ABOUT
Jeannette Petri studied video and photography at the Academy of Art & Design in Offenbach (Germany) taking the classes of Lewis Baltz and Heiner Blum.
Jeannette Petri loves to work on the No Man’s Land between documentary and staged photography. This includes pure non-fictional work but she also loves to let the people play themselves in an arranged environment.
Her videos "china shipping" (2000),
"rock it" (2005) etc. were shown on international filmfestivals from Oberhausen to Minneapolis. Her photographic work was presented in numerous exhibitions from Paris to Berlin.
Since 2005 Jeannette Petri publishes the annual magazine
Anattitude, presenting the Ladies from around the Hip Hop world with fresh and intelligent interviews. Running her own magazine gives her the freedom to combine good photography with a great graphic design and dope content.
Her work is supported by several scholarships like the Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Kunststiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen and Hessische Kulturstiftung to name a few.
All photographs on this site were made between 1998 and 2009, most on a Mamya RZ 67.
Jeannette Petri is currently living in Brussels, Frankfurt and London.