He started photographing when he was serving in the army, close to the Eastern European border … the Iron Curtain. Schröder is fascinated by the mysterious, surrealistic and unreachable “other world”, or one might say, the divided city of Berlin in grainy black and white. Following military service, he graduated as a mechanical engineer and worked for a long time in this discipline. Five years ago he changed his life to follow his real passion. Apart from throwing sweet girls in muddy waters he is always looking for the tormented soul and the deeper layer of a person or situation. Find more at www.alexschroder.nl