Wolf Böwig, Nah ist das Land, das sie das Leben nennen

In this retrospective, Wolf Böwig shows not only some of his iconic photographs, but also large, impressive sequences of images that he sometimes overwrites by hand and in which he combines his image-text overlays with maps, newspaper clippings and objects from his travels.
Wolf Böwig, born in 1964, studied Mathematics and Philosophy in Berlin. He's worked as a photo journalist since 1988, focusing on long-term documentary projects and covering more than forty wars and conflicts all over the world. His work has been published by The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Liberation, du, Weltwoche, Facts, Neue Züricher Zeitung, El Pais, The Independent, Stern, taz, Le Monde Diplomatique, Lettre International, mare, Visao, private, Publica, LFI, Expresso.
Wolf Böwig’s work has been exhibited all over the world. It was shortlisted, among many other awards, for the Pulitzer Prize (2007) and for the Henri Cartier Bresson Award (2007, 2009). Most recently, he was awarded the Kulturpreis der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche, Hannover (2016).