Anne Ackermann
FOCUS
67346 Speyer, Deutschland
Anne Ackermann is a documentary photographer based in Germany working worldwide.
She is a grantee of VG Bildkunst Germany (2012 & 2017) and Photoreporter Festival France, a finalist at the International Women Photographers Award (IWPA) and The Jacob Riis Award and a member of photo agency FOCUS and Women Photograph. In 2018 she was selected for the Nikon NOOR Masterclass in Zurich, Switzerland.
Her work often focuses on women’s and contemporary issues, touching themes ranging from migration and aftermath to skin bleaching and plastic surgery, from environmental disasters to child marriages.
She was awarded 1st prize with her piece on intersexuality by “profamilia journalism award’ in 2012 and shortlisted for the prestigious Hansel Mieth Preis in Germany in 2015.
Her work regularly appears in publications like GEO, Die Zeit, Terra Mater, Stern, Chrismon or organisations like the UN or USAID. Her photos have been exhibited internationally like at the New York Photo Festival, PhotoGrafia Festival Rome, Angkor Photo Festival, Triennial of Photography Hamburg and Alliance Francaise Dubai. Anne occasionally lectures at photo workshops.
She graduated from College of Fine Arts Hamburg with a master in Visual Communication/ Media in 2006 and has also studied photography and photojournalism in Buenos Aires, Argentina and at Danish School of Journalism, Århus, Denmark.
2017 - Jacob Riis Documentary Award ( Finalist), 2017 - IWPA ( finalist), 2015 - Hansel Mieth Preis, 2012 - pro familia "sexualities" award
- Arts
- Audio capture
- Corporate
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interview
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Reporting
- German
- English
- Spanish
- French
- Portuguese
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Anne Ackermann
“There is a saying:
I would rather
marry an African prostitute than an Albanian woman who has slept with
someone else
before.”
My work ‘House of Pasha’ looks at cultural views and expectations
on women in Albania using proverbs, song text snippets and images.
Purity at the time of marriage traditionally is one of them.
In a society which is in transition to a more western oriented
lifestyle medical interventions to restore virginity are in demand.
They are both legal and done in secret.
This first chapter draft looks at the theme of purity and
the atmospheres of shame, ideal and deception surrounding it.
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Anne Ackermann
Women during an arranged wedding in Skodra, Northern Albania.
My work ‘House of Pasha’ looks at cultural views and expectations
on women in Albania using proverbs, song text snippets and images.
Purity at the time of marriage traditionally is one of them.
In a society which is in transition to a more western oriented
lifestyle medical interventions to restore virginity are in demand.
They are both legal and done in secret.
This first chapter draft looks at the theme of purity and
the atmospheres of shame, ideal and deception surrounding it.
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Anne Ackermann
The money dance I
My work ‘House of Pasha’ looks at cultural views and expectations
on women in Albania using proverbs, song text snippets and images.
Purity at the time of marriage traditionally is one of them.
In a society which is in transition to a more western oriented
lifestyle medical interventions to restore virginity are in demand.
They are both legal and done in secret.
This first chapter draft looks at the theme of purity and
the atmospheres of shame, ideal and deception surrounding it.
