Charlotte Schmitz

Charlotte Schmitz is a documentary photographer whose approach to her work challenges traditional documentary perspectives, which conveys her personal views on topics concerning women and migration. She grew up in the Danish Minority in Germany and studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover, Germany. Charlotte's work was  featured in various international media outlets, and she had solo exhibitions in the United States, Turkey, Austria and Japan. She is the first recipient of the »FotoEvidence W Award« with her book  La Puente which was published in 2019. In the same year, she co-founded Friendzone.Studio, a creative studio specializing in designing and building projects with social and cultural impact. She leads regular workshops for both young people and professionals in photography and participatory photojournalism. In mid-March 2020 she founded The Journal (the-journal.org), 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 speaks six languages, is currently based at the German/Danish border and is a National Geographic Explorer.