DORO ZINN

Germany

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Future Kids

Biographie

Doro Zinn, born 1987, grew up in Munich. She received a BA Political Sciences and a BSc Psychology in Vienna. In 2017 she graduated in Photography at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin. Her work, mostly dealing with social topics and identity-related issues has been exhibited and awarded internationally, and been printed in different magazines and newspapers. She works as a freelance photographer and photo editor in Berlin and Munich.

Présentation

I am nothing of what you are imagining, and much more than you can even imagine‘ - Coco, 2017
Leila, Coco, Mohammed and İlhan live in Berlin, between Kottbusser Tor and the tower blocks on the city’s outskirts, between gentrification and social benefits. They are the children of Muslim immigrants from Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Palestine. Their parents came to Germany as “Gastarbeiter” (guest workers) or as refugees. Leila, Coco, Mo and İlhan belong to the first generation born and raised in Germany.
Their stories tell of the past and the present, of places of (imagined) existence, of growing up and ultimately of their search for their identity. Doro Zinn narrates their daily lives via documentary photography and intimate portraits, together with archive material, texts and songs given to her by the protagonists.
The result is an examination of the narratives society and the media use towards immigrants and the generations following, as a means of questioning them in a very personal way.