I was riding my bike yesterday and out of the blue I started thinking about photographic development and other kinds of development I know. It seems to me that everything that gets or performs a development is either an organism…
Portraits on film carry a depth and intensity that I have never experienced in the digital media. Here is a series made with the help of my beautiful friends in the spring of 2023. Should one person be represented more,…
Yoyo Röhm is one of the nicest and most interesting people I have met in Berlin, and a really great musician. When he invited me to photograph this night of music and old friends coming together I immediately said yesofcourse,…
Finest industrial sounds by Strain of Laws aka Aaron Hemphill and John Wiese, experienced live at Arkaoda Berlin on April 12, 2023. The room was as dark as the sound but here we go with some fuzzy impressions. Love. Listen…
PLACES. PEOPLE. THINGS. This is a short trip to Catania in February, 2023.
I just realized I haven’t done my usual once-a-year self-portraits session in 2022. Probably because I have been thinking too much about it, especially after setting up a dating-app profile which led me to think a lot about the difference…
Powerful mr. Michael Gira and delicate mr. Joseph Van Wissem on stage at Sonic Morgue, Betonhalle Berlin. The show also included performances by Kristof Hahn and Jarboe, unfortunately their photos are no good at all. To hopefully be reshot. December…
This is a complicated post to write, for the photo shoot was completely improvised and the amount of beauty that struck me is as large as it is completely unexpected. It started with fluorescent light and a raging storm outside.…
It’s been and it is being a long October! In the whirlwind of coming to see my family in Italy, giving the final touches to my video project (stay tuned!) and getting to the opening of the Z22 exhibition in…
One weekend of sound experiments and lovely creative people in the beautiful Ausland venue. Produced and organized by great Munsha – let me quote her to describe the event: “FLUS-S assembles unusual and broad planes of sound, combining microtonality, prepared…
Wonderful studio session with wonderful Munsha. February 2022.
This was a mid-winter studio session, started as a model book photo shoot and ended like this… The flowers are courtesy of my sister. Model: Winfried. January, 2022.
UR is a two-men band with thoughts of psychedelia and a sound between nostalgic and visionary. Looks like the beginning of a wonderful series. January, 2022.
The Beautiful Noise compilation is out! featuring diverse collaboration of late Bob Rutman. Edited by Rex Joswig, Herbst in Peking and others, published by Molokoplus Records. Kindly featuring my photos of Bob. The record page on Molokoplus is here. Photography…
Longer than a year in, the Ostkreuzschule seminar I have been following, lead by long-time-favourite Sven Marquardt, is coming to an end. The theme assigned to the group is “Heimat”. A very German word with nuances and resonances that are…
This is the session shot @Munsha‘s studio for the Mädchenorchester album artwork. August 2021.
The thought plaguing me these days. Eighteen years, only eighteen more years, and we could have had a photograph of Napoleon Bonaparte. A daguerrotype, to be more precise. Daguerre presents his invention, up and running, in 1839. His research had…
Makeup with indigo blue from morocco. I fucked up the lights royally, so this lands into the box “ode to mistakes”. Studio photos, March 2021.
Magic is. It’s been almost a year. No concerts, no live shows, no theatre. No stage and no backstage, no moving acting performing humans to photograph. Munsha’s piece Alices Geschwister was supposed to be ready and performed in November. Second…
Studio session for a assigned theme (Love+Hate) – with lovely Simone as a model, and daffodils. Basically an ode to the narcs. January 2021 The selection: And some other shots from the session:
November 2020 Studio shoot from classic… …to some long exposure… …and some light-painting on Marta.
This is a lovely portrait session that came to be in the summer of 2020. Alex Denver is a beautiful Tattoo Artist from Italy, who lives and works in Berlin. We shot the photos in a big loft in Kreuzberg,…
This portrait photography session is about exploring identity through a moment of transition. How does the camera capture securities and insecurities – what it is to feel safe, what shows of our inner predicament from the poses we choose to…