About the photographer
Wolfgang Zurborn
Wolfgang Zurborn is a German photographer, teacher and curator based in Cologne. Born in Ludwigshafen in 1956, he studied photography in Munich and Dortmund. In 1985 he received the Otto Steinert Fellowship from the German Society of Photography (DGPh), and his book Drift won the German Photo Book Award in 2008. His work has been shown across Europe and the United States, including at Museum Folkwang in Essen and the Haus der Photographie at Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
Since 1986 he has run Galerie Lichtblick in Cologne with Tina Schelhorn, and in 2010 he founded the Lichtblick School. He teaches photography and leads photobook workshops. When he edits a book, he follows one rule: ‘Listen to the photographs.’
Portrait © Frederic Lezmi
