Wiedenhöfer received the W. Eugene Smith Grant, the Carmignac Photojournalism Award and the Carl von Ossietzky Medal.

He had a solo exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris in 2010, documenting the consequences of Israel's war against Gaza.

Wiedenhöfer was born in Schwenningen, Schwarzwald-Baar district in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

[3] He studied documentary photography and editorial design at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, graduating in 1995.

The latter book: "is unquestionably about violence, documenting in almost unbearable detail the damage left after Israel's assault on Gaza in 2009.