Frank Riemenschneider is a German photographer and writer.
He comes to photography early, growing up in Jena in the shadow of the Carl Zeiss works and finding his first access to the medium through his grandfather. Over time, photography stays. Writing does too.
After Mensch Alpen, he looks for a new project that can carry him further. At first, the idea is simple: a photo project, centered on portraits. What begins as the idea for a photo project changes shape once people begin to tell their stories.
That shift becomes IMMIGRANTS.
Portraiture remains at the core, but conversation and text become part of the work itself. Photography and writing, two things that matter to him, begin to move together. The project grows chapter by chapter from that combination.
IMMIGRANTS is not interested in reducing migration to a category, a headline or an argument. It stays with individual lives, contradictions, decisions, losses, departures and arrivals. Some stories begin in flight. Others in love, work, art, sport, family, hope, chance or necessity. What they share is movement across borders, countries, languages and systems.
Riemenschneider works with constructed light, close portraiture and narrative form. The result is neither pure documentation nor self-contained fiction. It is a body of photographic and written work shaped by encounter, attention and authorship.
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