Andrea Diefenbach is a freelance photographer, working with German and international magazines and organizations as well as on her personal long-term projects. For her critical and incisive reflection of social situations she has received several prizes, such as n-ost-Reportage Prize, 2012; Abisag-Tüllmann Prize, 2013; and the Photographic Museum of Humanity Grant, 2014. Since 2016 she has been a lecturer in Camera Arts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland.