Markus Schnabel

I can't get humanity, so I make pictures.
Documentary photography. Urban stories in one frame. Mostly blackwhite.

Latest Awards:

2023: New York Photography Awards Professional, Silver Winner Nature Photography/Seacape

2023: Trieste Photo Days: Curated with 2 photos for the project "71% - the state of water"

2021: New York Photography Awards Professional 2021, Silver Winner Editorial Photography for "I can't breathe"

2020, ND AWARDS PROFESSIONAL:
Best of 20 for my series "I can't breathe" in Editorial/Documentary

2020: 3rd place in contest "Freedom" by PHOTOGRAPHIE (magazine) and OFFENBLENDE (agency).

My grandfather built lenses for ZEISS, my mother worked as a photo laboratorian. So the photography was a kind of put into my cradle.

Before starting to work as a photographer 2005 I became an educated journalist and had been working 12 years as an editor & producer for a big european tv station (RTL).

Photography and videography for me is about moments, moods and atmospheres. I love to shoot documentary in a minimalistic and cinematic style while being part of real situations. Authentic moments are resulting in authentic pictures.

Frame the picture, not your mind.

2023: 2 photos at Trieste Photo Days, 71% - The state of water
2019: T&D, Cologne
2018: Cranachzentrum, Cologne
2017: Cafe DiMi, Cologne