Rainer Steussloff

Rainer F. Steußloff has been taking photographs since he was 6 years old. As a child he roamed the landscape along the Ems river, later commissioned by major German and international magazines to do so in Asia and Europe. In the 1990s he travelled extensively in the crisis regions between Kurdistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia and North Korea. The pictures taken there were published in magazines such as Der Spiegel, Stern, Die Zeit, NewYorkTimes and Newsweek. In recent years he has concentrated on longer-term, more complex topics. These led him to India, Ethiopia, Morocco, Israel, Jordan and Turkey. His works have been shown in various exhibitions and honoured with international prizes.

Professional work since 1980, 1985 founded Joker PhotoAgency (Bonn) and from
2005 Intro: Photoagency in Berlin as my own agency.
2008 FREELENS, german photographer association, regional leader in Berlin and since
2011 till 2022 member of the board
2011 the Contemporary Art Gallery Extro, Berlin Weissensee
2015 Picture editing for SwissRe Institute - RDS (Risk Dialog Series) Magazine and magazine of the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue
2016 Curator of the photo project "Please wait !?" on flight and expulsion
2018 Curator Exhibition BorderLine - EMOP, Gallery Die Wellenmaschine
2020 curator exhibition Dirty Laundry - EMOP 2020, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain
2018 to 2020 Jury member RÜCKBLENDE- the German prize for political photography
2020 Takeover of the historical picture archive by the Robert-Havemann-Society
2021 Research grant from VG Bild-Kunst
2021 Neustart Kultur - scholarship through the Kulturwerk of VG BildKunst
2021 New Neighbors from Schönwalde - project funding by the state of Brandenburg
2021 Adoption of the series Miners' Protests Duisburg 1991 into the Pixelprojekt_Ruhrgebiet
2023 Jury member BAGSO photo competition - Old and colorful ... so what?

2023 Rückblende - Prize for Political Photography ¬ Exhibition with New Neighbors from Schönwalde and Refugee Children from Ukraine in Berlin, Mainz, Leipzig, Bonn, Brussels ...
2023 Meal time, Germany! ¬ House of Pleasure - Koblenz
2023 Throwaway. The History of a Modern Crisis. ¬ House of European History ¬ Brussels
2022 Artists kiss administration ¬ Schönwalde-Glien Town Hall
2022 New neighbors from Schönwalde ¬ Rathenow
and Schönwalde-Glien
2021 New Neighbors - Welcome Initiative ¬ Superintendent's Office Falkensee
2021 New Neighbors ¬ Schloss Neuhardenberg - Exhibition Brandenburg Art Award
2021 Miners' Protests Duisburg 1991 ¬ Pixelprojekt_Ruhrgebiet - Science Park Gelsenkirchen
2020 Dirty Laundry ¬ EMOP 2020 - Photo Gallery Friedrichshain, Berlin
2020 Meal time, Germany! ¬ Hessenpark Neu-Anspach
2018 wildes wiederholen. material von unten ¬ Künstlerische Forschung im Archiv der DDR-Opposition, District Berlin
2018 Weekend - 3 Fotografen ¬ Ausstellung Kulturmühle Perwenitz
2018 BorderLine ¬ Europäischer Monat der Photography, Galerie Die Wellenmaschine, Berlin
2018 ISLAM IN EUROPA ¬ Ausstellung der Preisträger des zenith Photo Award 2017, Museum in der Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
2017 ART Brandenburg ¬ Kunstmesse, ...