Maria Klenner (she/her) is a documentary and portrait photographer working between commissions and personal long term projects on identity, justice, and migration. She is dividing her time between Beirut and Berlin, and available for assignments worldwide. Maria earned an MA in history and sociology after a training in documentary photography at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts and La Cambre in Brussels. She contributes to various media, among them Der Spiegel, Bloomberg, Die Zeit, Monocle, and The Washington Post. Maria has been a member of Agentur Focus since 2023. In 2024, her first book The Children of Bergen-Belsen won the German Photobook Prize.

If you're interested in working together, have a question, or just want to say hi, please get in touch directly via email or Instagram.

mail@mariaklenner.com