Katharina Hesse
photographer
laif Agency
Beijing, China
Katharina Hesse is a Beijing-based photographer who has worked throughout Asia for more than two decades. Her photography focuses primarily on China’s social concerns among them youth, urban culture, religion and North Korean refugees.
Ms. Hesse began her work in Asia as an assistant for German television (ZDF). In 1996, she started working in Newsweek’s Beijing bureau and subsequently participated in numerous cover projects. From 2003 to 2006 she covered China for Getty Images. ---Her work has been prominent in various publications
(see: katharinahesse.com website= publications - tearsheets)
Additional exhibitions and photography festivals at which her work has been shown include:
2013 : Moving Walls 20, Open Society Foundation, New York
2013 : DokFoto, Oslo
2012 : "Human Negotiations", 21. Internationale Photoszene , " Pimp the Timp", Koeln, September 2012
2011: Lara Day & Katharina Hesse, " Human Negotiations " ,Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, June
2010:
- "Arles in Beijing " ( Caochangdi Photo spring), April 17-21, 2010, China
-" Lingering Whispers”, London, Crypt, St Pancras Church, May-June 2010, UK
-" LAND- country life in the urban age", Noorderlicht Fotofestival, Sept- Oct. 2010, The Netherlands
-" One Step forward, two steps back", SKUK Gallery, Ljubljana, ( International Festival of Contemporary Arts), 2010, Slovenia
-8th Art Festival, Aleppo, Oct.6-17, 2010, Syria
prior:
-Visa Pour l’Image, Perpignan, France, 2002;
-the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,2007;
-the Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia;, 2006
-“Road Trips” David Alan Harvey at LOOK3 June 2008, USA;
-Chobi Mela V, Bangladesh 2009;
-Noorderlicht Fotogalerie “Summer of Love”, July-August 2009,
-Noorderlicht Fotofestival; “Pursuit of Happiness”, September 2009, The Netherlands.
Corporate clients (among others):
Audi | Siemens | Deutsche Bank | Credit Suisse | The Gap | The Discovery Channel | The History Channel I The North Face
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