. These photographers often take themselves more seriously than the content of their work. I don’t think that motivated engagement, feelings and good images are enough nowadays. Far more important is the individual thought behind the pictures.
I’m not interested in what the observer feels. I’m interested in my thoughts and whether the observer can read them in my pictures.”
Vita
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 the moment he is 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 the moment he is 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
