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Contact
Mail : Info@louis-roth.de
Instagram : louisroth_
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About
Louis Roth (2001* in Berlin) studied at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin and graduated in 2024. His interest in people's different approaches to life and identities is at the forefront of his projects. Changing visual narrative strategies create a constant tension in his work at the interface between documentation and fiction. Photography is the main tool Louis Roth uses to question the truthfulness of his environment.
He has been nominated for numerous awards, including the LUMA Dummy Award of the Recontres d'Arles (2024), the international Photobookmuseum Dummy Award (2024) and the Nikon Fotobus Grant (2024). He has been awarded the German Youth Photography Prize (2024) and received the LUCIE Foundation Scholarship in the category “Emerging Photojournalism / Documentary” (2024). Louis Roth lives and works in Berlin.
Current and upcoming exhibtions
European Month Of Photography, fata morgana, Haus#1, curated by Ingo Taubhorn, Berlin, DE
fata morgana, DEPOT Dortmund, curated by Steven Natusch and Wilko Meiborg, DE
European Month Of Photography, fata morgana, Haus#1, curated by Ingo Taubhorn, Berlin, DE
European Month Of Photography, fata morgana, Haus#1, curated by Ingo Taubhorn, Berlin, DE
"Stadt aus dem Nichts", fata morgana, ZEIT Magazin (Nr.36 / 2024)
"In den Sand gesetzt", fata morgana, Stern (Nr.3 / 2025)
"Rencontres d'Arles Photobook Dummy Award" 24, fata morgana, LUMA Foundation, Arles, FR
"ACHTZEHN", fata morgana, Konnekt Berlin, DE
Exhibitions
2025
"What Happens In The Meantime?" by Fotobus Society, 30.05. - 21.6. 2025, Maschpark, Hannover, DE
LensCulture New Discoveries at Photo London, 15.05. - 18.05. 2025, Somerset House, London, GBR
Kolga Awards, 02.05.2025, Kolga Tblisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, GE
SOLO: DEPOT, 23.01. - 30.03. 2025, Dortmund, DE
SOLO: Haus 1 by Ingo Taubhorn, 06.03. - 09.03. 2025, European Month Of Photography, Berlin, DE
2024
Los Angeles Center Of Photography, 21.11. - 05.12. 2024, Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles, US
Fotoforum Dresden, 24.10. - 21.11. 2024, Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, Dresden, DE
SOLO: Radar Photo Festival, 03.10 - 06. 10. 2024, Trani, IT
Photo Marseille, 17.10. - 17.11. 2024, Prix Maison Blanche, Marseille, FR
Luma Rencontres d'Arles Dummy Book Award Shortlist, 01.07. - 22.09. 2024, LUMA Foundation, Arles, FR
NRW Forum Düsseldorf, 13.09. - 04.10. 2024, Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, Düsseldorf, DE
Technische Sammlung Dresden, 01.08. - tba 2024, Portraits Hellerau Award, Dresden, DE
Konnekt Berlin, 08.05. - 23.06. 2023, ACHTZEHN - Ostkreuzschool graduation, Berlin, DE
2023
Biennale Jatim, 11.11. - 21.11. 2023, "We Come Seeking In The Burning Summer", Sidoarjo, ID
Gobelins Paris, 09.11. - 08.12. 2023, "Youth, Identity, Territory", Paris, FR
Willi Münzenberg Forum 3rd Prize winner, Franz Mehring Platz 1, Berlin, DE
"Entlang der Oder", Schloss Neuhardenberg, DE
"Entlang der Oder", Paderborn, DE
"Drängende Gegenwart", part of EMOP, Berlin, DE
2022
Solo Exhibition "Biesentales" Wokule, Biesenthal, DE
"Entlang der Oder", Müllrose, DE
"Entlang der Oder", Kurpark Bad Saarow, DE
2021
"Einsamkeit" Einsteinforum, Potsdam, DE
Presentation at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, DE
Young Photo Award - bpp, PHOTOPIA, Hamburg, DE
2020
"Perspektiven", interim used house, Grunewald, Berlin, DE
Selected Publications
2025 SPIEGEL "Ein Tag Krieg" (25/2025)
2025 Stern "Huge, magnificent and rather empty - Egypt's new capital” (fata morgana) (12.02.)
2025 F.A.Z. "Der Cyborg und die Liebe" (fata morgana) (31.01.)
2025 Der Greif Artist Feature + 4 Artist Blogs
2024 24 Edited - OKS and ICP graduates
2024 ZEIT Magazin "Stadt aus dem Nichts" (fata morgana) (Nr. 36 / 2024)
2024 "fata morgana" artist publication, edition of 100
Awards and Grants
True Picture Award 25 - Nomination by Andreas Trampe
Gomma Grant 25 - fata morgana, finalist
Lensculture Emerging Talent Award 24 - fata morgana, winner
Nikon Fotobus Grant 24 - fata morgana, shortlist
Lucie Foundation Photojournalism/Documentary Emerging Scholarship 24 - fata morgana, winner
Artphilein Book Contest 24 – fata morgana, shortlist
LUMA Rencontres d'Arles Dummy Book Award 24 – fata morgana, finalist
Deutscher Jugendfotopreis 24 – fata morgana, prizeholder
Prix Maison Blanche 24 – fata morgana, 2nd prize
Snider Prize 24 – fata morgana, honourable mention
Belfast Photo Festival 24 – fata morgana, highly commended
Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 24 – fata morgana, bronze medal
Radar Festival Open Call 24 – fata morgana, winner
Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award 24 – fata morgana, shortlist
Portraits Hellerau Award 24 – fata morgana, finalist
Kassel Dummy Award 24 – fata morgana, shortlist
VGBK Project-Funding 23/2 – fata morgana, recepient
Youth Identity Territory 23 – Artist Residency by Wisma Jerman and Institut Francais in Indonesia
Willi Münzenberg Art Price 23 – fata morgana, 3rd prize
Young Photo Award bpp 21 – finalist
Education
2024 DOCKS collective Workshop
2021 - 2024 Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie
2021 Canon Student Development Program
2020 - 2021 Assistant at Roy von Elbberg, Elbbergstudio Berlin
Current and upcoming exhibtions
European Month Of Photography, fata morgana, Haus#1, curated by Ingo Taubhorn, Berlin, DE
About
Louis Roth (2001* in Berlin) studied at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin and graduated in 2024. His interest in people's different approaches to life and identities is at the forefront of his projects. Changing visual narrative strategies create a constant tension in his work at the interface between documentation and fiction. Photography is the main tool Louis Roth uses to question the truthfulness of his environment.
He has been nominated for numerous awards, including the LUMA Dummy Award of the Recontres d'Arles (2024), the international Photobookmuseum Dummy Award (2024) and the Nikon Fotobus Grant (2024). He has been awarded the German Youth Photography Prize (2024) and received the LUCIE Foundation Scholarship in the category “Emerging Photojournalism / Documentary” (2024). Louis Roth lives and works in Berlin.
European Month Of Photography, fata morgana, Haus#1, curated by Ingo Taubhorn, Berlin, DE
fata morgana, DEPOT Dortmund, curated by Steven Natusch and Wilko Meiborg, DE
Exhibitions
2025
"What Happens In The Meantime?" by Fotobus Society, 30.05. - 21.6. 2025, Maschpark, Hannover, DE
LensCulture New Discoveries at Photo London, 15.05. - 18.05. 2025, Somerset House, London, GBR
Kolga Awards, 02.05.2025, Kolga Tblisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, GE
SOLO: DEPOT, 23.01. - 30.03. 2025, Dortmund, DE
SOLO: Haus 1 by Ingo Taubhorn, 06.03. - 09.03. 2025, European Month Of Photography, Berlin, DE
2024
Los Angeles Center Of Photography, 21.11. - 05.12. 2024, Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles, US
Fotoforum Dresden, 24.10. - 21.11. 2024, Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, Dresden, DE
SOLO: Radar Photo Festival, 03.10 - 06. 10. 2024, Trani, IT
Photo Marseille, 17.10. - 17.11. 2024, Prix Maison Blanche, Marseille, FR
Luma Rencontres d'Arles Dummy Book Award Shortlist, 01.07. - 22.09. 2024, LUMA Foundation, Arles, FR
NRW Forum Düsseldorf, 13.09. - 04.10. 2024, Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, Düsseldorf, DE
Technische Sammlung Dresden, 01.08. - tba 2024, Portraits Hellerau Award, Dresden, DE
Konnekt Berlin, 08.05. - 23.06. 2023, ACHTZEHN - Ostkreuzschool graduation, Berlin, DE
2023
Biennale Jatim, 11.11. - 21.11. 2023, "We Come Seeking In The Burning Summer", Sidoarjo, ID
Gobelins Paris, 09.11. - 08.12. 2023, "Youth, Identity, Territory", Paris, FR
Willi Münzenberg Forum 3rd Prize winner, Franz Mehring Platz 1, Berlin, DE
"Entlang der Oder", Schloss Neuhardenberg, DE
"Entlang der Oder", Paderborn, DE
"Drängende Gegenwart", part of EMOP, Berlin, DE
2022
Solo Exhibition "Biesentales" Wokule, Biesenthal, DE
"Entlang der Oder", Müllrose, DE
"Entlang der Oder", Kurpark Bad Saarow, DE
2021
"Einsamkeit" Einsteinforum, Potsdam, DE
Presentation at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, DE
Young Photo Award - bpp, PHOTOPIA, Hamburg, DE
2020
"Perspektiven", interim used house, Grunewald, Berlin, DE
fata morgana, ZEIT Magazin (Nr.36 / 2025)
Selected Publications
2025 SPIEGEL "Ein Tag Krieg" (25/2025)
2025 Stern "Huge, magnificent and rather empty - Egypt's new capital” (fata morgana) (12.02.)
2025 F.A.Z. "Der Cyborg und die Liebe" (fata morgana) (31.01.)
2025 Der Greif Artist Feature + 4 Artist Blogs
2024 24 Edited - OKS and ICP graduates
2024 ZEIT Magazin "Stadt aus dem Nichts" (fata morgana) (Nr. 36 / 2024)
LUMA Rencontres d'Arles Photobook Dummy Award Finalist 2024, Luma, Arles, FR
Awards and Grants
True Picture Award 25 - Nomination by Andreas Trampe
Gomma Grant 25 - fata morgana, finalist
Lensculture Emerging Talent Award 24 - fata morgana, winner
Nikon Fotobus Grant 24 - fata morgana, shortlist
Lucie Foundation Photojournalism/Documentary Emerging Scholarship 24 - fata morgana, winner
Artphilein Book Contest 24 – fata morgana, shortlist
LUMA Rencontres d'Arles Dummy Book Award 24 – fata morgana, finalist
Deutscher Jugendfotopreis 24 – fata morgana, prizeholder
Prix Maison Blanche 24 – fata morgana, 2nd prize
Snider Prize 24 – fata morgana, honourable mention
Belfast Photo Festival 24 – fata morgana, highly commended
Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 24 – fata morgana, bronze medal
Radar Festival Open Call 24 – fata morgana, winner
Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award 24 – fata morgana, shortlist
Portraits Hellerau Award 24 – fata morgana, finalist
Kassel Dummy Award 24 – fata morgana, shortlist
VGBK Project-Funding 23/2 – fata morgana, recepient
Youth Identity Territory 23 – Artist Residency by Wisma Jerman and Institut Francais in Indonesia
Willi Münzenberg Art Price 23 – fata morgana, 3rd prize
Young Photo Award bpp 21 – finalist
fata morgana, "ACHTZEHN", Graduation from Ostkreuzschule, Konnekt Berlin, DE
Education
2024 DOCKS collective Workshop
2021 - 2024 Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie
2021 Canon Student Development Program
2020 - 2021 Assistant at Roy von Elbberg, Elbbergstudio Berlin