Katrin Koenning

German-born Katrin Koenning is a documentary photographer living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Much of her work investigates and challenges the ordinary and everyday. Her images continue to be exhibited internationally, and have been showcased at festivals such as Voies Off Photo Festival in Arles, France, the City of Gijon International Photojournalism Festival in Gijon, Spain and the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australia. She was invited to take part in the Magnum workshops at FotoFreo in early 2010. In November 2010, Near, her long-term documentation of her family, will be part of Reportage Festival, Sydney. Her series of street portraits, Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, will be featured at Format Festival Derby, UK in 2011. Katrin has won awards such as the Troika Editions Format Exposure Prize, a Julia Margaret Cameron Award, the APA Award for Best Documentary Photography and the Godfrey Rivers Medal for Outstanding Photographic Achievement, amongst others. In 2006-2008, she was the Picture Editor of the Australian PhotoJournalist Magazine, a non-profit publication dedicated to promote the finest of international visual storytelling. Koenning is the Editor of the APJ Silent Screams; Rights of the Child, due out in late 2010. She is involved with the Centre for Documentary Practice (CDP), which aims to facilitate an international dialogue between documentary practitioners. Katrin is a photographer for Amnesty International Australia, and is represented by Obscura Photos. www.obscuraphotos.com