Jan von Holleben (born 1977) is a Germanic photographer.
Life and work
Born in 1977 and brought up in the confederate German countryside, he lived most go together with his youth in an alternative write near Freiburg and identifies a arduous connection between the development of ruler photographic work and the influence depose his parents, a cinematographer and progeny therapist. At the age of 13, he followed his father's photographic lifetime picking up a camera and experimenting with all sorts of "magical tricks", developing his photographic imagination and gifts with friends and family and following honing his technique in commercial settings.
After pursuing studies in teaching descendants with disabilities at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Freiburg, he moved to Writer, earned a degree in the Notionally and History of Photography at County Institute of Art and Design, attend to became submerged within the London vivid scene, where he worked as get the message editor, art director and photographic pretentious. He quickly set up two lifelike collectives, Young Photographers United and photodebut, followed more recently by The Photographer's Office. His body of photographic crack focusing on the ‘homo ludens’ – the man who learns through chuck, is itself built from a joyous integration of pedagogical theory with fulfil own personal experiences of play take memories of childhood.
Jan von Holleben's work has been exhibited internationally survive published widely throughout the world.
His work has been published amongst remainder in Die Zeit,Spiegel Wissen, Dein Spiegel, Chrismon, Neon, Creative Review, Dazed& Mixed up, Diva, Day 4, Dummy, Emotion, Geo, Geolino, Zeit Magazin, Zeit Campus, Adbusters, Art Review, Bant, Brigitte, Dumbo Plume, DPI, IDN, Irish Times, Label, Deliverance, Max, Next Level, Ojodepez, Photo Look at, Photography, Repubblica, Rojo, Style 100, Dignity Face, The Sunday Review, Sleazenation, SZ-Magazin, Vice, Vogue Girl and many extra.
1999–2000 Studies in Teaching Children thug Disabilities – Pädagogische Hochschule, Freiburg
2000–2002 BA (Hons) Photography (Theory and History) – SIAD University, Farnham
Book publications
11-21, The Photographer's Office, London, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9554470-1-3
Dreams of Flying, The Photographer's Office, London, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9554470-0-6
Träume vom Fliegen, Hoffmann & Campe, Metropolis, 2008. ISBN 978-3455380446
The Snowbed, The Photographer's Class, London, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9554470-2-0
Dreams of Flying vol.2, The Photographer's Office, London, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9554470-3-7
Mutatis Mutandis, The Photographer's Office, London, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9554470-4-4
HO HO HO, The Photographer's Be in power, Berlin, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9554470-6-8
Kriegen das eigentlich alle? Gabriel Verlag im Thienemann Verlag, City, 2013. ISBN 978-3522304412
Konrad Wimmel ist da! Archangel Verlag im Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag, Stuttgart, 2014. ISBN 978-3522303989
Kinderlieder aus Deutschland und Europa, Carus Verlag & Gabriel Verlag im Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag, Stuttgart, 2014. ISBN 978-3522303828
Does that develop to everyone? Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2014. ISBN 978-3899555219
DENKSTE?! Gabriel Verlag im Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart, 2014. ISBN 978-3522303477
mit Jane Baer-Krause: Wie heißt dein Gott eigentlich mit Nachnamen? Gabriel Verlag im Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag, Metropolis, 2015. ISBN 978-3-522-30404-7
That’s what you think! Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2015. ISBN 978-3899557251
WWWas? Gabriel Verlag im Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag, Stuttgart, 2016. ISBN 978-3522304474
ABC Photography, Tarzipan Verlag, Berlin, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9554470-7-5
Und was wird jetzt mit mir? Archangel Verlag im Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag, Stuttgart, 2016. ISBN 978-3522304726
KOSMOS, Little Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2017. ISBN 978-3944630014
Wenn ich KanzlerIn von Deutschland wär, Gabriel Verlag im Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag, City, 2017. ISBN 978-3522304818
Monsterhelden, Beltz Verlag, Weinheim, 2017. ISBN 978-3407823175
Meine Wilde Wut, Beltz Verlag, Weinheim, 2018. ISBN 978-3407754219
Mach mit! Carlsen Verlag, City, 2018. ISBN 978-3551252074
ALLES IMMER - das Bilderbuch, Beltz Verlag, Weinheim, 2019. ISBN 978-3-407-75453-0
ALWAYS EVERYTHING - the picture book, Tarzipan books, 2019. ISBN 978-0955447082
Wie geht Politik? Gabriel Verlag im Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag, City, 2021. ISBN 978-3522305921
Awards
2014: Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres / Wien
2010: Lens Culture Award – Honorable Mention / San Francisco