"Moscow is prime territory for a street photographer, and I enjoyed understanding nothing, suddenly being illiterate and having to rely entirely on my intuition, my eyes and my feelings. I am forced to be attentive, to decode the signs that I don’t know, to open up in order to understand, to take photographs. During my work in Moscow I repeatedly went through phases that transported me into a different state of mind and made it clear to me that there is nothing better than to take photographs – in order to understand."
Vita
© Pepa Hristova
> Read the interview at Seconds2real
> Read the conversation with Art Journalists
Nicole Büsing and Heiko Klaas about Street-Photography
and the book "Istanbul" - published by Hatje Cantz 07/2010
> Read the coversation between
Gilles Peress and Andreas Herzau,
published in ART-Magazin 11/2000
Andreas Herzau is a German photographer. 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.
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.
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
