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kawaii-puncher · 4 years

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Character Chart

Character’s full name: Vera Ward/Draoskithe

Reason or meaning of name: Ward because she's an orphan and thats the last name they get, Draoskithe is her family name but she doesnt know that

Character’s nickname: Sparkles

Reason for nickname: She likes sparkles

Birth date: Nov. 9th

Physical appearance

Age: 23

How old does he/she appear: 23 but she probably looks 18

Weight: 156

Height: 5'7"

Body build: Fierce

Shape of face: I don't know enough about human anatomy

Eye color: Light Blue

Glasses or contacts: Nah she can see it all, 20/20

Skin tone: Pasety Sour Cream Child

Distinguishing marks: Birthmarks on her back that look like scars

Predominant features: Beautiful

Hair color: Pink

Type of hair: Soft, Long, and wavey

Hairstyle: That half up hairstyle but mostly down

Voice: uuuuuuhhhhhhhh

Overall attractiveness: 10/10, professional at the smolder

Physical disabilities: Super Clutzy and a Bad Ankle

Usual fashion of dress: Fancy

Favorite outfit: A turtle neck, cute skirt, leggings and cute shoes

Jewelry or accessories: Always wears a pair of black cross earrings

Personality

Good personality traits: Super kind and wnats to help everyone

Bad personality traits: Stubborn af

Mood character is most often in: Idk how to explain the mood, basically when youre in the whiney "whhhhhhhy" mood

Sense of humor: Cheesey Jokes

Character’s greatest joy in life: Dazzling the Room

Character’s greatest fear: Silence and complete darkness

Why?

Its creepy and unsettling

What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil?

Death Probably

Character is most at ease when: Spa Days or playing video games

Most ill at ease when: Someone is belittling her or treating her like she's an idiot

Enraged when: She thinks she did something great and is really proud and someone is like "well its not that great"

Depressed or sad when: Toy Story 3

Priorities: School/Education are at the top

Life philosophy: "Fuck it"

If granted one wish, it would be: To see a real life unicorn

Why?

Have you seen unicorns???

Character’s soft spot: She almost cried when looking at some kittens once

Is this soft spot obvious to others? No because shes allergic to a lot of animals (not all) so she stays away from them

Greatest strength: Thumb War and great at Lying

Greatest vulnerability or weakness: Parent Issues cause orphan

Biggest regret: Letting someone get close enough to her to break her heart and hurt her that badly, only she's allowed to put herself through that much pain

Minor regret: Saying yes to paying extra for rum in her milkshake on her 21st birthday

Biggest accomplishment: Not punching someone she really wanted to punch and just walking away. Also getting on the deans list

Minor accomplishment: Submitted art to a competition and heard some little old ladies talk about how much they loved her piece

Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: Didn't know Reindeer were real until Highschool. Always thought they were made up like Santa. Also didn't know that you weren't supposed to eat mango skin the first time she had a mango, got weird looks

Why? Not street smart

Character’s darkest secret: She wishes she could just act out and destroy and break a bunch of stuff but she always feels like she needs to be on her best behavior

Does anyone else know?

No, its a secret

Goals

Drives and motivations: To be successful in life

Immediate goals: Good grades in school

Long term goals: Have a private lake and drink wine all day, relaxed

How the character plans to accomplish these goals: Work Hard

How other characters will be affected: she doesnt hang out all the time and puts school above everything

Past

Hometown: Seattle

Type of childhood: Grew up in a catholic orphanage

Pets: None

First memory: Crying because she tripped and a nun gave her candy and told her to keep it a secret between them

Most important childhood memory: Being told that she was still in the orphange not because no families wanted her but because the lord knew she was already with the family that would love her the most (it was nuns that told her that)

Why: Made her feel wanted

Childhood hero: She-ra

Dream job: To be a Journalist

Education: Highschool Grad, working on a bachelor's in college

Religion: Catholic but super chill about it

Finances: Not even enough for a chicken nugget

Present

Current location: Devildom

Currently living with: The Brothers

Pets: Does Mammon count?

Religion: Still catholic but now with a lot of Jesus puns

Occupation: Student

Finances: Still not enough for a chicken nugget

Family

Mother: Unknown to her but the name is Alice Draoskithe

Relationship with her: none

Father: Unknown to her but his name is Quincy Jameson

Relationship with him: None

Siblings: Half Brother on fathers side named Quincy Jr.

Relationship with them: None/ Jealousy later on

Spouse: None

Relationship with him/her: it would probably be good

Children: She accidentally killed a bamboo plants she cant be trusted with kids

Other important family members: Not family family but she grew up with 4 other orphans that were her best friends and Sister Helen was her favorite nun

Favorites

Color: Baby Blue and Gold

Least favorite color: Orange

Music: Legit all kinds but mostly a fan or Alternative Rock

Food: Mini Cupcakes are her favorite

Literature: Tess of the d'Urbervilles is her favorite novel, she wears a red bow from time to time because of it

Form of entertainment: Video Games or Drawing

Expressions: Happy? Honestly dont know about this one

Mode of transportation: Walking

Most prized possession: Her cross earrings

Habits

Hobbies: Drawing, reading, games, or gardening but shes really bad at it

Plays a musical instrument? No but she can play twinkle twinkle little star on an organ

Plays a sport? Please no

How he/she would spend a rainy day: Watching the rain and day dreaming

Spending habits: Clothes and Hair brushes

Smokes: nerds in games

Drinks: Wine. A Lot.

Other drugs: Edibles are cool

What does he/she do too much of?

Drinking

What does he/she do too little of?

Relaxing

Extremely skilled at: Organization

Extremely unskilled at: Gardening

Nervous tics: Nervously curls hair around finger or hums

Usual body posture: Confident

Mannerisms: Very Polite

Peculiarities: Always moving her hands and can't sit still, bites her lip a lot

Traits

Optimist or pessimist? Optimist

Introvert or extrovert? Introvert

Daredevil or cautious? Cautious when sober

Logical or emotional? She acts like she's more logical but 100% more emotional

Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat? Neat freak

Prefers working or relaxing? Working

Confident or unsure of himself/herself? Confident af

Animal lover? Yes

Self-perception

How he/she feels about himself/herself: Doesn't belong wherever she goes but she can act like she does, but deep down she knows she doesn't

One word the character would use to describe self: Hopeful

One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: I'm invited because I'm fun to be around but thats just an act and it's not really me... or is it? I don't know anymore

What does the character consider his/her best personality trait? Second Chances are always accepted

What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait? She allows second chances to everyone

What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic? Really pretty hair

What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic? Dry skin

How does the character think others perceive him/her: they exist

What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: their personality to fit what they think is right

Relationships with others

Opinion of other people in general: Theyre pretty cool

Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others? When sober

Person character most hates: Elliot (an ex) and Henry ( the little shit that stole her cookies all the time in the orphange and lied about it but she knows it was him)

Best friend(s): Asmo and Mammon

Love interest(s): Lucifer and Solomon

Person character goes to for advice: Literally anyone, all opinions help her because she has no idea

Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: Herself

Person character feels shy or awkward around: Lucifer

Person character openly admires: Lucifer

Person character secretly admires: Solomon

Most important person in character’s life before story starts: No one

After story starts:

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all of them

1. What are your hobbies? drawing, taking pictures etc

2. If you could have dinner with any 3 living or dead people, who would they be and why? dad mum sister

3. What makes you laugh? someone

4. What was the last good thing that happened to you? ugh dunno

5. What is your biggest goal? happy life

6. What do you think is the meaning of life? I’m still looking for it

7. Do you believe in an afterlife? dont think so

8. Do you have any pet peeves? no

9. What do you like to do on the weekends? going out or sleeping

10. What was your favorite TV show growing up? many

11. What is your favorite TV show now? i dont watch tv

12. What are your favorite movies? detachment, control, v for vendetta, mr.nobody, etc

13. Tell me one surprising fact about you.

14. What do you look for in a significant other? sincerity

15. What were you like as a child? happy

16. What are some things on your bucket list? some people*

17. Who has had the biggest influence on your life? my self

18. Do you have any pets or have you ever owned any? no

19. Talk about a challenge you had recently and how you overcame it or how you plan to. to have good grade on semester ahah, i pray ahah

20. If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what song would you choose and why? oh noooo, i guess ludovico einaudi- experience, because i hear it if i am sad or mad and it calms me down

21. Talk about a favorite childhood memory.

22. What is your favorite commercial?none

23. If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be and why? dont let insecurity ruin the beauty you were born with.

24. If you were stuck on a deserted island and could only bring one thing, what would it be? water?

25. Who is your celebrity crush? dont have

26. Who is your favorite musical artist? dont have

27. What is your favorite music genre? rap

28. What is your favorite color? dark green

29. What would you do if you won a million dollars?pay all the debts

30. If you could have one superpower, what would it be? to fly

31. What is your dream vacation? japan

32. What actor or actress would star as you in a movie about your life? dunno

33. Where did you grow up? greece

34. If you could trade lives with anyone else for one day, who would you trade with? nononon

35. What is your favorite book? many

36. Who is your favorite author? dnt have

37. Who do you look up to? none

38. What is your favorite food ever? aaah cant decide

39. Are you a picky eater? no

40. Drunken story time! Go!

41. What beverage do you consume most often? beer

42. What is the first thing you wash in the shower?boobies ofc

43. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?ye

44. How are you feeling right now?tired

45. Do you plan out your outfits? sometimes

46. What is the closest red item to you? suitcase

47. Talk about the last dream you remember having.i dont remember my last oooone

48. Do you love yourself? more than before

49. When was the last time you cried and why? i dont remember when, a couple days ago , because i’ve taken some medication for acne, and know it doesnt working and im break down and this shit i have it for years and its ruin so much my confidence. i just got tired

50. Have you ever met a celebrity? met as a person no, but i have seen a few of them

51. Have you ever been to a concert? ye

52. What are you listening to right now?nothing

53. Have you ever flown in an airplane? ye

54. What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done? i dont remember

55. Are your parents or guardians strict? a little bit ye

56. Did you have a good childhood? i think ye

57. Have you ever been in love?ye

58. Do you bite into your ice cream or just lick it? bite most of the time

59. Did the one person who hurt you most in your life ever apologize? no and i dunno if its necessary , they just doing theyre thing , what they think it was right, shit happens

60. What are some of your turn-ons?shhh

61. What are some of your turn-offs?shhh

62. Would you go skydiving? dunno

63. What are you thinking about right now? that i have to study instead of answering the questions

64. Do you ever rent movies?in the past

65. Do you ever illegally download entertainment such as music, movies, etc.? dunno

66. What is your zodiac sign? pisces

67. Do you believe in karma or predestiny? its complicted

68. Is there anything you want to say to anyone right now? me to me: get out of bed

69. Would you rather live a shorter life but be wealthy or live a longer life and struggle financially? 1st one ofc

70. What is your stance on abortion? if u thing that u re not ready its okay

71. Do you believe in ghosts? its complicated

72. Who do you admire and why?my sister, cause shes working really hard and shes successful

73. What was your worst experience while under the influence of drugs or alcohol? in a ship while i was traveling, the worst bad trip,in every kind of meaning ahah

74. Have you ever had a near-death experience? no

75. What do you daydream about? food

76. Where do you want to live after retirement?dunno

77. What would you change your first name to? no

78. If you believe in a God or Higher Power, what one question would you want to ask Him or Her? i dont

79. Are you more optimistic or pessimistic? both

80. Are you more introverted or extroverted? 1st

81. What is your dream profession? -

82. What do you worry about most? my dad’s health

83. When was the last time you tried something new and what was it? once upon a time..

84. Who do you compare yourself to? with my past-self

85. What excites you about life? all the beautiful places that i havent been visited

86. What five words would you use to describe your personality? shy ,sensitive, stubborn ,outspoken , ‘being-there if u need smthing’ kind of person

87. What is one life lesson you learned the hard way? dont care about what other people say-think

88. What belief do you have that many people disagree with? about my ‘religion thing’ i guess

89. If not now, then when? ela nte

90. Is it possible to lie without saying a word? ye , doing smth that u dont really want

91. What activities make you lose track of time? i lose track of time all the time ahah

92. If you had to teach an academic subject, what subject would you want to teach? lol im not that good to teach someone

93. What is your biggest regret? not being able to be strong to make someone else happy instead of bringing them down into my own shit

94. What will matter most to you when you’re 80 years old? to have lived ahappy life with things I wanted to accomplish

95. Are you a messy person or a clean person? both ahah

96. Are you a perfectionist? sometimes

97. How tall are you? 1.70

98. What is your guilty pleasure? to have every food i want in any time i want

99. Do you prefer sweet or salty? sweet salty sweet salty sweet

100. What is your favorite social media website? i think youtube

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josephkitchen0 · 5 years

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Your Guide to Growing Radishes

Growing radishes is one of the easiest of all gardening tasks. I always suggest novice gardeners grow them because of how easy they are. The success of the crop boosts morale and confidence in young or new gardeners. If you don’t care for radishes, you can always feed them to your animals or share them with friends and family.

Radish seeds are prolific and have a high germination rate. Within 21 days of being sown you can have small radishes ready for eating. They don’t take up a large area so you can plant them in between larger crops which need more time to be ready. I like to plant radishes in with my broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts.

Few garden vegetables will produce as long and as much as growing radishes will. They are basically divided into spring and winter varieties. Depending on where you live, you can grow them year round. As long as you have cooler weather, like we do here in zone 6/5.

Spring radishes, such as Crimson Giant and Cherry Bomb, mature faster than winter varieties such as China Rose. Most people feel winter varieties make a better crop when growing radishes. They do keep longer in the garden, have a stronger flavor, and store better than their spring counterparts. To have a prolonged season, try growing a couple different varieties from both the spring and winter radishes.

Sowing

Whether you grow spring or winter varieties, or both, plant them when the soil is not drenched. Radishes are shade tolerant and need only about 6 hours of sun a day. They prefer a slightly alkaline soil, but in my experience, they will grow just about anywhere. They should be planted in loose soil about ½” deep and loosely covered. The directions will say to plant them three inches apart. This is hard to do with those little seeds so I just do the best I can and thin them as they grow.

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If you and your family members like radishes, you may want to try succession planting. This is simply making small plantings a week or two a part. If you plant in the spring, don’t plant after the temperature gets above 65-70 degrees. This will avoid not having cool weather to allow enough time until harvest and to prevent bolting. The varieties for spring planting with longer growing times often tolerate warmer temperatures better than the shorter growing season varieties. Be sure to check the time and temperature requirements of the variety you choose.

Harvesting

The secret to the perfect radish is knowing when to harvest it. If you let them over mature in the garden, they will be hot and pithy. I like large radishes so I thin them (my most hated garden chore) as they grow. Thinning them to 3″ apart allows plenty of growth room. Also, it gives us a little extra green in our diet and gives the chickens a delicious treat.

We harvest all through the growing season. Once we thin them and the bulbs begin to develop, we pull them when we want them. Tasting them is the best way to determine if they’re ready for harvest. I don’t preserve radishes, although I have read some pickling food preservation recipes for radishes. While radishes do contain vitamin C and some iron, they aren’t included on the antioxidants foods list. You’d have to eat a lot of them to get any significant dose of either. This is why I don’t take the time, energy or storage space to preserve them.

Even though they aren’t a powerhouse of nutrition, radishes can be helpful in relieving constipation. Because of their fibrous nature, they can be part of a natural constipation remedy. Combine the radish and even it’s greens with other salad ingredients to help ensure everything is flowing naturally.

Spring Vs. Winter

Growing radishes in the spring means you will need to pay a little more attention to them. They mature quickly and so have to be checked for harvest so they won’t bolt and taste hot. Once you pull them, cut off the greens. We juice the greens or add them to a salad. Wash both the greens and the roots well in water and pat dry or let air dry. I keep them in separate vegetable bags in the refrigerator. I’ve kept them up to a month, just be sure to check them before eating.

Growing radishes in the winter requires less of a watchful eye. They can be stored in the root cellar or covered with mulch in the garden and left there. If your soil freezes, you won’t be able to over winter them in the garden. I spent most of my life gardening in growing zone 8 and we were able to overwinter in the garden. Now that I’m learning to garden in a new growing zone, I’ve learned I can’t do this here in zone 6/5.

Tips for Growing Radishes

You can easily save seeds from radishes by allowing some of them to bolt. They will form seedpods which look a lot like a small pea pod. The seeds are tiny so you won’t have to let but a few go to seed.

Don’t plant them in an overly fertilized bed. Too much fertilization will make beautiful greens, but small, less tasty radishes.

Thin the radishes once they are up 2-3” high. This is how I achieve the 3” space needed for growing radishes.

Our garden is deep mulched so once the radishes are up good, I pull a light layer of the mulch back over them to help keep moisture in, bugs off, and weeds out. If you don’t do deep mulch gardening, cover them with a light layer of mulch.

Be sure your soil drains well. Too much water will cause the radishes to split and rot. Radishes like moist, but not wet soil. Too little water will cause them to be fiery hot and bolt.

Remember, growing radishes with plants requiring a longer growing season not only saves space, but is ideal for aphids control because it will draw aphids and other pests away from your young squash and cucumber plants as well as other veggies you may be growing.

Pests

As with most garden pests, the root maggot which affects the radish, can be managed with good crop rotation. Wood ash incorporated into the soil not only gives a nice dose of potassium and other nutrients to the soil, it manages the larva of the root maggot and other garden pests. You will have success growing radishes virtually pest free otherwise.

Growing Radishes in Containers

If you are interested in growing vegetables in pots, try radishes. Since radishes have a shallow root system, they are perfect for container growing. They can be grown in any container that is at least a gallon in size and is wide enough to accommodate the 3″ space requirements. Use the soil of your choice, just be sure it will drains well. It’s a good idea to not use glazed pots for growing veggies which don’t like overly moist soil. Pots which are not glazed allow for evaporation of excess moisture in the soil. Everything else is the same as growing radishes in a prepared garden bed.

Do you have a variety of radish you prefer? Do you have special tips for growing radishes you can share with us? We’d love to have you share your experience in the comments below.

Safe and Happy Journey,

Rhonda and The Pack

Your Guide to Growing Radishes was originally posted by All About Chickens

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vitalmindandbody · 7 years

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Ellen von Unwerth:’ Let’s photograph daughters experiencing life’

Blending old-world charm with a uniquely provocative eroticism, Ellen von Unwerths photographs are a riot of fun and sly subversion. Richard Godwin hears why we need to take ourselves less seriously

Ellen von Unwerth cant stop laughing. The German photographer, 63, is bouncing around the Taschen gallery in West Hollywood in her sneakers, attempting to talk through the images from her latest exhibition and art book, Heimat.

So heimat means Fatherland or Motherland or where you were born and where your roots are, she tells me. Bavaria is not my heimat, but we wanted to make a parody of the whole Bavarian thing.

The whole Bavarian thing, apparently, involves supermodels frolicking nude in Alpine meadows, performing suggestive acts with sausages, udders and holy virgins, sledging topless, spanking one another in dirndls and generally enjoying the fecundity and vigour for which the southern German slopes are celebrated. Oh, ja, its very sexual there, even the clothes they push up the bosoms and there are lots and lots of sausages, ha ha ha, she explains. But you see so many images that are dark and depressing at the moment. All these sad women being sad! So I figured, lets show girls having fun and enjoying life.

The new Bardot: Claudia Schiffer in Italy, 1989. Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth has a peculiar talent for getting famous and beautiful women (Claudia Schiffer, Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Rihanna, Kate Moss) to remove their inhibitions and frequently their underwear while retaining control. Her images are often provocatively sexual, but its usually her subjects who are doing the provoking. I always give them something to do, she confides. When somebodys not moving I get bored. I take two pictures and I say: Great, I have it now. But I love the body in movement. I like the nude body in movement.

The fashion world adores her for this. You could tell from the raucous launch party for Heimat, where Arnold Schwarzenegger improbably rubbed shoulders with Yolandi Visser, and most of the models from the shoot ended up jumping in a swimming pool. Von Unwerths Instagram feed is also one of the few that make fashion weeks actually look fun. On International Womens Day, the fashiony corners of Instagram were awash with tributes to her: You bring fun, sexy, craziness to set. I always enjoy pushing my boundaries, embracing my femininity/sexuality and of course my personality always loud and proud when we work together, wrote one model, Alexina Graham. Ellen von Unwerths playful and empowering photos are such a joy to be a part of and I am so happy she is there to represent women in such a male dominated profession! wrote another, Syrie Moskowitz.

I always give the models something to do: Ellen von Unwerth. Photograph: Steffen Kugler

It is clear that everyone had a whole lot of giggles in Bavaria. Von Unwerth motions towards an image of three women topless on a sled: This model is Miss Russia and she brought a lot of vodka to the shoot. So they were drinking behind my back in the snow. Von Unwerth is not much given to analysing. When I allude to the male gaze she has no idea what Im talking about. When I find myself grasping for the word pornography she shoots back: Have you ever seen a porno? Well, one of your pictures does literally depict two people having sex in a hayloft. Its more inspired by a B-movie sense of camp. I wouldnt say porno. (After our interview, one of her assistants calls me to make sure that I dont think its pornographic.)

Of course, the word I should have reached for was erotic. Or perhaps simply German. Look at the scandal there was with Janet Jackson over here, she says referring to the Super Bowl nipple slip of 2004. It was a boob! Its something you should be proud of and not hide. Especially if its nice. Ha ha ha ha! In Germany it is not like this. Even if you go to a park in Berlin in the summer, everybody is naked and playing frisbee. You would get arrested if you did that in LA.

Leg pull: Bumpy Slide, from Heimat. Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth was born in Frankfurt in 1954 and grew up in an orphanage and a succession of foster homes. She has no recollection of her parents and not much inclination to reflect on their absence. Its what made my life, she says. I was free from influence and I was able to take the best from everywhere. I dont really have a heimat. So her heimat is wherever she happens to be? Exactly.

She moved to Bavaria aged 16 to join a commune and later went to study in Munich. On her first day at university someone said: Hey, would you like to do a modelling job? And I turned around and never went back to university. That led to a shoot for the German magazine Bravo, which in turn led to her being signed by Elite models in Paris. I kind of hated modelling, but somehow I did it for 10 years. I was not really the exhibitionist type. Its hard psychologically to be a model. And mostly people told me not to move when I was posing. I just wanted to be like the girls in my pictures now.

Your Turn, (Rihanna), 2009. Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

It was only in 1986 that she first started taking photographs herself a boyfriend lent her his camera on a fashion production in Kenya and she ventured into a nearby village to shoot local children. I came back home and showed them to my friends and they were like: Theyre really good, Ellen! Because models are supposed to be stupid. I was surprised myself because I wasnt so interested in photography. I had never learnt how to do it.

Her images were published in the French magazine Jill, and she went on to shoot for i-D, the Face, Interview and Vogue, in the vein of her greatest influence Helmut Newton. It was a shoot with the then unknown Claudia Schiffer for French Elle in 1988 that made both of their careers. She was a sweet girl and I didnt think so much of it, but when I looked at the pictures, I called my husband [music producer Christian Fourteau] and said: Doesnt she look like Brigitte Bardot? The teeth, the eyes? Soon after we did the Guess jeans campaign and it was a jumpstart to my career. She also discovered Eva Herzigov (shes oozing with vitality) and Nadja Auermann, and shot the infamous 1995 Playboy shoot that announced that Drew Barrymore was no longer the girl from ET. She has remained in demand even though the smartphone era has cheapened the art.

Saddle up: On the high horse, 2015. Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

Its not special any more to be a photographer, she says. Even when I take a picture, everybody stands next to me and takes the same picture. Five minutes later its on everyone elses Instagram and Im old news so Im forced to take pictures on my iPhone too.

She tells me she can usually tell the difference between a photograph a man has taken and one a woman has taken. But I find it crazy how women photograph themselves all the time. When I was a girl and looked in the mirror, my stepmother would come in and give me a slap. There was this idea that if you did that, the devil would get in you and steal your personality. Now everyone does this. I ask models sometimes, Do you have to take so many selfies? And they say: Only when I take selfies do I get likes. Its sad! Narcissism is so celebrated in our society, sometimes people lose interest in other people.

Heimat by Ellen von Unwerth, price 650, is published by Taschen as a collectors edition of 1,500 copies, each numbered and signed by the photographer. For more information, go to taschen.com