TITLE: PEARS IN THE AFTERNOON

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.

AUTHOR: Karoline Schneider (Germany)

Karoline Schneider
is an artist and photographer living in the heart of Berlin. She currently teaches at Film University Babelsberg.

After graduating from the University of Arts, Berlin and 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.