Nanna Heitmann is a documentary photographer, based between Russia and Germany. As part of a cooperation between Magnum Photos and UE, she taught UE students about photographic topics. Her work has been published by TIME Magazine, M Le Magazine du Monde, De Volkskrant, Stern Magazine, and die Zeit, and she has worked on assignments for outlets including The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post and Stern Magazine. She has received awards and accolades that include the Vogue Italia Prize at the PH Museum women photographers grant, World Report Award, and was shortlisted by the Gomma Grant and LensCulture emerging talents. Read more about her experience. 

Check our short video and get impressions about the collaboration with Magnum Photos and the days at UE Campus back in September 2022.

Photo by: Nanna Heitmann private

After completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts, Jesse Metcalfe was looking for something that would lead him “down the path to more critical thinking” – especially in relation to technology and the future of design. He found this in the Visual & Experience Design programme at the UE Campus Berlin, which laid the foundation for his entrepreneurial future. Parallel to his studies, Jesse began to build up the start-up “Non Fungible Labs” with friends and developed it into a million-dollar company in no time, hitting the bull’s eye with so-called FLUFs, the “3D Rabbit NFT’s”,. 

Photo: Website Jesse Metcalfe

Here you can read the full interview with Jesse, joined by our very own Prof. Dr. Peter Crnokrak, Programme Leader Visual & Experience Design, Campus Berlin.

Victor Ash painted one of the most impressive graffiti in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the Astronaut / Cosmonaut in 2007. Our students get exclusive insights into the working world of the freelance artist, his techniques and he gives tips on how to hold your own in the market.

Photo by Kristian Septimius Krogh

The mural project Astronaut/Cosmonaut was commissioned by the City of Berlin and the Kunstraum Bethanien Museum. Ash works mostly on the street and the works are “in your face” and visible to everyone, even those who have not actively sought them out. Find more info here.

Yael Martínez is a Mexican photographer. Saying about himself: “trying to represent the relationship of absence and presence and this state of invisibility in a symbolic manner working with the concepts of pain, emptiness, absence, and forgetting”. 

He is the recipient of the Eugene Smith Award 2019 and was a fellow of the Photography and Social Justice Program of The Magnum Foundation. He won the 2nd Prize in the World Press Photo contests 2019 in the category of long-term projects. His work has been featured in group shows in America, Europe, Africa and Asia. His work has been published by: The Wall Street Journal, Blomberg news, Lens NY Times, Time, Vogue Italy, Vrij Nederland, Aperture. 

Photo by UE

Yael led an exclusive photo workshop at UE together with Nanna Heitmann in September 2022. Check our short video and get impressions about the collaboration.

Dr Peter Liese is a Member of the European Parliament, spokesperson for the EPP Group in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and Chair of the CDU-NRW European Group. He commutes between Brussels and his home in South Westphalia and visited the University of Europe for Applied Sciences as part of an event on ‘Gesundheit 2030 in Europa’ (Health 2030 in Europe).

The Ukrainian national women’s field hockey team “Sumchanka” spent two weeks in Hamburg to prepare for the European Championship. During their stay, the players visited our UE campus in Hamburg-Altona to give students an insight into the world of field hockey and explain how the political situation in Ukraine has influenced their focus on professional sports.

Marina, the team’s manager, summed up the visit to UE by saying, “During these dark times, we met people full of light.”