2014 Sony World Photography Awards - 3rd Place, Conceptual, Professional Competition
Frauke Thielking was born in Minden, a small town near Hannover and she was fortunate to spend her childhood in a small village with open skies, green space, lots of other children, lots of animals … and lots of fun. At the age of 10, Frauke, her parents and sister moved to a pretty small town called Lübbecke, which is not far from Minden either. After her A-levels in 1996, Frauke went to London to work as an Au Pair in a very nice family and she really enjoyed her time there. After coming back from London, she first decided to study English & Pedagogy to become a teacher. Accidentally, Frauke “bombed” into a weekend’s seminar at the University in Bielefeld. It was a kind of “Introduction to Photography” – thing and she thought “Well, what about studying photography?” and applied with a portfolio in Bielefeld at the photography department. While travelling in Thailand (in Summer 2000) with a good friend of hers, Frauke got a letter that she’d be a student for Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund from September 2000.
Frauke Thielking finished her studies in Summer 2006 and since then, she has been working as a freelance photographer, designer and independent artist.