Exposure

Exhibitions and awards

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2023

  • Semi-finalist HeadOn Photo Awards, Sydney, Australia

2022

  • Semi-finalist HeadOn Photo Awards, Sydney, Australia

 2020

  • group exhibition, open studios of artists in the municipality of Miesbach, Germany, May 2020

2019

  • Finalist of the “Freemantle Portrait Prize”, Australia
  • Monovisions Photography Awards: Winner of the Black and white Landscape Series of the year 2019
  • Monovisions Photography Awards: Honorable mention in the following categories: architecture, photojournalism, landscape, fine art.

2018

  • Finalist in the City of Sydney, Art & About photo competition, Sydney, Australia

2017

  • “Catching the Light”. Solo exhibition and book launch at the Deitta gallery, Yangon, Myanmar.
  • “New Day”. Solo exhibition and book launch at the Lovaasprojects gallery, Munich, Germany
  • “New Day”. Solo exhibition and book launch at Neue Galerie, Berlin, Germany.

2015

  • “Zivilisation”. Solo show at the embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bern, Switzerland.
  • Finalist in HeadOn Photography Prize 2015, Sydney, Australia.
  • 2015: Artists of Mosman, group show, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW, Australia.

2014

  • 2014: “Photo Compendium Australia” launch and print sale, group show,Spot81, Sydney, Australia.
  • 2014: “Kultur und Wissenschaft – Schlüssel zur Zukunft. 60 Jahre diplomatische Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Myanmar”, groupexhibition, Lichthof Auswärtiges Amt/Foreign Office, Berlin.

2013

  • 2013/2014: ”Golden Land – 100 Years Burma/Myanmar. Photographs by Christine Scherman and Birgit Neiser”, National Museum Yangon, Myanmar and Archaeological Museum Bagan, Myanmar, January -April 2014
  • 2013/2014: “Goldenes Land – 100 Jahre Burma/Myanmar. Fotografien von Christine Scherman und Birgit Neiser” (Golden Land – 100 years Burma/Myanmar. Photographs by Christine Scherman and Birgit Neiser), Museum Fünf Kontinente (Museum Five Continents), formerly Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, München (State Museum of Ethnology, Munich), Germany.

2012

  • 2012: “Surface Tensions”, co-exhibition with painter Jules Forth, http://www.julesforth.com/ at Meyer Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
  • 2012: “Große Kunstausstellung 2012″, groupexhibition at AK68, Wasserburg, Germany,
  • 2012: group exhibition of the finalists of the Renaissance Photography Prize. The Mall Gallery, London, UK

2011

  • 2011: group exhibition, Kunstausstellung Tegernsee, Germany
  • 2011: Santa Fé Workshops, contest summer 2012: honourable mention, published in their book “SUMMER” .
  • 2011: group exhibition, Congress Centre, Wiesbaden, Germany
  • 2011: group exhibition of the finalists of the Renaissance Photography Prize. The Mall Gallery, London, UK.

2010

  • 2010: solo exhibition “INDUSTRIA” at the Mary Meyer Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
  • 2010: “SYSTEMS” at the “Studio Galerie”, co-exhibition with sculptor Christian Hess, Gmund, Germany.
  • 2010: Canon AIPP/APPA Professional Photography Awards: silver award
  • 2010: Shortlisted for the Head On portrait competition, Sydney, Australia.
  • 2010: Group Exhibition “Endless perspectives”, Obscura Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

2009

  • 2009: Finalist in the Mosman photography competition, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  • 2009: Finalist in the City of Sydney, Art &About photo competition, Sydney, Australia.
  • 2009: Solo exhibition “CAUGHT”: Photographs of life at the Sydney Fish Market, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
  • 2009: Sommerausstellung der Kunsthalle Cornelia Hamman (group exhibition of artists of the gallery Cornelia Hammans) Warngau, Germany.
  • 2009: Winner in the Fresh M.I.L.K. ( Moments of Intimacy Laughter and Kinship) photography competition. Winners are published in the book Fresh M.I.L.K: Friends, Families, Lovers and Laughter (PQ Blackwell, Auckland, New Zealand, 2009).

Publications

  • 2017: Catching the Light: A Journey across Myanmar. River Books 2017,ISBN 978-616-7339-83-2
  • 2017: “Jade”. Menschen und Wirtschaft. Fotos von Birgit Neiser, Text von Christoph Hein. FAZ vom 03. Februar 2017, S. 16
  • 2014: Represented in: “Photo Compendium Australia”, ISBN 978-0-9873536-0-3
  • 2014: see photos and article in: “Myanmar. Von Pagoden, Longyis und Nat-Geistern”, Dorothée Schäfer, München 2014, ISBN 978-3422072671
  • 2013: Golden Land. Burma/Myanmar – 100 years. Photographs by Christine Scherman and Birgit Neiser, ISBN 978-3-927270-70-1
  • 2013: “Goldenes Land. 100 Jahre Burma/Myanmar: Fotografien von Christine Scherman und Birgit Neiser”. 123 pages, €24.80.   ISBN-13: 978-3927270695.
  • 2011: Represented in: “Australian Photography and Gallery Compendium”,
    ISBN 978-0-646-55504-1
  • 2009: Represented in: “Fresh M.I.L.K: Friends, Families, Lovers and Laughter”, PQ Blackwell, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 1998: Publication of “Leonhardi” (ISBN 3892512639), a photojournalistic book on the tradition of pilgrimage in Bavaria, Germany

2017

“Catching the Light – a journey across Myanmar”

by River Books, 256 pages, black and white photographs. Evocative images capturing day-to-day life in Burma and images rarely seen by the Western traveller. Available at selected bookstores and Amazon.

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