My cam is my 3rd eye. It is, of course, my better one. I rely on it and rarely work with the camera's viewfinder. The camera helps me to understand the world in a new way and use it to take photos that cannot be generated by AI.
I studied fine arts and photography in Hanover and Brunswick by Günther Wolfram Sellung, Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard and Heinrich Riebesehl.
I worked as a journalist, author and photographer for various magazines, publications and radio stations. In 1996, I founded an agency for communication and new media, which I ran until 2021 and then handed over to my successor.
Since 2022 I have been living and working on the Greek island of Samos for most of the year. Here I produce the websites samos.de and samos.blog.
All photos(DNG) were edited in a professional image processing program by minimally invasive interventions so that the original image idea is preserved. All images on this website have been saved in WebP format and contain all metadata.
No photo was uploaded to an online platform in high-resolution quality. This prevents further processing by AI programs.
These photos have been added to Selection EUROPA in the Leica Photography International gallery: Beach Rugby and Poems from the Cam 8
Walter Schoendorf 2024
From the outer reality
Present is always past
No color, no pain
has no false bottom
Where home is
When people run into your shot