Katja Ruge - freelance photographer: portraiture, music, lifestyle and photo essay.

After her studies in graphic design and her apprenticeship as a photo lab-assistant, Katja Ruge worked as a lab-assistant, a photo-assistant in Manchester/U.K. and an art director in Duesseldorf. Freelance photography since 2000. Magazines, companies, artists, books, art. Themed exhibitions of her works in Berlin, Dessau and Hamburg. Exhibitions in galleries in Brussels/Belgium, Graz/Austria and Tarifa/Spain.
Published book Fotoreportage23-In search of Ian Curtis in 2008. Katja Ruge's latest themed exhibition "Kann denn Liebe Synthie sein?" (Can Love be Synth?) was held in Berlin in Summer 2011 and just returned sucessfully from this years SXSW Festival in Austin /Texas. Two new book-projects are in its advanced stages. Katja Ruge lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.

katja ruge I photography genslerstrasse 36 22307 hamburg/germany
mobile +49 (0)171. 706 54 25 skype katjaruge mail@katjaruge.de

Represented in the U.S. by The Hell Gate Photography