Journal
Exhibitions, publications, awards, teaching and the occasional look behind the scenes.
Eagles of Death Metal headlined at Essigfabrik in Cologne on their tour celebrating twenty years of “Death by Sexy”. I opened the gallery in black and white, where the stage light picks out the gestures. When the colour comes in, I wanted it to feel like turning up the volume on that loose rock ’n’ roll swing.
James and the Cold Gun opened for Eagles of Death Metal in Cologne. In black and white, I kept coming back to the movement onstage: guitars lifted high, hair flying through the light. For the colour photographs, I used warm tones and visible grain to get closer to the raw sound I heard that night.
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.
I had the pleasure of spending two days with my camera at Birkemosegaard. On around 180 hectares at Sjællands Odde in Denmark, the farm grows fruit, vegetables, potatoes and grain. It has followed biodynamic principles since 1968 and is organically certified today.
Birkemosegaard also runs its own restaurant. I have experienced many kitchens, with and without Michelin stars, and I can say without exaggeration that what the two chefs Sheila and Stefania created was truly spectacular. Almost everything on the plate came directly from the farm’s own fields, gardens and stables.
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.
Extinct or highly endangered species of reptiles and amphibians. Developed with the grateful support of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.
Photographed at the Institute for Herpetology (amphibian and reptile research) in Frankfurt.
Part of my exhibition EQUILIBRIUM (2023) in the Leica Gallery Wetzlar.
The images were photographed digitally and developed by me as analog platinum/palladium images.
In this ongoing series I play with the beholders abstraction of memories.
Dreamlike landscape pictures, confronting the viewer with the question “Do I remember this?” Paramnesie (false memory) is the psychological phenomenon in which a person recalls a memory that did not actually occur.
Nature creates the most beautiful shapes. Pyrite, also known as sulfur pyrite or iron pyrite as well as fool’s gold, is a very common mineral from the class of “sulfides and sulfosalts”.
Pyrite develops predominantly idiomorphic crystals in the form of cubes or pentagon dodecahedra. Octahedra and disdodecahedra are also common, as are combinations between these shapes.
With a Mohs hardness of 6 to 6.5 pyrite belongs to the hard minerals, quite tough guys.
As the title says, not all here are pyrites, there are other minerals present, such as mica and copper ore.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Floating compass jellyfishes, Chrysaora hysoscella.
Once upon a time in California…
When I was commissioned by Porsche to do the official outdoor shots for the new 911 Targa.
Pictures from the California Coast, the canyons, the mountains, Joshua Tree Park and – to be honest – from Nevada too.
Limited edition prints, signed and numbered, available on request.
