Charlotte Schmitz first heard of La Puente, one of the largest brothels in Southern Ecuador while living in Machala as an year-old exchange student. The majority of sex workers around the world are women, yet most visual projects are done by men and often fail to show how sex workers actually want to be seen. They painted with nail polish on their own portraits to obscure their faces or embellish some parts.
La Puente was published in late with FotoEvidence as a photobook and just weeks after its release, Charlotte went back to Ecuador to share the book with the women at La Puente. The project and the conversations around it continue until today and is leading to an ongoing work by the artist on sex work in Germany. Charlotte Schmitz is a documentary photographer whose approach to her work challenges traditional documentary perspectives, which conveys her personal views on topics concerning women and migration.
She grew up in the Danish Minority in Germany and studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover, Germany. In mid-March she founded The Journal the-journal. The book: www.
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