Janek Stempel, born in 2003, is a documentary photographer and a photojournalist based in Hannover, Germany & Prague, Czechia and has close connections in Trnava, Slovakia.
He has a strong interest in Eastern Europe and its political landscape, especially how Russia affects European countries and the everyday lives of people from the region.

Janek is a student of Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at the HS Hannover since 2023.
Since March 2025, he has also been in charge of the program's Instagram account @visualjournalism.de.

He is a member of the Fotobus Society.   
fotobus-society.com
He helped organize the 2025 Fotobus outdoor exhibition “what happens in the meantime”, which was presented in Hannover and during the opening week of the Rencontres d’Arles photo festival.

Clients and publications:
Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
visualjournalism.de

Photobooks:
Dummy Two Years To Realize
Dummy Distance Between

Contact Information:
+49 151 290 695 89
+420 727 860 112
janek@stempel.cz
@janekstempelfoto

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