Karoline Schneider

PEARS IN THE AFTERNOON - Untold Stories

PEARS IN THE AFTERNOON is a portrait series created between 2010 and 2018. The 'Untold Stories' are part of this series. Originally a fine artist, I swapped my brushes for a camera and my colours for photochemistry. That’s how the ‘paintings’ that I never painted emerged. In wet plate photography, I found a suitable medium to bring my images into being. Due to its very analogue nature, its distorting effects and its slow unfolding the wet plate process comes very close to the process of painting. At the same time, I use the so-called objectivity of photography to develop my own artistic imagery. My artistic focus is on the portrait in the broadest sense: I’m always looking for the special quality of my subject, whether person, prop or situation, but in the end all things absent are decisive. For me, it is not about the portrait of an individual, it’s about the individual portrait of the audience itself.

Photographer

Karoline Schneider

KAROLINE SCHNEIDER

was born in 1970 in East Germany. As a graduate of the Berlin University of the Arts and the Babelsberg Film University, Karoline started her professional life as an artist and filmmaker with a passion for photography. Since 2008, Karoline has been intensively involved in photographic processes. Her interest in complex visual narratives is manifest in her photography; in her most recent work, Karoline combines photographs with text and installations.

Karoline lives and works in Berlin. She teaches at various art universities and institutions and curates in galleries.

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