Michael Schmidt has developed a language of his own in photography. A language to say what? To say that something has to be said, that something important has to be said, that everything has to be said. To say that that must be said. But also to say, at the same time, that it cannot be said now, not now and not here and not by the photographer, because the circumstances in which we live and see and speak do not allow it. Neither the things themselves nor our way of looking at things allows it. And that this is so and not otherwise; This is exactly reality about which we speak.
What remains to be said is that there could be a great deal to say, but it cannot be said. And what remains to be said is that nothing can be said except this not being able to say anything, or, perhaps, even why nothing can be said.
Wieland Schmied
Alveng, Dag. Photographs from the Real World. [Lillehammer]: De Norske Bokklubbene, 1993. +
