photography • faces • landscapes • stills
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 […]
Die Leinwand bleibt schwarz, aber die Stimmen, die Schläge, das Stöhnen und Keuchen, all das verheißt nichts Gutes. Später werden wir die Vergewaltigung mehrfach sehen, sie bricht unvermittelt und brutal ein in das sonst gut eingemauerte Seelenleben der von Isabelle Huppert gewohnt großartig verkörperten Protagonistin, die maliziös und kühl und schlau ist, und alles mögliche sein […]
I hadn’t been in the mood to go out. Weather was shitty and there was that pain in the back. But then I thought: there is that opportunity once in a year. To grab emotions of a vast variety at one spot, so compressed, that your camera is too slow to grab them all. Rage, […]
It’s been a long time, since I’ve been in the zoo. I went there lately when I had a day rest. The feeling in advance of the visit was quite similar to the feeling I get when I see a circus tent from a distance: a shady melancholy arises, as I am thinking about […]
Imagine a place, where you leave the hotel room in the morning and are being blinded by the light. It’s hard to imagine these days, at least in Cologne, Germany, but that’s exactly why I want to remember it. Syracuse in Sicily, in summertime 2016. Of course we haven’t seen all places in beautiful Sicily, […]
Of course Cologne isn’t depressive, Cologne is exactly what it’s vsitors might see in it. But in January there is no laughter, not even in Cologne. There are weather conditions. And after some light-tight days the city is blurry – or at least my mood is. There is a long tradition of Cologne-Bashing, especially from […]
We own a very small house on the island of Samothraki, in Chora, since the 80’s. My mother wanted to buy a rotten building, as big as a donkey’s stall. She purchased the building for little money. Since then, we’ve travelled a lot of times to this island, which appears to me somehow dark, northern, […]
A boat trip on the smooth and dark sea. The small, busy town left behind, I soon see nothing else than the light blue of the sky and the dark blue of the sea. Sensing the bass of the heavy diesel engine. White seagulls painted in the sky. I’m getting tired as soon as I’m […]
‚Escapism‘ most probably will be the first word you associate with the gamer-scene. But what ’scene‘? Video games already moved the masses long ago, and masses also moved to the ‚Gamescom‘ in Cologne. Boys and Girls, and fairly grown-ups, squeezed in the costumes of their beloved heroes in role playing games. They paint their faces, […]
Waiting has a quality on it’s own. The heaviness of a forced break. The dull breath of imposed idleness. Some dramas originated from that, empires vanished. In the best sense waiting is: the abandonment of the own system and the observation of the surroundings, which otherwise is overlooked quite often. Maybe waiting is a necessary […]
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