Christoph Corves
Christoph Corves works at the intersection of photography, geography, social entrepreneurship and education.
He holds a professorship for geography and media at the University of Kiel in Northern Germany where he teaches visual geography and social entrepreneurship.
Christoph has founded the project yooweedoo, that assists students to create social enterprises. He has founded the Master of Sustainability programme and the School of Sustainability at Kiel University.
Together with his partner Delia Castiñeira, he has founded the media production company Dokufaktur which has produced a range of documentary films for German public television and ARTE.
Christoph's photographic work focuses on the visual geography of man made landscapes, both rural and urban.
Photobooks
Land am Rand (2023)
Articles in Magazines
Hebridean Journey. Docu Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 6, Dec 2020.
Exhibitions
2024 Land am Rand - at the Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein. Solo exhibition. 47 pictures from the series Land am Rand (Edgeland). July - December 2024.
2022 Artdoc, Exploring Shapes and Colours. Online group exhibition. 2 images from the series Fluid Rocks. August 2022.
2022 Ministry of Finance of the State of Schleswig-Holstein. Group exhibition “Tierisch” of the Sparkassen-Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein. 4 pictures from the series Land am Rand (Edgeland).
2020 Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, Isle of North Uist, Scotland - Imagining an Island. Online group exhibition. 2 pictures from the series Hebridean Journey.
2019 Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Group exhibition. 2 images from the series Hebridean Journey.
Documentary Films
Wendepunkte (88 min, 2014)
Die letzte Schicht (56 min, 2009)
Kallawaya (26 min, 2009)
Süßhunger - Bitter Sweet (43 min, 2002)
Ein Traum von Amerika – American Dream (84 min, 2002)
Das Grüne Gold der Inkas - The Green Gold of the Incas (56 min, 2000)
Kartoffeln auf der Kippe (43 min, 1998)
Awards
Media Prize for Development Policy of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development for the documentary film "Süßhunger" (2003).
Media Prize of the German Sociey of Geography for the documentary film "Süßhunger" (2003)
MOOC Production Fellowship of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft for the Massive Open Online Course "Planning Change Projects - Sustainable Development and Social Entrepreneurship" (2013).
Ars Legendi Award of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft for the promotion of civic engagement of students (2020).