street and travel photography
Ein riesiges Gelände ausserhalb von Thessaloniki. Die Deutschen haben hier einen Bunker und Geschütze im zweiten Weltkrieg angelegt, um den Golf kontrollieren zu können. Ich stolperte fast über die Schafwolle, die sich in einem Strauch verfangen hatte. Keine Ahnung, warum mich das an Ostern denken ließ.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Imagine a place, where you leave the hotel room in the morning and are being blinded by the light. It’s hard to imagine these days, at least in Cologne, Germany, but that’s exactly why I want to remember it. Syracuse in Sicily, in summertime 2016. Of course we haven’t seen all places in beautiful Sicily, […]
I’m not visiting the cemetery every weekend, I am really not. Actually I wanted to go to the forest. But the weather just wasn’t stable enough to risk the long drive. So it had to be the cemetery, just a 15 minutes distance with my bicycle. It was rather cold, the first weekend of autumn. […]
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 […]
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