Axel Javier Sulzbacher - Photojournalist

Born in 1992, born and raised in Hannover, Germany, the son of a Mexican mother from Michoacán and a German father.

After graduating from high school, studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover.

Longer stays abroad and photographic work in Morocco,
Western Sahara, Iran and especially Pakistan and Mexico with a thematic focus on social and ecological fields of conflict.

The photographic works draw attention to people whose biographies and living conditions are shaped by a social environment in which poverty, violence and corruption prevail. At the same time, they want to show the individual and collective strategies with which these people assert themselves, master their everyday lives, and fight back.

Since 2018 years several photojournalistic projects and intensive research in the autonomous indigenous community of Cheran in the Mexican state of Michoacan. Here, small farmers, fishermen, and artisans collectively defend their livelihoods against the expansion of avocado cultivation for the world market, often driven by illegal and violent means.

Published in many different magazines, including Stern, Zenith and Geo.