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Maximilian Mann

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Dortmund / Hamburg, Germany 📍
Documentary Photographer | @docks_collective
Represented by @laifphoto
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"Fading Flamingos" is among the Nominees for the Felix Schoeller Photo Award in the category “Best Work by an Emerging Photographer”. The work will be exhibited from 20.10.2019 to 8.03.2020 in the Museumsquartier Osnabrück (MQ4). taken in Urmia Lake by @maximilian_mann

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At the beginning of March, a big competition for over 200 young ballet dancers was supposed to take place in Kyiv. Then the brutal war in Ukraine began. The competition had to be cancelled. Instead of ballet, bombs were falling. Young people flee the city and find new and safe homes. Over 80 young Ukrainians, usually between the ages of 12 and 18, were accepted at prestigious ballet schools throughout Europe.

I had the honor to meet many wonderful ballet students. Thank you Masha, Dima, Martin, Sofia, Alisa!
Text by: Jessica Gelt

Photographed in Monaco and Amsterdam for Los Angeles Times. Thank you @jacobmoscovitch

#ballettacademy #Amsterdam #monaco #ballet #refugees #ukraine #ukrainewar #ballettdancer #documanteryphotography #documantaryphoto #reportagefotografie #photojournalism #photoproject by @maximilian_mann

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Igor Gabidullin (52) smokes a pipe in his shack in Kyubume on February 11, 2020. The settlement was originally built for road workers, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union more and more of its inhabitants moved away. In 2007 the electricity in the settlement was cut off. The only woman who lived there besides Igor left the settlement. Since then he has lived alone in Kyubume amidst the abandoned, slowly decaying blocks of houses. The next village is about 150 kilometres away. That‘s why Igor supplies himself with what nature offers him. „When I die, I want to be buried here. Because I belong to my home, my rivers, my forests, that’s my life.“

Our photo essay "Road of Kolyma" was published in M magazine of Le Monde as an 8-page portfolio. I worked on this project together with @ingmarbnolting in February 2020. Thank you, @lucyconticello!

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For “Road of Kolyma“ we travelled for one month in winter 2020 on the Kolyma Highway from Yakutsk to Magadan. Our photo essay interweaves the history of the road with the living conditions of today‘s inhabitants and tells of life and survival in the inhospitable expanse of Russia‘s Far East.

This project was supported by VG Bildkunst.

#kolyma #roadofbones #photoessay #documentaryphotography #sibiria #magadan #Yakutsk #dockscollective #docks by @maximilian_mann

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“I Received Up to Fifty Death Threats a Day”

Mouhanad Khorchide now heads the first independent faculty of Islamic theology at a German university. An interview about devout students, aggressive opponents — and what he really believes.

For DIE ZEIT Interview by Evelyn Finger picture editor Lara Huck taken in Münster, Germany by @maximilian_mann

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Robert Habeck, former Vice Chancellor of Germany, in Düsseldorf for Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Thanks to @friedrich_a_b for the call and @robert.habeck for his time.

#roberthabeck #portaitphotography #süddeutschezeitung taken in Düsseldorf, Germany by @maximilian_mann

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Charles Auguste, French movement artist, for @nytimes

In his new project "Lambeaux", Auguste explores how fences, designed to prevent movement, can instead become choreographic impulses.

Artist: @charlesaugustee  Performed by: @nathaliasgr & @shirai_japan   #choreography #CharlesAuguste #urbanspace #performance by @maximilian_mann

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For several days now, a wildfire has been spreading through the Rureifel region. More than 200 hectares of forest are burning, and around 1,800 people have already been evacuated from the village of Gey.

For people in the surrounding villages, the fire is no longer a distant threat. It is the fear of losing their homes, the uncertainty of whether they will be able to return, and the unsettling feeling of packing a few belongings while leaving an entire life behind.

For DIE ZEIT, I photographed the people and the growing uncertainty in the villages surrounding the burning forest.

Photography for @zeit
Text: Matthias Kirsch
Picture Editor: @ahrens.tina taken in Hürtgen Forest by @maximilian_mann

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This year, the contemporary art biennial Manifesta has come to the Ruhr region, turning twelve former churches into spaces for contemporary art.

For @art.kunstmagazin , I visited and photographed all twelve churches. The exhibitions enter into a dialogue with the architecture and history of these buildings, offering new perspectives on these places and their stories.

Photo editor: @imke_keyssler & @hannah__schuh  Text: Michael Kohler

Featured artists:
@josepbohigas
@halilaltindere
@alicjakwade
@cabosanroque
@flexo_arquitectura
@evakotatkova
@abbzah by @maximilian_mann

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A look back at the opening of the exhibition “Everything is connected.” I am delighted to have the opportunity to exhibit my series “Between Hope and Dystopia” at Schloss ob Ellwangen.

Curators: @nadjamasri and @silkeschwabkrueger

Opening Hours
Saturday: 2:00–5:00 p.m.
Sundays and public holidays: 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Groups by appointment
Admission: €5.00, reduced €3.00
Families: €10.00
Children and teens under 16: free

Address:
Kunstverein Ellwangen e.V.
Schloss ob Ellwangen, Residenz
73479 Ellwangen taken in Schloss ob Ellwangen by @maximilian_mann

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Albrecht Weinberg, one of the last Holocaust survivors, died yesterday at the age of 101.

For me, meeting Albrecht was one of the most formative encounters of recent years.
During the Nazi dictatorship, he survived three concentration camps, including Auschwitz, as well as several death marches. Most of his relatives, including his parents, were murdered in Auschwitz.

He remained silent for a long time about the horrors of that time, about the unimaginably brutal period of his life. For 40 years, he did not want to set foot in the country of the perpetrators. He went far away, to New York, where he worked as a butcher in the Bronx.

In 2012, he returned to his East Frisian hometown and met the care worker Gerda Dänekas in his retirement home. A great, unexpected stroke of luck. When Gerda retired, she and Albrecht started sharing an apartment. “Probably the oldest shared flat in Germany,” he later said.
Thanks in part to Gerda, Albrecht began to speak again. In recent years, he became one of the most sought-after eyewitnesses.

I visited him in Leer in the summer of 2024 for @spiegelmagazin. We had lunch together and I brought him photographs. Images of him and his favourite tree at the Mittelbau-Dora memorial site, which I had taken a few weeks earlier. From the beginning of 1945, he was forced to perform slave labour there. Every year, on the anniversary of liberation, he returned.
When we said goodbye, he gave me a “yellow star,” the symbol used to mark and persecute Jews during the Holocaust. Members of his family had been forced to produce these stars in a concentration camp.
I still do not know what the right place for it is. Maybe there isn’t one.

Until the very end, he warned about rising antisemitism. And he warned about the AfD. In protest against Friedrich Merz, who had pushed for stricter immigration policy together with the AfD, he returned his Federal Cross of Merit.
What struck me most was his humanity and his humour. Having experienced the worst that human beings can do to one another, Albrecht met the world with humanity, moral clarity, and an infectious sense of humour.

In his shared flat room in Leer, he passed away yesterday. taken in Leer by @maximilian_mann

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Some more postcards from a journey through Vietnam, December 2025 and January 2026, fragments of places and encounters (2/3)

Cảm ơn to everyone who made this journey so special for us. ❤️ taken in Việt Nam by @maximilian_mann

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Some last postcards from our journey through Vietnam, December 2025 and January 2026, fragments of places and encounters (3/3)

Cảm ơn to everyone who made this journey so special for us. ❤️ taken in Việt Nam by @maximilian_mann

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