JURY OPEN CALL 2025
Nicole Ahland,born in Trier in 1970, studied fine art at the Academy of Fine Arts at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in the photography class of Prof. Dr. Vladimir Spacek. Ahland’s large-format photographs focus on light and space. She has been building up an archive of analog photographs of interiors for over 20 years. Her photographic works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Europe and the USA. She lives and works in Wiesbaden and Kaiserslautern.
Andrea Diefenbach (*1974) is a German photographer from Wiesbaden. Since graduating from Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in 2006, she has been working on her own photo book and exhibition projects as well as on commissions from German and international institutions and magazines. Her work has been exhibited at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Folkwang Museum Essen, the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Mannheim and the Münchner Stadtmuseum, among others. She has received several awards and scholarships for her critical and incisive reflections on social situations. In 2024, she was awarded the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize of the German Photographic Society (DGPh). From 2016 to 2022, Andrea Diefenbach taught photography at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts for six years. She has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen since September 2022.
Kim Engels, born and raised in Mainz, founded the frauen museum wiesbaden together with others after studying law and completing her legal clerkship in Wiesbaden and Darmstadt. For the past 40 years, she has focused on diversity-sensitive cultural mediation in a museum context. She has curated several photo exhibitions. She has been involved in the cooperation with the Wiesbadener Fototage from the very beginning. She experiments with photography from analog to digital.
Daniel Oschatz, born in 1962, comes from a 3rd generation family of photographers. After training as a photographer in Wiesbaden, he studied photography and film design at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts and subsequently passed a master’s examination in photography at the Heinz Bindseil School in Hamburg. Daniel Oschatz is 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 Industry and Commerce and is a member of Freelens. Daniel Oschatz lives in Wiesbaden.
Marc Peschke,born in 1970, lives in Wertheim am Main and Wiesbaden. He studied art history, comparative literature and ethnology, works as an art historian, journalist and copywriter, and also as a curator and art consultant for print and online media, PR and advertising agencies, artists, museums, galleries and offices. He has been involved with photography and photographic art since his studies, also works as a freelance curator and was co-owner and co-founder of the photo art gallery KUNSTADAPTER in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt am Main. In Wertheim am Main he was co-curator of the art space ATELIER SCHWAB. Since 2008, he has curated numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad. He also looks after several estates.
Jürgen Strasser, born and raised in Berchtesgadener Land, worked for many years as a budget director in a Frankfurt advertising agency after studying political science and sociology. In 2013, he switched to photography and has lived as an autonomous visual artist in Wiesbaden and Worpswede ever since. 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 today. He has been responsible for the Wiesbadener Fototage as project manager and artistic director since 2022.