Astrid Reischwitz is a lens-based artist who explores storytelling from a personal perspective. Her projects include intimate views of private spaces, and reflections on her own history and values. Using keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and storytelling strategies, she builds a visual world of memory, identity, place, and home. Her current work incorporates embroidery and explores personal and collective memory influenced by her upbringing in Germany.
She has exhibited at national and international museums and galleries and received multiple awards, including Series Winner at the 2021 Siena International Photo Awards, 2020 Griffin Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Daylight Multimedia Award at the 2020 San Francisco Bay International Photo Awards. She is a four-time Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 photographer and a Mass Cultural Council 2021 Artist Fellowship in Photography.
Astrid is a graduate of the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, with a PhD in Chemistry. After moving to the US, she fell in love with photography and began her journey to explore life through creating art.
She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston, MA.
Compositions—comprised of old family photos, living plants, and fabric that was passed down through generations—tell the story of the photographer’s childhood farmhouse in Germany.
