Frederike helwig biography examples

Frederike Helwig is a German-born photographer based in London and working internationally. Alongside her long-term editorial practice, she produces personal projects focusing on social documentary, portraiture, still life and landscape, often exploring alternative perspectives of specific subjects or commissioned briefs.

Helwig has published four monographs: Propaganda (self-published, 2016), a series of photographs depicting motivational slogans covering the walls of a high school in Georgia, USA; Rundgang (Here Press, 2017) that features portraits and documentary work covering American real estate developments in Nicaragua; Kriegskinder (Hatje Cantz, 2017), a long-term independent project which explores identity and personal history of people who grew up in post-war Germany; and Lessons To Learn (self-published, 2022), a newspaper zine addressing the introduced Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

Helwig’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the H