Portrait 3rd place winner

PEARS IN THE AFTERNOON is a portrait series created between 2010 and 2018.

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. 

For me, it is never about the portrait of an individual, it’s about the portrait of the human being per se. My intention is to create images that confront the viewer with his or her own imagination.

Karoline Schneider
is an artist and photographer living in the heart of Berlin. She currently teaches at Film University Babelsberg.
Karoline began her working life as a graphic artist and animation filmmaker with love of photography. Since 2008 she has been intensively involved in photographic processes. Her most recent works combine images with text and installation to create pieces of complex narrative.

Exhibitions selction:
2014 Abwesen Kommunale Galerie, Berlin
2015 Geschichten Edition Larue, Berlin
2015 Kaprizen Kabinett 33, Berlin
2017 projections at Fotohaus Arles and nuit de la roquette at
Rencontres d’ Arles 2017
2017 Birnen am Nachmittag Kabinett.25, Berlin
2017 4x1 Projektionen Kabinett.25, Berlin
2018 Murmures Galerie erstererster Berlin
2018 Volatile Kabinett.25 Berlin
2019 L’ART EN MARCHÈ LAC Luxemburg
2019 Labyrinth Kabinett.25, Berlin
2019 Blind Date Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin

Awards selection:
2019 Lensculture Finalist at the Story Telling Award
2019 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award non prof.
Winner, category portrait, series,
2019 ND Award: ND Discovery oft he Year
1st place in People: Portrait Category
1st place in Fine Art: Other Category
2019 14th PolluxAward non professional: WINNER: in category digital manipulation, series
2020 Monochrome Photography Awards 2019
1st Place Winner - Conceptual Discovery of the Year 2019