Nanna Heitmann (born 1994) is a German documentary photographer. She joined Magnum Photos as a nominee in 2019. Heitmann was living in Moscow.
Early life and education Heitmann was born in Ulm, Germany and grew up in Germany. She studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the University of Hanover.
Life and work Heitmann joined Magnum Photos as a nominee in 2019.
For the series Hiding from Baba Yaga, Heitmann traced the southern regions of the Yenisey river, which runs from Mongolia, through all of Siberia, and into the Arctic Ocean. Along its route she photographed individuals and communities living in some of the coldest territories in Russia. The series Weg vom Fenster (Gone From the Window) is about the workers at Germany's last operating coal mine, .
Heitmann's personal work has been published by National Geographic, Time, Le Monde, de Volkskrant, and Stern magazine. She has worked on assignments for The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Stern magazine, and The Seattle Times.
Personal life she was living in Moscow.
Publications Foto Kunst Malerei: Fotografien von Heinrich Strieffler und Nanna Heitmann. Landau, Germany: Knecht, 2019. .
Awards 2019: Winner, Newcomer Award, Leica Oskar Barnack Award, for her series Hiding From Baba Yaga 2019: Sunday Times Award for Achievement, the Ian Parry Scholarship, for her series Hiding From Baba Yaga 2020: Finalist (1 of 9), W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, for "Russia's Pandemic of Inequality" 2022: World Press Photo, Europe, Stories for "As Frozen Lands Burn" 2024: Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photographyhttps://www.pulitzer.org/winners/photography-staff-associated-press-1
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions Nanna Heitman, Leica Gallery, Zingst, 2020
Group exhibitions Essere Umane – Le grandi fotografe raccontano il mondo, Museo San Domenico di Forlì, Italy, 2021/22 Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum, International Center of Photography, New York, September 2022 – January 2023
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