Vita

Photo by Oliver Rolf ✝︎

In New York with super model Charlene Högger · Video by Evan Guttman

Photo by Kim

Rare making of from the “HÔTEL NOIR” project • Photo by Leila Ivarsson

Self portrait

“Your photos have a dreamlike quality with a fantasy element to it.
It always looks like you have a great personal connection with your models. Most photographers lack that personal connection.
It’s interesting because you’re ahead of the curve in your work”

Helen Todd

When work looks like a dream

Jury Participations

From time to time I’m asked to take part in jury processes of photographic awards.

  • ADC Awards 2026 · Publishing/Editorial · Hamburg · 2026
  • ADC Awards 2023 · Publishing/Editorial · Hamburg · 2023
  • ADC Awards 2022 · Craft/Photography · Hamburg · 2022
  • ADC Awards 2021 · Craft/Photography · Hamburg · 2021
  • ADC Awards 2020 · Jury Chairman · Craft/Photography · Hamburg · 2020
  • Tamron TakeOff · Photo Award for photographers under 25 · Düsseldorf · 2017
  • Mercedes-Benz me Store Hamburg Instagram Challenge · #JKSmehamburg @mercedesme.hamburg · Hamburg · 2015
  • Tetenal European B/W Classics Award 2015 · jury colleague F. C. Gundlach · Hamburg · 2015
  • FFA Fördergemeinschaft fotografische Ausbildung · “Best of Wäscheleine” · Bielefeld · 2013
  • Hasselblad photo project 2011 · Hamburg · 2010

“J. Konrad Schmidt is one of the nicest persons I have ever met. Not only an extraordinary photographer but also a walking dictionary regarding photography. Too shy to admit his enormous skills but also somebody who does not keep his expertise for himself. Only 41 years of age, can you imagine what great career lies in front of him?!”

Ferry van der Vliet

photo by KLAUS MELLENTHIN

Charity

Only those who know what’s missing will be those who care. For that reason i support charity auctions with my photography art work for years. I fund money for projects that deserve attention and especially for science against bad diseases to maybe make them curable one day.

  • NCL charity auction “LebensKünstler” in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
    to support medical science to cure the deadly children’s disease neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosesin (called NCL) in association with Union Investment
    www.ncl-stiftung.de
  • CHRISTIE’s charity auction 2013, 2014 and 2016 supporting the “Welthungerhilfe”
    Funding for a bio cacao farming project in Sierra Leone in association with AUDI cars
    www.welthungerhilfe.de

„Your Images are a reflection of your thoughts, beautiful…”

Frederick A. Burton

Making Of from Lago di Garda on a Frauscher “858 Fantom”

Photo by Frederick Herrmann

abcd