philosophy
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“It’s not about the beauty of what you see, it’s about what it makes you feel.”
To capture a scene with my camera is to reinvent what is already there. Creating an image takes observation and imagination: it’s not all about what you see in the first moment - it is also about what you feel in this moment.
Bio
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Nicole Struppert’s photographic work focuses on geometric and minimalistic compositions and candid reportage photography. Her photographs are a testimony to her eye for form, composition and the observation of contemporary life.
Her architectural photography is atypical in its abstraction. Rather than showing wide-angle views, she focuses on the details in the designs. Fascinated by reading forms she takes small fragments of architecture out of context, recreates the subject and space to reveal a new meaning.
In 2019 she started to explore the visual narratives found in nature and landscapes to explore the transition and change of the journey in life.
Between 2012 and 2017 she worked on a long term documentary project about Shoreditch in East London.
Besides her personal and commercial work she has worked as a freelance photographer for the dpa:picture alliance, where she captured life around the Olympic Games 2012 London, and the US elections 2012.
In 2018 and 2023 Struppert was co-author of the book "Streetfotografie - Made in Germany" by the Rheinwerk Verlag. The book offers insights to inspire photographers who are interested in street photography.
Nicole Struppert (Germany, b. 1969) lives in Munich. She is an official Leica Photographer and Partner of the Leica Camera AG.
PUBLICATIONS & INTERVIEWS
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2020 Podcast Interview, create.Photography
2020 Interview, The Phoblographer
2019 Interview, Ideal Work
2018 Interview, fotoPro Magazine Edition 13
2017 Interview, Photo Presse Magazin, Die Kunst der klaren Linien
2017 LFI Magazine NO. 08/2017
2016 Podcast Interview, The Candid Frame
2016 The Phoblographer - 30 Inspiring Street Photographers to motivate you to shoot in 2016
2015 Interview Leica Blog, One Shot with Nicole Struppert
2015 The Phoblographer, Finding geometry in Street Photography
2015 Made in Shoreditch, Tales on Shoreditch: Finding Beauty in the Everyday
GRANTS & AWARDS
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2019 Jury Member Photography Award, German Street Photography Festival
2017 Guest Curator Women in Street, Street Minimalism
2015 Winner/ Kujaja "Architecture Award" August
2014 Nomination Public Award / Bundesstiftung Baukultur "People & Spaces"
2014 Mark of Excellence Award / I shot it "Black & White Competition“
EXHIBITIONS
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023 Munich, “Urban Zenplicity” - Leica Store, Brienner Strasse
2019 Berlin, Berlin Photo Week
2019 Munich, Gasteig “Die Menschen der Münchener Tafel”
2019 Hamburg, Street Photography Festival “Mein Kiez”
2016 Munich, “Das Bild Münchens”
2009 London, Disappering, MA Show
2009 Belfast, Catalyst Arts
Books
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2023 “Streetfotografie, Made in Germany“, updated version - Rheinwerk Verlag
2018 “Streetfotografie, Made in Germany“, Rheinwerk Verlag