Johanna-Maria Fritz

THE RAID –
2024
SCARBOROUGH-ATOLL

The idea of the pure, sexually untouched woman has permeated religions, cultures, and continents for thousands of years. The concept of virginity lies at the root of many patriarchal mechanisms of oppression that shape the lives of women worldwide.

After the Fall – Syria after the fall of Assad Regime

Syria has been liberated from six decades of dictatorship. The initial euphoria following the regime’s collapse quickly gave way to grief, reflection, and the overwhelming scale of loss. More than 200,000 people are estimated to have disappeared during the regime’s rule, according to Amnesty International.

The Forgotten – Sudan Conflict

Al Naw Hospital in Omdurman is the last functioning public hospital in Sudan’s capital. Every day, it treats dozens of civilians wounded in the ongoing war, as well as regular patients. Since April 2023, a brutal conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has torn the country apart.

The Raid – Scarborough-Atoll

The reportage follows a group of Filipino fishermen who work at the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea—a reef located about 120 nautical miles (roughly 222 km) off the coast of the Philippines and around 560 nautical miles (over 1,000 km) from China. Despite being well within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, the area has been effectively controlled by China since 2012.

A grave in the garden

On February 24, Russia's attack against Ukraine began. From February 26 to June, I stayed and worked in Ukraine. Warning: this project contains war and death

2022

Like a bird

Circus culture in Islamic countries.

2014-2019

Taliban

Like many radical groups, the Taliban are often perceived from the outside as a uniform block of inhuman fighting and killing machines. In fact, they appear to many Afghans, especially in large cities where they have not been able to appear in public for the past 20 years, as strangers, savages, and lepers.

on going

Holy Killer

Ronaldo has big ears, lives in the jungle and kills people. The bull elephant has already trampled to death more than a dozen residents in Chitwan National Park.

2021

Sirkus Islands

Circus culture in Iceland.

2014-2015

Garden of lost Dreams

Portraits of young men working as sex workers in the central park »Tiergarten« in Berlin Germany.

2016

Daughters of Magic

Witchcraft in Romania.

2019-2020

The wolf loves the Fog – Nagorno Karabakh

The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.

2020