street and travel photography
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 […]
Saturday Morning. Last Day of the Art Cologne 2017. Just a few people in the beginning. Art fans seem to sleep long. I could sense the relaxed meanwhile attentive attitude towards artworks. Sometimes people froze in front of a canvas or sculpture and seemed completely absorbed. So much that a famous remark came into my mind, […]
It’s April, time again for the Cologne Funfair. I didn’t want to bring my Rolleiflex with me, too many crowds, too much movement. I’m definitely not a Rolleiflex street shooter, just graveyards and forests with that camera: photographing objects, which can’t move too fast. But then again: I had several 120er films in my drawer […]
After years of permanent success maybe Cologne is the final turning point. The party-convention of the right-wing ‚Alternative for Germany‘ (AfD) results in political decisions which reveal the power-possessed and erratic nature of it’s leaders and let’s the party stumble into growing insignificance. That’s astonishing, because also in Germany the voter potential, which seeks sanctuary […]
Ich hasste die Spaziergänge im Wald. Ich hasste das Sonntagsritual, wenn meine Mutter (eine große Naturliebhaberin) den Rest der Familie mit ihrem eisernen Willen konfrontierte, einen Waldspaziergang zu machen. Mein Vater, normalerweise sehr auf seine Souveränität bedacht, gab zu meinem größten Leid in dieser Frage jedes Mal nach. Er wusste genau, dass er wenigstens hier […]
Ich war immer schon beeindruckt von großen Industrieanlagen – besonders, wenn sie geschlossen sind, wenn kein Mensch den Anblick einer gewaltigen Architektur beeinträchtigt, die dazu bestimmt ist, tausende von Menschen einzufassen und zu benutzen, um Profit zu generieren. Es liegt eine Atmosphäre von Erleichterung, Vergeblichkeit, ja Freiheit in der Luft, wenn man solche verlassene Anlagen […]
It‘s long time ago (around 2000) I visited Hamburg to interview the famous fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh. A good friend of mine and I were working on a radio feature about “Beauty” and so we thought it would be smart to ask him for an interview. Who else should know more about that delicate subject […]
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