About

Nanna Heitmann

Germany

Nanna Heitmann (b. 1994) is a documentary photographer from Ulm, Germany. A regular contributor to The New York Times, she has spent the past three years documenting wartime Russia during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one of the few Western photographers working in the country.

Heitmann has documented the effects of climate change, such as catastrophic forest fires and melting permafrost in Siberia (As Frozen Lands Burn), as well as the peatlands of the Congo Basin, which serve as the world’s largest carbon reservoir (Beneath The Trees). She has been published by National Geographic, Time, The New Yorker and M Le Magazine du Monde, among others.

A full member of Magnum Photos since 2023, she was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography.

World Press Photo Involvement:
2025 World Press Photo Contest winner 
2022 World Press Photo Contest winner
6x6 Europe Talent
2020 Joop Swart Masterclass participant

Nanna Heitmann on Social Media:
Instagram: @nannaheitmann

Nanna Heitmann