About BauDokuBerlin – Architectural Photography by Miriam Otte & Lidia Tirri
BauDokuBerlin is a collaborative photography project by photographers Miriam Otte and Lidia Tirri, specializing in construction documentation, architecture photography, and interior design imagery in Berlin and beyond.
The two photographers first met in 2001 at a photo studio in Berlin-Mitte. At the time, Lidia Tirri was working as a trainee with commercial photographer Oli Keinath, while Miriam Otte had just begun her professional training in photography. Early on, they collaborated on joint photo projects and workshops, united by a shared passion for visual storytelling, documentary photography, and photographic education.
After several years of working independently, their professional paths have come together again. Today, they combine their expertise to offer high-quality architectural documentation, construction progress photography (Baudokumentation), and interior photography for architects, developers, agencies, and cultural institutions.
“We are both very happy that after working separately for some time, our paths have crossed again. Now, we bring our experience together to create precise and aesthetic visual documentation of architecture, construction processes, and interior spaces.”
Teaching activities
2017-2018 Photography workshop leader // Sprachart Berlin, course leader photography / afternoon classes primary level // Socius Bildungspartner / Berlin
2012-2015 Photography Lecturer // SKDZ School of Art and Design / Zurich
2008 Course leader photography // afternoon classes primary level / Cosmopolitan School / Berlin
2006 Photography workshop leader // Initiative for Urban District Development / Potsdam, primary school workshop leader // La Granja Institute / Heras Cantabria / Spain
2005 Workshop leader photography // Schülerladen O-35 / Berlin
Publications
2004 “Life behind the confectionery facade” Author: Ylva Queisser | Photos: Lidia Tirri
2005 “All of the Cosmonauts – Insights and Views from the Plateau” Author: Ylva Queisser | Photos: Lidia Tirri
2006 “”A Day in Marzahn NordWest” Author: Ylva Queisser | Photos: Lidia Tirri
2007 “Wohnlabor Hansaviertel: Stories from the city of tomorrow” Authors: various | Photos: Lidia Tirri
2007 “A legmodernebb lakótelep – the most modern housing estate” Authors: Axel Halling, N.Kovács Tímea | Photos: Lidia Tirri (published in Hungary)
2009 Image production for the trade fair CPD Düsseldorf Photos: Miriam Otte, Nicola Meske
2009 Catalogue production for fashion designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Fashion & Accessories: Miriam Otte/ Nicola Mesken
2010 “34 years of buying” Authors Tilman Weitz and Olaf Gerecke | Photos: Lidia Tirri
2011 Corpus Delicti 1980, Imagebilder Möbeldesign, Magdeburg Photos: M.Otte
Exhibitions
2021 Photo exhibition “TIME SPACE EXISTENCE” as part of the European Culture Center at the Architecture Biennale in Palazzo Bembo, Venice Italy, photos: Miriam Otte and Lidia Tirri
2011 “Näköalapaikka : kertomuksia Pihlajamäestä | A place with a view : recollections of Pihlajamäki” Author: Kristiina Markkanen | Photos: Lidia Tirri (Helsinki City Museum, Finland)
2010 Photo exhibition “Your Youth”, twenty young people and their visions of the future, interviews & video presentation, Berlin Mitte, photos: Miriam Otte
2009 Photo exhibition “Stadtgerede” as part of the book project “Hallo Taxi”, Berliner Woche, Allitera Verlag Munich, M.Otte, N.Mesken
2008 Lakások, Lakosok – Apartments, Residents. The most modern housing estate -life stories from the Pécs uranium town and life behind the confectioner’s façade
Dengler and Dengler Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany N&N Galéria in Budapest, Hongary
2007 Pécs HattyúHáz (exhibition space for contemporary art) Pécs/Fünfkirchen, Hongary. Wohnlabor Hansaviertel – Stories from the City of Tomorrow Apartment in Eternit-Haus in Berlin, Altonaerstr. 1.
2005 Allee der Kosmonauten – insights and views from the slab High rise apartment in Berlin-Marzahn, Allee der Kosmonauten 145. Gallery Torstraße 203, Berlin-Mitte
Life behind the confectioner’s façade and Allee der Kosmonauten
Goethe Institute Sibiu January 2006
Goethe Institute Timisoara, December 2005
Goethe Institute Iasi, November 2005
Goethe Institute Bucharest: 3 – 30 October 2005
Life behind the confectionery facade
Goethe Institut Shanghai: 18 February – 9 March 2005
Goethe Institut Beijing: 14 March – 25 March 2005
Stalinallee – Portrait of a Czech Gata
Arbetets Museum, Norrköping, Sweden (20 November 2004 – 31 January 2005)
La vie derrière les facades style “pâtisserie” de la Stalinallee à Berlin
Goethe Institut Nancy: 18 May – 28 August 2004
Strasbourg: 30 November – 17 December 2004
Berlino: Stalinallee
Associazione culturale italo-tedesca / Teatro Vittorio Emanuele, Messina Sicily (27 September 2004 – 8 October 2004)
Life behind the confectionery façade
Goethe Institut Hamburg: 24 October 2004 – 12 November 2004
Goethe Institut Bonn: 8 September 2004 – 8 October 2004
Goethe Institut Dresden: 1 April 2004 – 28 April 2004
Stalinallee – Scene of the 17th June 1953
Municipal Museum Eisenhüttestadt: 17 June 2004 – 29 August 2004
Life behind the confectioner’s façade
Forum of Contemporary History Leipzig: 14 January 2004 – 29 February 2004
Berlino: La vecchia Stalin Allee
Goethe Institut Naples: 12 February 2004 – 12 March 2004
Goethe Institut Trieste: 10 November 2003 – 12 December 2003
Goethe Institut Milan: 30 September 2003 – 31 October 2003
Stalinallee – Scene of the 17th June 1953
Friedrichshain Museum of Local History: 12 June 2003 – 26 July 2003
Berlino: Karl-Marx-Allee
Fotografia – Festival Internazionale di Roma: 8 May 2003 – 22 June 2003
Life behind the confectionery façade
Filmlounge, Frankfurter Allee 12, Berlin-Friedrichshain: 7 J