Journal
Exhibitions, publications, awards, teaching and the occasional look behind the scenes.
Porsche Cayman – Desert Grain Edition brings together the precise geometry of the car and the raw expanse of the desert. Created with ZEUS Off Road, the series explores the encounter between machine, landscape and texture.
Part of the work was photographed with the Leica Q3 Monochrom, translating sand, light and shadow into rich, tactile black-and-white grain.
Climbing on mountains always bears something indescribable, something cleansing, purifying. Almost a catharsis, when we leave civilization behind, fighting against the elements, struggeling with our weakness. Limited to the necessaries, no luxury, man and nature. And then you reach the peak. Pure gold for you, your personal zenith.
Mountains of Gold. Shot in the alps.
“Swear it to me on Styx’ ineluctable water. With one hand take hold of the prospering earth, with the other take hold of the shining salt sea, so that all the undergods who gather about Kronos may be witnesses to us.”
Homer, Iliad
A series that shows (again) my love for the artists of classical modernism, especially the Expressionists. Multiple exposures, compositions of architectural fragments.
Made while working in the Rub al Khali near the Liwa Oasis, these photographs follow the quiet geometry, shifting light and vast scale of the desert.
Nimbus is a series of cloud portraits—brief, solitary figures suspended somewhere between atmosphere and imagination.
Removed from horizon and landscape, each formation becomes less a weather event than a character: theatrical, fragile and constantly on the verge of becoming something else. Light gives the clouds volume, colour gives them mood—and a moment later, both have changed.
Nimbus is about finding form in flux and treating the sky as a studio without walls—and without retakes.
My series CŪ—the Old English word for cow—was shown at the YEAST Photography Festival in Matino, southern Italy.
A cow is more than the sum of its usable parts. From a nutritional perspective, humans believe that the individual elements constitute the animal. In Western culture in particular, we either see the animal as a whole and want to cuddle it, or reduced to a few parts, such as clean steaks or minced meat.
These images confront the viewer with a different perspective, and perhaps urge them to enter into a kind of visual dialog with this subject.
The basic meaning of the Greek word ψυχή (psūkhē) was “life” in the sense of “breath”. The invisible animating principle or entity which occupies and directs the physical body”.
And: Very proud: this is one of my most copyright infringemented series!
