Photography meets Creative Writing

Walter Schels’ work explores transformation and metamorphosis, the processes of becoming and passing away. In this workshop, we approach his images through writing—attentive, tentative, personal. With short creative writing prompts, we connect what we see with our own biographies. Whether you are an experienced writer or just beginning, the exercises open spaces for memory and give room to words that often remain hidden. Like a photograph, a text can preserve, hold, and retrieve. Inspired by Walter Schels’ gaze, we explore the self—not with a camera, but with language. Writing becomes a quiet form of approach, to the images as well as to ourselves.

We will then share selected texts. In this exchange, it becomes clear that personal stories are interconnected, and that biographies can expand through dialogue. Please bring whatever you need for writing. You are welcome to write in any language that feels right to you.

Jesse Falzoi lives and writes in Berlin and Sardinia. She has a master's degree in literature and an MFA in creative writing and teaches writing at a secondary school and at the adult education centers in Mitte and Charlottenburg. Her English short stories have been published in literary magazines worldwide, her third novel was published in German last summer, and her second collection of English short stories will soon be published in Manchester. In 2017, Autorenhausverlag published her book on Creative Writing.