Contact

call: +49 1577 577 30 56

mail: rafael@heygster.net

Bio

Rafael Heygster (1990) is a freelance photographer and journalist based between Hannover and Bremen, Germany.

From 2010 to 2015 he stu­died cultural anthropology and political sciences at the Uni­ver­sity of Hamburg. Since 2015 he studies photojournalism and documentary photography at the Uni­ver­sity of App­lied Sci­en­ces and Arts Hannover and at DMJX in Aarhus. In 2020 he has been appointed as a member of DGPH - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.

In his longterm projects, he focu­ses on the relation between individuals and their social, cultural and political environment. Rafael Heygster is available for editorial or corporate assignments and collaborations both domestically and international.

clients & publications (selected):

ZEIT | STERN | SPIEGEL | Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin | GEO Wissen | Manager Magazin | Focus | 11 Freunde | Business Punk | chrismon | DUMMY | FAZ Woche | fluter | Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung | LFI Magazine

British Journal of Photography (GB) | Financial Times (GB) | Society (FR) | fisheye Magazine (FR) | Internazionale (IT) | de Correspondent (NL) | Republik (CH)

Ferrari | Richard Mille | Amnesty International | Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung | Goethe Institut | VW PowerCo | Deutscher Caritas Verband | Museum der Arbeit  | Insel Borkum | KfW Bank | Deichbrand Festival | Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg | Literarischer Salon | Reporter ohne Grenzen | C3

Awards and mentions (selected)

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Exhibitions (selected):

2023

  • “I died 22 Times”, Leica Gallery, Rencontres d’Arles, France

2022

  • Corona Rhapsody, Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Ireland

  • “I died 22 times” , Festival Circulations, Paris, France

  • Corona Rhapsody, KCCC, Klaipeda, Lithuania

  • “I died 22 Times”, Wiesbadener Fototage, Germany

2021

  • Corona Rhapsody, Gulliver Center, Kyiv, Ukraine

  • Corona Rhapsody, Neimenster, Luxemburg

  • Corona Rhapsody, Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen

  • “I died 22 times” Kulturhaus Mestlin, Mestlin

  • Corona Rhapsody, Goethe Exil, Hannover

  • Corona Rhapsody, PHmusem Days 2021, Bologna, Italy

  • Corona Rhapsody, GAF Eisfabrik, Hannover

  • Corona Rhapsody, Fotofestiwal Łódź, Poland

  • Corona Rhapsody, Technische Sammlung Dresden

  • “I died 22 times”, Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, in Kibbutz Lohamei Ha'Getaot, Israel.

  • Corona Rhasody, Glocksee, solo exhibition, Hannover

2020

  • “I died 22 times”, Photo Is:rael, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Corona Rhapsody, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Greece

  • “Würde Wahren”, Bauwerkhalle, solo exibition, Oldenburg, Germany

  • Bird in Flight, Kviv, Ukraine

  • Corona Rhapsody, International Photography Symposium, Nida, Latvia

  • “I died 22 times”, LUMIX Festival, Hannover

  • Corona Rhapsody, Goethe Exil Screening, Hannover

  • “I died 22 times”, RAW Photo Triennale Worpswede, Galerie altes Rathaus, Worpswede

  • “Würde wahren”, Galerie im Park, solo exhibition, Bremen

  • “I died 22 times” IAFOR academic conferences in: Tokyo, Japan / London, UK / Barcelona, Spain / Kyoto, Japan / Hong Kong, China

  • “Theater des Lebens”, GAF Eisfrabrik, group exhibition, Hannover

  • “I died 22 times”, Atelier Amore, group exhibition, Dortmund

2019

  • “I died 22 times”, Galerie Joseph, group Exhibition, Paris, France

  • “I died 22 times”, Les rencontres de la photographie, Marrakech, Morocco

  • “Head on Photo Awards Portrait Prize”, group exhibition, PIP, Piango, China

  • “30 Jahre Mauerfall”, group exhibition, OKS, Berlin

  • “I died 22 times”, Leica Oscar Barnack Award” group Exhibition, Neue Schule für Fotografie, Berlin

  • “Steam Machine Learning”, Industrie- & Handelskammer Karlsruhe

  • “I died 22 times”, Der neue BFF Förderpreis, group exhibition, Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe

  • “I died 22 times”, group exhibition, VISA OFF/ / visa pour l’image, Perpignan, France

  • “I died 22 times”, screening, Rencontres d’Arles, France

  • “I died 22 times”, screening, Rencontres d’Arles, France

  • “I died 22 times”, Der neue BFF Förderpreis, group exhibition, Umweltfotofestival Horizonte Zingst, Zingst

  • “Head on Photo Awards Portrait Prize”, group exhibition, Head on Photo Festival, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney, Australia

  • “I died 22 times” solo exhibition, pretzel 1724, Dresden

  • “identity courage love”, group Exhibition, Düsseldorf Photoweekend, Düsseldorf

  • “Aussenseiter - oder doch nicht?”, talk, Sonntags-matinee at World Press Photo Exhibition, Oldenburg

  • “I died 22 times”, Hellerau Photography Awards, group exhibition, Pumpenhaus, Dresden

  • “I died 22 times”, “Identity spots”, group exhibition, GAF, Hannover

  • “Die Diskreditierten", group exhibition, Kunsthaus, Hamburg

2018

  • “I died 22 times”, solo exhibition, VGH Gallerie, Hannover

  • “Die Diskreditierten", group exhibition, FC St.-Pauli Museum, Hamburg

  • “youth in Europe”, group exhibition, Monschau

  • “Daily Life”, group exhibition, visa OFF / visa pour l’image, Perpignan, France

  • "Julitage in Hamburg", solo exhibition, Arbeitnehmerkammer, Bremen

  • "Die Diskreditierten", group exhibition, Millerntorgallery, Hamburg

  • "G20", group exhibition, Gallerie Speckstrasse, Hamburg

  • "Die Diskreditierten", group exhibition, DJU Journalistentag ver.di Bundesverwaltung, Berlin

2017

  • "Die Diskreditierten", group exhibition, La Marmite, Berlin

  • "G20 in Hamburg - Polizeistaat oder Stadt ohne Polizei?", group exhibition, ver.di, Hannover

  • "Inside Goethe Exil", group exhibition, Goethe Exil, Hannover

  • "DAS KAPITAL", Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg

  • "wir müssen leider draußen bleiben", group exhibition, Gallerie Speckstrasse, Hamburg

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