Nina Papiorek (Born 1979) was born in Duisburg, Germany. Naturally she’s a talented photographer. She discovered her passion for photography during one of her many travels in 2006. Today, Nina tries to cover a bright spectrum of photography and doesn’t specialize on one discipline. She deals basically in architecture, cityscapes, landscapes, and portraits which are her preferred motives. Nina’s work is as multilateral as her motives and interests. What combines all her works is the aim to catch that special moment using her camera. This, she says, has nothing to do with particular scenery or a technique, but with a feeling she likes to capture. In her short career in photography Nina can already look back on numerous achievements and honors – in 2010 and 2011, she won several awards at the PX3-Prix de la Photographie Paris, and in 2010 she won the IPA International Photo Awards and she was nominated on Sony World Photography Awards of 2010.
In Nina’s opinion a photograph always lives from an expressive face, from a unique moment, or from a story written in the mind of the observer. Her passion is Black and White photography. To her, equipment and technique only play a secondary role. Nina finds her motives and protagonists on travels, in normal life, on the street – the charm of beauty and un-beauty, the hectic of a big city, the urban way, people, lonely districts, the foreign cultures and rituals. Her pieces of art are a creation of scenes taken from the inspiring, beautiful, and colorful places she holds dear to her heart.
