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Katja Heinemann

Photographer

  Katja Heinemann is a Brooklyn-based German photographer whose personal work focuses on documenting social and cultural topics such as illness and stigma, youth culture and immigration. Katja regularly produces photo essays, new... read on
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  Katja Heinemann is a Brooklyn-based German photographer whose personal work focuses on documenting social and cultural topics such as illness and stigma, youth culture and immigration. Katja regularly produces photo essays, new media stories and portraiture for editorial, commercial and institutional clients in the U.S. and abroad. She is represented by the agencies Novus Select in NYC and laif.de in Germany.

Katja’s new media documentaries on HIV/AIDS, On Borrowed Time, about the lives of children and teenagers in the U.S., and The Graying of AIDS on the global aging of the pandemic, illustrate how a personal body of work can grow from an editorial concept into an advocacy and educational tool, utilizing various platforms and media to have maximum impact in reaching diverse audiences. For the past four years, her work has been documenting migration, covering NYC's diverse Chinatowns and working with refugee youths in Berlin, Germany.  She recently became an American citizen after living in her adopted country for 25 years.