German miners emerge from the narrow, dark elevator that leads to the coal face, thousands of metres underground, in this 2017 photograph taken by Canon Ambassador Nanna Heitmann, as part of her long-term project, Gone From the Window. Taken on a Canon EOS 5DS R with a Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens at 1/160 sec, f/2.5 and ISO1600. © Nanna Heitmann
"For me, photography is an excuse to meet all kinds of different people, from politicians to coal miners to punks," says documentary photographer and Canon Ambassador Nanna Heitmann. "I get to know people I would otherwise never have met or had the chance to see into their lives."
Nanna's curiosity about people who are physically, mentally or culturally isolated, and how their environment shapes them, drives much of her work. Her photographs have been published in magazines including National Geographic, Time and The New York Times. In 2019, she won the prestigious Sunday Times Award for Achievement and was invited to join Magnum Photos as a nominee.