photography • faces • landscapes • stills
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 […]
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 […]
Cowled in their blankets against the cold and their breath smoking, shuffling through the black and silky drifts. They were crossing the broad coastal plain where the secular winds drove them in howling clouds of ash to find shelter where they could. (Cormac McCarthy, The Road). Depressing. The first word which came to my mind […]
In wenigen Tage wird in den Niederlanden ein neues Parlament gewählt. So wie es scheint wird die Frage der Immigration eine Schlüsselrolle beim Ausgang spielen. Das alleine scheint mir deprimierend genug. Vielleicht also reflektiert diese SchwarzWeiß-Strecke meine Gefühle bezüglich einer politischen Entwicklung, die nicht auf die Niederlande beschränkt ist. Im Stedelijk Museum gab es übrigens […]
Mein letzter Besuch in Amsterdam war in den späten 80er Jahren. My beloved studierte damals Tanz an der Theaterschool Amsterdam. In der Zeit hatte die Stadt einen ziemlich wilden, rauen, schmutzigen Ruf, wenn auch auf die irgendwie charmante Weise. Alle Spielarten eines individuellen Lebensstils in einer der schönsten Altstädte Europas. Ich erinnere Myriaden von Tauben, die die Fritten […]
Wir fahren fast jedes Jahr nach Holland an die Küste. Entweder im November oder rund um die Karnevalszeit. Meist bläst uns der kalte Wind ins Gesicht, dass die Ohren schmerzen. Dieses Mal war das Wetter ganz anders. Der erste Tag war fast windstill, feucht und schwer hing ein fahler Nebel über dem Meer. Am zweiten […]
Our perception of dance is largely influenced by the idea of perfection. Perfect bodies execute difficult movements in a hopefully perfect manner. Isn’t that what dancers are used to train for most of their lives? To stay in shape, give us an idea, what could be achieved if we would train as hard as dancers […]
I’m not visiting the cemetery every weekend, I am really not. Actually I wanted to go to the forest. But the weather just wasn’t stable enough to risk the long drive. So it had to be the cemetery, just a 15 minutes distance with my bicycle. It was rather cold, the first weekend of autumn. […]
‚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, […]
