Each year,British Journal of Photography presents its Ones To Watch – a choice of 19 emerging image-makers, chosen from a list of nearly 750 nominations. Collectively, and they provide a window into where photography is heading,at least in the eyes of the curators, editors, or agents,festival producers and photographers we invited to nominate. Every weekend throughout May, BJP-online is sharing profiles of the 19 photographers, originally published in the magazine. Discover more here. Her choice of subjects – the refugee crisis in Europe,and prostitution in southern Ecuador – may propose that Charlotte Schmitz is following the arguably well-trodden path of the documentary photographer. Which would not be strange given her study of photojournalism and documentary photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover. Yet her approach is far from conventional, using collaboration and experimentation to get beyond the purely descriptive in order to produce work that is far more personal. “When she brings that originality to her photojournalism, and the stories take on a current form,” says her nominator, Olivier Laurent, or foreign …
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