Photographer's Profile

Astrid Reischwitz

United States

Astrid Reischwitz is a lens-based artist whose work explores storytelling from a personal perspective. Her projects include intimate views of private spaces, and reflections on her own history and values. Using keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and storytelling strategies, she builds a visual world of memory, identity, place, and home. Her current work incorporates embroidery and examines personal and collective memory influenced by her upbringing in Germany. Reischwitz has exhibited extensively at national and international museums and galleries; and has received multiple awards, including the 2020 Griffin Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Multimedia Award at the 2020 San Francisco Bay International Photo Awards. Her series “Spin Club Tapestry” was selected as a Juror’s Pick at the 2021 LensCulture Art Photography Awards and is the Series Winner at the 2021 Siena International Photo Awards. She is a five-time Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 photographer and is a Mass Cultural Council 2021 Artist Fellowship Finalist in Photography. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, and numerous private collections. Her first monograph, “Spin Club Stories”, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2022. In 2022, the European TV channel ARTE showcased her work for “Spin Club Stories” in a segment of their television show TWIST.