photography • faces • landscapes • stills
I am biased: we have a small house (more a hut than a house) in Samothraki. So this anti-thesis of an cycladic island in the northern aegean always will have a special place in my heart. This year, we nearly got killed in a rockfall. Sometimes one has to work out love – or at […]
I visited the island of Syros in the 80’s. Sometime in March. Grey sky, scratched sea. We took the first accommodation they’ve offered us. A souterrain room, a cold and clamp wind whistled by the only window which faced the dooryard. The weathered charme of the proud, once rich port city Hermoupolis, still the capital […]
Now, when the autumn storms across the country, is the right moment to remember last summer. Three islands in the Aegean. The first one: Kea. The incarnation of a cycladic island. A village which runs majestically the full length of a hill. The glistening of the sea in the afternoon sun. A widow in black, […]
Xanthi, located in the north-eastern part of Greece called Thrace, not far away from the greek-turkish border, isn’t exactly what’s called a megalopolis. What makes it quite special is the comparatively high share of students – and a strong muslim minority, some with turkish roots. Others are pomaks, slavic or thracian muslims living in Serbia, […]
The first night we arrived in Athens and took place outside a taverna. A young man approached our table. He didn’t want money, he just wanted some bread. Ten minutes later, we heard some explosions, and then people were running towards our taverna. The police was hunting some anarchists, who had destroyed shop windows in […]
Colors. It’s not easy for me to get them right in my photography. That’s one of the reasons I ususally prefer black and white. To get rid of the endless possibilities to influence the character of a picture. And to spoil it. But this weekend with bright afternoon sunshine I decided to give colors another […]
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 […]
Walking in a cemetery calms me down. You are in a city, pass the entrance – and you’re immediately transported into a different space. As if the sound of the city is muted by a heavy green curtain. So is your mood. You can find the tombs of many famous people in Cimetière Montparnasse but I […]
Praising the Beauty of Paris is somehow like bringing owls to Athens. But what’s beauty in the face of political hardship? Somehow I tend to visit Megacities during election campaigns, and this time the clash between the nationalist Marine Le Pen and young Emanuel Macron, the (maybe?) poster boy of globalized capital, overshadowed our stay in a […]
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 […]
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