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Born 1962 in Berlin to a family of printers, publishers and art historians, trained artbook publishing at Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart (1982–1984), worked as photographers assistant in Hamburg afterwards and studied at Stuttgart Media University Media and Printing (1986–1990).
Until 2013 director for photography and contemporary art at Hatje Cantz Publishers, started Hartmann Projects an exhibition space and company for exhibition organization in 2013 and Hartmann Books a publishing house for photobooks in 2016 (both with his wife and collaborator Angelika Hartmann), occasional contributor to magazines and blogs, writing on photography and book related themes, regular juror and lecturer at Photofestivals, curated shows for the Rencontres d’Arles with Markus Brunetti (2015), Alfred Seiland (2016), Norman Behrendt (2017). Currently working on projects with Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler, Kathrin Linkersdorff, Barbara Probst, Peter Bialobrzeski, Loredana Nemes etc., lives in and works from Stuttgart, Germany.

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