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 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

Awards
2018 nominated at the "11th int' Color Awards" category wildlife with "Lonely Horse"
2018 nominated at the "11th int' Color Awards" category architecture with "Ziesar Medieval Castle Church"
2018 finalist of the "11th POLLUX AWARDS" - ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS with a series on "Medieval Churches of Brandenburg"
2017 nominated at the "10th Int' Color Awards" category prof. architecture with "Havelberg Cathedral"
2017 Honorable Mention at the "Int' Photography Arwards" category architecture with "Cologne Cathedral" 2016 nominated at the "9th int' Color Awards" category FineArt with "Fairies Dance" 2015 Bronze medal at Epson PanoAwards with "Fairies"
2015 Lensculture Street Photographie Award, last 50, with "Ecstasy"
2015 Black Spider Awards, nominee category "People" with "The Years After" 2014 nominated at the "8th Int' Color Awards" category FineArt with "What Remains?"
2013 Bronze medal at Epson PanoAwards with "Reichstagspanorama"

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, Potsdam
2017 Ein Tag Berlin - 30 Jahre danach ¬ Gemeinschaftsausstellung, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin
2017 Rückblende 2016 ¬ Landesvertretung Rheinland-Pfalz, Berlin, Bonn, Mainz, Leipzig, München, Brüssel u.a.
2017 Bitte Warten ¬ Gemeinschaftsausstellung zu Flucht und Vertreibung, Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen
2017 Die Herzlichkeit des Augenblicks¬ Einzelausstellung, Katharinenhof, Berlin
2017 Neue Nachbarn in Schönwalde ¬ Einzelausstellung, Refugium, Schönwalde-Siedlung
2016 Angekommen?! ¬ Gemeinschaftsausstellung zu Flucht und Vertreibung, Landesvertretung Rheinland-Pfalz, Berlin
2016 Unter Druck! Politik und Medien ¬ Haus der Geschichte, Bonn
2016 24 Stunden Neukölln ¬ Kunstfestival, Berlin
2015 25 Jahre friedliche Revolution ¬ Historische Bilder, Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Potsdam
2015 60 zum 60. - 60 Darstellungen des gleichen Modells ¬ Antiform, Kunsthalle, Siegburg
2015 Gute Fotos - Guter Zweck ¬ Benefizausstellung zu Gunsten der FREELENS Foundation, Hamburg
2015 Ein Tag Deutschland ¬ Gemeinschaftsausstellung FREELENS e.V. in Kabul (Afghanistan), Dhaka (Pakistan) und Dongguan (China)