Studied Music (M.I.T. Los Angeles), German Philology and Film Studies (Goethe University Frankfurt). Photographic artist since 1999. Curator/Jury member Abisag-Tüllmann-Foundation Frankfurt 2010-2014. AiR scholarship Huantie Times Art Museum Beijing in 2013. Lecturer and portfolio review at Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Shenyang. Multiple international awards (International Architecture Photographer 2018, Gala/Pollux Awards 1st Prizes, LensCulture Street Photography Award Finalist, Felix Schoeller Photo Award Nominee, Arte Laguna Prize Finalist, ND Awards, ArtSlant Awards, IPA Awards, Lumière Awards a. o.). Represented in international art collections, e. g. Mezzanin Foundation Collection / Liechtenstein, Italian Culture Association MoCa (IT). Worldwide shows include Arsenale of Venice (IT), Musée du Louvre Paris (FR), Huantie Museum Beijing (CN), Museum Osnabrück (DE), Birmingham Museum (GB), Museum Sinclair-Haus Bad Homburg (DE), SF Camerawork San Francisco (US) and Kunst Haus Wien (AT). Monograph "Photographic Realities" by KEHRER. Represented by Galerie Anja Knoess Cologne, Galerie Julia Philippi Heidelberg and Galerie Wesner Konstanz in Germany.
In this video interview, photographer Peter Braunholz speaks about traveling 20,000 miles across Europe’s countless towns and villages to capture an unsettling view of the emptiness in constructed environments.
