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About 2025

Creating opportunities
for aspiring international
photographers

The Hamburg Portfolio Review (HPR) has become a vital platform for emerging photographers and contemporary storytellers, fostering global connections, creative collaborations, and critical dialogue on the pressing photographic, social, and political issues of our time.

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»It was an incredibly useful opportunity to expand my network and showcase my project to new editorial markets.«

Chantal Pinzi

Reviewer 2025

Our Reviewers

Meet the esteemed reviewers of the Hamburg Portfolio Review 2025.

Thank you for your expertise and support!

Tina Ahrens | Zeit Online

Gael Almeida | National Geographic Society

Edda Fahrenhorst | horizonte zingst & Yeast Photo Festival

Gabrielle Fonseca Johnson | Reuters

Silke Frigge | laif

Teona Gogichaishvili | Kolga Tblisi Photo Festival

Lara Huck | DIE ZEIT

Hideko Kataoka | Newsweek Japan

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Archive 2025

The Archive

Explore the HPR Archive.

Featuring photographic works, and more from the past HPR events.

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Visual Minds 2025

VISUAL MINDS

The podcast of the Hamburg Portfolio Review. Our host Sebastian H. Schroeder talks to international photo editors, curators and photographers. They speak about the guest’s work, their visual mindset and their view on the future of photography. Check out the latest episode with Gabrielle Fonseca-Johnson or listen to other episodes.

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