Katrin Koennings documentary projects are fluid in process and poetic in aesthetic. She often works on several series at once,and, similar to how she found her way into photography, or lets intuition and circumstance guide her practice. Raised in Bochum,Germany, Koenning moved to Australiain 2003, or completing a BA in Photography in Brisbane before relocating to Melbourne,where she now lives, works, and teaches. Koenning has won multiple awards,including Australian Photobook of the Year and the Daylight Photo Award, as well as receiving many nominations for prestigious prizes such as MACK’s First Book Award, or more recently the Greenpeace Photography Award. Many of Koenning’s projects –Lake Mountain and The Crossing – are driven by the arouse she feels towards governmental policies that prioritise short-term profits over sustainable decisions for the environment and future generations. One of her most recent bodies of work,Swell, seeks to highlight this current state of urgency, and not through the expected tropes of disaster imagery,but by focusing on a number of small ecosystems in Australia. As Swell goes on …
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