street and travel photography
We own a very small house on the island of Samothraki, in Chora, since the 80’s. My mother wanted to buy a rotten building, as big as a donkey’s stall. She purchased the building for little money. Since then, we’ve travelled a lot of times to this island, which appears to me somehow dark, northern, […]
A boat trip on the smooth and dark sea. The small, busy town left behind, I soon see nothing else than the light blue of the sky and the dark blue of the sea. Sensing the bass of the heavy diesel engine. White seagulls painted in the sky. I’m getting tired as soon as I’m […]
‚Escapism‘ most probably will be the first word you associate with the gamer-scene. But what ’scene‘? Video games already moved the masses long ago, and masses also moved to the ‚Gamescom‘ in Cologne. Boys and Girls, and fairly grown-ups, squeezed in the costumes of their beloved heroes in role playing games. They paint their faces, […]
Waiting has a quality on it’s own. The heaviness of a forced break. The dull breath of imposed idleness. Some dramas originated from that, empires vanished. In the best sense waiting is: the abandonment of the own system and the observation of the surroundings, which otherwise is overlooked quite often. Maybe waiting is a necessary […]
I know the small town of Nea Michaniona since I was a boy. We used to visit my aunt. Sometimes I slept at her apartment, watched the old greek black-and-white-pictures on her not so old television, the sounds somehow familiar but at the same time coming from a different world. She used to laugh with […]
Once in a while you will see the dressed up youth of the Cologne hip-quarter „Belgisches Viertel‘ getting even more dressed up. Dj’s will line up in front of fashion stores, there even is a runaway for models in a car park, showing the stuff you can buy in the countless fashion shops of this […]
Birds are singing, squirrels are jumping over tombs, just a few people are walking around on ‘Melatenfriedhof’. The name of Cologne’s most central graveyard derives from the french word ‘malades’, because already in the 1100s there was a asylum for the invalids and lepers right on that spot. Nowadays the most splendid graves can be […]
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