street and travel photography
I visited the island of Syros in the 80’s. Sometime in March. Grey sky, scratched sea. We took the first accommodation they’ve offered us. A souterrain room, a cold and clamp wind whistled by the only window which faced the dooryard. The weathered charme of the proud, once rich port city Hermoupolis, still the capital […]
Now, when the autumn storms across the country, is the right moment to remember last summer. Three islands in the Aegean. The first one: Kea. The incarnation of a cycladic island. A village which runs majestically the full length of a hill. The glistening of the sea in the afternoon sun. A widow in black, […]
From a Cologne point of view the city of Düsseldorf, just 50 km away, is almost another world. Young, nouveau riche, not really Rhineland but more Westfalen. Not lighthearted, but ambitious. Dynamic – in an efficient yet unsympathetic way. The City’s trademark: The Königsallee. One has to visit this famous shopping mile on a weekday’s […]
I still struggle with the square-format of my Rolleiflex camera. As much as I like the fact, that it slows down my photography and forces me to compose the picture with more care, as much as I like this beautiful gigantic viewfinder, which transforms an ordinary object into a piece of art, it’s a painful […]
Xanthi, located in the north-eastern part of Greece called Thrace, not far away from the greek-turkish border, isn’t exactly what’s called a megalopolis. What makes it quite special is the comparatively high share of students – and a strong muslim minority, some with turkish roots. Others are pomaks, slavic or thracian muslims living in Serbia, […]
The first night we arrived in Athens and took place outside a taverna. A young man approached our table. He didn’t want money, he just wanted some bread. Ten minutes later, we heard some explosions, and then people were running towards our taverna. The police was hunting some anarchists, who had destroyed shop windows in […]
More visitors, more space, more of everything. The Cologne Gamescom 2017 has been a huge success. E-Games are a huge success. Escapism’s more necessary than ever. Being absorbed by one source (the game), being in the moment, just the present and not the future or the past: E-Gaming may even be a super- speedy form […]
We met first at a very unlikely place: a gym in Cologne. Years ago. From then on I saw him at least once a week. When I pedaled on a cardio glider, he would stand beside me, an older gentleman of ancient russian stock, wearing Khaki Bermuda Shorts and leather loafers, speaking of the new […]
Yesterday, arte-tv showed some interesting documentaries about the political and social developments in Turkey. All in all it was depressing. Even the positive examples of the few, who resist violence and political oppression and fight for freedom didn’t make it easier: they are exceptions, heroes. It’s hardly probable that they will change the course of […]
It’s now several years I visit Muenster (Westfalen) on a regular basis. Esther lives there. She works in the theater. Thought it would be nice to compose a photography book or photozine with some of the pictures I took over the years. Now im trying to find them. It’s not easy. As a whole they […]
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