Viktor Schily, born in Dnipropetrovsk (UkrSSR), trained as an engineer in Aachen and came to Berlin in a roundabout way with the intention to stay for the time being. (And yes, the name is by marriage. The birth name is much more romantic, but absolutely unfamiliar to the German-speaking world and associated with pronunciation errors that cause earaches...)

Michaela Schily, born in Freiburg, studied sports and geography in Cologne and also came to Berlin (actually without the intention to stay).

Photography started in 2015 with the purchase of the first mirrorless camera, which was followed by many more. And above all, lenses and even more lenses. You can never have enough lenses.

Division of labor is as follows: Viktor takes pictures, Michaela criticizes. Michaela also takes pictures, but she is definitely better at criticizing.

We don't want to photograph places or objects directly. With projects that are tied to specific places, such as Polopos, Obernberg or Brandenburg, our focus is on the sensations that the respective place triggers in us. We want to transfer these sensations to the viewer via the image. That's why it doesn't matter much what exactly the picture represents, whether it's a tree, a mountain or a garbage can.

Other projects are about less tangible things:

Waterline is about the perceptual boundary between one blue and the other; one connects to the other and both dissolve into the infinite. Unpleat, on the other hand, seeks to photographically reconstruct a certain feeling evoked by the computer games of the early 2000s. And Tropus seeks the commonality of two images in color and light.

You will not find any portraits of humans and also few other living beings that can move on their own. but their traces and influences can be found everywhere. The rest is up to your imagination. 

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