Timm Rautert was born in 1941 in Tuchola, West Prussia, and today lives and works in Berlin and Essen. Rautert studied under Otto Steinert at the Folkwang School of Design in Essen, and from 1993 to 2007 was professor of photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. His books with Steidl include When We Don't See You, You Don't See Us Either(2007), No Photographing (2011), Josef Sudek, Prague 1967 (2016), Vintage (2017) and Germans in Uniform (2018). In 2008 Rautert was the first photographer to be awarded the Lovis Corinth Award.