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Jonas Wresch works on portraits and reportage assignments for GEO, Spiegel, Die Zeit and others and is a juror of the Hansel-Miet-Prize and the Gabriel Grüner Scholarship. Wresch, born in 1988, studied photojournalism and documentary photography in Hannover. He then received the "Junge Fotografie" scholarship from STERN and has since photographed numerous assignments for the magazine worldwide. With the German Foreign Minister he traveled to Iraq, for Die Zeit he portrayed rebel in the jungle of Colombia and for GEO he accompanied sea rescuers on their missions in the North Sea. He participated in the World-Press-Photo Masterclass and his work was awarded with the Freelens-Award and received distinction at the Photographer of the Year Latin America, CHIPP and DAYS JAPAN. He lives in Hamburg, travels regularly to Colombia for projects and speaks German, Spanish, English and French.
Jonas Wresch fotografiert Portraits und Reportagen für GEO, STERN, Spiegel und Die Zeit und ist Juror des Hansel-Mieth-Preises sowie des Gabriel Grüner Stipendiums. Wresch, geboren 1988, hat Fotojournalismus und Dokumentarfotografie in Hannover studiert. Danach erhielt er das Stipendium „Junge Fotografie“ des STERN und hat für das Magazin seitdem zahlreiche Reportagen weltweit fotografiert. Mit dem Außenminister reiste er in den Irak, für Die Zeit hat er im Dschungel Kolumbiens Rebellen porträtiert, für GEO begleitete er Seenotretter bei ihren Einsätzen in der Nordsee. Er nahm an der World-Press-Photo Masterclass teil und seine Arbeiten wurden mit dem Freelens-Award prämiert sowie beim Photographer of the Year Latin America, CHIPP und DAYS JAPAN ausgezeichnet. Er lebt in Hamburg, reist regelmäßig für Projekte nach Kolumbien und spricht Deutsch, Spanisch, Englisch und Französisch.
VITA:
2019 Jury member of Hansel-Mieth-Award and Gabriel-Grüner-Scholarship (ongoing)
2018 RISC XVI Training in Sarajevo
2016 One year fellowship at Stern-magazine, Hamburg, Germany
2015 World Press Photo Masterclass Latin America
2015 Bachelor of Arts in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of Applied Science in Hannover
2014 Eddie Adams Workshop XXVII, New York, USA
2012 Member of the photo-agency Agentur Focus, based in Hamburg
2012 Six months internship as a photographer with Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung
2007 One year civil service in Seattle, USA
2007 Abitur at the Waldorf School Mannheim
1988 Born in Bad-Dürkheim, Germany
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2016 Freelens Award at Lumix Festival
2016 Reader’s Award of the 12th DAYS JAPAN International Photojournalism Awards
2015 2nd prize and honorable mention Photographer of the Year Latin America (POY LatAm)
2015 Mark Grosset Prize, Vendôme, France
2015 Bronze Medal 11th CHIPP contest, China (category war & disaster news story)
2014 Eddie Adams Workshop Award from National Geographic
2013 1. Prize at 7th International Press Photo Festival/Vilnius - Lithuania, Category „Homework“
2012 1. Prize at Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, Category „On the way“
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2016 5th Lumix Festival, Indigenous Resistance in Colombia, Hannover, Germany
2016 „Indigenous Resistance in Colombia“ - 10th International Press Photo Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Solo-Exhibition at Leica Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
2015 Visa Pour L‘Image „Off“, Group-Exhibition „Beyond the facts“, Perpignan, France
2015 Festival 6th Triennial of Photography, Hamburg, Germany
2014 4th Lumix Festival, Potosi‘s Little Guards, Hannover, Germany
2014 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Unter the Apple Tree, Tbilisi, Georgia
2013 Mother Galerie, Group-Exhibition Ian Parry Scholarship, London, UK
2013 7th International Press Photo Festival, Potosi‘s Little Guards and Immobilis, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 3rd Lumix Festival, Immobilis, Hannover, Germany
SELECTED CLIENTS:
GEO, Spiegel, Stern, Die Zeit, LFI Leica International, Greenpeace Magazin, KfW, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Alternatives Internationales, ZIF, Peace Brigades International, Help Age International,