"Photography is the only language...

...that can be understood anywhere in the world."

Bruno Barbey


"first love", germany, 2005

"I think of photography like therapy. ...

... It's something I need to do. If I don't take pictures for a month, I really miss it. It's a relationship to the world I need, a distance: it's being more present and somehow less present."

Harry Gruyaert


"einsame zweisamkeit", germany, 2005

"Wenn Kunst aristokratisch ist,...

...dann ist die Fotografie ihre demokratische Stimme."

Ernst Haas

pictures by Patricia Schmidt, germany, 2005

"Paranoia is just another word...

... for ignorance."

Hunter S. Thompson


"never ever take psychodelic drugs", germany, 2006

"Acredito que uma pessoa comum pode ajudar muito,...

...não apenas doando bens materiais, mas participando, sendo parte das trocas de idéias, estando realmente preocupada sobre o que está acontecendo no mundo."

Sebastião Salgado


"here comes a city", germany, 2005

the music: The Go-Betweens "Here comes a city"

...but sometimes I paint.

Original:


Layer:

First I printed the Original in b/w on plain paper (DIN A4 - 80g/m²). Then I painted it with watercolor (aquarelle). After the color was dry, I put a drawing paper over it, disrupted this a little bit and put a layer Scotch Tape over all. At last I scanned it and edited it with Photoshop CS.

For the Sandwich I took the Original and the Layer.

This is the result:

"coringa II", brasil, 2009

coringa = portuguese for joker

I'm not a painter, but sometimes...

"dijulia" - detail 1-3, brasil, 2008/09

watercolor (aquarelle) on photos/paper

"I am tired, I am weary...

...I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears"

Velvet Underground, "Venus in Furs"

read: Sacher-Masoch, "Venus in Furs" ("Venus im Pelz")


"self with ana", germany, 2005

COME ON!

I don't speak with words. I speak with pictures.

You see scenes. I see the light. - part 2

"lmp.ae 1/2/3/11/22/33", brasil, 2008