Max Brugger (*1991) is a photographer from Düsseldorf. He studied communication design at the Peter Behrens School of Arts / Hochschule Düsseldorf. During his studies he produced many projects that were exhibited in well-known museums, such as the NRW Forum (Düsseldorf Photo Weekend 2016) and Theatermuseum Düsseldorf (Antlitz & Zeit 2016). With his artistic-conceptual and documentary way of working, he questions traditional narrative structures of photojournalism and deals with his chosen subjects as well as his own position within the process. For his bachelor project "Independent Volunteers" (2018) he traveled to Greece several times over several years and portrayed everyday life and the people who came from all over the world to realize small and independent projects to help the many refugees in their precarious situation. Max Brugger was
selected for the Magnum Photos Young Talent Workshop on the occasion of Visa pour l'image Festival 2017 in Perpignan. On the occasion of Düsseldorf Photo Weekend 2019, Max Brugger showed in a solo exhibition the current work "heading towards dystopia" in which he drew a comprehensive picture of different positions of the conflict around the Hambach Forest, which is
symptom of a fundamental future question. With this body of work Brugger was selected for the Felix Schoeller Award shortlist in 2019.
