Kai Wiedenhöfer
Born in South West Germany on 3/3/1966.
Education
1988
apprenticeships in advertisement photography.
1991/92
Courses in Arabic at the Arabic Teaching Institute for Foreigners and the
Institut Francais Etudes d´Arabes, Damascus, Syria.
1995
First class MA degree in communication design from the Folkwang University
of the Arts Essen. Focus of studies documentary photography and editorial design.
Grants & Awards
1994
Finalist of the Mother Jones Fund for Documentary Photography, San Francisco.
1995
International Prize for Young Fotojournalists of Agfa and Bilderberg.
World Press Photo Masterclass, Amsterdam.
German Photoprize, Stuttgart.
1996
price for one of the five best Fotodesign degree in Germany
by the BFF (Federation of Freeworking Fotodesigners).
Spanish prize of „La Revista“(el Mundo).
1997/98
scholarship for artists of the German Academic Exchange Assocation (DAAD).
1998
Hansel-Mieth-Prize for the best reportage in 1997/98 in cooperation between a
writer and a photogragher in German printed media.
1999
Art Directors Club Silver Medal for a publication in Stern Magazine.
2002
Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography, New York.
Leica Medal of Excellence, New York.
Alexia Grant for World Peace and Cutural Understanding, New York.
World Press Photo Award, Amsterdam
Art Directors Club Silver Medal for a publication in Max Magazine.
2003
Grant of the Picture & Art Foundation / Germany.
German Book Award
2004
World Press Photo Award, Amsterdam.
2005
Fuji Euro Press Award.
Getty Grant for Documentary Photography, New York.
2007
Grant of the Picture & Art Foundation / Germany.
2008
Moving Walls Exhibition, Open Society Inst. of the Soros Foundation, New York.
International Photography Biennal of the Islamic World, Tehran.
2009
Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award, Paris.
2010
Art Photography Prize of the Lottery Brandenburg and Berlin.
2011
Days Japan International Photojournalism Award, Special Prize, Tokio.
Grant of the Picture & Art Foundation / Germany.
2014
DAM Architectural Book Award
2015
Grant of the Picture & Art Foundation / Germany.
2016
Carl-von-Ossietzky Medal for citizens who promote basic human rights.
International League for Human Rights, Berlin.
Book Publications
“Perfect Peace – the Palestinians from Intifada to Intifada” Steidl, Göttingen 2002.
“Wall” Steidl, Göttingen 2007.
“Checkpoint Huwara” with Karin Wenger, Neue Züricher Zeitung Publisher 2008.
“The Book of Destruction” Steidl, Göttingen 2010.
“CONFRONTIER” Steidl, Göttingen 2013.
“FORTY out of ONE MILLION”, MW Photoprojects 2015.
Bigger solo exhibitions
2003
Art Biennale of Sharjah/Dubai.
Rencontre de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako.
Visa pour L`image, Perpignan.
2004
Institut for Forgein Relations (IFA) Stuttgart.
2010
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
2011
Qattan Foundation, London
Film Festival Estoril, Lisbon.
2013
WALLONWALL a show covering 364m or 1200sqm of the Berlin Wall
2015
WARonWALL – the struggle in Syria, Film Festival Lisbon.