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 – […]
Therma ist einer der belebtesten Orte auf Samothraki. Im Sommer. Es gibt auch einen ‚organisierten Strand‘ mit Bar, wo Sonnenschirme und aufgespannte Tarnnetze für Schatten sorgen. Junge Frauen in Bikinis bringen kalte Getränke zu den Strandliegen. Im Sommer. Im Frühling schwimmen ein paar tote Möwen im kleinen Hafenbecken gleich nebenan. Pigeon English unter the pictures. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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