Arved Gintenreiter
Biography
Arved Gintenreiter is a photographer and journalist with a focus on emotional storytelling. Confronted with the question, how to adapt fact-based knowledge and information transfer to a partisan post-truth reality, he transforms complex contemporary environmental, social, and political subjects into audio-visual information experiences.
Born 1975 in Furstenfeldbruck, Germany, he spent the first decade of his childhood abroad, mainly in Pakistan and Turkey, navigating diverse cultures, conflicting norms, and opposing points of view. Taking this tension as a source of inspiration, he still lives and works nomadically.
Soon after returning to Germany 1985, in his teens he was given a Minolta SLR by his aunt; the first step into photography. While developing a passion as a hobbyist, his professional life first took a different turn: master’s degree in business economics, traineeship as a journalist, working as a reporter and editor for the departments of economy and foreign affairs at Germany’s leading news agency dpa. 2009 he broke with this path and decided to follow his heart and pursue photography.
First freelance jobs took him to Ireland, Austria, France, and Egypt, contributing to pa picture-alliance photo stock agency. When moving to Italy 2012, he started teaching
customized photography workshops, while working on the Venice Monochrome series, which was exhibited 2015.
Challenged with the limitations of still photography, in recent years he started to extend his projects by combining classic photography with audio elements and narration, creating audio-visual information experiences, steering away from documenting and rationale towards imagination and emotions.
2015-2023 he worked on his latest show “Evolibrium – Transformative Chaos at a Crossroads”, exploring a (fictional?) change of the natural environment beyond imagination, posing questions about the relationship of humanity with planet Earth.
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1975, Born in Furstenfeldbruck, Germany |
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1976-81, Pakistan |
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1981-84, Turkey |
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1985, Germany |
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1987, Start playing the cello |
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First Minolta SLR, 1988
Still trying to figure out how this thing works, 1989
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1990, Giving up on the Cello |
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1991-2001, Focus on Fencing (borderline between passion and obsession) |
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1995, Unexpectedly passing high school exams |
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1995-96, Community service with elderly |
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1996, Enrolling for Business Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Kitchen sink darkroom, 1998-2003 |
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1999, China travel |
| Photography trip to Nepal, 2002 |
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| Projection of slide show Nepal, 2003 |
2003, Master’s degree in Corporate Finance, Corporate Organization, and Financial Derivatives |
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2004, Learning Arabic in Damascus, Syria
2004-05, Middle East travels
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2005, Wine-Bartender in Frankfurt |
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2006, Freelancer for a local newspaper and the news agency dpa
2007, Traineeship as news journalist with dpa
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2008-09, Reporter and editor for news agency dpa in
the departments of Economy and Foreign Affairs |
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Freelance photographer, contributing to pa picture-alliance
First job: Ireland EU referendum, 2009
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Freelance photography in Egypt, 2010
Arabic Impressions project, 2010-11
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Freelance photography in France, 2011
Motorbike accident ten days into the project. Learning how impractical both hands in a cast can be. Mastering Photoshop while being impaired
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Developing a new photography workshop concept, 2012
Exhibition Venice Monochrome, 2015
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2012-2017, Venice, Italy |
| Working on Evolibrium project, 2015-22 |
2015-17, Splitting time beteween Iceland and Italy |
| Totally overwhelmed. Starting to work on two projects in Asia; will they will ever be completed? |
2016, Bangkok, Thailand |
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2017, Moving to Malta |
| Living through a challenging pandemic, 2020 |
2020, Living through a challenging pandemic |
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Exhibition Evolibrium – Transformative Chaos at a Crossroads, 2023 |
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