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

  • ADC Silver Award 2013, Art Director’s Club Germany
  • Bar Tur Photobook Award 2014, Photographers’ Gallery, shortlisted
  • Flash Forward Award 2015, Magenta Foundation
  • Graduate Students Award 2015, Magnum Photo and Photo London
  • Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2015, shortlisted
  • Grant Photon Festival 2016, Finalist
  • Kassel Book Dummy Award 2016, shortlisted
  • Lucy Foundation Emerging Scholarship 2017, shortlisted

Selected Exhibitions

  • Athens Photo Festival 2016, Greece
  • Kunstverein Mannheim 2016, Germany
  • Backlight Photo Festival 2017, Tampere, Finland
  • ten Gallery, OFF/Festival 2017 Mannheim, Germany
  • OFF Triennale Hamburg 2018, Germany
  • port25, Deltabeben 2020, Mannheim, Germany

Selected Publications / Clients

  • British Journal of Photography
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)
  • FT Weekend Magazine
  • GUP
  • Society of Threatened People
  • der Spiegel
  • taz – die Tageszeitung
  • Vice