My life began in Germany in the 1960s, as my mother's son, Dr. Jenny Schmidt-Kuhn, a doctor, and my father, Gottfried Johannes Schmidt, a pastor and pastor. My grandparents were doctors, pastors, artistically talented. My ancestors were craftsmen, farmers. I've been photographing since I was six years old. Incomprehensible. This experienced time! I took my first pictures of the backyard of my first classmate. Don't get me wrong: it really was the backyard of her parents' shop. "fur brown"; with swing. She also gave me my first kiss outside of my family. That was rocking in a washbasin. A large oval made of plastic. seventies blue. We took turns swinging. We didn't have anything else. We were creative early on. Later - somewhere between the ages of eight and eleven I was in a photo lab c