Biography

Arved Gintenreiter is a photographer with focus on emotional storytelling, combining classic photography with audio elements and text. With a background in economics and journalism, his projects mainly discuss contemporary environmental, social, and political matters. Confronted with the question how to adapt fact-based storytelling to a post-truth reality, he transforms complex subjects into audio-visual experiences, steering from documenting and rationale towards imagination and speaking to emotions and the nonconscious.

Born 1975 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany, he spent the first decade of his childhood abroad, mainly in Pakistan and Turkey, challenged by diverse cultures with German parents and local workers, curious strangers and multi-national friends, navigating 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 an old Minolta SLR by his aunt; the first step into photography. Though developing a passion as a hobbyist, his professional life first took a different turn: high school majors in physics and geography, master’s degree in business economics, traineeship as a journalist, followed by a career as a (writing) reporter and later editor for the departments of economy and foreign affairs at Germany’s leading news agency dpa. 2009 he breaks with his prior professional path and decides to follow his heart and pursue photography.

First freelance jobs take him to Ireland, Austria, France, and Egypt, contributing to 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.

2015-2021 he worked on his latest show “Evolibrium – Transformative Chaos at a Crossroads”, exploring a (fictional?) change of the natural environment beyond imagination.