Sophie Thun

is a photographer born in 1985, who lives and works in Vienna. She works primarily with techniques of analogue photography, its spaces, processes as well as conditions of production and exhibition. Raised in Warsaw, Thun completed her master’s degree at the Academies of Fine Art in Vienna (2017, Martin Guttmann and Daniel Richter) and Cracow (2010). Thun is currently interim professor of the photography class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Thun was awarded the work grant from DZ Bank for 2019/2020 and the outstanding artist award from the Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture from the Republic of Austria.