street and travel photography
There are many different styles of street photography. For myself I discovered over the last years a preference for pictures who focus on one or two interesting characters with an expression that somehow touches me. For this kind of street photography which concentrates on the expression of an interesting character the background is immensely important. […]
Liège once had been a rich industrial town in Belgium. But with the decline of it’s factories you can see the scars poverty has left. Without wanting to be cynical: in almost any aspect it’s far more interesting to photograph in a city, which once had great times but now struggles to find a new […]
I was taking pictures of a grave with flowers wrapped in plastic, when a man approached me on his bike. He was tanned, quite athletic, probably in his 50’s. ‚What’s up?, he asked. ‚I took some pictures of the flowers.‘ ‚Yeah‘, he said, staring at me. ‚I just visited the grave of my brother.‘ He […]
Colors. It’s not easy for me to get them right in my photography. That’s one of the reasons I ususally prefer black and white. To get rid of the endless possibilities to influence the character of a picture. And to spoil it. But this weekend with bright afternoon sunshine I decided to give colors another […]
Actually I wasn’t very confident to take a 35mm film camera with me to take some shots in an exhibition with paintings of Otto Dix, an artist I really like, because he managed to combine an analytical, sometimes very dark and sarcastic view on mankind with a breathtaking sensuality. Anyway, I took my Leica M6 […]
I never regarded the iphone as an adequate tool for taking good pictures. Especially when it comes to my style of street photography, which generally means shooting while passing strangers. But in the recent weeks, I developed a strange passion for using the iphone. When it comes to shooting stills, when you can take your time and […]
We’ve visited a lot of museums in Paris. Mostly those, which exhibited photography. And sometimes, just sometimes, an expression, a face in a frame stole my attention. Wir haben eine Menge Museen besucht in Paris. Meist solche, die Fotografie-Ausstellungen zeigten. Und manchmal, nur manchmal, lenkte mich ein Ausdruck, ein Gesicht im Raum von der Kunst […]
Walking in a cemetery calms me down. You are in a city, pass the entrance – and you’re immediately transported into a different space. As if the sound of the city is muted by a heavy green curtain. So is your mood. You can find the tombs of many famous people in Cimetière Montparnasse but I […]
Photographing people in subways is a popular topic in street photography, from it’s very beginning. As a photographer you get very close to the people, and the subways of the megacities are almost the essence of all ethnicities and social classes of the specific town. Actually, during our stay in Paris, there was an Walker Evans […]
Praising the Beauty of Paris is somehow like bringing owls to Athens. But what’s beauty in the face of political hardship? Somehow I tend to visit Megacities during election campaigns, and this time the clash between the nationalist Marine Le Pen and young Emanuel Macron, the (maybe?) poster boy of globalized capital, overshadowed our stay in a […]
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