German photographers

Toned Cyanotype by Johannes Schmidt

Johannes Schmidt

Johannes Schmidt creates cameraless photograms & lumenprints with plants & historic papers, blending chemistry, chance & surreal beauty. Stunning colours, textures & subconscious connections. From: Born in Germany, lives in Nantes, France Shows: Chemigrams, lumenprints, toned cyanotypes Johannes Schmidt is a self-taught amateur. A pinhole workshop brought him in a darkroom, where he later discovered his passion for cameraless photography. He became fascinated by light, supports, photosensitive matter and photochemistry, … Read more

Cyanotype by Manfred J. Semmler

Manfred J. Semmler

Manfred J. Semmler photographs travel, street life, and concerts, using available light and shadow to shape mood. His work balances objective observation with a deeply personal, subjective perspective. From: Germany Shows: Cyanotypes Manfred J. Semmler focuses on travel, street, and concert photography—capturing scenes, people, and the environments that shape everyday life. He values available light that preserves sharp detail, with shadow serving as a defining counterpart that strengthens form and … Read more

Manuela Meier cyanotype

Manuela Meier

Manuela Meier, a lifelong creative, blends her love of paper, photography, and collage through cyanotype. What began as simple prints has evolved into expressive, handcrafted collages celebrating “strong women.” Her work merges traditional craft with modern aesthetics, reflecting a deep passion for experimentation, materials, and the enduring “blue magic” of cyanotype. From: Germany Shows: Cyanotypes Manuela Meier is a creative hobby artist with a deep passion for art, craft, and … Read more

Gumprint by Georg Sedlmeir

Georg Sedlmeir

Georg Sedlmeir, a Munich-based geographer and photographer, explores alternative printing and DIY camera modifications. Influenced by his background in sustainable development, he embraces cyanotype and gum printing for their tactile, experimental, and eco-friendly nature. From: Munich, Germany Shows: Cyanotypes and Gum prints Georg Sedlmeir is a geographer and photographer from Munich, Germany, with close family ties to Wisconsin. Starting in photography in the 1980s with his mother’s Kodak Retinette, he … Read more

Sylvia Charbonnier Cyanotype

Sylvia Charbonnier

Sylvia Charbonnier, a French-born visual artist, creates cyanotypes that explore the ubiquity of plastic pollution. Her works blend plastic waste with botanicals, evoking underwater worlds and addressing environmental destruction through layered altered blue tones. From: Nürnberg, Germany Shows: Cyanotypes Sylvia Charbonnier is a visual artist and graphic designer born in France who is currently living in Germany. She studied painting and illustration at the Peck School of the Arts in … Read more

Lumen print by Bernd Hutschenreuther

Bernd Hutschenreuther

Bernd Hutschenreuther, born in East Germany have been using pinhole cameras, cyanotypes, developing with caffenol and most recently lumen prints. From: Saxony, Dresden, Germany. Shows: Lumen prints. I was born in 1954 in Steinach, Thuringian Forest, East Germany. I took my first photos in 1960 with a Pouva Start camera. Photography has always fascinated me, although I also made more amateur films for a while. In school, I joined a … Read more

Gunter Willhelm Gum bichromate

Günther Wilhelm

Günther Wilhelm has been working with historical photographic techniques for 20+ years. He shares his gum bichromates here but also works in a range of other processes such as cyanotype, salt, albumen and kallitype. From: Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany. Shows: Albumens, Cuprotypes and Gum bichromates. Günther Wilhelm, visual artist from Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, has been working with historical photographic techniques, the so-called “Edeldrucke”, which involve transferring a photography on … Read more

Stephan Krines

Stephan Krines

Stephan Krines – a German self-taught photographer – has been working with photography since 1988. He shows his cyanotypes, gum bichromates and pinholes. From: Germany. Shows: Cyanotypes, Toned cyanotypes, Gum bichromates and Pinholes. Stephan Krines’ interest in photography began when he got his own camera, a Praktica MTL at the age of 18. He came to Cyanotypes in 2000 when he got introduced to alternative photographic processes by an exhibition. … Read more

Tina Maas

Tina Maas

German born Tina Maas studied and lives in London. She has also studied in New York. She experiments with modern tin types and liquid emulsions. From: Hamburg, Germany, lives in London, England. Shows: Liquid emulsions, Polaroid emulsion lifts, Tin types. Tina Maas was born in Hamburg and studied in London. One semester was also spent in New York, where she was first introduced to unconventional photography techniques by photographer Jill … Read more