photography • faces • landscapes • stills
Köln, am Rande der Stadt. Ossendorf ist heute ein Gewerbegebiet. In den 30er Jahren stand hier einer der wichtigsten Flughäfen des „Reichs“. Ein Flugzeug steht noch auf dem Gelände „Butzweiler Hof“. Der große Adler über dem Haupteingang: fast monumental. Ein Blick durch die Fenster der ehemaligen Empfangshalle lässt Bilder von elegant gekleideten Reisenden aufscheinen. Gegenwart […]
Als die Warnungen vor dem Virus amtlich wurden, tat ich dasselbe wie fast jeder andere auch. In der Nachbarschaft spazieren. Die eigene Wohnung in Augenschein nehmen. Beides wie geschaffen dafür, meine alte Nikon Filmkamera aus der Tasche zu nehmen, um endlich die Filme zu verbrauchen, die seit langem schon Kühlschrank lagern. Und einen Versuch zu […]
Was soll ich tun? Seit Wochen bin ich von der achtmonatigen Reise zurück, ich arbeite wieder. Und jetzt ein winterlicher Sonntag in Köln. Manchmal kommt sogar die Sonne raus. Vielleicht der Friedhof? Melaten ist am nächsten. Die Grabsteine, die Skulpturen; man kann sich gut auf das Licht konzentrieren, sie bewegen sich ja nicht. Sie stehen […]
If you don’t have any problems, talk about the weather. Well, it’s pretty cold – and end of February. The wind’s biting your face. At least the sun’s stretching out, creating sinister games of light and shadow. I wish I had the blood of a Sibirian, but than I most probably would drink more alcohol […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
More visitors, more space, more of everything. The Cologne Gamescom 2017 has been a huge success. E-Games are a huge success. Escapism’s more necessary than ever. Being absorbed by one source (the game), being in the moment, just the present and not the future or the past: E-Gaming may even be a super- speedy form […]
I was taking pictures of a grave with flowers wrapped in plastic, when a man approached me on his bike. He was tanned, quite athletic, probably in his 50’s. ‚What’s up?, he asked. ‚I took some pictures of the flowers.‘ ‚Yeah‘, he said, staring at me. ‚I just visited the grave of my brother.‘ He […]
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