Juergen Teller, born in Erlangen in 1964, studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich. His work has been published in influential magazines such as Vogue, System, i-D, POP and Arena Homme+, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions including those at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin and the Grand Palais Ephémère in Paris. Teller won the prestigious Citibank Photography Prize in 2003, and from 2014 to 2019 held a professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg. His recent books with Steidl include Leben und Tod (2020), Auguri (2022), The Master V (2023), Notes About My Work (2023), i need to live (2023), More Handbags (2023), Jurgaičiai (2023) and The Myth (2023).