"Lilies"
Photograph
13 x 18 (unframed)
22.5" x 18" (framed)

About the Artist

Born in Germany, I originally studied fashion design in Milan and worked for many years in the industry. After moving to the United States in 2004, I studied photography at the Corcoran College of Art and Design and attended multiple workshops with Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Larry Fink, Antonin Kratochvil, and Anders Peterson. Simultaneously I started working on projects in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe involving numerous non-profits, the UNHCR, the Arab Renaissance for Democracy, and Development and the Human Rights Center at Duke University. The emphasis in my work lies on rural communities, with the focus on human, social, and environmental issues.

My project on deported migrants, "The Backpackers," has been shown at the Biennale in Venice 2017, in Medellin, Colombia, and at the CENTER in Santa Fe. The book The Backpackers has been shown at MOPLA in Los Angeles and at Duke University Libraries, and was featured in Lensculture and the Huffington Post.

My work has been awarded the Project Launch Grant from the CENTER in Santa Fe, The Beth Block Award From HCP, and several IPA and PX3 Prix de la Photography de Paris awards. It has been shown at the COP21 Climate Change Summit in Paris; the C40 Mayors Summit in Mexico City; the Ragusa Foto Festival in Sicily; the Haitian Heritage Museum in Miami; the Royal Photographic Society of Thailand in Bangkok; the Galleria de Arte Colombo Americano in Medellin, Colombia; the Houston Center for Photography; the Duke University Special Collection Gallery; WOLA Washington Office of Latin America in Washington, D.C.; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and the OAS Organization of the American States in collaboration with the IACHR Inter-American Center of Human Rights. A new project will be shown at the upcoming Biennale in Venice in 2019. Since 2008 my work has been part of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library for the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

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