It was at the age of nine that Parmak-Fischer
acquired her first camera. Taking after her
father, she captured friends amid woodland
adventures near their hometown in Germany,
where the lens aligned with her imagination
at last—not just her father’s vision. While
Parmak-Fischer’s creativity began to sprout and
bud, the stem of her inspiration was suddenly
snipped short by the death of her father when
she was only thirteen. With an instinctual
reaction to the loss of her muse, Parmak-
Fischer’s photography withered instantly.
“I did not consciously make this decision,”
she remembers, “it just happened.” Yet while
the garden of her artistic imagination lay buried
beneath a winter of absent use, the roots of
her creativity merely hibernated. Many years
later, her artistic flare thawed the earth of her
hiatus, allowing her aesthetic expression to
push through the cracks of her psyche.
“My love for photography showed up again
when I got my first smartphone with a camera.
Yes, I knew the time before smartphones
existed,” Parmak-Fischer jokes. What started
as an experiment with mobile shooting
eventually bloomed into a serious pursuit of
fantasy photography.
To begin, Parmak-Fischer took workshops in
model photography and Photoshop, in addition
to “learning by doing” as she cultivated her
skill. In only two years of fantasy photography
work, she established herself in a network of
clients, artists and models.