About

Walter Schels' artistic interest has for decades been portraits and life in all its diversity — and thus also transience.
„To me withered flowers are analogous to the faces of old people. By making them visible as individuals I place them within the cycle of birth and death. I show their beauty, uniqueness and charm. (…) I have photographed aging flowers with aging film and I am an old photographer with old cameras. In that sense these images are my homage to old age.“ Walter Schels

Walter Schels, born in 1936 in Landshut, southern Germany, worked from 1957 to 1965 as a window dresser in …