FUNDRAISER FOR AFGHANISTAN / EXPO

Together with photographer ERE Foundation and activist Sabrina Herzog I have united the work of 100 engaged photographers around a print sale, dedicated to the evacuation and resettlement of my 8 Afghan photography students. This fundraiser by photographers for photographers will enable 8 Afghan photography students to establish a life and profession outside of Afghanistan, while developing their photographic practice through future workshops.

Get your print at ere.earth/gallery.

All prints are available at 80€ unlimited for 2 weeks // printed on 24x30cm with the generous support of Art Lab by Sheriff Paris

The fundraiser will close on October 5th 2021.

The images will be on view and available for purchase at the Sheriff Gallery, Rue de Turenne 53 - 75003 Paris.

Read my letter below the gallery.




Mathilde Agius • Danielle Alprin • Philippe Arlt • Alina Asmus • David Avazzadeh • Tess Ayano • David Baum • Edgar Berg • Kristin Bethge • Anthony Blasko • Jeff Boudreau • Anna Breit • Brendan George Ko • Kira Bunse • Juliette Cassidy • Kevin Castanheira • Ali Kate Cherkis • Lee John Clayton • Lauren Coleman • Volker Conradus • Elaine Constatine • Laura Jane Coulson • Elena Cremona • Matthieu Croizier • Jack Davison • Katrien De Blauwer • Quentin De Briey • Théo De Gueltzl • Max Dorsogna • Stefan Dotter • Laurence Ellis • Brad Elterman • Phil Engelhardt • Daniel Etter • Peter Fisher • Jermaine Francis • Maria Johanna Fritz • Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek • Gavin Green • Luca Grottoli • Marie Haefner • Amanda Hakan • Estelle Hanania • Jamie Hawkesworth • Alyssa Heuze • Hill & Aubrey • Alex Huanfa Cheng • Larissa Hofmann • Carlijn Jacobs • Jesse John Jenkins • Tom Johnson • Jack Johnstone • Kinga Katanics • Marc Krause • Adam Kremer • Dylan Kronen • Brendan George Ko • Charlotte Lapalus • Robbie Lawrence • Chloe Le Drezen • Massimo Leardini • Lucas Lehmann • Crista Leonard • Wai Lin Tse • Thomas Lohr • Maddy Minnis • Joachim Müller-Ruchholz • Nikki McClarron • Katsu Naito • Hans Neumann • Ina Niehoff • Anouk Nitsche • Zhenya Posternak • Remi Pujol• Mafalda Rakos • Jody Rogac • Alice Schillaci • Yannick Schuette • Sednaoui Stephane • Maximilian Semlinger • Emine Sevim-Zendegi • Laila Sieber • Flavia Sistiaga • Alec Soth • Mika Sperling • Charlotte Stouvenot • Julien T Hamon • Tajan Sophie • Marius Uhlig • Jonas Unger • Cyrille de Vignemont • Massimo Vitali • Alexandra Von Fuerst • Farzana Wahidy • Wrey Eddie • Watkins CT







For the past two and a half years the Afghan photographer Farzana Wahidy, myself and a group of friends were working together on a joint mission in collaboration with UN agencies to hold photography workshops for a group of 8 ex-refugees who had recently returned to Afghanistan. Both a very intense and rewarding experience, it allowed me to witness the struggle Afghan people face on a daily basis, while being myself completely absorbed by the immense progress they were making over a short period of time.

As you of course know, the situation has turned especially dark in the past weeks and together with friends, colleagues and generous institutions our utmost priority over the last weeks has been to find an opportunity for the students to leave the country. The eight students part of the photography programme are currently in danger for the following reasons:

- As many in Afghanistan's Hazara Shiite community, the families of these young people suffered a campaign of persecution during the civil war of the 1990s and the first Taliban regime that forced them to flee to Iran. After the Taliban was overthrown in 2001, they returned to Afghanistan, believing they were safe. However, as we know from August 15th, the Taliban took over the government in the country so their lives are in danger once again;

- In addition to the Taliban, the Korashan Islamic State (also known as ISIS-K) sees Shiism as a heresy to Islam, and its attacks against the Hazara minority in particular have already killed hundreds, adding to the terror in the lives of an already vulnerable population.

- Another downside is that these photography students are categorised by extremist groups in the same way as journalist. As reported by human rights groups there is a growing threat to journalists in Afghanistan, at least 11 journalists were killed in targeted attacks in 2020 according to Amnesty International. Since 2001, more than 50 journalists have been killed in Afghanistan, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

- 6 people in the group are women. The threat of violence has always been a harsh reality for Afghan women but the impositions made by the Taliban government, already demonstrated by actions like the announcement of a full men's interim cabinet or banning certain sports for women, go beyond violence to an exclusion from life in society.

NGOs, government authorities from third-party countries, individuals concerned by the cause and myself have joined forces to support their emergency humanitarian visa applications in order to secure their safety and wellbeing. While the visas are currently in the process of being granted by a benevolent country, the students need their travel expenses covered (e.g. plane tickets, PCR tests, transportation, etc) as well financial support for the first 6 months to assure their stability and independence in a new country. In the context of this collective effort, the fundraiser will enable the students to establish a life and profession outside of Afghanistan, while developing their photographic practice with the help of other photographers.

All donations received will be managed by the ERE Foundation and distributed to the NGOs responsible for their resettlement in the new country. All donations will be distributed equally to the young photographers as soon as they arrive in their new home country.

While we are in advanced discussions with NGOs in their country of resettlement at this time for security reasons we will only share details on the student’s resettlement once they have safely reached their destination country.

You are welcome to contact us at hello@ere.earth if you have any questions or concerns or if you can offer any other support.

It is very important for us to be 100% transparent about where the funds are going and how they will help. Also what happens to the funds if we are not able to evacuate the students. In this case we would like to donate the funds to a non-profit, non-political organisation that supports photographers in Afghanistan through education, exhibitions, legal support, protection and much more. In the case that we raise more funds than necessary for the resettlement of the students, we are creating a trust fund for their future, which they can be used for necessary equipment, education & basic needs.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give these young people. I know each and every one of them will be immensely grateful for even the smallest donation.

While for security reasons we are unable to disclose the real identities of our students, thank you for your understating.






13/04/2021 - London / Tokyo        -        British Journal of Photography & Palm Photo Prize 2021, Shortlisted

“Dotter’s project focuses on the details within the everyday rituals of the ama: female free divers preserving the ancient art of sea foraging. Dotter was able to make contact with the Nakagawas, an ama family based in Toba, Mie Prefecture. They invited him to stay at their home for a fortnight, to photograph mother anddaughter, Shizuka and Sanae, and their daily rituals passed down through generations of divers. “They offered me a glimpse into this tradition,” says Dotter, whose work focuses on the details of their daily rituals: the dainty metal attachments of their diving masks, a pair of feet moments before disappearing beneath the surface of the water, and a wooden barrel bobbing over its ripples.

“What draws me towards the tradition is the fact that it’s fading away, and I want to preserve it somehow,” says Dotter. “This is what also draws me so much to documentary photography… Some things don’t last forever. But we can make it last a little while longer with the work that we do.”

Link to article. BJP.

by Marigold Warner








11/04/2021 - Berlin / Tokyo        -        Whitelies Magazine - 009 PERMANENCE

Hereby I am humbly announcing the release of our latest issue exploring the theme of ‘Permanence’ on the 3rd of May. Our most heartfelt issue yet on which we worked throughout the last year.

As the magazine has progressed through the past 9 years, with different shifts of focus, we strongly feel that with this issue we are finally able to show our readers our essence and path forward into the future. Positioned as an inter-cultural bridge between the Asia-Pacific and what we perceive as the west, we dedicated this issue to some of the brightest artists working in Japan and also went in-depth with those creatives that are strongly connected to the East. It is an honor to take you on this trip, during a time where journeys are scarce. While most of the world looks at what is currently changing in this global whirlwind of events, we are focusing on what stays - on what is permanent. Our cultural hunger for exploring new worlds and connecting them to our own is something universal that, I should like to imagine, will continue to endure.





01/02/2021 - Athens        -        Tiger of Sweden SS 2021 Global Campaign

Stefan shot the global campaign for Tiger of Sweden SS2021 in Athens with Viviane Hausstein.






01/02/2021 - Berlin        -        Image Licensing now via Connected Archives

A vast selection of Dotter’s work is now available for licensing via Connected Archives. It is an international collective of like-minded photographers ranging from upcoming talents to established and award-winning artists. Working within the realms of portrait, documentary, fashion, and fine-art photography, our pictures live on the pages of renowned newspapers and magazines. With our poetic and personal approach to photography, our visual language speaks to both commercial and artistic purposes. Click here.








30/11/2020 - Rotterdam        -        Life Framer Award

2nd prize at the latest Life Framer award judged by legendary photographer & filmmaker Alex Prager. This photograph is from a recent documentary I shot around Toba, Mie Prefecture, focusing on the Ama divers.The wonderful smiling ladies are Saki Satonaka and Masayo Uemura, photographed in late march this year.

“I love the raw emotion that emits from this image and the pure joy I feel looking it. The humanity seeps through in every detail and choice, compositionally and through the use of color (and lack there of). I was drawn to the expansiveness of the image as well as its simplicity.” – Alex Prager

The selected works will be shown in a travelling exhibition:

Contour Gallery, Rotterdam                 29/11 - 19/12/2020
&co119, Paris                                     28/01 - 20/02/2021
Officine Fotografiche                           25/03 - 13/04/2021   


ありがとうほんとに !











30/11/2020 - Uganda        -        ATMOS Magazine - Canaries in the Goldmines

A recent gold boom in Uganda has some of the country’s most vulnerable men, women, and even children scrambling to benefit—and at great personal risk. But Earthbeat, an unlikely nonprofit, is helping them create alternatives.

Read the article here.














10/06/2020 - London        -        The Earth Issue Freedom Fundraiser

100% of proceeds after printing and shipping will be split amongst the organizations on Bail Funds: George Floyd and the 4Front Project. All initial US donations will be directed to Black Lives Matter via the Bails Funds platform. However, The Earth Issue will continuously monitor the landscape of organisations needing funds, adjusting to whom we donate every 3 days based on needs and recommendations from frontliners in the civil rights struggle.

The Freedom Fundraiser print sale will be held for 30 days. Funds will be paid out to the organisations every three days. Prints will be sold for £100 including shipping. 100% of proceeds after printing and shipping will be donated.  All prints for sale on this website are subject to copyright.  

www.theearthissuefreedomfundraiser.com









20/05/2020 - Copenhagen        -        Pictures without Borders

Pictures Without Borders is photographers from all over the world, across genres, raising awareness towards the current global crisis and raising funds to support countries and regions most affected. MSF has a global response to the pandemic and the consequences of the global lockdown that causes limited acces to general medicin, medical aid, healthcare and food in countries and regions most affected. To read more about MSF's global response please visit msf.org

All prints cost 100€ and are in editions of 50. When buying a print for 100€, a donation of 70€ will be made directly to MSF in your name. The remaining 30€ is held for printing and packaging cost, all proceeds from the print and packaging cost will be donated to MSF. This fundraiser is registered with The Danish Fundraiser board.

https://www.aardvark-editions.com/










16/04/2020 - Berlin      -      LeaveNoOneBehind 10x20


To prevail through the Corona-crisis we need to focus on solidarity. As many events in our current system, the effects of this Virus will hit the ones hardest,
who already have a hard time. There are so many points to which we can direct our attention - supporting the homeless, financing caregiver organisations
to ensure the survival of our older generation or helping victims of domestic violence.

For this print-sale we decided to support the “Seenotrettung” who are helping people at our external borders. Refugee camps like “Moria” on Lesbos are racing
towards a catastrophy. Social distancing or Quarantine is not possible if you live in a camp with 20.000 people, which is only layed out for 3.000. Once again
the small initiatives are left alone by the EU, but we can make a change.

To support this project we are selling limited edition c-prints in an edition of 20 each with 50% of the proceeds go directly to “Stiftungsfond Zivile Seenotrettung”
For more information see leavenoonebehind2020.org

With your donation you support organisations at the external border, which are supporting refugees. The donations are directly donated to the “Stiftungsfond Zivile Seenotrettung”.
Projects that support refugees on site can apply for funds unbureaucratically. This ensures that the donations arrive quickly and directly where they are needed.

Each print is 60€ + 5€ Shipping

CLOSED _ We are happy to have raised more than 1.500,00 € for Stiftungsfond Zivile Seenotrettung