Flint Stelter

10/10/2025

20/05/2024

In case you didn’t know, I do talks from time to time. This is one. I’ll be talking about Star Trek, masking as self-defense and maybe also cockroaches. Oh, and autism too. If you can make it, come around and say hi. Or don’t. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Who am I to tell you how to live your life. Prrrrffff.

08/12/2023

My emotional baggage manifested as a blue IKEA bag. It is burdensome and heavy, dragging me down significantly, yet I can't part with it because some of its contents might prove useful one day. I'm willing to bet they will. Despite this, I still desire a yellow IKEA bag because, under no circumstances, these are meant to leave the store. Nothing says more "not to be trifled with" or "original gangster" than a yellow IKEA bag outside that damn relationship-destroying furniture store, founded by a dead guy with fascist involvement. That bag would make a fitting Christmas gift. Please and thank you. Also, if someone could fetch me from Småland. I might have soiled myself.

23/11/2020

I’m quarantined by order of the health department and this is depressing so let’s make some food.
Also check out that new print that I’m selling (link in bio)

06/07/2019

Zum fünfjährigen Bestehen der Autismus Ambulanz der LWL-Klinik Dortmund habe ich einen Vortrag über mein Projekt "autistic" gehalten, sowie eine kleine pop-up-Austellung aufgebaut. Hier an meiner Seite und ebenfalls Vortragende: Prof. Dr. Ludger Tebartz von Elst, Leitender Oberarzt der Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, und Ulrich Zielke, Oberarzt der Tagesklinik Dortmund. Nicht im Bild: Monika Labruier, Geschäftsführerin des Projekts "Router GmbH" Köln.

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21/06/2019

16/07/2018

This is my result for episode two. Photograph a pet and his owner, they said. One hour. I would only get to know „my“ pet and it’s owner when the door of the studio opens and the time starts. As practice, I tried to visualize as many animals I could the evening before, making sketches of some ideas. My brain covered everything from horses to a goldfish, but somehow a lizard wasn’t part of my internal slideshow. But it was useful anyway, because I already had visualized all different sorts of placement for an animal of that size, hands, shoulder, head, and so on.

So there they were, Stefano and Squartaldo, and the clock was ticking. Of those 60 minutes, I spent the first 20 minutes talking to my subjects, getting to know them. Because without a story, I don’t know *what* to photograph, I don’t *want* to photograph. I don’t care for pictures that are just pretty. Then Stefano told me he used to have a phobia of lizards, until a friend convinced him otherwise, to give the little dragon a chance. So this was about overcoming fear, this was about becoming best friends forever with your former nightmares. But how to show it? He had a lizard tattoo on his arm, so one idea might have been to put the dragon there. Didn’t even try it. In the beginning I was a bit stuck with mere aesthetics, thinking about how Stefanos skin would make a good backdrop for Squartaldo. Looked good but it wasn’t enough, didn’t tell too much of a story, I was still missing something. Because to me, by overcoming his fear, by befriending the little dragon, Stefano *became* the dragon. So I looked around and when I noticed Federicas top, I thought to myself „@ #?€ yeah“. I took some more shots without the shirt, already contemplating about how to get him to wear that, wondering if he would agree. And here we go again: Without amazing people, we are nothing as photographers. He put it on and he killed it.

Also a million thanks for excellent support to Federica , for doing an wonderful job with the reflector, translating and finally: giving up that spikey top you were wearing!