Dirk Gebhardt is a photojournalist and visual storyteller with a humanistic approach. Gebhardt's work focuses on international and national long-term reports. His subjects are shaped by the cultural life of the people he meets on his travels in South America, Africa or Eastern Europe. Moreover, combines the themes chosen by him that they receive little attention in the media context. For example, the changing living conditions in the Brazilian dry desert Sertão, which he drew attention to from 2012 to 2017 in his photo essay "The Dry Heart of Brazil". Much attention also received his social reportage across Germany. In the 25th year of German reunification Gebhardt wandered from the westernmost point to the easternmost point of Germany to document living conditions across Germany. Since 1999, he works for international magazines such as Stern, DER SPIEGEL, DIE ZEIT, Republica and Time Magazine, but also for NGOs such as UNICEF and World Vision. He has won several awards, including the Otto-Steinert-Award of the German Society for Photography and several nominations for "UNICEF Photo of the Year". Since 2011 he teaches at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund as a full professor of photojournalism and social documentary.
