Joshua Delissen

Besides framing built architecture, I use photography as a research-driven tool, to document people and living surroundings. I see my photographic work as an artistic take on social, economic, and political themes. Hence my studies of architecture, I am deeply intrigued about the lives and living situations of individuals.

born 1993

photographer
based in: Hamburg

hallo@joshuadelissen.de

Mobiler Pavillon / Frugal Bauen,

Brauerei / mehr*architekten,

Humam / aesthetic nooks,

Kinamania / NOTAN OFFICE,

City Archivist / Robbrecht en Daem, murmuur,

Hambourg Bestiaire / studio muoto,

Architektursommer / umschichten,

Wöörden / Sarina Möhle,

Worpswede / Müller-Menckens,

Brennwerk / studiobauland,

Heilandskirche / sero,

Maximilian Thiel / Künstler,

Haus Hainer See / sero,

Zollhafen / blrm,

Standaertsite / AE-architecten, Carton123, murmuur,

to lapdog,

brick is the color,

project hamburg,

David Peralta / ambk / modellbauer,

Pavillon der Freien Künste / Polycarbonara,

Das wilde Bauen,

Gecekondu,

Typologies of temporary promises,

Prospects,

Der Norden,

Arcostraße / blrm,

Stadthäuser an der Alster / blrm,

Schafstall / Frugal Bauen,

Sommerpavillon / Frugal Bauen,

Quiet-Space / umschichten,

Daria Patlai / Gröninger Hof,

Kirche / Patschan, Werner, Winking,

Gut Garkau / Hugo Häring,

Bibliothèque nationale de France / Dominique Perrault,

Corbusierhaus / Le Corbusier,

from wolf,

Joshua Delissen
Besides framing built architecture, I use photography as a research-driven tool, to document people and living surroundings. I see my photographic work as an artistic take on social, economic, and political themes. Hence my studies of architecture, I am deeply intrigued about the lives and living situations of individuals.

born 1993

photographer
based in: Hamburg

hallo@joshuadelissen.de

Clients include
blrm Architekt*innen, hmarchitekten, Frugal Bauen, mehr* architekten, murmuur architecten, Polycarbonara, sero Architekten, Studio Susanne Brorson, studio jumasi, studio muoto, graadwies, studiobauland

Exhibitions
2024 Das wilde Bauen, Hannover
2024 Typologies of temporary promises, Hamburg
2024 Das Neue (parken) sehen - Gröninger Hof, Hamburg
2024 Prospects - Neues Amt, Hamburg
2023 Zwei Perspektiven - Café Kater, Leipzig

Publications include
afasiaarchzine, Archdaily, Arcguide, Baunetz, Baunetz-Campus, Bauwelt, CUBE Magazin, Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, Divisare, DOM Publishers, German-Architects, Protocol Magazin, Tagesspiegel, World Architecture Magazine

Awards
2025 Shortlist, Georg Koppmann Preis für Hamburger Stadtfotografie
2023 Shortlist, Georg Koppmann Preis für Hamburger Stadtfotografie

about

current project Das wilde Bauen

With the new millennium, there are more spaces than ever before: the analogue world is being continued in a digital parallel - unstoppable, ubiquitous, invasive, supposedly practical and inexpensive.  There are now also places for everyday life on the Internet, for example for consumption ... ‘Shopping’ no longer necessarily only takes place in city centres. This competition between (new) spaces is ultimately pushing the digital world into the analogue world: through vacancies. This is because the battle for purchasing power has been won in the networked world - it has become the centre of consumer culture. So far, only the battlefields of this conflict remain - empty former department stores in the centre of city centres.
Text by Saskia Menges

exhibitions

2023 Gröninger Hof im Blick, Werkstatt Gröninger Hof, Hamburg
2023 Zwei Perspektiven, Ausstellung Kater, Leipzig
2024 Das Neue (parken) sehen, Gröninger Hof, Hamburg
2024 Prospects, Neues Amt, Hamburg
2024 Typologies of Temporary Promises, Hamburger Stiftung Baukultur, Hamburg
2024 Das Wilde Bauen, Aufhof, Hannover

clients include

blrm Architekt*innen, hmarchitekten, Frugal Bauen, mehr*architekten, murmuur architecten, Polycarbonara, sero Architekten, Studio Susanne Brorson, studio jumasi, studio muoto, graadwies, studiobauland