Kai Wiedenhöfer

Kai Wiedenhöfer, born in Schwenningen, Germany in 1966, received a Masters in photography and editorial design from the Folkwang School in Essen and studied Arabic in Damascus, Syria. Since 1989 the focus of his work has been the Middle East. Wiedenhöfer has received numerous awards including the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Alexia Foundation For World Peace Grant, World Press Photo Awards, the Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award. Steidl has published Wiedenhöfer’s Perfect Peace (2002), Wall (2007) and The Book of Destruction (2010) whose photos comprised a solo exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.