Nanna Heitmann (b. 1994 in Ulm, Germany) is a documentary photographer and a Magnum associate, who is currently based in Moscow, Russia. In addition to reporting on current events, particularly in Russia, her work often looks at the way people respond to and interact with their environment: She has reported on the effects of climate change and the catastrophic forest fires in Siberia, the lungs of the world: The peatlands of the Congo Basin, but also the lives of people living along the remote benches of the Yenisei River.
She has received awards that include the World Press Photo Award, the Olivier Rebbot Award and the Leica Oscar Barnack Newcomer Award, Worldpress Photo, as well as the Ian Parry Award of Achievement and has been listed on “The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch”. Heitmann’s work has been published by National Geographic, TIME Magazine, M Le Magazine du Monde among others and she works on assignments for outlets including The New York Times and the New Yorker among others.
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Awards / Grants
2022 World Press Photo, Europe, Stories
2021 America’s Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic news reporting from abroad in any medium
2020 The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch 2020
2020 Honorable Mention | PHmuseum 2020 Women Photographers Grant
2020 shortlist W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
2020 Joop Swart Masterclass Participant
2019 Ian Parry – Award for Achievement
2019 Winner of Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award
2019 PHmuseum Photography Grant- new generation prize, honorable mention
2019 shortlist Gomma Grant
2018 Vogue Italia Prize at the PH Museum women photographers grant
2018 Lensculture- Emerging Talents, shortlisted
2018 Vonovia Award für Fotografie, newcomer prize
2018 shortlisted for PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant – Verzasca FOTO Prize
2018 student award winner of World.Report Award 2018 | Documenting Humanity
2018 Magenta Foundation- Top 100
2018 Shortlisted for Kolga Award, Georgia
2018 First prize Forum Geschichtskultur an Ruhr und Escher e.V.
2018 Rovinj Photodays final selection
2018 Riga Photomonth Selection, Latvia
2018 Belgrade New Talent Award
2017 BFF- Förderpreis
2016 Dating ohne Date | Juliane Bartel Medienpreis – Online Video
2015 German Youth Photo Prize, Germany
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Solo Shows
2021 The Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
2020 Zingst, Leica Gallery
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Group Shows
2021 “Essere Umane – Le grandi fotografe raccontano il mondo”, Museo San Domenico di Forlì, Italy
2021 Paris Photo
2020 Photo London- online
2020 Capitis Studios / Berlin
2020 Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, As They See Us. A Portrait of Russia by the Magnum Agency
2020 Outdoor exhibition on the Pandemic, Moscow, Vdnkh
2019 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin
2019 Landau, Strieffler Haus
2019 Perpignan off
2019 Cortona on the Move, Italy
2019 Red hook Labs, Brooklyn
2019 Voies off Award, Arles (screening)
2019 Kunstmuseum Bochum
2019 Kommunale Gallerie, Berlin
2018 Klompching Gallery – LensCulture 2018 Emerging Talent Award, NYC
2018 Festival della Fotografia Etica, Lodi, Italy
2018 Triennale der Photographie, Hamburg
2018 Photokina- BFF Förderpreis, Cologne, Germany
2018 Pixel Projekt Ruhr, Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen
2018 Kolga Tblisi Award, Tblisi, Georgia
2018 Riga Photo Month, Riga, Latvia (screening)
2018 Rovinj Photodays (screening)
2018 Belgrade Photomonth
2017 German Youth Photo Award, Forum Gestaltung, Magdeburg, Germany
2016 Die Provinz aus neuer Sicht(group) | Pix. House – Ort für Fotografie in Poznan, Polen
2015 Linden Leben | Kulturhalle Faust in Hannover
2015 German Youth Photo Award, photokina, Cologne, Germany
2015 German Youth Photo Award, Haus der Geschichte, Berlin, Germany
