Maria Sturm Photography

ABOUT

BIO

Born 1985 in Ploiesti, Romania. Grew up in Augsburg, Germany.
Interned at Milk Studios and Creative Exchange Agency, New York in 2011.
Graduated with a Diploma in Photography and Media from University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld in 2012 with the work Be Good.
Worked as an assitant at Soothing Shade in 2013, at Robert Morat Schauraum Berlin in 2013/14 and as a freelance producer for Vice in 2015. Received a Fulbright Scholarship and DAAD for studying Photography at Rhode Island School of Design between 2015 and 2017.
Graduated with a MFA in photography in 2017 with the work "You don't look Native to me"

Based in Berlin, Germany

AWARDS

Shortlist Guernsey Photography Festival with For Birds' Sake
Shortlist Book Dummy Award La Fábrica X Photo London with “You don't look Native to me”
Finalist Vonovia Award for Photography, Best Series with “You don't look Native to me”
Finalist Renaissance Photography Prize with For Birds' Sake
Shortlist Prix Levallois with For Birds' Sake
Winner SPE Student Award for Innovations in Imaging 2017 for "You don't look Native to me"
Nominated for Lead Awards 2016, Category Architecture and Stilllive-Photography of the Year with For Birds' Sake
Selected for Organ Vida International Photography Festival Zagreb with For Birds' Sake
Invited to Bitume Photofest Lecce with For Birds' Sake
Shortlisted for Prix du Livre d'Auteur - Les Rencontres d'Arles 2016 with For Birds' Sake
Received RISD Graduate Studies Grant for You don't look Native to me
Received DAAD Scholarship 2016/2017
Nominted for Henri-Nannen-Preis 2016 with For Birds' Sake
Selected for Fotoistanbul 2015 - Beşiktaş International Festival of Photography with For Birds' Sake
Nominated for Paraty Em Foco Festival Brasil with For Birds' Sake
Winner DOCfield Dummy Award with Be Good
Finalist at PHE OjodePez Award for Human Values 2015 with For Birds' Sake
Selected for PHE Descubrimientos in 2015 with Be Good
Received RISD Fellowship and Graduate Division Fellowship 2015/2016
Received Fulbright Scholarship 2015/16
Finalist Open Call Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Cabo Verde 2014 with “For Birds' Sake”
3rd place at Photo Annual Awards 2014 in two categories with Common and Uncommon Places in Israel and Be Good
Nominated for Joop Swart Masterclass 2014
Selected Portfoliowalk Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Shortlist Athens Photo Festival 2013
Finalist at 54th edition of Bourse du Talent with Be Good
Finalist Der Stern - Junge Fotografie scholarship
Shortlisted for Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2013 in two categories with Be Good and Perception Systems
Winner New York Photo Awards 2012, student photobook category with Be Good
3rd place Erstwerk 2012 competition - Institut für Buchgestaltung with Be Good
Finalist Erstwerk 2012 competition - Institut für Buchgestaltung with Urban Farming in New York
Residency and workshop with Magnum photographer Antoine d'Agata, Atelier de Visu Marseille 2012
Shortlist Leica Prize, European schools Photography Award, Royal College of Art London with Country Roads

EXHIBITIONS

2018
“You don't look Native to me” – Aperture Summer Open, Aperture Gallery New York
“You don't look Native to me” – Mo[t]us Operandi by Minimum Palermo at Manifesta 12
“You don't look Native to me” – Mint Collective Screening at Lumix Festival Hannover
Be Good – Ostlook, Vorwerkstift e.V. during Triennial of Photography Hamburg
“You don't look Native to me” – Contemporary Art Ruhr C.A.R. Talente, Zeche Zollverein Essen
“You don't look Native to me” – Vonovia Award, Technisches Rathaus Bochum
For Birds' Sake – Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Osthang Darmstadt
“You don't look Native to me” – La Fabrica Dummy Book Award at PhotoLondon
Be Good – Becoming: Cure as Care at Daire Gallery Istanbul

2017
“You don't look Native to me” – Outono Fotográfico at Museo Municipal de Ourense

For Birds' Sake – Renaissance Photography Prize at Getty Images Gallery London

“You don't look Native to me” – Encontros da Imagem

“You don't look Native to me” – Wiesbadener Fototage

For Birds' Sake – Modern Ornithologies at Pickford House Format Festival Derby

“You don't look Native to me” – DAAD Art Show The Consulate of Germany, NY

2016
For Birds' Sake – Haus am Lützlowplatz during European Month of Photography Berlin

Visualleader – Deichtorhallen Hamburg

For Birds' Sake – Organ Vida International Photography Festival Zagreb

For Birds' Sake – Bitume Photofest Lecce

Be Good – The Folio Club Barcelona

For Birds' Sake – Pavlov's Dog Berlin

For Birds' Sake – La Fábrica Madrid

For Birds' Sake – Daire Gallery Istanbul

2015
Fotoistanbul 2015 Beşiktaş International Festival of Photography

KIJK Papers 2015 Warte für Kunst Kassel

DOCfield Dummy Award The Folio Club

PHE Descubrimientos PIC.A Escuela Internacional Alcobendas

2014
№4 Über Dialog Alte Stadtbibliothek Bielefeld

Open Call Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Cabo Verde 2014 Ep. 1874 M_EIA Cabo Verde

Be Good at Polycopies Bookmarket during Paris Photo via Fotobuchantiquariat Hermann Lohss

Of Nurture and Nomads – The Adventures Of Berlin

Open Portfolio Voies Off Arles

Vienna Photobook Festival AnzenbergerGallery, OstLicht. Galerie für Fotografie, Galerie Hilger NEXT, Galerie Photon

Photo Annual Awards 2014 Final Wall Gallery in Teplice, Czech Republic

You Know What I'm Seeing? An International Photography Group Exhibition by Gallery Carte Blanche San Francisco a.Muse Gallery San Francisco

Identität. Positionen junger Fotokunst aus OWL Robert-Koepke-Haus Schieder-Schwalenberg

Nachteule Productions - Eins invited by Kunstverein Xanten Drei-Giebel-Haus Xanten

Der Greif - A Process Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus Augsburg

2013
DFA Portfoliowalk Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Portrait Salon 2013 White Cloth Gallery Leeds

Photobook Club Barcelona El Observatorio Barcelona

Buchkunst Heute: Die schönsten deutschen Bücher Stadtbibliothek Bielefeld

Saxa Arts & Books Group Show The Lighthouse Glasgow

All Self-Publishing The Private Space Barcelona

Kolga Tblissi Photo 2013 Mtatsminda Park - Underwheel Club - Under the Ferris Wheel Tiflis

Maria Sturm - Be Good Genc Fotograf Inisiyatifi Istanbul

Marseille vu par 100 photogrpahes du monde Bibliothèque Départementale Marseille

Of the Afternoon Release + Exhibition Underground Gallery London

Erstwerk 2012 Leipziger Buchmesse

Photobookshow E John Hansard Gallery Central, Southampton

2012
Leica Prize 2011 Dyson Building, Royal College of Art London

New York Photo Awards Powerhouse Arena New York during Dumbo Arts Festival

Rang und Namen Release + Exhibition MZIN Leipzig, das Magazin Hamburg, Stackstone Gallery Berlin, Gaswerk Weimar

Werkschau 2012 Faculty of Art and Design Bielefeld

Projection workshop Antoine d’Agata Atelier de Visu Marseille

2011
Adams Gärten Essential Existence Gallery Leipzig

The other side - Photography from eastern Europe 31. Bielefelder Fotosymposium, Faculty of Art and Design Bielefeld

Don't lose the juice Faculty of Art and Design Bielefeld

2010
Figuring out, taking shape, facing in with Dr. Wiebke Leister, Well Gallery London College of Communication

Not yet titled curatorial project with Goesta Dierks, Westwerk e.V. Hamburg

Photomeetings Luxembourg Konschthaus beim Engel and Musée d'Histoire de la ville de Luxembourg

Hanoi Ahoi! Faculty of Art and Design Bielefeld

2009
Wodka, Peter und Paul Faculty of Art and Design Bielefeld

2007
Maria Sturm - Portarits Storyboard Shop Münster

IN PRINT

11Freunde ☀︎ American Indian Culture and Research Journal ☀︎ brand eins ☀︎ Brigitte ☀︎ British Journal of Photography ☀︎ dienacht

DKMS & you ☀︎ El Paìs ☀︎ Eltern ☀︎ fluter ☀︎ Der Greif ☀︎ intro ☀︎ Missy Magazine ☀︎ Nido ☀︎ Of the Afternoon ☀︎ Pop. Kultur & Kritik

Rang und Namen Magazine ☀︎ Stadtleben ☀︎ Der Stern ☀︎ Stifterverbandsmagazin ☀︎ SUB25 ☀︎ Temp Magazine ☀︎ Traum Noir Magazine

What We Do ☀︎ Weisz auf Schwarz ☀︎ Weltkunst ☀︎ W&V ☀︎ Die Zeit ☀︎ ZEITmagazin

RADIO INTERVIEWS (R) + ARTIST TALKS (AT)

R - Hertz 87.9 Campusradio - Der Morgen

AT - University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
AT - Beyond the Ring Berlin
AT - Fototreff Berlin
AT - UNC at Pembroke
R - DRadio Wissen - Early Bird

R - Kulturradio rbb - Zeitpunkte Magazin
R - Multicult FM - Sternstunde
AT - İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS

GUP Magazine
KieKie Krant
Firecracker
Collector Daily
Photonews
The Guardian
Vice ES

Colors Magazine

British Journal of Photography
Firecracker
Landscape Stories - Mountain Issue

Gallery Carte Blanche
Lens Culture
Feature Shoot
Josef Chladek
Paper Journal
Geo - Junge Fotografie
Fotovisura - Photo of the day
Landscape Stories- Vietnam Issue
Emerge Mag
Photgraphic Museum of Humanity
Der Greif
Vice RO
Conscientious
Interspace Tel Aviv
Ostlook
Self Publish, Be Happy
Wandering Bears Collective
Indie Photobook Library
Gingergroup
Sub25
Oitzarisme
Design made in Germany
Production Paradise
Giant Wave Crests
Say Whale
Entopic Group
ffffound
Hide and Seek Gallery
Contact Editions
(Not) Common People
Love Issue
Photoworks
Not Content
This Photo That
Zane Davis - Plane of Focus
Deadporcupine Mag
LPV Magazine
Urbanautica
Positive Magazine
Mull It Over
One Giant Arm
Fluster Magazine
Deer Brains
Feature Shoot
The Sonic Blog