Happy Happy Birthday Florian aka DpressedSoul

Aug 19, 201510 min read

Deviation Actions

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Published: Aug 19, 2015

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The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible;

nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence.

All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

(Fernando Pessoa)

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not;

and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

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Founder of WhoNeedsColour and former CV for abstract & surreal photography.

You can follow the trail of the snail also on

Google+ | tumblr | art limited | Shadowness | last.fm

Selected prints are available on anggles.com.

If you want to contact him please write a mail to dpressedsoul@gmail.com

(for commissions, collaborations, etc.)

Mgh IV - St. Georg in the Puddle by DpressedSoul

In My Dreams I Can See You by DpressedSoul

Postcard from Vienna...with LOVE by DpressedSoul

After the War (In My Mind) by DpressedSoul

Mgh IX - Composition in Multicolour by DpressedSoul

Mgh VIII - Composition in Red, White and Black by DpressedSoul

Droidography 013 - Cries on the Wind by DpressedSoul

Florian Schmidt is a self-taught photographer based in his native town Bad Arolsen, Germany.

He was born in 1979 and made a vocational training as a public employee after he graduated from school. Nowadays he's working for the local municipality. He discovered his love for photography as a teenager when he got his first pocket camera, but lost his hobby out of sight throughout the years. Being diagnosed as suffering from Major Depressive Disorder marked a drastic change in his young life, and he started to search for opportunities to make the best out of it. In 2010 he realized that grabbing the camera and going on extensive photowalks helped him better than any meds or therapy, so he decided to focus more on his hobby again and made more serious attempts on photography. At the same time he started to publish his work online, mostly on deviantART, art limited and Shadowness.

He hasn't developed a certain "style" by now, but his work is of a certain tone and taste. While his monochrome landscape and urban photography is rather dark and often inspired by melancholic music, his abstract work lately got lighter and even features bright colors. However, he always shares his very own view on the world through his work and it usually reflects his current state of mind. Recurring themes of his work are feelings of loneliness, sadness, rejection and confusion.

Throughout the years his photos have been featured several times as Daily Deviations on deviantART and as daily features on art limited and Shadowness. Some have also been published in collaborative charity photobooks or as album artwork.

Exhibitions

The Obscure Camera(Wales, 2013)

Mengeringhausen - Ein Motiv - Viele Fotografen(Germany, 2014)

Publications

Pray for Japan(charity photobook)

For Africa(charity photobook)

Former Ghosts(album artwork)

Dreamstone(album artwork)

The De-Materialization of Artwork(article for Point of Simplicity e-zine)

Three In Three(collaborative photobook)

Alternative 4 - The Obscurants(album artwork)

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