street and travel photography
Photographing people in subways is a popular topic in street photography, from it’s very beginning. As a photographer you get very close to the people, and the subways of the megacities are almost the essence of all ethnicities and social classes of the specific town. Actually, during our stay in Paris, there was an Walker Evans […]
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 […]
It’s April, time again for the Cologne Funfair. I didn’t want to bring my Rolleiflex with me, too many crowds, too much movement. I’m definitely not a Rolleiflex street shooter, just graveyards and forests with that camera: photographing objects, which can’t move too fast. But then again: I had several 120er films in my drawer […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 the Reds and Blues which sometimes (not very often) let me work the raw-files into color-pictures. Strong reds and blues. Preferably with a touch of Black. If I can find them in one frame: wonderful! These pictures were taken with the Ricoh GR and post-produced with the RNI-preset ‚Technicolor‘ . Deutsche Übersetzung: siehe unten. […]
Actually, I am not very interested in reviewing cameras. That doesn’t mean, I don’t like to read reviews – quite the opposite. They are an ever sparkling source for an illness a lot of amateur photographers suffer from: the gear acquisition syndrome. But truth to be told: new cameras or lenses just very rarely improve […]
I wasn’t searching too long for a photograph which could mirror my feelings just a few hours before the new year will dawn. In many ways (and the least of them are of personal nature) 2016 hasn’t been a good year, at least in Europe. Needless to recall all the acts of terrors and social […]
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