Additional Info

About Katy Otto

According to my memory, I took the first, deliberate and conscious, but still naive photo of my sister in 1988. I dressed her up as a model with a black (today we would say) oversized coat and combed her hair neatly. She posed for me in the garage at our house in front of an old wall. I had a pink analog plastic Beirette SL 100N camera back then. Color film was too expensive, so I photographed in black and white.
I completed my professional training as a photographer in Freiburg in 1998. This was followed by assistantships with photographers in Berlin. I have been working as a freelance photographer in Berlin since 2003.

ART PRIZES
  •     2023 ND Awards: Still life (Series, Professional) Honorable Mention in Fine Art: Conceptual category Golightly, Garden run wild, Golden Age
  •     2023 Finalist Dodho Magazine Colour Awards (Published in Colour Book) Golightly
  •     2023 Finalist Dodho Magazine Portrait Photography Awards (Published in Portrait Photography Book) Ithaka
  •     2023 Nomination 9th Edition Fine Art Photography Awards Golightly, Garden run wild
  •     2022 1st Prize Chromatic Awards / Still Life Professional Golightly
  •     2022 Monochrome Photography Awards Conceptual: Honorable Mention 2022 (professional) MARILYN
  •     2022 Nomination 8th Edition Fine Art Photography Awards Golden Age
  •     2021 Passepartout Photo Prize 3rd/4th Edition (Catalog Prize 2021) Golden Age
  •     2018 Life Framer "Youthhood" Heros
EXHIBITION
  • HEAVY GOLIGHTLY / 14.07.2023 - 30.07.2023 / art spring PopUpStore - Schönhauser Allee Arcaden 1.OG - 10439 Berlin
  • BACK STAGE FRONT ROW / PHOTO EXHIBITION - 2 YEARS OF FASHIONWEEK / 05.11. - 13.11.2016 / Pavillion Ateliergemeinschaft Milchhof e.V. - Schwedterstr. 232 - 10435 Berlin
  • Positions Art Fair Berlin / 15.09. - 18.09.2016 / Booth: FRANZKOWIAK & WESTPHAL. artprojects No.: 1.22
  • ARLES-BERLIN 2016 people.places.moments. THE EDITION | Ed. FRANZKOWIAK & WESTPHAL artprojects, Berlin
  • PEOPLE. PLACES. MOMENTS / 04.07. - 10.07.2016 / FOTOHAUS parisberlin | 7 rue de la Roquette I 13100 Arles / Photo exhibition in Arles/France Galerie Franzkowiak / Franzkowiak & Westphal Artprojects Voies Off Fotofestival with participation at the FOTOGRAFIE-FESTIVAL at FOTOHAUS parisberlin in Arles/FR
  • VIVA Polaroid / 03.11. - 11.11.2015 Fotoquartier Vienna / Off Festival Vienna / House of Photography Vienna