Academic Career
2023/2024
- KWI Fellow
Since April 2020
- Principal Investigator, research projects about the digital image (funded by the German Research Council DFG SPP 2172 „The Digital Image “)
2022/2023
- VII Masterclass in Arles: Photography (Reportage, Dokumentary, artistic)
2019 – 2020
- Fellow at the CAIS Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum
2015 – 2019
- BMBF-Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2012
- Dr.phil. [Ph.D.] Political Science, Geschwister-Scholl-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
2003
- Completion of my professional training as editor and journalist, German School of Journalism Munich [Deutsche Journalistenschule München]
2003
- Diploma in Journalism Studies, Political Science, Sociology, and Modern German Literature: Dipl.-Journ. Univ., Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Research Interests
- Global Media and Journalism Studies, with accentuation on Photojournalism and Politics; History, Theory, and Practice of Photography; Media Ethics; Media sociology; Media ethnography; Image Circulation, Production and Distribution; Digital and Visual Cultures; Networked Images
Publications (selection)
- Grey Zone. Truth and Responsibility in the new war with images. diaphanes, Zurich (forthcoming 2024) [in German: Graue Zone. Wahrheit und Verantwortung im neuen Krieg der Bilder]. https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/graue-zone-7636b.
- Visual Autoethnography. Fieldwork in Palermo at a Photo Workshop. [in German: Visuelle Autoethnografie. Feldforschung in Palermo bei einem Fotoworkshop]. In: Rundbrief Fotografie, Vol. 29, No. 3/4 [N.F. 115/116], 2022, 63-74. DOI:10.1515/rbf-2022-3010
- Para-Photojournalism: Networked Images between profession and participation. Theorizing the Digital Image. [in German: Para-Fotojournalismus: Vernetzte Bilder zwischen Profession und Partizipation. Zur Theorie des digitalen Bildes]. In: Medienwissenschaft: Rezensionen, Vol. 38, 2/2021, 125-148. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/16277
- Photo-Editors and Para-Photojournalists on Twitter. The Commodification of Networked Images. In: Animus. Revista Interamericana de Comunicação Midiática (Inter-American Journal of Media Communication), Vol. 20, 43/2021, 27-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5902/2175497766683.
- The Travels of Photographs within the Global Image Market. How Monopolisation, Interconnectedness, and Differentiation shape the Economics of Photography. In: Photographies, Vol. 13, 3/2020, 365-384. DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2020.1774917
- Glamour of Misery. Ethics, Aesthetics and Socio-Criticism in the works of Sebastião Salgado and Jeff Wall. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2012 [in German: Glamour des Elends. Ethik, Ästhetik und Sozialkritik bei Sebastião Salgado und Jeff Wall. Dissertation]. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/kunst-und-architektur/kunstgeschichte-kunstwissenschaft/40945/glamour-des-elends.