street and travel photography
Saturday Morning. Last Day of the Art Cologne 2017. Just a few people in the beginning. Art fans seem to sleep long. I could sense the relaxed meanwhile attentive attitude towards artworks. Sometimes people froze in front of a canvas or sculpture and seemed completely absorbed. So much that a famous remark came into my mind, […]
After years of permanent success maybe Cologne is the final turning point. The party-convention of the right-wing ‚Alternative for Germany‘ (AfD) results in political decisions which reveal the power-possessed and erratic nature of it’s leaders and let’s the party stumble into growing insignificance. That’s astonishing, because also in Germany the voter potential, which seeks sanctuary […]
Ich war immer schon beeindruckt von großen Industrieanlagen – besonders, wenn sie geschlossen sind, wenn kein Mensch den Anblick einer gewaltigen Architektur beeinträchtigt, die dazu bestimmt ist, tausende von Menschen einzufassen und zu benutzen, um Profit zu generieren. Es liegt eine Atmosphäre von Erleichterung, Vergeblichkeit, ja Freiheit in der Luft, wenn man solche verlassene Anlagen […]
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 […]
You enter a surreal world when the alarm clock rings at 5 a.m. When you’re lucky, your sleep wasn’t interrupted during a heavy dream. You appreciate the delights of a strict routine, when your body just follows a ritual of movements, because your mind is not ready yet. Don’t hurry, don’t think, just follow that […]
Our perception of dance is largely influenced by the idea of perfection. Perfect bodies execute difficult movements in a hopefully perfect manner. Isn’t that what dancers are used to train for most of their lives? To stay in shape, give us an idea, what could be achieved if we would train as hard as dancers […]
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 […]
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. […]
Photography – there is no other art form, where the instrument of creation seems to be even more important than the creation itself. I spend at least as many time visiting websites which analyze old or new photography gear as reading photography books or visiting websites of great photographers. Maybe in the hope of achieving […]
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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