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Photo: Ben Chislett

Ulrich Hagel

Ulrich Hagel was born in 1964 in Cottbus and grew up there. He was gifted his first camera when he was 8 and started off photographing his family and friends. As a teenager he set up his first darkroom in his parent’s bathroom.

After finishing school he completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic and qualified as a nurse. He has lived in Berlin since 1989.

From 2001 to 2005, Ulrich Hagel studied photography under Jörn Vanhöfen and Arno Fischer at the Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm (FaS).

In addition to his photographic work, he has been running a professional analogue colour darkroom since 2004 and has been the studio manager at the New School for Photography Berlin since 2008, where he also teaches the introduction to analog colour printing.

Ulrich Hagel’s website

The Most Important Man -video about Ulrich Hagel by students Débora Marques and Weeteng Poh

Exhibitions:
2018   Einblicke – Neue Schule für Fotografie, Berlin
2016   aff Galerie – Keep Your Eyes Peeled, Berlin
2015   FOG: Experts – Group exhibition at BOHAI, Hannover
2006   „…die Seele des Neubaus“ – Solo exhibition, neunplus, Berlin
2005   Monitor – Official German Exhibition in Japan, Konica Minolta Plaza, Tokyo
2004   Die Poesie des Funktionalen – Exhibition, Second International Marianne-Brandt-Competition in the Industriemuseum, Chemnitz
2004   Bilder eines Jahres – Group exhibition at Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
2004   Group exhibition at G8 Galerie, T-Systems GEI GmbH, Berlin
2004   Group exhibition at Bostelmann und Siebenhaar Verlag, Berlin
2003   M3-Pappelhof, Portrait of a class of disabled children at Pappelhof School, Berlin
2003   Bilder eines Jahres II – Group exhibition at Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
2002   Bilder eines Jahres – Group exhibition at Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
2002   Auftakt – Group exhibition Studenten der Fotografie at Galerie Pozzo Pozzoza, Berlin
2002   Peripherie – Solo exhibition, G3 Galerie im Daimler Chrysler, Berlin

Awards:
2004 Internationaler Marianne-Brandt – Wettbewerb 2004 Anerkennung mit Fotografien aus „… die Seele des Neubaus“

Publications:
2015 FOG – Documentaries Dispersed  Issue #2

Video: Débora Marques (@demarques) and Poh Weeteng (@maybepotato)

Tile Image: Ben Chislett