For a long time my life felt like one long string of layovers. I had an infinite curiosity about the world, and was constantly on the move to explore it.
For over ten years and across four continents I have been enacting the motto „ If you can dream it, you can do it“.
I use images as metaphors for my dreams and memories to describe ostensibly intermediate states as constants.
A sort of vacuum emerges, you literally become lost in your thoughts and observations and end up beeing in a bizarre result. With these images I create a world apart—one that allows for the constant search of the unsee
Anna Katharina Zeitler has taken part in exhibitions at relevant institutions for contemporary photography all over the world including the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Museum of Sydney, the Pingyao China International Photography Festival and the Wiesbadener Fototage.
Her first monograph „ If you can dream it, you can do it“ was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2019. The booklaunch coincided with a Solo Museum Exhibition at the Munich City Museum.
Since 2017 she has been teaching workshops with children and adolescents at the Berlin State Museums.
Awards 2017 Finalists Head on Portrait Award 2017, University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney, Australia
2016 No shoes to dance with, Photokina, Cologne,Germany
2015 No shoes to dance with, GuatePhoto, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2015 No shoes to dance with, Head on Photography Festival, Sydney, Australia
AWARDS
2019 American Photography 35, New York, USA (winner)
2019 Silver Award San Francisco Bay International Photography Competition (winner)
2018 Month of Photography Bratislava, Slovakia (finalist)
2018 Athens Fotofestival, Athen, Greece (shortlisted)
2017 Head on Portrait Award, Sydney, Australia (finalist)
2017 Athens Fotofestival, Athen, Greece (shortlisted)
2017 Studio Award Acci Gallery, Berkeley, USA (winner)
2017 Urban 2017 Photo Awards, Trieste, Italy (finalist)
2016 Athens Fotofestival, Athen, Greece (shortlisted)
2016 International Emerging Artist Award, Dubai, United Arabic Emirates (honorable Mention)
2016 Lucie Foundation The analogue portrait project, Los Angeles, USA (winner)
2015 Prix de la photographie, Paris, France (winner)
2015 Moscow Photography Award, Moscow, Russia (winner)
2015 American Photography 31, New York, USA (winner)
2015 Photo Independent Best in Show, Los Angeles, USA (winner)
2015 Athens Fotofestival, Athen, Greece (shortlisted)
2015 Denver Month of Photography, Spark Gallery Focus Show, Denver, USA (winner)
2015 Denver Month of Photography, Truth & Perception Athena Projects, Denver, USA (winner)
2015 Solo Exhibition Prize PH21 Gallery (shortlisted)
2014 Head on Photography Festival 2015 (nominated)
2012 Martin Lagois Fotoprice (finalist)
