For more than 50 years, Walter Schels has engaged like almost no other photographer of his generation with extreme situations of human life. This exceptional photographer has explored the margins of existence for many of his projects: his series and long-term projects focus on birth as well as dying. His photography has earned him a reputation as a thoughtful existentialist within contemporary portrait photography...

DEICHTORHALLEN HAMBURG
HAUS DER PHOTIGRAPHIE
Deichtorstraße 1-2
20095 Hamburg

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For the first time in decades, Walter Schels, one of the most important German photographers of his generation, is showing a selection of rare vintage prints of his famous animal portraits. The show also features some of his dog photographs from the seventies.

Galerie Peter Sillem
Dreieichstraße 2
60594 Frankfurt am Main

Living and dying, loving and letting go—images, films, books and music about death tap into our deepest fears about the finiteness of existence and our own mortality. Photography may not be the first means used to vanquish, endure and protest against death. Yet since its invention in 1839, photography, its visual strategies, and its technologies have grappled with death like no other medium ...
 
C/O Berlin
Amerika Haus
Hardenbergstraße 22.24
10623 Berlin

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