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Tobias Zielony (born 1973) [1] is a German photographer and short filmmaker, living in Berlin. [2] He has made work about communities at the margins of society, such as young people. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] In 2015, Zielony's series on African refugees in Germany, the Citizen, co-represented the country at the Venice Biennale and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. [8] [9] He had a mid-career retrospective at Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany in 2021 [10] and his work is held in the collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art. [11]
Zielony was born in Wuppertal, Germany. From 1998 to 2001, he studied documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport in Wales. [2] From 2001 to 2006, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. [12] He now lives in Berlin. [2]
Zielony's work is held in the following permanent collection:
Paul Graham is a British fine-art and documentary photographer. He has published three survey monographs, along with 17 other publications.
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The KW Institute for Contemporary Art is a contemporary art institution located in Auguststraße 69 in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. Klaus Biesenbach was the founding director of KW; the current director is Krist Gruijthuijsen.
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Erik Kessels (1966) is a Dutch artist, designer and curator with a particular interest in photography, and co-founder of KesselsKramer, an advertising agency in Amsterdam. Kessels and Johan Kramer established the "legendary and unorthodox" KesselsKramer in 1996, and KesselsKramer Publishing, their Amsterdam-based publishing house.
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Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is a contemporary art curator and writer. He lives in Berlin.
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