About

Rafael Heygster

Germany

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.

World Press Photo Involvement:
2025 World Press Photo Contest winner 

Rafael Heygster on Social Media:
Instagram: @rafahey

Rafael Heygster

Portrait credit: Mario Wezel