Michael Grieve
Founder/Director of Werkstatt Berlin
Michael Grieve is a photographer, writer, educator, publisher, and founder/director of Werkstatt Berlin, Werkstatt Editions and ArtFotoMode. Based in Berlin and Athens.
He graduated with an MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster in 1997. He has been a freelance photographer commissioned for magazines and publications internationally and represented by Agence VU in Paris. In 2010 he became the deputy editor of 1000 Words Contemporary Photography Magazine.
Since 2011 he has been a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, a lecturer at Akademia Fotografii in Warsaw/Krakow, a lecturer at the University of Art and Design in Berlin, and a lecturer for six years at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin. Since 2023 he is the founder/director of Werkstatt Berlin an independent school of photography in Berlin and the co founder and director of Werkstatt Editions, a publishing house of photography books.
In 2016 he founded ArtFotoMode, a project that organises workshops with some of the most renowned photographers worldwide. He is a regular writer for the British Journal of Photography and 1000 Words Contemporary Photography Magazine. He continues to work on personal documentary photography projects.
Portrait: Fotoautomat