From 16:00 to 17:45, Wismarplatz, Berlin – Germany
Katya is an Italian photo journalist who currently works for an online marketing company in Berlin.
She is preparing to start a self portrait project to break her shyness in front of cameras. The project is titled: ‘How do you feel’. It consists of three different portraits each time:
- One portrays how she feels.
- One portrays what she thinks people think that she feels like.
- One portrays how she would like people to think that she feels like.
She is also developing a ‘guerilla gardening’ project which consists of taking over a small piece of land anywhere and planting flowers or other plants there. She will be taking posed portraits of the people who participate in this project & wants to see how these evolve as she discovers herself in her self portraits.
In the photo we took together, I play her alter-ego and we are posing for her self portraits.

From 11:30 to 13:20, Junker-Jörg strasse, Berlin – Germany
Ilaria is from Rome and has been living in Berlin for 8 months. She works in customer service for Easyjet. She found herself in Berlin doing simple things like cooking, cycling, picnics…
She’s lived in England and after Germany she would like to move to France and Spain to learn french and spanish.
She doesn’t like Italy, but she likes being Italian, or maybe the opposite. She is a simple person, but actually she isn’t.

From 12:17 to 13:18, Boddinstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Rocio is originally from Ronda (Málaga) and studied art in Granada. She started a PhD of Language and poetry of contemporary art which she continued in Germany and in Finland, she didn’t finish it because of language barriers. In the daytime she occupies herself with methodic, repetitive and organized activities, mainly work she can do with her hands. Some of those activities include making curtains, renovating the house (in the photo we took together we are scraping old paint off of the windows), and taking care of plants. She likes dead things or things that grow very slowly. Creativity is only possible for her to obtain at night. She always thought that she was born to paint, but hasn’t painted for four years now. She lost respect for art because she thought it was a deception, then she got interested in chiromancy and that gave her back her respect for art and geometry.
She came to Germany because at the young age of 12 she was already fascinated by the German existentialist movement, she made up her mind that Germany was her real homeland and that she had to be here. When she arrived she didn’t find the deepness that she had expected and found herself somewhat disappointed. She is now searching for a way to use her skills here in Berlin.

From 13:30 to 14:13, Silbersteinstr., Berlin – Germany
Nicole is an american who lives in Berlin in a housing community. She works on a self-care planning project. Self- care planning is a list of things you create that you can turn to when you need to feel better emotionally. Those things are different things that you choose to do to make your emotional state better. She interviews people to ask them for their own list and then sends part of the list to them by mail as a reminder. She used to call suicide hotlines a lot, she explained that the workers are trained to ask the same questions always in the same order and she would call them to get a sense of structure. She is a professional hula hooper but is taking a break from the stages right now and is concentrating on training at home. She has also gone to film school and is a painter, photographer and a guitar player. She likes things related to art and movement. All of these activities that she does are part of her own self-care planning, and this is why she doesn’t just concentrate on one activity, this way she can turn to the one that makes her feel good at that particular moment.

From 13:15 to 14:45, Rheinsbergerstr. Berlin, Germany
Kelly is an English artist from Bristol who currently lives in Berlin. She works on different media but one of the most interesting would be her on-going project “the private lives of dolls”. Here she explores themes of death and sex, arranging scenes and transforming the dolls to become her characters. A very interesting part of the project is the recreation of murder scenes of famous serial killers, but Kelly focuses on the victim rather than the killer, investigating everything about them and thus letting them be remembered not only as a number but as a person. In this shoot I became her life size doll in her living room/studio.
To see her work check out her blog.