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Stephan Joachim

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My life began in Germany in the 1960s, as my mother's son, Dr. Jenny Schmidt-Kuhn, a doctor, and my father, Gottfried Johannes Schmidt, a pastor and pastor.
My grandparents were doctors, pastors, artistically talented.
My ancestors were craftsmen, farmers.


I've been photographing since I was six years old.
Incomprehensible. This experienced time! I took
my first pictures of the backyard of my first classmate.
Don't get me wrong: it really was the backyard of her parents' shop. "fur brown"; with swing. She also gave me my first kiss outside of my family. That was rocking in a washbasin.
A large oval made of plastic. seventies blue. We took turns swinging. We didn't have anything else. We were creative early on.

Later - somewhere between the ages of eight and eleven I was in a photo lab course for children. Probably initiated by my father, who himself was an excellent photographer all his life.
I have forgotten everything I learned in this course.

Later – my mother gave me my first SLR camera; a "review". I loved them and photographed trees. I loved that too.
I still do. Hopefully I'll be buried next to one.

Later – my mentor came and told me to photograph his work. He was senior manager at the theater, I learned so much about theater from him and so much from other greats that hardly anyone knows anymore today.
I became a singer, director and set designer.

Later - I photographed the first choreographies.
Having gone through dance training myself, I quickly recognized the magic of this discipline and the people who practice it.

And finally, in Munich, I became a permanent guest at the Bavarian State Ballet. Well, meanwhile, experienced in dance photography, recognized, praised, I am proud to be able to accompany this great, lively, humane and so indescribably wonderful world.

Eventually, theater photography turned into an interest in photographing people in person. But there are no limitations in what you can do: weddings, pregnancies and whatever else life has to offer are just as worth capturing as, for example, fashion. Portraits and artistic series are influenced by theatrical aesthetics. It is and remains important for me in photography that the images are always created through the viewfinder and remain unprocessed or only developed; I allowed myself cleaning and very rarely a careful pruning.

When taking photos, it is particularly important for me to realize that good pictures only come about when I “love” what I am photographing at the moment or manage to learn to love it. Then the apparatus is only the mediator that depicts the mental connection to the photographed subject or object.

I am an artist who attaches great importance to craftsmanship and a high level of general education.

I was brought up in an old-fashioned and strict sense, full of human values ​​and ethical and moral principles that brought me to justice, humanity and an open-minded attitude.

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