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Maire Scharpegge grew up in East Germany and received her first camera in 1986 as a gift from her father. It was the greatest gift she had ever received. She photographed her way through several years of change from portraying economic situations in Poland in1986 to documenting the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to capturing lifestyle contrasts in Spain in 1990 to landscape photography. Taking on the occupation of a "reproduction photographer" combined work with passion and opened possibilities of outputting her own message in the form of a photograph.
From passion to occupation, Maire started with a reproduction photography traineeship at the German newspaper, Neues Deutschland, in 1987. Later, she studied Graphic Design at the German Hochschule Wismar and then attended graduate school at San Diego State University.
Maire has been trained by German professors, Arwed Voss & Ludwig Bonitz. Inspired by Manuello Paganelli and Peter Moebius, she has always focused on the commercial aspect of her work, yet kept the desire alive to create non-commercial art photography in order to express her own visions. |
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