One of my favorite brands, OPAAK, invited me to capture my perspective on womanhood and the female body. The focus lies on the question: What kind of view and which values do we want to create and how can we shape and sustain them today and in the future?
I knew straight away that I wanted this to be a self portrait. I wanted to demonstrate self ownership in womanhood. A wound on the hand to show vulnerability and marks of the past. A rock shaped like the head of a spear to break with the things we want to leave behind.
Exhibited at K21 in Düsseldorf during strike ——a pose festival
Mariia Bilenka, skin positive influencer war refugee. 2022
I wonder.
I wonder about the world outside.
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Wild heart.
The places you‘ll go.
Wild heart.
The people you’ll know.
Wild heart.
I love you so.
Commissioned work for RE-NT.
Creative direction, set design & photography.
Berlin fashion photo shoot for concept store STUDIO 183.
Models: Georgette / VIVA Models, Selina / JAY JAY Models
Styling: Lala Quail
Hair & Makeup: Marcia Dantes
Styling assistant: Wissal Aimani
Clothes: STUDIO183
Sustainable fashion editorial with with @Found-on-the_Street Co-Founder, Karina Papp for Sustainable Fashion Matterz
She is beautiful. She is strong. She is soft. She can see you. You can only see what she wants to show. She is the decision maker. She is powerful.
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Better Together is self-portrait series about a friendship between two women. It has to do with companionship and understanding each other without without words.
It is a story of how we are better together.
Seen in UNFASHIONED group exhibition at Studio 183.
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I love working with this kind of light, it brings a sense of strength with it. The shadows make me curious. That's where the stories and history of a person lie.
HOLDING HANDS WITH YOU is an ongoing series, which I began in 2015 on my first trip to NYC. I asked people what they wanted to have in life and what they wanted to pass on, because I didn’t know myself. Each time I initiated an interview, I began by holding their hand. I felt like the moment we held hands, there was this openness, this trust. I felt so much closer to the person.
We live in a world where we are used to seeing models, actors, Instagram influencers and even just the people in our daily surrounding with perfect skin.
Now, let’s be honest, have you EVER seen an advertisement with a model who had pimples? Society demands us to be flawless, yet at the same time nobody is.
Whether you have suffered from strong acne or only had few pimples in your life, we all know the uncomfortable feeling of having “unclean skin”.
“I am here to break these stereotypes and to demonstrate that your skin doesn’t determine your beauty.“ - Mariia
For STROGO Vintage in Chiang Mai. When I asked Marina, the owner of S.V. how much time we should plan for hair and make-up she said "We don't do make-up. Lisa is beautiful just as she is.". This inspired me to 'as well' do no photoshop.
Only vintage. No make-up. No photoshop.
"I want to make peace with everyone I have destroyed in the past. I would like that allot actually. Sincere Peace." - Louis, my dear friend who was assassinated in Honduras Fall of 2018.
HOLDING HANDS WITH YOU is an ongoing series, which I began in 2015 on my first trip to NYC. I asked people what they wanted to have in life and what they wanted to pass on, because I didn’t know myself. Each time I initiated an interview, I began by holding their hand. I felt like the moment we held hands, there was this openness, this trust. I felt so much closer to the person.
Styling: Christianna Quack
Model: Noa Ben Moshe
Hair & Makeup: Sarah Hartgens
Creative Direction & Photography: Cherie Birkner
Commissioned work for AOK ON Magazine featuring Louisa Dellert.
Hearts break and hearts heal.
I love moms {and all women} with this attitude!
Here is my love Jakara Ondrej with her baby boy ♥️
Captured during a time of self reflection.
Creative Direction & Photography for White Label Project feature on Sustainable Fashion Matterz
Boudoir photography for Anekdot Boutique.
I photoshopped off the logo on the sweater because it has nothing to do with how I see Lydia . We only met at this shooting, but what has stuck with me for a while were her efforts not to let food go to waste when she was working in Cape Town. I remember a little instastory where she went out of her way to make sure the food she had left over when she departed didn't land in the trash. ♥️
A truckload of textiles goes to landfill every second (source:Ellen Macarthur Foundation)! The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) estimates 1/3 of all food to go to waste. For this reason I created a photo series with Tainá Guedes, founder of Food Art Week, to bring awareness to the potential of leftovers which would regularly go to wast.
Initiative to DISRUPT BLACK FRIDAY
Initiators: Tainá Guedes, Food Art Week founder & Lydia Maurer
Visual Concept & Photography: Cherie Birkner
Project: www.disruptingblackfriday.com/
Brands: Phylyda, This is Her, Toino Abel, Julie Leifert
Production & Styling: Camila Soares
Hair Make-Up: Joaquim Bezerra
Personality/Model: Tainá Guedes
Down the rabbit hole with Jessine Hein.
Artist portraits of SKATMAN, DJ, Producer and Label owner of SCATCITY Records
