Jörg Koopmann

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birthdate = 1968
location = Munich, Germany
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nationality = German
field = photographer; especially photojournalism, portrait photography, travel photography, fine art photography
training = State Academy of Photograpic Design, Munich
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Jörg Koopmann (born 1968 in Munich, Germany) is a German photographer.

biography

Koopmann studied photography at the "State Academy of Photographic Design" in Munich and graduated in 1993. He wrote his diploma thesis about "photojournalism" at professor Dieter Hinrichs. Afterwards he was working as photographer of the municipal gallery at the Lenbachhaus in Munich from 1994 until 1996. Since 1997 he is working predominantly free-lanced, first and foremost in the branches of photojournalism and portrait photography.

Also in 1997 he founded with Marek Vogel the photography forum "glossy" in Munich, that he is still running together with Martin Fengel.

works

The main focus of his works is on photojournalism and travel photography. In addition to a lot of fine art photographies and works for print media, Koopmann got popular by his works in magazines like the "ZEIT-Magazine" of Die Zeit, the "SZ-Magazine" of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger, Wallpaper+Line (London), Spex and others.

Furthermore he took part at many national and international exhibitions. He does not describe his works but lets them sink in. In this regard he does not make any differences between own or remittance works.

awards

In 1999 he took part at the "Körber photography award" contest and in the same year he was nominated for the photography award of the city of Munich, the capital of the Free State of Bavaria, but he just got it in 2001.

External links

* [http://www.joergkoopmann.com website of Jörg Koopmann]
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