Born in Munich in 1965, Winfried Bullinger spent a year of study at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, in 1987. He then studied fine art and painting at Berlin’s University of the Arts and received his masters there in 1993. In 1996 he was awarded a doctorate for his dissertation on the forgery of art and moral rights from Humboldt University, Berlin. Bullinger’s photography focuses on the human condition; since the 1980s he has traveled extensively in Africa for his long-term projects. His books include Caves (2008) and At the Edges of Power (2017).