Bio

Axel Görlach is a poet and photographic artist based in Nuremberg, Germany. Awards: Winner in the Night category (3rd place), International Minimalist Photography Awards 2025 / Silver Winner in the Street category, Black & White Contest of the reFocus Awards 2025 / Gold Winner in the Still Life category, Black & White Contest of the reFocus Awards 2024 / People’s Vote Awards in the Street and Still Life category, reFocus Award 2024 / Winner in the Open category (3rd place), International Minimalist Photography Awards 2022 Selected Publications: Annual book "Minimalist Photography Awards 2025" / "Urban unveils the City and its secrets - vol. 11", Exhibit Around APS, Trieste 2025 / Minimalist Photography Contest 2025 by "The Artist Gallery Awards, The best 25 Photographs of 2025" / "Monochromatic Book - Best Photographers of the Year 2025, 2024 and 2023", Dodho Magazine, Barcelona / Large-format screening of a photograph in Vienna, VIEPA Photo Awards 2024 / Two photographs and an interview in „Docu Book Vol. 50 - Best of Documentary & Street Photography 2023“, Espoo 2023 / „Urban unveils the City and its secrets – vol. 09“, Exhibit Around APS, Trieste 2023 / Screening of a photograph during the award ceremony of the2nd World Masters of Photography Award, Vienna 2023 / Annual book „Minimalist Photography Awards 2022“ / Participation in Photo Days Tour 2021 exhibits and in Trieste Photo Fringe 2021 exhibits during Trieste Photo Days festival, October 1st – November 30th, 2021 Exhibitions: Exhibition "Poetik des Augenblicks" in collaboration with the painter Birgit Mia Heil at Schloss Almoshof, Almoshofer Hauptstraße 49, 90427 Nürnberg, March 16th - May 4th, 2025 / Solo-Exhibition "was am Licht liegt": Street Photographs of Nuremberg, Ziegelsteinstraße 104, 90411 Nuremberg, September 16th – November 15th, 2023 Workshops & Lectures: Workshop "Faszination Streetfotografie", Techniken, Tipps und Tricks beim Fotografieren auf der Straße, on April 6, 2025, at Schloss Almoshof, Almoshofer Hauptstraße 51, 90427 Nürnberg / Guest speaker with the presentation "Das Wunderbare im Alltäglichen" at the DVF-Fotostammtisch on July 7, 2025