Deidi von Schaewen was born in Berlin; she lives and works in Paris.

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts of Berlin, Deidi von Schaewen opts for photography and film. She immortalises the greatest among contemporary architects: from Ricardo Bofill to Frank Gehry, from Tadao Ando to Jean Nouvel.

However, Deidi von Schaewen’s work also bears witness to another obsession: the ephemeral, the testimonials of our urban and rural civilisations doomed to disappear. This is long-lasting, documentary work: walls as of 1961, scaffoldings (or “sheeted architecture”) starting in 1966, sidewalks since 1977. Tirelessly, she travels the world on the look-out for the unexpected, architectural monuments disappearing behind veils or colourful materials, Indian towers surrounded by bamboo structures seeming as fragile as unstable.

Since the 1990s, Deidi von Schaewen collaborates with the publisher Taschen. She publishes her photographs of French gardens, eccentric houses or yet again Indian interiors.