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Wendi Schneider’s “Into the Mist” Featured on All About Photo

“A quiet pilgrimage among the trees revealed the beloved fog that comforted me as a child growing up in the South. Embraced in a vapor evocative of the melancholy light of dusk, it was as though the clouds sighed an amorphous, dewy veil over the lush woods. I felt outside of time as we drove along the winding road, photographing through the windows and myriad layers of love and loss. Moving and still – it was a blink in the continuum of history, in a period like no other in our lifetime.“

– Wendi Schneider

Wendi Schneider’s ethereal gold-leafed photographs from “Into the Mist” were recently featured on All About Photo alongside an illuminating artist statement detailing her inspiration and process for the series.

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PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CONVERSATION: WENDI SCHNEIDER AND LAURIE LAMBRECHT

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”

–- Rachel Carson, The Silent Spring

The Etherton Gallery in Tucson, Arizona has just opened the exhibition, Reverence: Laurie Lambrecht and Wendi Schneider, that runs through June 10, 2023. Reverence pairs Laurie Lambrecht’s embroidered photographs on linen with Wendi Schneider’s gilded photographs on kozo paper, highlighting recent directions in object-based photography. 

Sharing exhibition walls with another artist is always a great opportunity to connect more deeply with a photographer whose work is in conversation with your own. We continue the conversation off the wall and onto the page as Lambrecht and Schneider explore each other’s practices and influences. — Aline Smithson, Lenscratch

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Wendi Schneider’s Ethereal Illusions in Shadow & Light Magazine

Wendi’s images are featured in the Language of the Land edition of Shadow & Light Magazine.

“I create illuminated impressions of glimpses of grace in our vulnerable natural world. My work is a celebration of the senses anchored in the visual – an exploration of my spiritual connection to sinuous organic forms and the transcendence I find in their beauty. I preserve mystical moments that still time for me. Viewing the world in vignettes, I am calmed by the visual balance of a compelling composition. Subtle variations of rich hues move me, and I find magic in the mist and mystery of the obscured . . .”
–– Wendi Schneider

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View the article: Shadow & Light Magazine, Issue 49, September/October 2022

“Around the Corner” Featured on Rfotofolio

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Wendi Schneider’s gold leafed photograph “Around the Corner’ was featured as the Photo of the Day.

An excerpt from a 2018 Rfotofolio interview:

Which photographers and other artists’ work do you admire? 

“A long, yet abbreviated list: the Pictorialists – Steichen, Demachy, Eugene, de Meyer, Kuhn, Kasebier, Puyo, Brigman, Coburn, Haviland – Moon, Metzner, Turbeville, Outerbridge, Sudek, Salgado, and so many others. I’m drawn to the simplicity of old Japanese prints and paintings, the gilded work of Klimt and the religious painters of centuries past, Manet, Monet, Heade, Turner, Sargent, Whistler, Courbet . . . the list goes on. I believe everything we see is imprinted on our psyche, perhaps to emerge in a personal incarnation in the future.”

View more of Wendi’s work and the interview on Rfotofolio.

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Wendi Schneider’s “Into the Mist” Featured in ArtDoc Magazine “Voices of Nature” Issue

The images were printed with archival pigment inks on Japanese kozo paper – made from the inner bark of mulberry trees. White gold leaf was then applied on the verso, infusing the artist’s hand and suffusing the images with the implied spirituality of the precious metal. The filtered, dappled light that glimmered through the branches is echoed in the shimmer of the gilded prints. 

Read the article: ArtDoc Magazine, Issue #3: Voices of Nature, 2022

Wendi Schneider Featured in the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society

Wendi Schneider - Locust

To help celebrate the upcoming 163rd International Photography Exhibition, Schneider was recently featured in the Royal Photographic Society Journal alongside her fellow finalist, Lewis Fisher. The exhibition opens in April and will include two images selected from Schneider’s States of Grace series.

In the article, Schneider describes her background in painting, the evolution of States of Grace series, and her work’s spiritual connection to nature. 

Read the article: Kathleen Morgan and Emma-Lily Pendleton, Royal Photographic Society Journal, Vol. 163, March/April 2022

Wendi Schneider’s “States of Grace” Featured on Landscape Stories

Wendi Schneider - The Gossamer Threads of Dreams

Schneider writes “My work in the States of Grace series illuminates transformative moments of spiritual connection to nature, rooted in the serenity I find in the sinuous elegance of organic forms. I photograph intuitively to make the intangible tangible, creating impressions of fleeting moments of vanishing beauty in our vulnerable environment to honor the ephemeral. . .”

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“Wendi Schneider: On Beauty” Featured on LENSCRATCH

“On Christmas, I love to share a project or a practice that celebrates beauty.  I didn’t have to think long and hard to consider an artist who has a legacy of creating work that unabashedly reinterprets the natural world in ways that make us slow down, take a deep breath, and relax into wonderment.  Wendi Schneider’s photographs are sanctuaries for the soul, respites from the strife and turmoil that the world presents us with. Her photographs remind us that the natural world is waiting for us, to bask in it’s magic…and yes, beauty.”


Aline Smithson

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Wendi Schneider’s “Patina Collection” Featured on All About Photo

Schneider says “I create illuminated illusions – tender, gilded offerings of fleeting moments of beauty in our vulnerable environment . . . My process creates a surface that shimmers as the viewer’s position and ambient light transition, reflecting the mercurial light at capture. Elevating the ephemeral, I follow instinctively where each image and print takes me, often altering the color, texture or gold, and honoring the variations within the edition. Each of these unique framed prints is a one-of-a-kind object of reverence.”

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Wendi Schneider’s “Patina Collection” Featured on All About Photo

I create illuminated illusions – tender, gilded offerings of fleeting moments of beauty in our vulnerable environment. . .My process creates a surface that shimmers as the viewer’s position and ambient light transition, reflecting the mercurial light at capture. . .Each of these unique framed prints is a one-of-a-kind object of reverence.

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Wendi Schneider Awarded Bronze in the International Independent Photographer “Color” Competition

Wendi Schneider - Flamingo

Flamingo was recently honored by the Independent Photographer Awards, judged by Brandei Estes, Head of Photographs at Sotheby’s London. Flamingo will be presented at the Independent Photographer magazine’s annual International Gallery Exhibitions in Milan and Berlin in Fall 2021.

OPR Gallery
Viale Corsica, 99– Milano, IT
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On view September 9-12, 2021

CLB BERLIN GALLERY
Aufbau Haus at Moritzplatz
Prinzenstraße 84.2, Berlin-Kreuzberg
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On view October 6-10, 2021

Learn more about the award and view the full list of winners and finalists

“Why Photography” presented by the Center for Creative Photography

Wendi appeared alongside a host of illustrious participants in the Center for Creative Photography’s (CCP) video “Why Photography,” as part of a virtual fundraising event supporting initiatives at CCP. At 19:05, Wendi discusses her experience working with CCP and the center’s important work preserving the history of photography.

Watch the video: Center for Creative Photography, Why Photography? June 30, 2021

Wendi Schneider’s “Evenings with the Moon” Featured in SXSE Magazine

“In ‘Evenings with the Moon’ I contemplate the power of universal experiences to unify and find transcendence. My images of the night draw on the moon as muse and the juxtaposition of darkness and light to express our shared longing for freedom, peace, love, and harmony amidst the chaos of the world. The gilded prints echo the luminosity of their celestial inspiration. This synthesis of form and content, paired with poetry and music, encourages the viewer to consider the commonalities in our collective consciousness.”
— Wendi Schneider

Read the article: Nancy McCrary, South x Southeast Photo Magazine, June 6, 2021

Wendi Schneider Featured in “Thinking About Photography”

“I have chosen six photographers for this showcase whose art runs a wide gamut of what “staged imagery” can involve. Several have found imaginative ways to transform the everyday through reinvention and abstraction, finding the power in the ordinary. While others seek to evoke a mood,  capture vanishing moments of beauty, or even include the presentation of the print as part of their staging.

A photo reviewer once told me I was a film-maker – and I think that describes these photographers as well. The desire to control what exists within and without the frame is at the heart of staged photography.”

–– Ann Mitchell

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