honorable mention
Charlotte Eberwein germany
title
Mistake
One day in summer 2019 I bought myself this rose. Huge, beautiful, beguilingly fragrant.
In the spell of her beauty I got caught early in the morning with my camera in front of her, fascinated taking many pictures of her.
Full of excitement for the result I was shocked to realize that I accidently deletd all photos in a rush fromthe memory card, except the last ones. I was sad, upset and after a long hunt I found a small shop at the end of town that could may be fix my problem.
I was travelling across Berlin several times over the next two days, always having the rescue of my rose in mind. Finally I received my memory back.
Full of happiness I was going to view the rescued photos at home. However, I had to realize that they had been "damaged".
Older files had been laid over many of them. Pixelated, fragmentary, abstract. I was desillusioned. But suddenly I was becoming aware that there were hidden treasures in the supposed mistakes. I was starting to take a closer look at the pictures, to use them as they are and to appreciate them. I was given a whole new freedom seeing new possibilities, and what was once anger at my careless behavior turned into inspiration and gratitude.
I felt enriched.
Make mistakes
Realize.
Something was missing.
Acknowlidging it,
Envisioning beauty.
Utilizing this new freedom.
Keep going,
Stronger,
Different,
Thankful to yourself,
And the failure.
And there it is you.
And not the mistake.
I have chosen to give my passion, namely artistic expression, the space in my life it needs to grow freely and thus completed my photography studies at Neue Schule Für Fotografie Berlin in 2018.
It is my desire to translate.
To make emotional phenomena, desires, questions to which there is no explanation, the unspeakable, instantly visible.
When all questions about life, to which there are no answers, turn silent, even unimportant, peace returns when we recognize and perceive beauty in what raises the questions, and we realize that there must be no explanation at all.
That it is good just the way it is.
My work is constantly changing and evolving. I mainly photograph the subjects of humans and nature in color, using a self-developed method that helps me to express relevant moments and to gain access to a completely new pictorial language. They are hand-painted color filters which, in combination with the camera lens, lend the photograph my very own handwriting.
My pictures are the result of the confrontation with myself in an intuitive, an artistic way.
The arising photographies become metaphors of inner conflicts, processes, emotions and states of being. In a poetic, pictorial way I tell about places within us for which words are not necessarily found.
In my work "Birth of a Woman", exhibited and published in 2018 as part of my graduation, I grant the viewer intimate insights into my own development: from the changing perception of my own body to self-portraits with an inward view.
Subjects from nature, color and light symbolically accompany this womanhood and bring it to earth.
Current series, which are still in development, pick up this theme, continue it and deepen it.
I would like to create an access with my pictures. Access to landscapes in the inner human being. Known old landscapes and completely new ones we have never seen or experienced before.
Every person carries these landscapes within him/herself. They are what makes us unique and at the same time what brings us together.
By finding images with my artistic work that give voice to what is unspeakable to me, I give the viewer the opportunity to let him/herself fall into them and to recognize oneself in them.
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entry description
A wise woman had once said to me: " Mistakes only means there was something missing".One day in summer 2019 I bought myself this rose. Huge, beautiful, beguilingly fragrant.
In the spell of her beauty I got caught early in the morning with my camera in front of her, fascinated taking many pictures of her.
Full of excitement for the result I was shocked to realize that I accidently deletd all photos in a rush fromthe memory card, except the last ones. I was sad, upset and after a long hunt I found a small shop at the end of town that could may be fix my problem.
I was travelling across Berlin several times over the next two days, always having the rescue of my rose in mind. Finally I received my memory back.
Full of happiness I was going to view the rescued photos at home. However, I had to realize that they had been "damaged".
Older files had been laid over many of them. Pixelated, fragmentary, abstract. I was desillusioned. But suddenly I was becoming aware that there were hidden treasures in the supposed mistakes. I was starting to take a closer look at the pictures, to use them as they are and to appreciate them. I was given a whole new freedom seeing new possibilities, and what was once anger at my careless behavior turned into inspiration and gratitude.
I felt enriched.
Make mistakes
Realize.
Something was missing.
Acknowlidging it,
Envisioning beauty.
Utilizing this new freedom.
Keep going,
Stronger,
Different,
Thankful to yourself,
And the failure.
And there it is you.
And not the mistake.
about the photographer
My name is Charlotte Eberwein. I am a 25-year-old photo-artist, born in southern Germany in 1994 and grounded in Berlin since the age of seventeen.I have chosen to give my passion, namely artistic expression, the space in my life it needs to grow freely and thus completed my photography studies at Neue Schule Für Fotografie Berlin in 2018.
It is my desire to translate.
To make emotional phenomena, desires, questions to which there is no explanation, the unspeakable, instantly visible.
When all questions about life, to which there are no answers, turn silent, even unimportant, peace returns when we recognize and perceive beauty in what raises the questions, and we realize that there must be no explanation at all.
That it is good just the way it is.
My work is constantly changing and evolving. I mainly photograph the subjects of humans and nature in color, using a self-developed method that helps me to express relevant moments and to gain access to a completely new pictorial language. They are hand-painted color filters which, in combination with the camera lens, lend the photograph my very own handwriting.
My pictures are the result of the confrontation with myself in an intuitive, an artistic way.
The arising photographies become metaphors of inner conflicts, processes, emotions and states of being. In a poetic, pictorial way I tell about places within us for which words are not necessarily found.
In my work "Birth of a Woman", exhibited and published in 2018 as part of my graduation, I grant the viewer intimate insights into my own development: from the changing perception of my own body to self-portraits with an inward view.
Subjects from nature, color and light symbolically accompany this womanhood and bring it to earth.
Current series, which are still in development, pick up this theme, continue it and deepen it.
I would like to create an access with my pictures. Access to landscapes in the inner human being. Known old landscapes and completely new ones we have never seen or experienced before.
Every person carries these landscapes within him/herself. They are what makes us unique and at the same time what brings us together.
By finding images with my artistic work that give voice to what is unspeakable to me, I give the viewer the opportunity to let him/herself fall into them and to recognize oneself in them.
back to gallery