The German photo artist, film director and scriptwriter studied Fine Arts in Kassel and in Hanover. Her pictures are found in renown galleries and exhibition institutions, a well as private and public collections, including the collection of the Sprengel Museum in Hanover. The Audi Art Award and the Berlin Hyp Award are among the honours she has received for her photographic work. In 2023, Stünkel was nominated for the Beyond Future Art Prize, the Louis Roederer Photography Prize and the Prix Pictet Photography Award. In 2020, Kehrer Verlag published her photo book, Coexist.
