Thomas Friedrich Schäfer was born in 1983 in Mainz, Germany, and was raised in Sao Paulo, Brasil. He then returned to Germany to study, receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Photography at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule in February of 2014. In his return to Germany, Thomas faced extremely different social situations and family backgrounds, and since then has tried to reconcile himself with his memories and his past.