
Prof. Michael Danner
Programme Coordinator BA Photography (GER + ENG) and Programme Leader BA Photography , Campus Berlin
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Subject area:
Photography
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Campus
Berlin
Room 1.25 -
Consultation by
appointment
Professor Danner has completed ten years of teaching and since 2016 heads the international program for Photography at the UE in Berlin. He accompanies his seminars with empathy, a wealth of methods, a strong theoretical foundation and shares his own enthusiasm for the medium of photography with the students. His network of contacts with universities, curators, artists, and industry is an integral part of his teaching and uses it to offer accompanying guest lectures, collaborations, excursions and visits to galleries, museums, and trade fairs.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Since 2018 Head of Programme for Photography (B.A.) in Berlin
Since 2016 Professor for Photography at University of Applied Sciences Europe (UE)
2012-2015 Lecturer for Photography at BTK
2010-2011 Lecturer at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel
1999-2019 Lectures and workshops at numerous institutions including University of Wales, University of Brighton, HGB Leipzig, and Goethe Institute Rabat/Casablanca
1995-1997 Studied Photography at University of Brighton
1992-1999 Studied Photo Design at FH Bielefeld
1967 Born in Reutlingen
AWARDS
2018 ‘Contemporary German Photography’ Award, Folkwang Museum with Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach-Stiftung
Fotobookfestival Kassel, Dummy Award
Arts funding by VG-Bildkunst-Kulturwerk
2014 Association of German Book Traders, „Deutscher Fotobuchpreis - nominiert 2015“
2012 Arts funding by Stiftung Kunstfonds
MONOGRAPHS
MIGRATION AS AVANT-GARDE, Dortmund 2018
CRITICAL MASS, Heidelberg 2013
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