street and travel photography
Steel Ropes. People seem to be dragged by steel ropes, they are so focused and heading directly towards a certain goal, which has to be worth all the efforts. No way to just stroll around, at least not in Midtown Manhattan. If you insist on your rights a a tourist, then be prepared to press […]
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 […]
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 […]
We wanted some sun, at that time, it was in the 90’s. We wanted to move away from that wet and cold winter in Germany. When we arrived in Marbella, it was … wet and cold. And the city itself: a weird spectacle of greed driven construction sins. The gold glittering boast of the german, […]
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