Damian Zimmermann, born 1976, lives and works as a freelance journalist, art critic, photographer, blogger and curator in Cologne. He writes for Artnet, Photonews, Photographie, Camera Austria, European Photography, Der Standard, taz and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, among others. Together with Nadine Preiß he realized the project "Couples - Images of People from the Federal Republic of Germany at the Beginning of the 21st Century", which was published as a book by Verlag Kettler. For the Photoszene, he initiated and founded the talk format "Fotobuch-Quartett" together with Frank Dürrach, Oliver Rausch, Markus Schaden and Wolfgang Zurborn in 2014 and developed the Photoszene magazine "L. Fritz" as editor-in-chief. In addition, he has played a key role in the realignment of Photoszene since 2013 and sees himself as a networker and contentious interlocutor in matters of photography.
