Bernd Arnold

Bernd Arnold studied photography at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and has been working as a photographic artist and photojournalist for German and international print media since the late 1980s. In his series ‘Power and Ritual’, ‘Black East Wild West’, ‘Insignificant Personalities’ and ‘Digitalis’, he explores political, religious, media-related and social representations. His work has been widely exhibited and published, including in photobooks, magazines, exhibitions and museum contexts. Drawing on four decades of photographic practice, journalistic experience and artistic work, Arnold writes about the transition from analogue light traces to digital code, about AI-generated images and about the future of photography in the age of artificial intelligence. He is an appointed member of the German Society for Photography, a member of VISUM, and lives in Cologne.

Books: Über die Zukunft der Fotografie (2026), Die Welt der Neuen Bilder (2023), Wahl Kampf Ritual (2013), Das Kölner Heil (1997).