JURY OPEN CALL 2025
Nicole Ahland,born in Trier in 1970, pursued her studies in fine art at the Academy of Fine Arts at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in the photography class under the direction of Prof. Dr. Vladimir Spacek. Ahland’s large-format photographs concentrate on the elements of light and space. For a period exceeding two decades, she has been amassing an extensive archive of analog photographs of interiors. Her photographic works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Europe, and the USA. She currently resides and works in Wiesbaden and Kaiserslautern.
Andrea Diefenbach , born in 1974, is a photographer from Wiesbaden, Germany. Following her graduation from Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in 2006, she has been engaged in the development of her own photographic book and exhibition projects, in addition to undertaking commissions from German and international institutions and publications. Her work has been exhibited at prominent institutions such as the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Folkwang Museum Essen, the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Mannheim, and the Münchner Stadtmuseum. Her critical and incisive reflections on social situations have earned her several awards and scholarships. In 2024, she was awarded the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize of the German Photographic Society (DGPh). From 2016 to 2022, Andrea Diefenbach held a position as a full-time faculty member in the photography department at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, where she taught for six years. Since September 2022, she has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen.
Kim Engels, born and raised in Mainz, Germany, co-founded the women’s museum in Wiesbaden after studying law and completing her legal internship in Wiesbaden and Darmstadt. For the past 40 years, she has focused on diversity-sensitive cultural mediation in the museum context. She has curated several photography exhibitions. She has been involved in the Wiesbadener Fototage from the very beginning. She experiments with photography from analog to digital.
Daniel Oschatz, born in 1962, comes from a family of photographers in the third generation. After training as a photographer in Wiesbaden, Germany, he studied photography and film design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund, Germany, followed by a master’s degree in photography at the Heinz Bindseil School in Hamburg, Germany. Daniel Oschatz is the managing director and owner of Oschatz Visuelle Medien GmbH, a graphics production company specializing in exhibitions in Germany and abroad. In addition to his membership on the board of the German Society for Photography (DGPh), he was chairman of the committee for creative business at the Wiesbaden Chamber of Commerce and is a member of Freelens. Daniel Oschatz lives in Wiesbaden, Germany..
Marc Peschke,born in 1970, resides in Wertheim am Main and Wiesbaden. Peschke’s academic background includes studies in art history, comparative literature, and ethnology. His professional experience encompasses roles such as art historian, journalist, copywriter, curator, and art consultant for print and online media, public relations and advertising agencies, artists, museums, galleries, and offices. Since the conclusion of his studies, Peschke has maintained an ongoing involvement with photography and photographic art. In addition to his professional roles, he serves as a freelance curator and was a co-owner and co-founder of the Wiesbaden and Frankfurt art gallery known as KUNSTADAPTER. In Wertheim am Main, he assumed the role of co-curator at the art space ATELIER SCHWAB. Since 2008, he has curated numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad. In addition to his professional pursuits, he has assumed the role of curator for several estates.
Jürgen Strasser, born and raised in Berchtesgadener Land, Germany, studied political science and sociology before working for many years as a budget director at an advertising agency in Frankfurt. In 2013 he switched to photography and since then has been living as a freelance artist in Wiesbaden and Worpswede. He is a member of the Bundesverband bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler (BBK) and an appointed member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh). In 2015 he founded the “RAW Photo Triennale Worpswede”, of which he is still the director. Since 2022 he is responsible for the Wiesbadener Fototage as project manager and artistic director.