Snapshot: Katrin Kleemann Takes First Prize in Photo Competition

The photographer, Katrin Kleemann, in front of her winning photo after she was awarded the first prize, which came with 300 Euro of prize money. Photo: Kim Coulter.

The award-winning photo shows the northeastern part of the Laki fissure, which covers a total length of 27 km. The photo was taken from Mount Laki; in the background you can see Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier outside the Arctic.

Katrin Kleemann has been awarded the jury’s first prize in the LMU GraduateCenter’s “Mein Forschungsgegenstand/My Research Object” photography competition for her photo of the Laki fissure in Iceland. Katrin is a doctoral candidate in the Rachel Carson Center’s Doctoral Program Environment and Society and a research associate of the Environment & Society Portal. Her research project studies the impacts of the Icelandic Laki fissure eruption of 1783 on the northern hemisphere.

The GraduateCenter^LMU has been organizing this photo competition every year since 2009. The winning photographs will be displayed in the offices of the LMU Graduate Center and used by the LMU Munich to promote doctoral candidates’ diverse research. All the submissions to the competition can be viewed here.

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