Astrid Reischwitz is a Boston-based photographer whose work explores several aspects of 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 visual storytelling elements, she builds a visual world of memory and identity, place and home.
Her photographs have been exhibited in numerous featured and juried exhibitions throughout the US. Some of her recent exhibitions include shows at Danforth Art Museum, Framingham MA; the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA; Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence RI; Sohn Fine Art Gallery, Lenox MA; Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield MA; 555 Gallery, Boston MA; Photographic Resource Center (prc), Boston MA; and Soho Photo Gallery, New York NY.
She received a Silver Medal Award in the San Francisco International Photography Exhibition (2014) and was selected as one of Top 100 for Review Santa Fe Photo Festival (2015). She is a Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 photographer (2016) and winner of the 2016 International Portfolio Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, as well as the winner of Portfolio ShowCase 10 at The Center for Fine Arts Photography, Fort Collins CO (2017).
Her photographs have been published online on What Will You Remember, 3200K, and Lenscratch, as well as Cambridge Art Association blog and Echoes of Pop in the New Millennia blogspot. The series "Stories from the Kitchen Table" is featured on Syracuse University’s Family.Life. Project webpage. Her work was also published in The Boston Globe and other print media.
A graduate of the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, with a PhD in chemistry, Reischwitz began her study of photography at the International Center of Photography in New York soon after moving to the United States.