Participating artists:Jana Bauch | Marc Botschen | Dudu Quintanilha | Ramona Schacht
opening hours:Tue-Fri 13-18 h / Sat+Sun 11-18 h
Venue:Museum für Photographie Braunschweig
Helmstedter Str. 1
3810 Braunschweig
The Wüstenrot Foundation's Documentary Photography Awards are the most important awards of their kind in Germany. Established in 1994, the prize is aimed at photographers who deal with real-life subjects and constantly redefine the representational functions of photography using contemporary means.
For more than two decades, the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig has regularly presented the exhibitions of the award winners. The four prizewinners of the 14th year illuminate different positions in the field of documentary photography between archive material, artistic and journalistic practices and deliberate staging. At the centre are questions about processes of collectivisation as well as the subject, the body and gender, genealogy and socio-political conditionality.
In her ongoing series of works PICTURES AS A PROMISE (p.a.a.p.), Ramona Schacht (*1989) processes, fragments and recontextualises historical images of female workers in textile production from Leipzig and Kyiv. It expresses a reflection on the clothing and gestures of those depicted as well as the status of female labour in different societies and times. Schacht subjects the socialist promise of abolishing class and gender boundaries to a photographic revision. Ramona Schacht completed her master's degree with Prof. Hiedi Specker at the HGB in 2025.
