CHARLOTTE SCHMITZ

Charlotte Schmitz (1988, Germany) is an artist applying collaborative methods and deliberately personal approach to her photography practice. Growing up in the Danish Minority in Germany, she studied documentary photography in Hanover (BA) and visual culture (MA) in Copenhagen. Charlotte’s work has been published in various international media outlets, such as The Washington Post, Courrier Internationale, der Spiegel among many more, and she has held solo exhibitions in the United States, Turkey, Austria, Bulgaria, and Japan.

She is the first recipient of the FotoEvidence W Award for her book La Puente, published in 2019. She is the co-founder of two creative studios based between Barcelona and Berlin and in March 2020 she founded The Journal, a global photography collective of several hundred women and non-binary photographers who have come together to create a network for creativity and support.

Charlotte’s work often explores feminist perspectives on how collaboration enables greater self-determination, as seen in her current project with sex workers in a Berlin brothel and her intimate 12-year documentation of women in Balat, Istanbul.