Rafael Heygster (b. 1990) is a freelance photographer based in Hannover, Germany whose work focuses on the relationship between individuals and their social, cultural and ecological environment.
From 2010 to 2015 he studied cultural anthropology and political sciences at the University of Hamburg. Since 2015, he has studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts and at DMJX in Aarhus, Denmark.