Valerie Schmidt

Biography

Valerie Schmidt is a photographer whose work has been shown in many exhibitions in Europe and in the United States. She is based in Berlin and is a visiting professor for photography at the Hochschule Rhein-Waal in Kamp-Lintfort, Germany.

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REPORTING / Spring 2017

The Useful Village

By Ben Mauk ,  Photography by Valerie Schmidt ,  Illustrations by George Butler

In the fall of 2015, Germany designated Sumte, population 102, as a sanctuary for nearly 800 refugees. What followed was a living experiment in the country’s principles.

Sumte, Lower Saxony, Germany
NOTES TO SELF / Summer 2016

Marc Burckhardt’s Notes to Self

By Marc Burckhardt ,  Photography by Valerie Schmidt

Recently, painter Marc Burckhardt has been in a deep “visual conversation” with literature—specifically, with Petrarch’s Triumphs, a sequence of poems from the Italian Renaissance in which Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity...