He has received, among others, a “World Press Photo Award” (2020) and the “Deutscher Friedenspreis für Fotografie” (2025).
Max is a founding member of DOCKS collective, represented by LAIF Agency and an appointed member of the DGPh.
He is based in Dortmund and Hamburg (Germany) and available for assignments.
Prints on request.
info@maximilian-mann.com
+49 157 702 686 45
Publications (selected)
Time Magazine, Los Angeles Times, M Le magazine du Monde, Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal, Zeit Magazin, Die Zeit, Zeit Sprachen, Stern, Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Brand Eins, Focus, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Green, L'Espresso, Internazionale, The Globe and Mail, TAZ, Frankfurter Allgmeine Zeitung, FAZ-Magazin, Capital Magazin, Wirtschaftswoche, Manager Magazin, 11 Freunde, chrismon, Tagesspiegel, Asahi Shimbun Globe, Marianne, trouw, Blockmagazin, Arte, ZDF, WDR, RTL, br.de, P3 Publico
Awards & Mentions:
2025 Winner Deutscher Friedenspreis für Fotografie / Felix Schoeller Award – Shortlist / Photography 4 Humanity (United Nations) – Finalist 2024 TruePicture, Winner / Athens Photo Festival 2024, Shortlist / PhMuseum Photography Grant, Main Prize, Honorable Mention / Otto-Steinert-Preis, Shortlist / Sony World Photography Awards, Shortlist / Hamburg Portfolio Review – Participant / LuganoPhotoDays, Selected / Rückblende, Shortlist 2023 Fotobus Grant, Shortlist / Press Photo of the Year NRW, Award Winner / Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Shortlist (with DOCKS) / PhMuseum Photography 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 2020 World Press Photo Award, 2nd Prize Environment Stories / FUTURES Talent 2020, Triennale der Photographie Hamburg / follow up – Grant, Freundeskreis der Photographie / Sony World Photography Awards, Professional Environment (Shortlist) / Joop Swart Masterclass (Nominee) / Kunststiftung NRW, Grant / BarTur Photo Award – Winner, Judges’ Choice Student / Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards (1st Prize) / VG Bild-Kunst 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 (Shortlist) / Selected for New York Times Portfolio Review 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 (Shortlist) / Kolga Award 2017, Newcomer Award (Finalist) / LuganoPhotoDays, Mobile Contest (Nominated)
Exhibitions (selected)
2025 „Deutschen Friedenspreis für Fotografie“, Museumsquartier Osnabrück/ “Touching the Unknown”, Museum Reinickendorf, Berlin / Deutsches Historisches Museum Bonn, Daueraustellung / 2024 Raum für Fotografie und Bücher Dortmund, Germany / 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”, Superraum 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, Marocco / 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, Jordan / “Fading Flamignos”, screening, Rencontres d’Arles, France / “identity courage love”, group Exhibition, Düsseldorf Photoweekend / “re:vue”, l’atelier cinq, Arles, France / “Two cities Project“, group exhibition, Tehran, Iran / “Der neue BFF Förderpreis”, group exhibition, Umweltfotofestival Horizonte Zingst, Germany / 2016 / “Odessa/Batumi Photo Days – Territory and Space”, Museum of Modern Art Batumi
Talks and education:
2025 Blockseminar Hochschule Düsseldorf / Workshop Horizonte Zingst / 2024 LAIF Annual Meeting, artist talk / b° future Festival Bonn, panel discussion / Workshop Horizonte Zingst /Nikon x DOCKS-Workshop Neubrandenburg / ”Zeigen, was ist - Festival ” – Jupiter Hamburg, artist talk and panel discussion / ”DOCKS - Kollektives Arbeitn in Krisenzeiten” – artist talk HSD Düsseldorf 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
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