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Katrin Koenning (born 1978, Bochum, Germany ) is a German-born Australian photographer and photojournalist whose work has been exhibited and published since 2007.

Biography

Katrin Koenning was born and grew up in Bochum, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. Later, to continue a relationship, in 2002, aged twenty-four, she moved to Australia where her father and aunt had emigrated in the late ‘90s. She studied documentary photography, gaining a Bachelor of Photography with High Distinction at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, during which she achieved Academic Excellence Awards in 2004 and 2006, and which she completed in 2007.

Photographer

Koenning took up photography after the death in a plane crash of a close friend. During 2007 to 2008 she was Picture Editor for Picturing Human Rights^[1] and Tell My Story,^[2] publications of the Australian PhotoJournalist Magazine and in 2009 to 2010 Editor of their Silent Screams: Rights of the Child.^[3]

Photographic educator

Koenning started her teaching career in Journalism, Journalistic Investigation and Reporting, University of Queensland in 2008 and has since presented lectures, artist talks, workshops and conference papers in Australia and internationally in Bangladesh (2017), Germany (2015, 2018, 2019), Cambodia (2017), New Zealand (2018), and taught in 2016 at Anjali Children's workshop, Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia, the Australian Centre for Photography Workshop Intensive, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2018), Photo Kathmandu, Nepal (2018), Angkor Photo Workshops, Siem Reap Cambodia (2019), Myanmar Deitta, Yangon Myanmar (2019), University of Tasmania, Launceston Australia (2020), University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria (2020), Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Dhaka Bangladesh (2020), and as a lecturer in BA Photography courses at RMIT University (2020) and Photography Studies College (2020, 2021)

Recognition

Koenning's photo essays have been published in, among many others, The New Yorker, FT Magazine, British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, Human Rights Defender, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Independent,^[4] and SBS Australia.

In 2019 she won the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, having been selected as a finalist in 2018 and 2014, when she was also awarded the People’s Choice Award.

Koenning lives and works in Melbourne^[5] where she is represented by Reading Room Gallery.^[6]

Awards

2019 Bowness Photography Prize 2017: Australian Photobook of the Year Award 2016: Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2015: Daylight Photo Award 2014: People's Choice, Bowness Photography Prize 2014: Merit Award, Moreton Bay Region Art Award 2014: Lens Mist Award 2012: JGS Award, Forward Thinking Museum 2012: New York Photo Festival by Invitation 2011: HeadOn Portrait Prize, Critic's Choice Award 2011: Australia's Top Emerging Documentary Photographer 2010: Troika Editions Format Exposure Prize, London UK

Exhibitions

Solo

2021: the kids are in trouble, Chennai Photo Biennale, India
2021: Tisseurs d'Images, German Influences, Angers, France
2019: the kids are in trouble, Reading Room, Melbourne Australia
2019: Myanmar Deitta, Yangon Myanmar
2019: Swell, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne Australia
2018: The Crossing, Le Cloître ouvert, DI MEZZO, Paris France
2018: New Works Commission for Lowlight Festival, SALT Contemporary, Queenscliff Australia
2018: The Crossing, Hamburg Triennial of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
2017: Astres Noirs, Paris Photo | East Wing Gallery, Paris France
2017: Indefinitely, Organ Vida Festival, Galerija Kranjčar, Zagreb Croatia (Supported by Goethe-Institut and the Australian Embassy)
2017: Dear Chris, Chobi Mela Festival, Dhaka Bangladesh
2016: Indefinitely, Daylight Project Space, Hillsborough USA
2016: Indefinitely, The Lost Ones Gallery, Ballarat Australia
2015: Indefinitely, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura Australia
2015: Fieber, PhotoIreland, Ireland
2015: Indefinitely, Athens Photo Festival, Greece
2015: Indefinitely, Photobook Melbourne, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2014: Dear Chris, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura Australia
2014: Dear Chris, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane Australia
2013: Loraine and the Illusion of Illoura, Colour Factory, Melbourne Australia
2013: Dear Chris, officially opened by Helen Ennis, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne Australia^[7]
2012: Near, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane Australia
2012: Loraine and the Illusion of Illoura..., Forward Thinking Museum
2012: From a Changed North, HeadOn Photo Festival, MiCK Gallery, Sydney Australia
2010: Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna at Front Room Gallery (Troika Editions), London UK
2007: April, Flipbook Media, Brisbane Australia
2007: Polaroid Transfers, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane Australia

Collections

Artbank
Monash Gallery of Art^[8]
Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Galleries
Queensland Centre for Photography
Museum of Brisbane
Daryl Hewson Collection
Rockhampton Art Gallery Collection

References

^ Griffith University (2009), Picturing human rights, Australian Photojournalists, Griffith University, retrieved 27 August 2021
^ Lloyd, David (2007), Tell My Story, Octivium Press, retrieved 27 August 2021
^ Silent screams : rights of the child. Katrin Koenning, United Nations. General Assembly. South Bank, Qld.: Australian PhotoJournalist. 2010. ISBN 978-1-921760-18-1. OCLC 727000411.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ The Independent, Saturday, October 13, 2018
^ Rogers, Fiona; Houghton, Max, (author.) (2017), Firecrackers : female photographers now, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 978-0-500-54474-7 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "ReadingRoom, Melbourne". Retrieved 2021-08-27.
^ "IN THE GALLERIES.(Life & Style)", The Age (Melbourne, Australia), Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited: 5, 2013-04-20, ISSN 0312-6307
^ "Katrin Koenning". www.mga.org.au. Retrieved 2021-08-27.

[1] Griffith University (2009), Picturing human rights, Australian Photojournalists, Griffith University, retrieved 27 August 2021

[2] Lloyd, David (2007), Tell My Story, Octivium Press, retrieved 27 August 2021

[3] Silent screams : rights of the child. Katrin Koenning, United Nations. General Assembly. South Bank, Qld.: Australian PhotoJournalist. 2010. ISBN 978-1-921760-18-1. OCLC 727000411.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[4] The Independent, Saturday, October 13, 2018

[5] Rogers, Fiona; Houghton, Max, (author.) (2017), Firecrackers : female photographers now, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 978-0-500-54474-7 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[6] "ReadingRoom, Melbourne". Retrieved 2021-08-27.

[7] "IN THE GALLERIES.(Life & Style)", The Age (Melbourne, Australia), Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited: 5, 2013-04-20, ISSN 0312-6307

[8] "Katrin Koenning". www.mga.org.au. Retrieved 2021-08-27.

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