ANJA WEBER PHOTOGRAPHY

Anja Weber, 37, studied photography in Dortmund/Germany and Exeter/UK. In 1996, she received the renowned Fulbright Scholarship which allowed her to continue post-graduate education in the U.S. at the International Center of Photography and New York University.
Independent from her work as an editorial photographer, she pursues her own personal projects. Through her photography Anja Weber contributes to temporary gender discussions. A portraitist of her time she has photographed Drag Kings, queer bands and performance artists such as Bridge Markland and most recently, Larry Peacock.
In addition, Anja Weber is engaged in an ongoing project that reflects on the relationship of man to his/her environment. In 2004, she and her teampartner, architect Saskia Hebert, produced a body of work on the dismembered East German city, Halle-Neustadt. Their project Die Weite des Blicks lead them to become finalists in the german Federal Cultural Foundation's competition, 'Shrinking Cities.' Anja Weber makes her home today in Berlin, Germany.

Projects (excerpt)

2006 Seoul Drag Kings. Series of staged portraits

2005 A Sunday with the Peacocks. Staged Portraits, performance group Larry Peacock

2004 Calico. Staged portraits of Cowboy actors as part of work on male identities

2004-2005 Nightshots: body of work on carparks at night (US, Korea; Europe)

2004 Project on the shrinking eastgerman city Halle-Neustadt: Die Weite des Blicks Portraits and cityscapes. Finalist in 2004 Bundeskulturstiftung-competition Shrinking Cities (together with architect Saskia Hebert)

2002-2003 Berlin Drag Kings. Series of staged Portraits

2001 Baptists don't Dance. Documentary film project on a gay New Yorker going back 20 years in time when he was a conservative christian minister. (photography)

2000 Postwar Youth. Photoessay on teenagers in Mostar, Bosnia. Sponsored by the Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart and published in Frankfurter Rundschau Magazine Freelens Layout Award 2001 for this publication

Soloshows

Nov 2005 Ausland, Berlin: A Sunday with the Peacocks

May 2005 Pink Screens Festival Brussels: Berlin Drag Kings

Mar-Apr 2004 Robert Morat Galerie für Photographie, Hamburg: Rockfall Risk Area

Oct-Nov 1999 Medienzentrum Bremen: Give Me Space-Frauenportraits, Roadkill’

Apr-June 1998 Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund: Give Me Space -Frauenportraits

Groupshows / Participation

May-June 2005 ODC Gallery San Francisco: Fresh Meat in the Gallery

Jan 2005 Deutsches Architektur Zentrum Berlin: Shrinking Cities

May 2002 Kunsthaus Tacheles Berlin: Go Drag!

Oct 2001 Kunsthaus Tacheles Berlin: Bridge Markland Portraits

Dec 2000 Erotik Art Museum Hamburg: Das heimliche Auge

Oct 1999 Kunsthalle Anklam: Der Bildhauer Ludwig Engelhardt. With photographs by Sibylle Bergemann and Anja Weber

July-Aug 1998 Urban Issue Galerie Berlin: unscharf , with women artist coop ‘büro genial’

April-May 1998 Rathaus Rotenburg - curated by GAFF: Bilder vom Menschen. Ein fotografisches Mosaik, Fotografien von 1943 bis heute.

June 1997 Art Lab Gallery, Staten Island, New York: Alice Austen & Getrude Tate Juried Photography Exhibition‘

Dec 1996 Loeb Student Center, New York University, NYC: Queer

Nov-Dec 1996 GAFF - Galerie für Fotografie, Rotenburg/Wümme: Arno Fischer and Students

Nov 1996 Schwimmbad Herten, curator ,Das Bildforum‘ and Agfa: Bilderbad - graduates from german and french universities show their work

Oct 1996 FH Dortmund: Final projects show

Oct 1991 FotografieForum im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt/Main: Wer hat Angst vor neuen Bildern? (Who is afraid of New Images?)

Publications include:

taz, Stern, ZeitLeben, Spiegel, Archplus, i.D., American Lawyer Magazine, Woman, Berlin Bienale, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau Magazine, etc.