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Michael Danner is Professor and Programme Director of Photography at the UE, Campus Berlin. Visit us to know more!
Prof. Michael Danner
Subject area: Documentary photography, conceptual photography
Campus: Berlin Room 1.25
Consultation by: appointment
Campus: Berlin Room 1.25
Consultation by: appointment
Website: www.dannerprojects.com
Professor Danner has completed ten years of teaching and since 2016 heads the international programme for Photography at the UE in Berlin. He accompanies his seminars with empathy, a wealth of methods, a strong theoretical foundation and shares his enthusiasm for the medium of photography with the students. His network of contacts with universities, curators, artists, and industry is an integral part of his teaching and uses it to offer accompanying guest lectures, collaborations, excursions and visits to galleries, museums, and trade fairs.
- Since 2018 Programme Director for Photography (B.A.) in Berlin
- Since 2016 Professor for Photography at University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE)
- 2012-2015 Lecturer for Photography at BTK
- 2010-2011 Lecturer at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel
- 1999-2019 Lectures and workshops at numerous institutions including University of Wales, University of Brighton, HGB Leipzig, and Goethe Institute Rabat/Casablanca
- 1995-1997 Studied Photography at University of Brighton
- 1992-1999 Studied Photo Design at FH Bielefeld
- 1967 Born in Reutlingen
- 2018: ‘Contemporary German Photography’ Award, Folkwang Museum with Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach-Stiftung
Fotobookfestival Kassel, Dummy Award
Arts funding by VG-Bildkunst-Kulturwerk - 2014: Association of German Book Traders, „Deutscher Fotobuchpreis – nominiert 2015“
- 2012: Arts funding by Stiftung Kunstfonds
- MIGRATION AS AVANT-GARDE, Dortmund 2018
- CRITICAL MASS, Heidelberg 2013