Stefan Boness is a photojournalist based in Berlin and Manchester.
His photos have received several awards including a World Press Photo Award and a Fuji Euro Press Photographer of the Year in Germany Award. His work is being published in quality magazines and newspapers throughout the world.
In his long-term documentary projects in the tradition of conceptual ‘Landscape-Photography’ Stefan Boness captures the reality of a designated place in the present in the context of its underlying historical dimensions. His book-project entitled ‘Flanders Fields’ is a photographic search on the battlefields of World War I in the region around Ypres in Belgium. In ‘Asmara – The Frozen City’ he uncovers the legacy of Italian colonial avant-garde architecture in the capital of Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. His most recent project ‘The Re-Making of Manchester’ has as its focus urban development in present-day Manchester. Once the birthplace of the industrial revolution Manchester today is characterised by tremendous changes in its urban landscape that might make it a symbol for successful post-industrial regeneration.

text by Jason Orton