Andrea Friederichs-du Maire is a self-taught photographer who lives in Hamburg, Germany.
After school, she learned occupational therapy and studied educational science.
After trying different forms of arts: painting, drawing, goldsmith’s art, she opened a photoblog in 2014 to write about herself and her inner world.
She bought her first digital camera in 2015.
In 2017 she was part of a private exhibition in Tver, Russia. She began to shoot Self Portraits in 2018.

After several private studies of different workshops by Brooke Shaden she began to work with ©Photoshop in 2019.
In 2020 she made her degree in Photo-design at the ,Online School for Design - OFG‘.

She used the pandemic situation to make a deeper step into her own artistic speech and develops her own style to express her inner mood and emotions.

Andrea Friederichs-du Maire creates colorful Photo Collages with herself in focus.
With a great interest in the psychological development of human identity and personality she travels into her own subconscious mind to learn more about her inner world.
The central question is always the one for the actual emotion, feeling and being in this concrete moment.
All these things are floating material in process.