Vita
Daniel Seiffert (b. 1980, East Berlin) is a freelance photographer and picture editor based in his hometown of Berlin. Born just a stone’s throw from the Berlin Wall, his life and work have been shaped by the cultural and political transformations of post-reunification Germany.
Before studying photography at the renowned Ostkreuz School of Photography, Seiffert earned a Master’s degree in Political Science, Media Studies, and African Studies from universities in Berlin, Potsdam, and Lisbon.
His work has received recognition through prestigious awards such as the C/O Talents Award, the Canon Award for Young Professional Photographers, and a nomination for the FOAM Paul Huf Award. His photographs have been exhibited internationally at venues including C/O Berlin, Paris Photo, PhotoEspaña, and PhotoMonth Minsk.
In 2015, he self-published his first artist book, Kraftwerk Jugend, which was shortlisted for the Dummy Award at the 5th International Photobook Award Kassel, and featured at Le Bal Paris and the Brighton Photo Biennial.
From 2017 to 2025, Seiffert was a member of the artist collective Apparat, further expanding his exploration of collaborative visual storytelling.
He lives in Berlin with his two daughters, balancing family life with a freelance career as a dedicated photographer and picture editor for a range of clients.
Awards / Grants / Festivals
2023 EAP23 - European Architectural Photography Prize, “Provisorium - Stopgap”, Honorable Mention
2022 3. Prize Portraits Hellerau Photography Award
2022 Belfast Photo Festival, Shortlist Open Submission
2021 Visual Arts Research Fellowship, Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin
2021 shortlisted for Kolga Awards with two works “Raufaser” and “Still”
2021 shortlisted for John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship
2020 Format International Photography Festival, Shortlist Open Call - Controll
2020 Athens Foto Festival, Shortlist
2020 Finalist Copenhagen Photo Festival
2019 International Photography Grant, Nominee Portraits Project
2019 Finalist Prémio Internacional de Fotografia - Emergentes
2019 Finalist Hellerau Portraits Photography Award
2018 Kolga Photo Award, Shortlist Documentary Photo Project
2015 LensCulture Emerging Talent Award
2014 Grant Stiftung Kulturwerk VG Bild-Kunst
2014 Grant HAUS am KLEISTPARK
2013 CIRCULATION(S) Festival de la jeune photographie europeenne, Nominee
2012 Emergentes | DST 2012 Award, Festival Encontros da Imagem Braga, Nominee
2012 Winner C/O Berlin Talents 28 Award
2012 Nominee FOAM Paul Huf Award
2012 Kassel Photobook Dummy Award 2012, Shortlist
2009 Canon Profifoto Förderpreis 1/09 for CTRL - Research Surveillance
2005 ASA working grant, Images Davida, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Exhibitions / Talks
2024 PVA Conversations, part of Zeitgeist Irland / Culture Ireland, Kino Krokodil, Berlin
2024 Raufaser, “Nach Hitler”, Haus der Geschichte Bonn
2024 EAP 2023, Bundesstiftung Baukultur, Potsdam
2024 EAP 2023, Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, Dresden
2023 Provisorium | Stopgap Europäischer Architekturfotografie-Preis architekturbild 2023, vhs Stuttgart
2023 European Architectural Photography Prize, DAM Ostend, Frankfurt Main
2022 Portraits Hellerau Photography Award, Technische Sammlungen Dresden
2021 Guardas de Miramar, 9th PHOTO IS:RAEL, Online Screening
2020 Guardas de Miramar, Genesis, Emergentes 2019 Finalist Show, Encontros da Imagem, Casa da Antiga Câmara, Guimarães, Portugal
2019 Raufaser, group show “Die Anderen Sind Wir. Bilder einer dissonanten Gesellschaft”, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, DKW Cottbus
2019 Guardas de Miramar, group show “Portraits - Hellerau Photography Award”, Pumpenhaus Dresden
2018 Trabanten, group show “Sharing Space(s)”, feldfünf Metropolenhaus, Monat der Fotografie OFF, Berlin
2018 Trabanten, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award, Georgia
2018 Trabanten, group show “Keep your Eyes peeled”, Gallery Weekend, aff Galerie Berlin
2017 Trabanten, group exhibition, Ein Tag in Berlin - 30 Jahre danach, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain
2017 Kraftwerk Jugend, Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie, Quebec/Canada
2017 Trabanten, Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Viseu, Portugal
2017 Keep your eyes peeled, group exhibition, Gallery Weekend Berlin, AFF Gallery, Berlin
2015 Kraftwerk Jugend, European Month of Photography, Goethe Institut, Minsk, Belarus
2015 LensCulture Emerging Talents 2015, San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, USA
2014 Exhibition Photography Grant Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Galerie Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
2013 Kraftwerk Jugend, “Tracks and Traces - C/O Talents”, ParisPHOTO, Goethe Institut Paris, France
2013 Uncertain Futures, exhibition of international photography, Gallery of Photography Dublin, Ireland
2013 Groupshow C/O Talents 2012, Abbeye de Neumunster, Luxembourg
2013 Tracks and Traces - C/O Berlin Talents, PHotoEspaña, Goethe Institut Madrid
2013 Screening, CIRCULATION(S), Lodz Fotofestiwal, Poland
2013 CIRCULATION(S) Festival de la jeune photographie europeenne, Parc de Bagatelle, Paris
2012 Tulca Festival of Visual Art Galway, Ireland
2012 Brighton Photo Biennial / Photobookshow
2012 Kraftwerk Jugend, C/O Talents 28, Postfuhramt, Berlin
2012 Kammerspiel, F'Stop Festival, Leipzig
2012 Photobook Dummy Award 2012. F'Stop Festival, Leipzig
2012 Photobook Dummy Award 2012. Le Bal, Paris
2012 5. Jahrgang Ostkreuzschule, Galerie Büchergilde Frankfurt/Main
2012 Kraftwerk Jugend, Galerie Sprechsaal, Berlin
2012 Photo 12 - Werkschau für Fotografie, Screening, Zürich, Schweiz
2011 SCHAU. Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie. Klasse Ute Mahler, Berlin
2011 Das Geheimnis bleibt. Modefotografie von Ute Mahler und Schülern, Halle/Saale
2011 STRG K Choreographie einer Stadt, Forum Factory, Gallery Weekend, Berlin
2011 Klopfzeichen, Unikum, Klagenfurt, Österreich
2010 Trennungen/Seperazione/Locevanje, Villach, Österreich
2010 Canon Profifoto Förderpreis, Visual Gallery, Photokina Köln
2010 Geschichts Codes 2010/Einheitsbild, ARD Hauptstadtstudio, Berlin
2007 Close Up! Junge Fotojournalisten auf der 57. Berlinale, C/O Berlin
2006 Imagens Davida, Hotel Nicacio, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
