ALEXANDRA POLINA
ALEXANDRA POLINA
(*1984, Tashkent/Uzbekistan) is a photographer. She studied at the National University in Tashkent and at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and is currently working as a freelance photographer in Hamburg. Corresponding to her own biography, her works focus on emotional aspects of identity, migration and immigration. “We automatically think in stereotypes; we don’t need to be ashamed of this,” says Polina. “But my pictures want to question them” (Uni-Spiegel 06/2018).1
She has won numerous prizes, including the PHOTONIC MOMENTS AWARD (2014), and the most important German young talent award for photography, GUTE AUSSICHTEN. JUNGE DEUTSCHE FOTOGRAFIE (2017), and the prize of the Łódź Photo Festival (2018). Her current project STEINDAMM is nominated for the Georg Koppmann Prize for Urban Photography of the city of Hamburg.
HEINRICH HOLTGREVE
(*1987, Bochum) he studied from 2006–2013 at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in the field of photography with Axel Grünewald and Roman Bezjak. 2011 semester abroad in Seoul, South Korea, with a DAAD scholarship. Group exhibitions provided a look at his work, such as 2013 OWL3 – Nutzflächen in the Marta Herford Museum in North Rhine-Westphalia, MY SECRET LIFE 2013/2014 in C/O Berlin, VISUAL LEADER 2015 in the House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, or at the 2015 Noorderlicht International Photo Festival in Groningen. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2016. 2017 solo exhibition DAS INTERNET ALS ORT, German Technology Museum, Berlin. In 2021 he participated in the festival PHOTO in Melbourne, Australia.