street and travel photography
Der Bus vom Flughafen fährt ins Zentrum, vorbei an zerbombten Gebäuden des Verteidigungsministeriums. Später Nachmittag. Der erste Eindruck: die Stadt wirkt östlicher, rauer als Zagreb. Und deutlich belebter, großstädtischer. Auch abends noch. 28 Grad, warmer Wind. Ich finde ein kleines Restaurant, setze mich draußen hin, beobachte einen Papa, der die ganze Zeit aufs Handy schaut, […]
Der Tag vor Panigiri war bleiern. Kein Lufthauch, dafür eine balinesische Schwüle, die schon beim Schlendern schweißtreibend war. Am Festtag selbst war es nicht ganz so schlimm. Maria hatte ein Einsehen. Nea Michaniona feiert so wie viele andere Dörfer im Sommer sein ‚Panigiri‘, ein Fest, das dem oder der Schutzheiligen des Ortes gewidmet ist. Hier […]
It was a relatively bright Saturday morning when I heard in the radio that this winter has been the darkest for a long time. And you can feel it. This lack of light creeping into your system to smother your vitality. I took my camera and found some places with just the right amount of […]
Budapest. November 2017. The first day it was raining, the second day the sun broke through the clouds. People with sinister faces. Workers, waiters, pedestrians. Not a lot of talk in between. The whole atmosphere so unlike the first time I had visited the Hungarian capital in the early 90’s. Back then, you could sense […]
From a Cologne point of view the city of Düsseldorf, just 50 km away, is almost another world. Young, nouveau riche, not really Rhineland but more Westfalen. Not lighthearted, but ambitious. Dynamic – in an efficient yet unsympathetic way. The City’s trademark: The Königsallee. One has to visit this famous shopping mile on a weekday’s […]
I still struggle with the square-format of my Rolleiflex camera. As much as I like the fact, that it slows down my photography and forces me to compose the picture with more care, as much as I like this beautiful gigantic viewfinder, which transforms an ordinary object into a piece of art, it’s a painful […]
It’s now several years I visit Muenster (Westfalen) on a regular basis. Esther lives there. She works in the theater. Thought it would be nice to compose a photography book or photozine with some of the pictures I took over the years. Now im trying to find them. It’s not easy. As a whole they […]
Liège once had been a rich industrial town in Belgium. But with the decline of it’s factories you can see the scars poverty has left. Without wanting to be cynical: in almost any aspect it’s far more interesting to photograph in a city, which once had great times but now struggles to find a new […]
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 […]
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 […]
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