The work of Stefanie Schneider, born 1968, takes place between fiction and reality. In multi-part, filmstill-like sequences she stages mostly herself in a consciously imperfect style. Stefanie Schneider utilized expired Polaroid material to achieve special aesthetics. Her Book “Wastelands” (Details at Amazon) shows a young woman whose living gets out of step by an encounter with a young man. "Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence. Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had registered no seismic activity. Dust bowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined. Until she met him, she had not been inclined." James Scarborough