For over 20 years, the House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg has been supporting the “gute aussichten” project for young German photographers. The core of the project, which was founded in 2004, is an annual competition for final theses from all German universities and academies that offer a photography course.
From September 6 to November 9, 2025, there will be an opportunity to see two years of work in one exhibition.
The works of the prizewinners of the 20th year 2023/2024 are lined up along and across borders: The Last Sign by Béla Avi Beinhold raises the question of when and why a society closes its eyes to the suffering of others. Contrapasso by Massimiliano Corteselli tells of personal feuds, revenge and corruption. In No Georgian Dream, Lea Greub embarks on a search for the dreams of a young generation in Georgia.
In Other Images, Matthias Grund literally gets to the bottom of the mechanisms and systems of artificial image creation. In Synthetic Embrace, Lia Lehmkuhl focuses her attention on the hidden yet powerful structures behind ostensibly well-meaning digital friends. Denisa Poteca focuses attention on her own bipolar disorder in Die Psyche, der Körper und die Umwelt sind untrennbar miteinander verbunden und beeinflussen einander and Maya Vieth opens up an allusive docu-fictional space full of poetry in Während wir schlafen, Wölfe um die Häuser.