street and travel photography
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 […]
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 […]
Cowled in their blankets against the cold and their breath smoking, shuffling through the black and silky drifts. They were crossing the broad coastal plain where the secular winds drove them in howling clouds of ash to find shelter where they could. (Cormac McCarthy, The Road). Depressing. The first word which came to my mind […]
In wenigen Tage wird in den Niederlanden ein neues Parlament gewählt. So wie es scheint wird die Frage der Immigration eine Schlüsselrolle beim Ausgang spielen. Das alleine scheint mir deprimierend genug. Vielleicht also reflektiert diese SchwarzWeiß-Strecke meine Gefühle bezüglich einer politischen Entwicklung, die nicht auf die Niederlande beschränkt ist. Im Stedelijk Museum gab es übrigens […]
Mein letzter Besuch in Amsterdam war in den späten 80er Jahren. My beloved studierte damals Tanz an der Theaterschool Amsterdam. In der Zeit hatte die Stadt einen ziemlich wilden, rauen, schmutzigen Ruf, wenn auch auf die irgendwie charmante Weise. Alle Spielarten eines individuellen Lebensstils in einer der schönsten Altstädte Europas. Ich erinnere Myriaden von Tauben, die die Fritten […]
Wir fahren fast jedes Jahr nach Holland an die Küste. Entweder im November oder rund um die Karnevalszeit. Meist bläst uns der kalte Wind ins Gesicht, dass die Ohren schmerzen. Dieses Mal war das Wetter ganz anders. Der erste Tag war fast windstill, feucht und schwer hing ein fahler Nebel über dem Meer. Am zweiten […]
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 don’t know, why I can’t see New York in normal colors. Technicolor seems much more appropriate for me. Of course cultural heritage plays an important role in the way you see places or faces. For me, New York is Technicolor, it’s the movies, the musicals which were made in the 50’s or 60’s of […]
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