Born 1973 in Regensburg, Germany. Resident in Berlin.
After taking a degree in photography from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Ms Seidel gained attention as one of a new generation of women photographers with the unique technique applied in her portraiture. Engaging with the creative process as a collaboration between the photographer and the subject, she sees communication between them as an important element of the work. She shot the work in her “Wanted” series, which depicts serving prisoners, through a process of asking her subjects “How would you like to be seen?” and having them describe in text or in sketches the situation, clothing and other aspects of the photograph they desired. The subjects of her “exchange” series, shot in Iwate, Kanagawa and Gifu prefectures, were persons involved with art, with whom she decided on location by asking, “Where is a place that is important to your identity and your work?” The process became an opportunity for her subjects to encounter their selves and their work anew, and their answers are captured in her portraits of them. Ms Seidel reaches beyond the conventional wisdom that the personality of a photographer lies in that individual’s own one-sided point of view, and the collaboration she seeks between photographer and subject opens new possibilities in photographic expression. The “exchange” project continues underway in Germany, Belgium and Australia.

Selected Biography
Solo Exhibitions
2002	"Wanted: collaborations with prisoners" JVA Torgau / Torgau, Germany
2001	"exchange: collaborations with artists" Kunstverein Leipzig / Leipzig, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2004	"Accrochage" Collaboration with Paul Casaer, Galerie Archetype / Brussels, Belgium "Jewellery of the 3rd Millennium-Immaterial Jewellery" / ・ Stadtgalerie Kiel / Kiel, Germany "brilliant(e)" Kunst Meran im Haus der Sparkasse / Meran, Italy
2002	"5x5 junge Kunst aus Sachsen" Neue Saechsische Galerie / Chemnitz, Germany
2000	/ Ruhr, Germany " of Stadtwerke Halle" Villa Kobe / Halle, Germany
1999	"Anne-Biermann-Preis for German Contemporary Photography" Museum of Applied Arts / Gera, Germany