Lena Mucha (b. 1983, Germany), is a freelance photographer based in Berlin.
In 2011 she graduated with a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology and Political Sciences from the University of Cologne, Germany.
Lena had lived several years in Latinamerica and Spain, working on research projects about gender violence and civil resistance for NGOs such as Doctors without Borders.
She has been awarded with different international prices as the Photo Annual Awards 2015, the Reporters in the Field Scholarship as well as a scholarship for Magnum photographer Patrick Zachmanns workshop and David Alan Harveys workshop in New York in 2016. With her work about young female cadets in Armenia and Karabakh she has been nominated for the Unicef Photo of the Year Award 2016.
Lenas work has been exhibited and published internationally (Spiegel, Washington Post, GEO, Stern, BURN Magazine, VICE Colombia, LFI Leica Magazine, Huffington Post, El Pais, Nido Stern, 6mois, Lensculture).
