Hendrik Zeitler, born in 1975 in Hamm, Germany, lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden. He studied photography at the universities in Dortmund, Germany and in Gothenburg, Sweden, and holds a master’s degree in 2003. He has exhibited internationally, including the international art biennial in Gothenburg, Artipelag and CFF in Stockholm, the Nordic Watercolour Museum and at Hippolyte gallery in Helsinki. Since 2011, Zeitler has self-published four books with the publisher Journal Photobooks, and has contributed to a number of other books. Two of these were nominated for the Swedish Photobook award and two won the annual award for Swedish book design. Hendrik Zeitler currently works as a teacher at the Valand Academy of Arts in Gothenburg and is a board member of the Swedish Association of Professional Photographers, Swedish Photobook authors, Hammarkullen Konsthall, Gallery Box and the festival Photobook Gbg. In 2019, he also participated in an artistic research project about cameraless photography.