Simon Koy

Simon Koy was selected as runner-up for the 2022 European Press Prize Innovation Award for ‘This is us.’ 

Simon Koy, born in 1979, is a photographer from Munich with a focus on portraiture and reportage with a penchant for travelling all over the world and Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine. He studied at the Fh für Fotodesign in Munich 2007, since 2006 freelance photographer for magazines, advertising agencies and various institutions.

Sebastian Berger

Sebastian Berger was selected as runner-up for the 2022 European Press Prize Innovation Award for ‘This is us.’ 

Sebastian Berger from Stuttgart works as a photographer and video journalist for national media such as Brand Eins, Financial Times, Les Echos Week-End, Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as for Die Zeit and Zeit Online. Thanks to his Rhenish roots, he finds it easy to make contacts. The protagonists of his portraits and stories are happy to give him insights into their lives. Since his training as a video journalist at the Academy of Journalism in Hamburg in 2012, Sebastian Berger’s view of exciting personalities and topics has also been available in moving images.