new pictures are coming soon!!!

I'm sorry that the time is passing by and I didn't post new stuff, but at the moment my wonderwonderful girlfriend and I are working at new pictures of our photos ornamented with flowers - project!!!

Pictures taken with Canon Rebel XSi/450D and Leica Elmarit-R 2.8/35mm (photos 1+2) and Sigma 3.5-5.6/28-80 (photos 3-5).

Palimpsest vs. Sandwich

I just wrote in a post that "to make a palimpsest isn't an exact science with norms. You can calculate many things ahead, but how the end product really will be, is often in the stars. It's really learning by doing and learning from errors." 
Often before I'll make a palimpsest, I scan the paper to look which picture will work with it. Therefore I create some sandwich montages with the paper and the pictures.
This example shows the difference between a clear sandwich montage and a weird palimpsest. 
I've used as paper a page from the German magazine "hobby - das Magazin der Technik" - No. 17/67 from 23.August 1967. The page shows the exploded view drawing from a submarine model:

First I made a sandwich montage in Photoshop, where I could adjust everything to have got in the end some different versions and hopefully one version which is "perfect":

Well, to think now that the palimpsest also will have the same appearance is unfortunately wrong. Of course, you can set everything perfectly in Photoshop and the printer as well, but if the paper is fed wrong from the printer, then it may already be problems. And many old papers aren't really suitable for printing. But often you just know this detail after printing, like here:

Therefore if you have got an unique paper, scan it before you print on it!

photos ornamented with flowers - part 13.

It's a long time ago I made my last digital sandwich. In the beginning of my career I've used this technique very often. I'm very influenced by the works of Jerry Uelsmann, who is the grandmaster of the sandwich technique with film negatives. Well, I can only create sandwiches with Photoshop...

I've used some pictures, which I made in September 2014, of a blooming Ipê-amarelo.

As second layer I've used black&white self portraits of my beautiful girlfriend.
And here are the results:

photos ornamented with flowers - part XII.

Today I made a palimpsest with a picture of my girlfriend which I've decorated with some bird feathers and an old Brazilian coin with a Lobo Guará.

WIRRWARR 13 @ ARTE UNDER Transcultural

Today the Spanish page ARTE UNDER Transcultural showed the works from WIRRWARR 13!!!
See it here:

Hoy viajamos a Brasil para conocer el trabajo de Fabricio Schmidt - PhotoArt
Fabricio Schmidt, nació y creció en Alemania y ha vivido en Brasil desde 2007. Él es un fotógrafo, artista visual y participó en eventos y exposiciones individuales y colectivas en Brasil y Europa. También he tenido varias publicaciones en revistas.
El foco principal de la misma es el uso y procesamiento de fotos en fotomontajes, collages e instalaciones, sino también en los procesos de impresión alternativos.
Uno de tales procesos alternativos de impresión es la técnica de palimpsesto.

El proyecto WIRRWARR 13 es sobre el amor de dos personas, que se encuentran atrapados en el espacio y el tiempo. Ellos no pueden ver, sólo se puede sentir. Sólo una distancia geográfica entre ellos. Una barrera para muchas personas por lo que ya es una razón para renunciar a una relación, pero para estas dos fotos no es una razón, porque cuando se siente el verdadero amor, entonces usted sabe que no tiene barreras ni fronteras o extremos. Con el tiempo las dos personas parecen que duermen, que crecen junto con su entorno como la Bella Durmiente. Tal vez esta historia de estas dos personas es también un relato de hadas, pero usted puede ver las fotos, que son documentos que aman, entonces son...

The 10th anniversary!

The 5th anniversary!
inspired by Marcel Breuer's "ein bauhaus-film", 1926

Arte Cidade 2014 - Corpo-Cidade - Vernissage

There is still time to visit the exhibition Arte Cidade 2014 - Corpo-Cidade at the SESC Blumenau in Blumenau (SC), Brazil up to January, 15th.

Here some pictures from the vernissage ©  by Ali Assumpção and Charles Steuck.

Here a news video by RIC Mais about the exhibition.

Utopian Worlds - MailArt project - part2

Today some pictures of the "Utopian Worlds" project exhibition at the Free Oakland UP Gallery in Oakland, USA. You can see my work at the upper right of the pictures:

Copyright © by Free Oakland UP Gallery

stamp-dater-art - MailArt project

I've participated at the cool MailArt project stamp-dater-art by Pier Roberto Bassi, Italy.
Here my work:

Arte Cidade 2014 - Corpo-Cidade - Assembly

Today was the assembly of the Arte Cidade 2014 - Corpo-Cidade at the SESC Blumenau in Blumenau (SC), Brazil, which will start tomorrow at 8 pm.

Here some pictures of it...