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Johanna Berghorn is a young photographer based in Berlin, where she accomplished her bachelor's degree in photography and design. Her work as a photographer is featured in major publications such as VOGUE Italia, The Independent Photographer and Portrait Of Humanity, published by the British Journal of Photography and Magnum. She has worked for international brands including Gucci, Mercedes Benz, Sony Music and Miu Miu. While working as a freelance photographer and artist, she also completed an MSc in Psychology and is currently training as a psychoanalyst, in order to deepen the psychological skills of her photographic work and to use it for her artistic approach.
Her work is rooted in a deep interest in the human condition - not as a fixed image, but as a complex, fluid process. She explores what it means to be seen, to see oneself, and how identity is shaped between internal experience and external projection. Drawing from her strong connection to psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking, Johanna approaches photography as an encounter, one that is emotionally charged, intuitive, and shaped by the unconscious. Each shoot is a form of dialogue: a shared exploration of self-perception, vulnerability, and the power of representation.
Her work spans fashion, editorial, fine art, NGO, and commercial contexts, always maintaining a focus on the subtle in-between spaces: the raw, the unspoken, the transitional. She is particularly drawn to people who experience themselves beyond normative frameworks and to how their inner world speaks through posture, gesture, silence or gaze.
With a feminist and socially engaged perspective, Johanna questions dominant visual narratives and works to create space for honest, inclusive representation. Her photography often intersects with themes such as body politics, gender, identity, and the psychological impact of societal roles. For her, photography is not just about seeing; it is about understanding, mirroring, and transforming. It becomes a site of negotiation between internal and external realities, a visual language for what cannot always be spoken, but deeply felt.
MEMBER / PART OF
PhotoVogue | Vogue Portfolio
Drive To Help e.V. | NGO
AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
Shortlist: Portrait of Britain Photobook 2023 | published by 1854 and British Journal of Photography
Shortlisted Winner: Portrait of Humanity Vol.4 2022 | published by 1854 and British Journal of Photography
Winner RECLAIM AWARD 2021 | Exhibition Cologne, Germany 21.-30.08.2021
„Portrait of Humanity“ published by MAGNUM & BJP Shortlisted Winner | Part of „Portrait of Humanity“ photobook 2019
„how do you feel“ photobook publication July 2019
Vogue Italy | Picture of the Day 30/08/2021 and 07/01/2019 | Photo-Vogue Editor‘s Pic
The Independant Photographer | Finalist „Black and White“ November 2018
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
"RUN WITHOUT A SOUND" | Emilia Schüle, Sebastian Berthold & Johanna Berghorn | Hoto Gallery, Berlin | 09-2024
Image Nation Paris, Galerie Joseph, Paris | May 2023
Body Studies - A Visual Dialogue in three Acts | Johanna Berghorn & Mitch Stöhring | Alte Münze, Berlin | 02-2023
Image Nation Milan „Just Women“, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Foro Bonaparte 67, Milano | 09.2022
Soulkissesart Collective | Chausseestr 11, 10115 Berlin | 29.-30.07.2022
"THE UNSEEN" Rankin Creative Exhibition | Quantus Gallery, Shoreditch, London | 16.-24.06.2022
"A New Beginning" International Photography Festival Bologna, Italy | PhMuseumdays | 23.-26.09.2021
RECLAIM AWARD | Public Space Art Installation | Cologne, Germany 21.-30.08.2021
Bipolar Vol. 1 - I. "Human not Gender" II "Drive to help" Grüntalerstr. 16, 13359 Berlin 06/02-15/02/2020
"how do you feel" - About growing up female, multimedia exhibition & photobook publication | Bachelor Exhibition UE Berlin 07-2019
EMOP Berlin (European Month Of Photography) "DID WE GET LOST" A Photographic Investigation in Asia | Exhibition and Photo Catalogue Dessauerstr. 5, 05-28/20/2018
SOLO EXHIBTIONS
"25 Muses" | Torstr. 101, Berlin | 112021
"Drive to help" sponsored by Sparkasse | Damenstr. 8, 79183 Waldkirch 03/2020
"Drive to help" Mathildenstr. 26-28, 79106 Freiburg 01/03-31/05/2020
"Drive to help" Rocafé Emmendingen 05/01/2020
"8000 - 7 - 2" Tirree, Birkenstraße 46, 10551 Berlin 12/12/2019 - 13/01/2020