Born in 1942 in Schraplau, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Biography

Manfred Paul’s photography attends to the fragile and often overlooked dimensions of everyday life. Working across portraiture, still life, and urban imagery, he has developed a visual language marked by restraint, precision, and a contained tension. His images engage with transience, memory, and the passage of time, capturing moments that resist narrative resolution. Balancing formal clarity with emotional depth, his practice reveals the vulnerability and dignity of his subjects, articulating a sustained reflection on presence, absence and the subtle atmospheres that shape human experience.