Anna Lohmann
a photographer open for a little chat
“High alert meditation", that’s how I call street photography:
Being completely by myself but at the same time absorbing intensively everything around me.
Anna Lohmann is a self-taught amateur street photographer who has gained international recognition through awards and publications of her work. Lohmann is motivated by a deep love for storytelling and colours. When she is shooting on the streets, looking for the extra-ordinary within the ordinary, she calls this: High Alert Meditation. This means being completely by herself, yet at the same time absorbing intensively everything around her.
Lohmann was born and raised in Germany, where she studied media & communications and politics. She lived and worked half a year as a journalist in Spain. After having achieved her university degree, Lohmann eventually trained as a TV journalist at the German public broadcast NDR/ARD. Following this, she worked as a live reporter, author and award-winning filmmaker. In 2020 Lohmann moved to London where she discovered her passion for street photography and became a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society. She was awarded in both the Italian Street Photo Festival 2021 and the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival 2022. She gained recognition at the Urban Photo Awards 2021 and 2022, and the Fujifilm Moment Street Awards 2021.
Lohmann’s photography has been exhibited in England, Scotland, Poland, Sweden, Argentina and Italy.
The purpose of this exhibition is to show the work of the whole Progressive Street Gang – a diverse collection of photographers from around the world – which is not exclusively a group of street photographers but a group of photographers across the board. Talking about styles and differences in techniques and approaches is boring and not even very useful, because what counts in photography is sincerity. For this reason, I have chosen to couple images, a kind of shot – reverse-shot, freely interpreted. As in life, there is a glance and a counter-glance that gives depth to everything and every event, so this conceptual escamotage helped me to select photos that when put together managed to create a story and provoke thought, whilst showing at the same time the peculiarities of the various photographers. Batsceba Hardy
winner and finalist in the in the Gothenburg SP Festival
