Charlotte Schmitz is a documentary photographer and journalist using collaborative practices and long term research to challenge traditional documentary perspectives. Growing up in the Danish Minority in Germany, she studied documentary photography in Hanover (BA) and visual culture in Copenhagen (MA). Charlotte’s work has been published by The Washington Post, der Spiegel, die Zeit, among others, and she has 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, published in 2019. She is currently based at the Baltic Sea, near Flensburg.
