About

Friederike's love of photography started behind an easel. She originally studied to be a painter, earning a BA in Painting at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her search for inspiration made her wander the globe: art history studies at the Universities of Munich and (then East) Berlin, an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, work in an Austrian gallery in Manhattan, a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and landscape painting for a year in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Friederike brought her camera everywhere as a way to record subjects for the canvas, but came to realize that a photographed image could be as compelling as a painted one. So she put down her brushes and moved behind the viewfinder, and found that the new digital tools were almost limitless in their creative flexibility. Her beginnings as a painter will always influence her photography though, whether it's a strong line or a poetic moment that inspires her to click the shutter.

Friederike lives and works in downtown New York City, and her photos have appeared in publications such as Wine Spectator, Imbibe, Luxury Travel & Golf, Caribbean Travel & Life, Dream Homes International, Anguilla Life and Cigar Aficionado. She is currently working on a large commission for Oman's Ministry of Tourism.