"For me, photography feels like really capturing the moment - like a kind of alchemy where time is physically captured."
Silva Wischeropp was born in the Hanseatic city of Wismar in the former GDR. Today she lives and works in Berlin. As a passionate travel photographer, she focuses on portraits, street life, lost places, urban landscapes (architecture) and nature. Since 2016, her new repertoire includes surreal digital photo collages. Silva has been known as a creative photo artist at home and abroad for 20 years. Her works have been widely published and exhibited. "The photographic image process is my personal area of work and creation. This means dealing with visual worlds, politics, human needs and sensitivities. The camera expands my scope to encounter that other reality. Photography makes me happy, creates joy, breaks down boundaries, opens new doors, expands horizons. The camera teaches me to see, to sharpen my eye, to capture moments, to perceive fleeting moments that are invisible to others. I am a creative person, an image maker who draws from myself, copies little and develops my own visual language. This is how I move between the poles, reach different fixed points, look behind the scenes. I manage to bring out unique pictorial moments from what is available a thousand times over."
