Josefine Rauch lives and works in Offenbach am Main, Germany.
She holds an MA in Aesthetics from Goethe University Frankfurt. During her Master’s program, she was a guest student in Fine Arts, Photography, Television, Film, and Media at California State University, Los Angeles. While freelancing for film and performing arts productions, she began developing her personal photography work. Since 2020, she has been attending conceptual documentary classes at the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin and took part in the Art Foto Mode program in 2022 in Athens, Berlin, and Budapest. Her tutors included Rafal Milach, Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, Sylvia Sachini, Tim Clark, and Michael Grieve. In July 2024, Josefine was selected to participate in Alec Soth's Workshop at Home in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Her work has been featured in both online and print publications, including the Fall 2024 release Forgive Us Our Trespasses by Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, see-zeen, BROAD Magazine, Photo-Letter, and Fresh Eyes Talent 2023 and 2024 by GUP Magazine. She has participated in group exhibitions at AFF Gallery Berlin, Fotobus Society Hanover, Kunsthalle.Ost Leipzig, Bastille Design Center Paris, One Minute Space Athens, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, and Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.
Her project Temple Road was shortlisted for the LensCulture New Visions Awards 2025, Trieste Photo Days 2025 (selected by Harry Gruyaert), Athens Photo Festival 2024, and the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023. A zine about Temple Road, published by Bildband Berlin, was launched in April 2024.
