Books

Of Lions and Lambs
Kehrer Verlag 2019

48 Hours Blackpool
Kehrer Verlag 2018 (out of print)
Signed copies may be purchased directly from the artist via mail@benitasuchodrev.com
Press
Selected Press
NEUE BERLINER ILLUSTRIERTE ZEITUNG: Article
ThePhoblographer: Article
keyi magazine: Article
monopol: Article
taz: Article
junge Welt: Article
Luxemburger Wort: Article
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Article
dasFoto Magazin Edition: Article
DIE ZEIT : Article
Schwarzweiss Magazine: Article
Leica Photography International: Book Feature
RBB Kultur: Radio Broadcast
Kasseler Fotobuchblog: Book Review
ZEIT ONLINE: Image Gallery
dodho: Text and Image
Snoecks Belgium: Portfolio
The Eye of Photography: Interview <ENGLISH> <FRANÇAIS>
Foto Magazin: Book of the month
HR2 Kultur: Radio Interview
Perlentaucher.de: Book & Exhibition Review Article
Kasseler Fotobuchblog: Book & Exhibition Review Article
WDR | COSMO: Radio Interview (Russian)
Mare: Book Review Article
Berliner Zeitung: Exhibition Review Article
TAZ: Book Review Article
Schwarzweiss Magazine: Book Review Article
Deutsche Welle | EUROMAXX : TV Reportage <ENGLISH> <DEUTSCH> <ESPAÑOL>
ARTE | ARTE Journal: TV Reportage
THE GUARDIAN : Article
ARD | ttt "titel, thesen, temperamente" : TV Reportage | Article
3Sat | "Kulturzeit" : TV Reportage
BR | Capriccio : TV Reportage
rbb24 | "Kulturradio" : Radio broadcast
ZEIT ONLINE : Image Gallery
dodho : Text and Image
Reportage : Text and Image
Urban Street Diving : Interview
Neues Deutschland (Puppet Masters) : Interview
Feature Shoot (Puppet Masters) : Interview
International Photo Magazine (Puppet Masters) : Text and Image
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeigung (Puppet Masters) : Article
Amica Italy (Woman in Heat) : Feature
Stern.de (Woman in Heat) : Feature
The Moscow Times (Woman in Heat) : Article
MIND Magazine China (Woman in Heat) : Feature
FMD Magazine Russia (Woman in Heat) : Article
Brennpunkt Magazine (Woman in Heat) : Article
NOOVO Editions Barcelona (Woman in Heat) : Interview
Monopol (Woman in Heat) : Text
Photo Video Magazine Russia (Echoes of War) : Article
Die Tageszeitung (Echoes of War) : Exhibition Review
Berliner Zeitung (Echoes of War) : Exhibition Review
WDR | COSMO (Echoes of War): Radio Interview (Russian)
Brennpunkt Magazine (Echoes of War) : Article
5 Street-Photography-Tipps vom ProfiDie Fotografin Benita Suchodrev hat sich in einem englischen Badeort Tage und Nächte um die Ohren geschlagen. Daraus entstanden ist ein Bildband: "48 Hours Blackpool".
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Events
Rencontres d’Arles 2025 – LEICA x BFF Talks
Artist Talk
09 July 2025, 11:00 AM
Hôtel Jules César
9 Boulevard des Lices
13200 Arles France
Panel Talk | Le bal infernal 2008-2024
27 November 2024, 18:30
FOTOGRAFISKA Berlin
Oranienburger Str. 54
10117 Berlin
Mo – So: 10 – 23
Exhibition | Le bal infernal 2008-2024
11 October 2024 – 26 January 2025
Vernissage 10 October 2024, 18:00
FOTOGRAFISKA Berlin
Oranienburger Str. 54
10117 Berlin
Mo – So: 10 – 23
Exhibition | OF LIONS AND LAMBS | 48 HOURS BLACKPOOL
17 May – 28 June 2024
Vernissage 16 May 2024, 19:00
Artist Talk 04 June 2024, 19:00
FOTOGALERIE Friedrichshain
Helsingforser Platz, 10243 Berlin
Di – Sa: 14:00 – 18:00
Do: 10:00 – 20:00
no admission
more information here
Luxembourg Street Photography Festival 2021
13 May – 16 May 2021
Portfolio Review 14 May 2021, 17:00
Conference 15 May 2021, 16:00
Panel Discussion 15 May 2021, 18:00
Rotondes
Place des Rotondes, Bonnevoie, 2448 Luxembourg
Book Launch and Exhibition | Monat der Fotografie OFF – Berlin | Preis der Jury 2020
9 November – 3 December 2020
Book Launch and Opening 07 November 2020, 18:00
Due to Corona restrictions the number of guests is limited.
Pre-registration at info@bildbandberlin.com
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstraße 33
10405 Berlin
Artist Talk | European Month of Photography (EMOP) Berlin
10 October, 15:00
Due to Corona restrictions the number of guests is limited.
Pre-registration at emop.berlin@kulturprojekte.berlin
WILLY-BRANDT-HAUS
Stresemannstr. 28
10963 Berlin
Exhibition | Echo des Krieges
12 September 2020 – 10 January 2021
Due to Corona restrictions pre-registration is required. Number of guests is limited.
Time window tickes available starting 1. September here
WILLY-BRANDT-HAUS
Stresemannstr. 28
10963 Berlin
Book Signing | Of Lions and Lambs
8 November 2019, 15:00, Booth SE07 (Kehrer)
PARIS PHOTO
Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
People’s Choice Award Ceremony | 48 HOURS BLACKPOOL
11. Wiesbadener Fototage – Grenzgang Fotokunst
6 September 2019 – 17:00
Atrium at SV Sparkassen Versicherung
Bahnhofstraße 69, 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany
Exhibition | 48 HOURS BLACKPOOL
11. Wiesbadener Fototage – Grenzgang Fotokunst
Photographers’ Talk
17 August 2019 – 01 September 2019
Opening 17 August 2019, 19:00
Photo Talk 18 August 2019, 11:00
KUNSTHAUS WIESBADEN
Schulberg 10, 65183 Wiesbaden, Germany
Exhibition | 48 HOURS BLACKPOOL
30 March 2019 – 12 May 2019
Opening 29 March 2019, 19:30
WILLY-BRANDT-HAUS
Stresemannstr. 28
10963 Berlin
Kehrer BOOK TALK #11 | 48 HOURS BLACKPOOL
14 December 2018, 19:15
Kehrer Galerie
Potsdamer Str. 100
10785 Berlin
Exhibition | Puppet Masters
27 October – 20 December 2018
Opening 26 October 2018, 20:00
Academy of Dramatic Arts Ernst Busch
Zinnowitzer Str. 11
10115 Berlin
Mo-Sa 10:00 – 18:00
Book Signing | 48 HOURS BLACKPOOL
8 November 2018, 14:00, Booth SE06 (Kehrer)
PARIS PHOTO
Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
Book Launch | 48 HOURS BLACKPOOL
4 November 2018, 17:00
pavlov’s dog
Bergstraße 19
10115 Berlin
Exhibition | Who Do You Think I Am
17 November 2018 – 20 Januar 2019
Group Exhibition “imagine” – Freie Klasse Eva Bertram
New School of Photography Berlin
Brunnenstraße 188-190
10119 Berlin
About Benita

Benita Suchodrev was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and immigrated to the United States where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts with a focus on Art History continuing to a Master of Arts in English Literature, graduating with high honors. In 2008 Benita relocated to Berlin and began an extensive documentation of the cosmopolitan city’s multifaceted art scene while working on diverse photographic projects.
Her photographs have been published in the books “Of Lions and Lambs” (Kehrer 2019), “48 Hours Blackpool” (Kehrer 2018), “Nachtleben Berlin: 1974 bis heute” (Metrolit 2013) and “Berlin Now” (teNeues 2009) and have been covered by various television, radio and print media including Arte, The guardian, Zeit Online, ARD, Rbb24 Kulturradio, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Amica Italy, Art, Mare Magazine, Stern.de, Berliner Zeitung, Die Tageszeitung, Tagesspiegel, Neues Deutschland, MIND China, The Moscow Times, among others. Her awarded portrait and documentary works have been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally and are part of stately and private Collections. Benita is a member of the photographer’s agency FOCUS. She lives and works in Berlin.
“My work is concerned primarily with the human subject. I am attracted to the poetic and the bizarre, the bold and the vulnerable, with little interest for strict documentation or sensation. I work intuitively with great regard for authenticity, spontaneity and the transitional moment; that elusive split of a second between what has passed, what is to come and the traces it leaves behind. The drama and ambiguity of human expression and gesture in that transitional moment is what fascinates me the most.”
Project Portfolio

NIGHTSHIFT BERLIN @ MOMEM – Museum of Modern Electronic Music
EXHIBITION: Feb 06 - Mar 1, 2026 OPENING: Friday, Feb 6, 1 pm
MOMEM Frankfurt
Mid-level, An der Hauptwache 15
60313 Frankfurt am Main
see map
Phone: 069 2097 58990
Opening hours Tue-Sun: 1-7pm

Rencontres d’Arles 2025 - LEICA x BFF Talks
Artist Talk
09 July 2025, 11:00 AM
Hôtel Jules César
9 Boulevard des Lices
13200 Arles France
During the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival, Leica Camera AG and the Professional Association of Freelance Photographers and Film Creators (BFF) are organizing a variety of talks by internationally renowned photographers and artists. On 9th of July Benita Suchodrev will unveil the authentic characters, fleeting moments and hidden narratives behind her long-time study of Berlin’s legendary nightlife.

Exhibition Le bal infernal
11 October 2024 - 26 January 2025
Vernissage 10 October 2024, 18:00
FOTOGRAFISKA Berlin
Oranienburger Str. 54
10117 Berlin
Mo - So: 10 – 23
In the labyrinth of Berlin club culture, labels and limitations disappear. For over 30 years, Berlin has been a space of possibility in which quite a few people have invented a new life, a new identity. Berlin's nightlife, with its ever-evolving club culture, mirrors the city’s constant transformation. It thrives in the in-between spaces – places that offer freedom by escaping the established order outside their walls.
On 10 October 2024, Fotografiska Berlin will open the exhibition Le bal infernal 2008-2024, Benita Suchodrev's long-term study that captures the fleeting moments and unique characters that make up the soul of Berlin.

»A complex pictorial-psychological investigation into a disenchanted reality and the nature of being,reminiscent of the cinema of Federico Fellini and the black-and-white English films of 1960s’ social realism.« (Mark Gisbourne, Art historian, Critic, Curator)
»Intoxicating and authentic, Suchodrev’s narratives could be a daydream-like film told through stills, as in Arthur Schnitzler’s Dream Story or the work of Jim Jarmusch.« (Matthias Harder, Curator, Helmut Newton Foundation)
Signed copies of 48 HOURS BLACKPOOL (out of print) may be purchased directly from the artist via mail@benitasuchodrev.com











