street and travel photography
Es gibt eine dunkle Seite auf Samothraki. Das haben Menschen schon seit der Antike so empfunden. Und fast alle, die länger als, sagen wir, zwei Wochen hier blieben, gerade außerhalb der Saison, empfinden das auch heute noch so. Das beginnt bei der schroffen, bergigen Topographie, den uralten knotigen Bäumen, den Wasserfällen und glitzernden Bächen – […]
This time I was’t in the mood. At all. To join the masses of drunken youngsters, already heavily poisoned with alcohol at noon. But I had to. This is my annual routine. Carnival in Cologne is sometimes touching and sometimes funny. But in the Zülpicher Strasse it’s always hell. And so I went, took my […]
It’s strange, although my mother’s family is originated in the highlands near Cologne, I didn’t visit this region for a long time. Then, a few weeks ago, a friend invited me to stay at his place. And on a foggy day, we went for a walk. The landscape immediately fascinated me. And it wasn’t because […]
I just don’t know, why I have to think about Egon Schiele every time, Vienna passes my mind? Maybe because on my first visit, there was an exhibition in the Leopold Museum and a huge poster with one of his skinny and intensely staring creatures stayed in my brain. Nonetheless, after my visit in Budapest, […]
Yesterday was the 11th of November. The beginning of the carnival session. This year on a Saturday. Myriads of visitors had been announced, and when I left home I saw them: thousands of mostly young people, some of them in gorgeous colorful costumes, a lot of them already drunk. I took quite a long walk […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’ve visited a lot of museums in Paris. Mostly those, which exhibited photography. And sometimes, just sometimes, an expression, a face in a frame stole my attention. Wir haben eine Menge Museen besucht in Paris. Meist solche, die Fotografie-Ausstellungen zeigten. Und manchmal, nur manchmal, lenkte mich ein Ausdruck, ein Gesicht im Raum von der Kunst […]
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 […]
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 […]
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