︎TruePictrue, Winner
︎Athens Photo Festival 2024, Shortlist
︎PhMuseum Photography Grant, Main Prize, Honorable Mention
︎Otto-Steinert Preis, Shortlist
︎Sony World Photography Awards, Shortlist
︎LuganoPhotoDays, selected
︎Rückblende, Shortlist 2023
︎Fotobus Grant, Shortlist
︎Press Photo of the Year NRW, Award winner
︎Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Shortlist (with DOCKS)
︎PHMuseum Grant, Shortlist (with DOCKS)
︎Felix Schoeller Award - Finalist (with DOCKS) 2022
︎Rückblende Preis für politische Fotografie - Winner (DOCKS)
︎Stern-Preis, Shortlist (with DOCKS)
︎Otto-Steinert-Preis - 3rd Prize (DOCKS)
︎Hamburg Portfolio Review - Participant 2021 ︎STERN Stipendium 2021 2020 ︎World Press Photo Award, 2nd Prize Environment Stories ︎FUTURES Talent 2020, Triennale der Fotografie Hamburg ︎follow up - Grant, Freundeskreis der Photographie ︎Sony World Photography Awards, Professional Environment (shortlist) ︎Joop Swart Masterclass (nominee) ︎Kunststiftung NRW, Grand ︎Bartur Photoaward - Winner Judges Choice Student ︎Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards (1st prize) ︎VG Bildkunst Stipendium, Grant 2019 ︎IAFOR Documentary Photography Award, (2nd Place Winner)
︎College Photographer of the Year (silver) - Documentary Category ︎Felix Schoeller Emerging Photographer Award 2019 (winner) ︎BFF Förderpreis (award winner) ︎W. Eugene Smith Student Grant (nominated) ︎Voies OFF Award (nominated) ︎Kolga Award, best single picture (shortlisted) ︎selected for New York Times Portfolio Reviews ︎Kolga Award, best single picture (shortlisted) 2018 ︎selected for Canon Masterclass, Visa pour l’image, Perpignan 2017 ︎Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2017, Best Emerging Photographer (nominated) ︎Kolga Award 2017, best reportage (shortlited) ︎Kolga Award 2017, Newcomer Award (finalist) ︎LuganoPhotoDays, mobile contest (nominated)
Maximilian Mann, born 1992, is a German photographer. He holds a BA in photography from the 'University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund’. Max is a documentary and portrait photographer who focuses on stories about society, social and ecological changes.
Max has been a winner of the World Press Photo Award (2020) and his work has been published in DIE ZEIT, SPIEGEL, Le Monde, Los Angeles Times, among others.
Max is based in Dortmund and Hamburg (Germany) and available for assignments.
Publications (selected)
TIME Magazine, time.com, Los Angeles Times, M Le magazine du Monde, Le Monde, ZEIT Magazin, DIE ZEIT, STERN, SPIEGEL, SPIEGEL Geschichte, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Brand Eins, Focus, Spiegel.de, Zeit Online, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Green, L'Espresso, Internazionale, The Globe and Mail, TAZ, Capital Magazin, Wirtschaftswoche, Manager Magazin, 11 Freunde, chrismon, Tagesspiegel, WePresent, DB Mobil, Asahi Shimbun Globe, STERN Gesund Leben, Marianne, trouw, Blockmagazin, ARTE, ZDF, WDR, RTL, br.de, P3 Publico,NPR - National Public Radio, Lufthansa Woman World Magazin, Topos magazin, Photonews, Pellicola Magazin, Huck Magazine, Nido, Ostpol-Magazin, Kulturaustausch, emerge–Magazin für jungen Fototjournalismus, FOTOGRAFPHIE, FotoRoom, EssPress, ProfiFoto, Fotomagazin ...
Exhibitions and screenings (selected): 2024
︎Fotoraum Köln, Germany
︎Promenade des Artistes, Av. du Président-Kennedy, Montréal, Canada
︎”Sony World Photography Awards”, Somerset House, London
︎Fotofestival Lenzburg, Switzerland
︎Fotofestiwal Łódź, Poland 2023 ︎Saillon Citè d'Images – Art Festival, Switzerland ︎Rencontres d'Arles - at MRO Foundation - DOCKS Collective “A Year Along the Banks”, Arles, France ︎FOTODOKS Munich, Germany (DOCKS) ︎Bucharest Photofest, Romania (DOCKS) ︎Projekthaus Torstr. 111, Berlin, Germany (DOCKS) ︎GAF Gallery for Photography, Hanover, Germany (DOCKS) 2021 ︎”Fuck You Corona - fotografische Positionen zur Pandemie”, Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen ︎”BEWEGTE KÖRPER”, Michael Horbach Stiftung Köln ︎”Die längste Nacht”, Brückstraße Dortmund ︎Odessa Photo Days, Odessa 2020 ︎World Press Photo ´20, Willy Brandt Haus Berlin ︎Vor Ort // Lumix Festival, Landesvertretung Niedersachen, Berlin ︎SELECTED WORKS: LUMIX FESTIVAL für jungen Bildjournalismus, f3 Galerie Berlin ︎Lumix Festival (Hanover) ︎World Press Photo ´20, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam ︎Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, London ︎“Feature Shoot”, Aperture Gallery New York 2019 ︎“wandering home”, group exhibition, Hochschule Darmstadt ︎“INCONDITION“ group exhibition, Fotofestival f2, Dortmund ︎“Les rencontres de la photographie”, screening, Marrakech ︎Winners & Nominees - Felix Schoeller Award, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück ︎“Der neue BFF Förderpreis” group exhibition, Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe ︎“DOCKS-encounters”, group exhibition, Künstlerhaus Dortmund ︎ ”wandering home“, group exhibition with Goethe Institut Amman ︎“Fading Flamignos”, screening, Rencontres d’Arles ︎“identity courage love”, group Exhibition, Düsseldorf Photoweekend ︎“re:vue”, l’atelier cinq, Arles ︎“Two cities Project“, group exhibition, Tehran ︎“Der neue BFF Förderpreis”, group exhibition, Umweltfotofestival Horizonte Zingst 2016 ︎“Odessa/Batumi Photo Days – Territory and Space”, Museum of Modern Art Batumi
Talks and education:
2024 ︎Workshop Horizonte Zingst ︎laif foundation, artist talk 2023 ︎Bucharest Photofest, artist talk ︎Prager Fotoschule, artist talk and workshop ︎Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Arles, panel discussion 2022 ︎Photopia, Hamburg, artist talk
︎World Press Photo Oldenburg, artist talk ︎“Ruhrgebiet:Notizen” Oberhausen and Hamm, panel discussion
︎Wiesbadener Fototage, artist talk
2021
︎Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin, artist talk and workshop
︎World Press Photo Oldenburg, artist talk
︎Depot Dortmund, artist talk
2020
︎Superraum Dortmund, panel discussion
2019
︎Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture, workshop
