Monthly Archives: August 2026

It is a great pleasure and a profound honor to share that journalist Lucia Steinwender and I have been awarded the prestigious Recherchepreis Osteuropa 2026. Our project focuses on a critical question: Do German car manufacturers take responsibility for the people who make their cars? In Serbia, tens of thousands of workers, mostly women on assembly lines, produce components for German car brands. They work under intense health pressure, for low wages, and with limited labor rights. As a photographer, […]

Before my pregnancies, I was an active and dedicated documentary photographer, but stepping away from my career to bring two lives into the world changed everything. Motherhood temporarily disconnected me from the profession I loved. In a fast-paced industry like ours, a long maternity leave is incredibly challenging. Editors move on, you quickly get left out of the loop, and people start to forget your name. It is a deeply vulnerable period where you constantly question your own worth and […]