Hans-Michael Koetzle

Hans-Michael Koetzle (born 1953) is an author, journalist and exhibition curator whose work focuses on the history and aesthetics of photography. He served as editor-in-chief of the magazine Leica World for more than a decade and published or edited numerous books on photography, including Die Zeitschrift twen (1995), Photo Icons (2001), Das Lexikon der Fotografen (2002), René Burri: Fotografien (2004), Fotografen A–Z (2011) and Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler (2019). His curatorial projects included twen – Revision einer Legende (1995) and F.C. Gundlach – Das fotografische Werk (2008). In 2022, he received the Cultural Award of the German Photographic Society.