Biography

German-born photographer Katrin Koenning currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Much of her work investigates the ordinary and everyday. Her images have been shown at international festivals such as Noorderlicht, Delhi Photo Fest, FORMAT International Photography Festival, Reportage Festival, Voies Off/Arles Festival and the Gijon International Photojournalism Festival.

Katrin has exhibited widely. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The International Herald Tribune (NYT), GUP Magazine, Vrij Nederland, Der Spiegel Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine, Time Machine, DeepSleep Magazine, Eleanor Magazine, Lightjourneys and ARD Kulturreport amongst others. Katrin has won a number of awards including the Troika Editions Format Exposure Prize, a Julia Margaret Cameron Award, a National Geographic Award, the APJ Award for Best Documentary Photography, and the Godfrey Rivers Medal. In 2011, Katrin was selected as Australia's Top Emerging Documentary Photographer and won the 2011 HeadOn Portrait Prize Critic's Choice award. Near, her long-term project documenting her family, has been selected for Hijacked v.3: AUS / UK.

Selected images from Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna are available as limited edition prints through Troika Editions, London UK. In 2007 / 2008, she was Picture Editor of the Australian PhotoJournalist Magazine, a non-profit publication dedicated to promote the finest of international visual storytelling. She is the Editor of the 2009 edition Silent Screams: The Rights of the Child. Katrin is part of the Centre for Documentary Practice [CDP], Brisbane, Australia. She is a photographer for Amnesty International Australia and is currently represented by Obscura Photos.

Obscura Photos
Australian PhotoJournalist Magazine
Centre for Documentary Practice [CDP]
Troika Editions
Amnesty International