Katja Heinemann

Katja Heinemann is a German photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her personal work focuses on documenting social and cultural issues, exploring topics such as illness and stigma, women's health and body consciousness, youth issues, and the remaining traces of the former communist East in today's German culture. Katja regularly produces photo essays, new media stories and portraiture for editorial, commercial and institutional clients in the U.S. and abroad. Clients have included Time Magazine, People, Parade, US News and World Report, Stern, Der Spiegel, HBO, Discovery Communications, and the AARP. Her photographs have been included in the anthologies Here is New York (Scalo 2002), Pandemic - Facing AIDS (Umbrage Editions 2003), and CITY (University of Illinois Press 2006). She is represented by Aurora Select photo agency in New York City.

Katja's new media documentary On Borrowed Time chronicled the lives of children and teenagers who have grown up with HIV and AIDS in the United States. The resulting multi-media web site by Time.com won several awards in the 2002 POY and NPPA competitions. Her photographs and interviews of the children were published in collaboration with Camp Heartland, a national pediatric AIDS charity, as the book A Journey of Hope. A second body of work on HIV/AIDS, The Graying of AIDS, explores how people age with this disease. The series was featured on Time.com and the AARP's web site, and is currently being developed into a national Public Health campaign with funding by the OSI Documentary Photography Distribution Grant.