ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The Picture ist part of the Series PEARS IN THE AFTERNOON, a portrait series created between 2010 and 2018.
Originally a fine artist, I started to swap 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, the distorting effects, its slow unfolding, it comes very close to the process of painting. At the same time I can use the so-called objectivity of photography to follow my own artistic imagery.
I’m always looking for the special something of my subject whether person, prop or situation,
But for me it is never about the portrait of an individual, it’s about the portrait of the human being per se.

AUTHOR
Karoline Schneider is an artist and photographer living in the heart of Berlin. In addition to her own projects, she teaches drawing, film and photography at several Art Universities and produces animation films for children.

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