Beate Wätzel works with quiet intensity and a deep sensitivity to the human. Her portraits, the latest in her practice, are spaces of resonance—places where stillness, dignity, and presence emerge without ever being fixed.

Her work moves between documentation and artistic interpretation, drawn to the fleeting and invisible: a glance, a hesitation, an in-between. Time, light, and chance are constant companions, especially through her idiosyncratic 6×6 camera, which unpredictably captures moments and transforms them into poetic traces on analog negatives.

Long-term projects, including her collaboration with Wolfgang Joop, have strengthened her ability to set works in dialogue with what already exists and to make her own visual language a space of resonance.

Wätzel’s art is an invitation to encounter—approached with care, respect, and trust in the quiet power of the image.