Johanna-Maria Fritz is currently working in Afghanistan. She is based between Berlin and the Middle East. Her work focuses on disadvantaged or forgotten groups, women and conflict zones. She studied photography at the Ostkreuzschule for Photography and has been a member of Ostkreuz Agency since 2019. Her work has been published in: Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Le Monde among many more. She was awarded the Inge Morath Prize, the Peace Prize for Photography and the PH Grant for Photography.