„JK: It’s not a good photograph without good composition. Originally I’m an aeronautical engineer. Why do airplanes fly? Because there is balance.“
Framing reality – the Frame in dayart photography
“A frame does not only separate a piece of art from its surroundings, it establishes a relationship with the pictorial elements it contains.” In Ratingen was an exhibition about the interaction of contemporary photography and antique picture frames. This is one possibility to work with frames in modern photography. My answer and my contribution was
Mahlke and the Zille factor in photography
Mike Mahlke is a photographer in germany. He likes unposed situations, streetphotography and documentary. But that´s not all. For him photography is a way of life. That means flow. He does not shot only in one way. Sometimes he likes the geometrical way of Cartier-Bresson. Other times he looks for the feeling to be there
Sebastião Salgado – From my land to the planet
Sebastiao Salgados self-biography is an interesting view on and in his life and in his way of thinking. Yes thinking! Salgado writes “photography is my life” but we read more. Photography opened his mind and he discovered the connections of the world. Being on places we do not see normally and meeting people who do
Tracking Time by Camilo Jose Vergara or the destroying of social structures in cities
„For the last 40 years, photographer Camilo José Vergara has been documenting the tensions in deprived neighborhoods in major U.S. American cities. He has examined the divergence of American society and accounted for the symptoms of social conflicts. A reader of visual tracks, a photographic sociologist, ethnographer and urban researcher, Vergara has created a vast,