Hi, my name is Miriam Stanke. I am a German photographer and visual storyteller currently based in Mannheim (Rhein-Neckar region), South Germany.

I mainly work in the field of documentary, editorial and portrait photography. Please feel free to contact me for any inquiries, printwork and/or commissions.

Selected Awards

• NEUSTART Kultur, 2022, grant recipient
• BLOW UP PRESS Book Award 2020, shortlisted
• Lucy Foundation Emerging Scholarship 2017, shortlisted
• Encontros da Imagem 2016, Emergentes dst, Finalist
• Grant Photon Festival 2016, Finalist
• Kassel Book Dummy Award 2016, shortlisted
• Life Framer 2016, A World of Cultures, Winner
• Flash Forward Award 2015, Magenta Foundation
• Graduate Students Award 2015, Magnum Photo and Photo London
• Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2015, shortlisted
• MIFA Photography Award, Moscow, shortlisted
• Bar Tur Photobook Award 2014, Photographers’ Gallery, shortlisted
• ADC Silver Award 2013, Art Director’s Club Germany
• Kolga Award 2013, shortlisted

Selected Exhibitions

• büro brutal, 2022, Mannheim, Germany
• port25, Deltabeben 2020, Mannheim, Germany
• OFF Triennale Hamburg 2018, Germany
• Backlight Photo Festival 2017, Tampere, Finland
• ten Gallery, OFF//Festival 2017 Mannheim, Germany
• Athens Photo Festival 2016, Greece
• Kunstverein Mannheim 2016, Germany
• LCC Graduation Show 2015, London, Great Britain
• Westwerk Leipzig 2013, Germany