We are fucked.
Mostly candid pics of real-life situations.
I still can't believe this
This is something I've done
I've never been so broken
I've never hurt so much
This is like a slap in the face
This is like an amputation
This is like a slap in the face
This is lake an amputation
Then comes the crack
And everything falls apart
Big Black: "Crack"
Somewhere in Germany there is a place the local calls: „The garden of the Gods“
Secluded in a tiny forest, a congregation of strange creatures hides from the outside world and is exposed to the elements. Slowly Nature takes back what once might have been important, what once might just have been hubris... If you engage yourself with decaying structures, buildings and human remains you'll realize pretty soon that nature has a much longer reach than anything we as humans could ever create. So maybe evanescence is the only god we should really devote ourselves to. If we did, perhaps many afflictions would cease to exist...
Faces - is a project started in 2011 in Nepal, where I got instantly hooked with the incredibly friendly locals and their fascinating countenances.
In the meantime I traveled several other Asian countries - some of them solely in search of portraits for my exhibition in the "Camera Obscura Museum" in Mülheim, Germany.
The people that are displayed here are originated in Nepal, India, Malaysia, Oman, and Singapore.
When two plus two equals five...
Those who learned their Newspeak properly probably know what is hidden behind the doors of Room 101.
Even more weird.
My oldest photographic project - to some people they are mesmerizing, to others they are just repelling. Mostly there is not much in between...
But somehow there seems to be a nerve deep inside, that triggers off something in everyone.
Covering the local Carnival of the Lower Rhine and Cologne since 2012, I'm currently working on a book on the topic.
The transient human nature can be observed pretty well, when you seek out those places that have been of vital importance to a whole lot of people just some years ago and that are forgotten and left to decomposition today. The former Eastern Germany is a good example: from one day to the next super important leaders, functionaries, departments, power plants, factories - even whole cities full of soldiers - became obsolete. Just a few years later everything has changed and what was once of highest importance to 17 million people is now just a heap of debris, only some freaky photographers or the omnipresent vandals are interested in anymore.
Even more rotten buildings, infested factories, abandoned clinics and the like...