Alena Schmick

About Alena Schmick: Alena Schmick was born and raised in Siberia and came to Germany as a teenager. She studied photography in Dortmund, completing her master’s degree in 2015 with a German National Academic Foundation scholarship. The photographer lives and works in Berlin. Her clients include magazines and newspapers such as Die ZEIT, Business Punk, Der Spiegel, DUMMY, and Capital, as well as clients from business and science such as the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Netflix, the Federal Foreign Office, and S. Fischer Verlag. Alena’s freelance work focuses on the themes of the body and identity.