I‘d hoped to experience some great sea food in the Village Fete of Ploemeur, but the whole place was smelling strong from Andouille, a local sausage, which consists of parts of animals I don’t even want to think about. It was was cooked and roasted all over the place. But then again: a spectacular light […]
Schlagwort: leica summicron 35mm 2.0
Memories of Movies – Das Bergische Land (near Cologne)
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 […]
Otto Dix and a Leica M6
Actually I wasn’t very confident to take a 35mm film camera with me to take some shots in an exhibition with paintings of Otto Dix, an artist I really like, because he managed to combine an analytical, sometimes very dark and sarcastic view on mankind with a breathtaking sensuality. Anyway, I took my Leica M6 […]
Art Cologne 2017
Saturday Morning. Last Day of the Art Cologne 2017. Just a few people in the beginning. Art fans seem to sleep long. I could sense the relaxed meanwhile attentive attitude towards artworks. Sometimes people froze in front of a canvas or sculpture and seemed completely absorbed. So much that a famous remark came into my mind, […]
Women on Street – Peter Lindbergh and Garry Winogrand
It‘s long time ago (around 2000) I visited Hamburg to interview the famous fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh. A good friend of mine and I were working on a radio feature about “Beauty” and so we thought it would be smart to ask him for an interview. Who else should know more about that delicate subject […]