awards and grants

2022Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
2021VG Bild-Kunst Neustart Kultur, Bonn, Germany
2017Shortlisted Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
2016Residency Program Bangalore, India, Goethe Institut
2016Omne Residency, Castelfranco, Italy
2016Shortlisted Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
2006Residency Program at Lijiang Studios, Lijiang, Yunnan, China
2001The J. Paul Getty/CalArts Commission, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2000Lannan Foundation Residency Program, Galisteo, NM, USA
1996Friends of the Villa Aurora Fellowship, Berlin, Germany, in Pacific Palisades, CA, USA
1995DAAD Fellowship, Los Angeles, USA and American Samoa, Polynesia
1995Kodak European Panorama of Young Photography Award, Arles, France
1994Appointed to the DGPh (German Society for Photography), Cologne, Germany
1993Award for Female Journalism, Emma, Cologne, Germany
1992Award of Science, Honored for the Best Masterwork, Essen, Germany
1991Kodak Fellowship for Deutsche Landschaft, Cologne, Germany
1991Award for Photography as an Art, Pforzheim, Germany
1990Award of the German Consulate, Bonn, Germany
1990Award of the German Ministry of Science, Bonn, Germany