Aale für die Heimreise – gut verpackt

The man in the photo is my dad – this was shot in 1981 on the island Sylt.

But that’s not the thing I’m gonna talk about – Friday I opened my exhibition at Kulturrevier Radbod. More than 70 people came to watch my photos. If you’re interested, you want to visit the exhibition, too. This is the link to my leaflet with all the opening hours and the adress.

The guy on the left is Hendrik – a friend of mine and the webmaster of http://analogzirkus.wordpress.com/ .

And some news: Many friends of mine wished to see the pics I took on the Wangerooge 2006 trip. Wangerooge is a little island in the North Sea – I think it’s very boring there, the only fun is walking around, get a burned neck and get drunk. But have some fun and enjoy these „old“ shots made on Fuji Sensia 200 and some Nikon 28mm and 50mm lenses. Here we go!

imagine…

Year 2009.

What did we learn from the early christians, what did we learn from what Gandhi did, from the Hippies?

Mankind invented money, the bomb and WW2. Envy and greed.

The story of human existence is a story of getting away from love.

Because we are so complicated beeings, we have become a society without plausible goals.

Our only goal should be to live and nothing but to live in peace. 

Why we only abuse our intelligence for killing us?

As the christian church started to grow they took money from the people – the entire idea has failed.

Ghandi and many many others cried for freedom and peacefulness and what do we do? We make war until this day.

As I write this people have to die for no reason. The only reason to die is when you got to go by nature.

The Hippie’s aim was to respect each other. Today they are used for marketing profit-driven aims.

It seems that we’re all going wrong and until our self-made end there will be many who try to change the world – but the world is not a learning wolrd.

In our society money is more than love – the book of revelation told us what’s the consequence.

I’m no christ, but you don’t need to be one to know.

When will we ever learn?

Black/White Weeks

Hello friends, here I am again with new pictures. The last days I shot 2 rolls of Kodak Tri-X film and I’m very satisfied with the output. One roll is shot at 400, the other at 1600 and pushed by my lab.

 

Yeah! and from now ISO 1600:

 

That’s Lina from the great Band called „Taxi„:

 

Rock on!

Bottles

Some Bottles from Hendrik’s House on Kodak Tmax 100 :

and here is the proud owner of the bottles – shot digital with a D90:

Holga or Hasselblad and the „analog looks“

When you ask some folks, who never had a camera that used film, what’s typical for film they often say:

„Ahhm it’s blurred, greenish, grainy and has scratches I think ehh“

Hmm, to me this is the look of badly treated, awfully scanned material. I know you can get nearly the same results like in digital. Some on Flickr for example abuse this „analog look“ (some use PS, some real cams)  to distract us from their sucking composition, their non-thrilling images.

It makes no difference what you’re using. If it is a cell phone, a Hasselblad, a Holga or a pinhole cam. All we want is to attract the viewer. Therefore we can use what we want or can afford. The part, that makes the whole thing to be art, is our imagination and creativity.

Peace!

Hey, that’s me!

Thank you, Karsten!

Shot with: Nikon D90, 50mm 2xElinchrom 500WS Flash