Patrick Bienert (born 1980)[1] is a German photographer[2] who works on long-term projects of portrait, landscape and documentary photography.
[4] His projects are grounded in cultures and identity in relation to the history and its traces between the land and its inhabitants.
[4] His photography project East End of Europe about a pro-European generation in Georgia was published in 2020 as a book by Kahl Editions.
[6] Other bodies of Bienert's work include Asmara (2013),[n 2] in which he photographed both the modernist architecture of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, from the period of the Italian colonisation, and the city's current inhabitants; Clothing Trade,[n 3] a project about the second-hand clothing industry in Tunisia (2018); and Banks of Dnister (2019),[n 4] for which he followed the Dnister river along its route through Moldova, the breakaway state Transnistria and Ukraine, portraying the youth culture and the landscapes in the post-Soviet states.
[10] His personal projects have been exhibited at OFR Galerie in Paris;[11] Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany;[12] Amphithéâtre de Carthage, Tunisia;[13] and Store Studios, London.