Werkstatt Berlin was founded in 2023 as Hamburg Werkstatt Fotografie in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg , and as of January 2025 will relocate to Kreuzberg in Berlin.

Werkstatt Berlin is a space dedicated to the appreciation, knowledge, questioning and creative development of documentary photography and visual culture, and offers education, exhibitions and events, and through these opens a forum for dialogue about the powerful impact of photography on our complex societies.

Werkstatt Berlin Education organises two programs in Berlin with Mark Power and Michael Grieve. Mark Power teaches a 9 month program, comprising of 3 physical workshops, designed to help photographers initiate projects and guiding them on the right path. Michael Grieve teaches a 12 month program with monthly weekend seminars, in which participating photographers develop a practical project, beginning with small assignments, and gain knowledge and inspiration from invited guest lecturers.

HWF Galerie presents a platform for the range and diversity of photography, both past and present. Since 2023 WF Galerie has exhibited Anders Petersen, JH Engström, Bertien van Manen, Michael Grieve, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler, Axel Beyer, Paolo Pellegrin. Our inaugural exhibition was the seminal work, Cafe Lehmitz (1978), photographs concentrated in bar on the Reeperbahn in the early 70’s by Swedish photographer, Anders Petersen. Werkstatt Berlin is honoured to have Anders Petersen as a patron. His honest, sensitive and grounded approach to life via photography is the very essence of what Werkstatt Berlin stands for.