Lizane Louw is a Berlin-based artist, visual researcher, and journalist whose work spans photography, long-form visual storytelling, and material practice. Through sustained fieldwork, she explores environmental change, cultural memory, and the relationship between people, place, and landscape.
Over nearly two decades, her practice has developed through long-form fieldwork across Asia, Europe, and Africa, where research and cultural immersion inform photographic series, visual archives, and material investigations. Her work is held in private collections and by designers internationally.
Louw is the editor of Foto-Kultur, an independent publication dedicated to photography, visual culture, and field-driven storytelling. Through the platform, she publishes stories that connect image-making to broader cultural and environmental contexts.
Originally trained in visual and performing arts and multimedia journalism, she holds a diploma in visual journalism, qualifications in design and visual arts, and a master’s degree in journalism from Ateneo de Manila University. Before establishing her base in Berlin, she lived and worked extensively across Asia, documenting communities, landscapes, and craft traditions through both writing and photography.
Alongside her visual practice, Louw founded Atelier Māya, a Berlin-based textile research atelier focused on heritage printing traditions, natural dyes, earth pigments, and contemporary textile practice. The atelier functions as a platform for material research, experimentation, and knowledge exchange.
📍Berlin, Studio Lizane Louw