Nanna Heitmann

Nanna Heitmann (born 1994) is a German documentary photographer. She joined Magnum Photos as a nominee in 2019. Heitmann was living in Moscow.

Early life and education Heitmann was born in Ulm, Germany and grew up in Germany. She studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the University of Hanover. The series Weg vom Fenster (Gone From the Window) is about the workers at Germany's last operating coal mine.

Heitmann's personal work has been published by National Geographic, de Volkskrant, and Stern magazine. She has worked on assignments for The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Stern magazine, and The Seattle Times.

Personal life she was living in Moscow. 2019: Sunday Times Award for Achievement, the Ian Parry Scholarship, for her series Hiding From Baba Yaga 2020: Finalist (1 of 9), W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, for "Russia's Pandemic of Inequality" 2022: World Press Photo, Europe, Stories for "As Frozen Lands Burn" 2024: Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions Nanna Heitman, Leica Gallery, Zingst, 2020

Group exhibitions Essere Umane – Le grandi fotografe raccontano il mondo, Museo San Domenico di Forlì, Italy, 2021/22 Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum, International Center of Photography, New York, September 2022 – January 2023