Time---Emitter

In November

2012-01-02T22:56:00.002Z

we used to play

2011-12-13T18:35:00.004Z

most of the billboards in athens are empty.. kinda refreshing if you ask me... one of the few billboards with an ad was that of a casino.. no surprise...

where are the star-sheriffs?

2011-12-06T12:25:00.001Z

Hello to Max and Duncan

2011-12-06T12:19:00.000Z

LETOH

2011-12-01T08:29:00.002Z

woman descending a staircase in an abandoned hotel

2011-11-29T09:16:00.004Z

some references

Yes! We can do it!

2011-11-21T17:05:00.006Z

an industrial park in athens

2011-11-19T03:14:00.002Z

one morning i will be awake at the countryside and it will be as silent as now, here in the city and inside of me and inside of you...

2011-11-19T02:45:00.002Z

i make images for a feeling, but i never forget about you..

disappearance initiated

2011-11-19T00:16:00.006Z

it is not the person you imagined. so re-write your history, your memory. nostalgia only lasts as long as the dream survives your reality. only "what if?!" will remain but it will be far away and you will not have the strength to go back and look for it again cause you know anyway it will not be there anymore..
you'll keep on changing. i'll just remain the same...

2011-11-14T20:26:00.001Z

leaving is easy when you got a place to go

wolves and snakes

2011-11-11T23:11:00.005Z

do not reply to this email! ever!

here it is

2011-11-09T00:40:00.001Z

where is it?

2011-11-09T00:35:00.001Z

it is all about construction. where is the heart?

greek football pitch

2011-11-07T15:40:00.001Z

2011-11-06T07:58:00.004Z

rock, slightly holy...

parking ticket expired

2011-11-04T15:35:00.000Z

no comment whatsoever

2011-10-31T06:52:00.000Z

even here

2011-10-29T22:28:00.000+01:00

but maybe it is..

2011-10-27T23:10:00.002+01:00

there are so many garages in athens... so many that i wanted to draw a connection between their way of driving and parking and the need of repair... maybe six weeks in athens (and observations) is not enough to make such a statement. but maybe it is...

cuttlings

2011-10-27T07:20:00.003+01:00

i wanted to talk about the heavy traffic in athens, about them not taking care of pedestrians crossing, about motorcyclists without helmets... but doing that with a photo of a parked and hidden car?!

rest in peace, marta

2011-10-26T17:14:00.001+01:00

i met her just briefly in palermo in 2009. she was with one of my friends. we both shared a fascination for life-like mannequins. she did a lot of photographs of them and i told her about my final year project at college when i used one of them.
she was only a year younger than me and died from cancer...

attic light

2011-10-25T07:34:00.003+01:00

ahens from above... there are plenty of hills that you can climb up to have a great view over the city. i took this photo at the beginning of my stay when it was still up to 40 degree celcius during the day. not a wise idea to go for a hike when it is that hot but it was worth it.
you can notice the akropolis on the right and there is piraeus in the distance by the coast.

Athens

2011-10-24T16:27:00.002+01:00

from late august until mid october i stayed in athens... . apart from a few days i spent most of my time strolling around town and photographing.. my camera fell down once, cracking my film back and leaving a light leak behind.. you will notice...

i guess i will try to post a photo a day of my time there...

stefan

2011-08-25T18:47:00.000+01:00

and me being the hunter not the tom (ver-)meer

on the road

2011-08-25T18:42:00.001+01:00

through east germany

and we disappear in these places

2011-08-25T18:36:00.003+01:00

later

2011-08-25T18:24:00.003+01:00

a rare self-portrait these days... today someone told me on the phone that she did not even know how i would look like.. she will know tomorrow when i ring the bell at her house in athens.. then she will leave and i will stay for six weeks

see u later

grün fällt jakob

2011-07-18T19:00:00.001+01:00

2011-07-16T18:11:00.002+01:00

i wanted to be alone and i took you with me,
but i never asked you if you wanted to be alone with me.

marla and maximilian

2011-07-09T10:11:00.003+01:00

kids can look so serious.. and if they do i wonder...

rare encounters

2011-07-09T10:00:00.002+01:00

end of glory

2011-06-07T15:46:00.002+01:00

2011-06-01T01:44:00.003+01:00

there are jokes about someone having too much time.
how can you have too much time?
isn't it worse to have no time?
so when would someone tell you about having too much time?
because they would not know what to do with so much free time, so much of yourself?
can you stand yourself?

scratch a label

2011-05-19T21:01:00.004+01:00

there is this gaze that goes nowhere. a moment when she abandons herself and others around her. blackout. you cannot talk to her any longer. she is lost and doesnt recognise you anymore. it is herself she is swearing at, and others to fill
with her pain
that she cannot put into order.

dollkiller/sickgirl (berlin)

2011-05-11T09:41:00.003+01:00

these photos are excerpts from my first ever fashion shoot for berlin based paola kubes (label/shop)
my friend maité who is a friend of hers asked me to create a series. regarding the little time for organising and shooting it i am quite happy about the results (at least for two weeks;o)

berlin again

2011-05-11T09:14:00.005+01:00

the last weekend i spent in berlin where i used to live from 2003 till 2006. here is where i started focusing on photography and primarily on abandoned and decayed places in and around berlin. someone asked me why there was so much of this kind of photography nowadays? take robert polidori for fine art photography for example and even the amateur photographers like me use the camera to document abandoned buildings, revisiting places from the past. indeed, i can only speak for myself in this matter. when i was a kid there was an abandoned house in my village. only this one, but i was lucky to have it around the corner from where i lived. the traces of the previous owners fascinated me. magazines, furniture, anything that i had found in this building from cellar to attic. when i moved to berlin in 2003 the decay of former GDR-area was prominent, visible everywhere. most interestingly the further you went outside the city. i do play out these explorations of my past, i find sometimes beauty and photograph it, and sometimes i find objects like chairs or even a sealed black and white medium format film from the GDR (still sealed) that i take with me like a treasure hunter. there is a lot to find out there and i am happy for it...

hamburg harbour area

2011-04-28T08:17:00.005+01:00

rhine

2011-04-27T00:01:00.005+01:00

three guys high on coke came into my bar. i served them, but i was not as friendly as they wanted me to be. so they started a discussion that i could follow because they wanted me to listen to it. "a lack of friendly behaviour. almost like in a small town when someone thinks he is the king." i wonder who thinks of being a king while being on coke. i asked them where they were from. all from hamburg. "i am from the rhineland", i replied and one said: "we could smell!"

Timeemission (music)

2011-04-22T19:33:00.004+01:00

Here is a mix that i made: Download HERE

after downloading, please unzip the file!
(if you got trouble with that, either google or drop me a line!)

happy easter!

tracklist:
Daniel Rossen - Too little too late
Department of Eagles - Sailing by night
Dirty Projectors - I sit on the ridge at dusk
Spoon - Back to the life
Sam and the Plants - Sound is six
Neoangin - I am taking my secrets into grave
The Books - Tokyo
Matthew Dear - I can't feel
Stereo Total - Musique automatique
Jape - I was a man
Future Islands - Long flight
James Blake - to care (for you)
Kurt Vile - Baby's arms
The Chap - Few horoscope
Deerhoof vs Evil - Qui dorm, nome's somia
Twin Sister - I want a house
Flying Lotus - Zodiac Shit
(Sam and the Plants - Cluster)
Tuneyards - Bizness
(Javelin - Africadabra)
Kojak - Art to breathe
Timmy Thomas - Why can't we live
Deerhunter - Slow hunter
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Jump into my mouth and breathe the stardust
Dirty Beaches - Lord knows best

free port hamburg 1888-2012

2011-04-22T08:23:00.008+01:00

By the 1st of January 2013 Hamburg's free port will no longer be a free one. the custom free zone will be cancelled because most of the wares that had been passing through here originated from european countries anyway. Inside the european union there are no custom duties.

this fence marks a border of the freeport. it is located in hamburg-wilhelmsburg (harburger chausse / spreehafen) and even though people are allowed to walk to pass the fence and walk on the dyke along the water the fence has remained. someone painted scissors and a white line all along the fence expressing people's wishes for it to be taken down.

hamburg's port is also the the 2nd biggest container port in europe after rotterdam and the 8th biggest in the world (2010). so no need to wonder why hamburg is so rich. but what about the debts? almost 30 billion euros! i will look into that later on...

what other costumers experienced when the medal wasn't there

2011-04-18T21:44:00.001+01:00

tennisballs continued (again)

2011-04-17T20:58:00.003+01:00

alsenplatz/alsenstrasse, hamburg 2011

(the third photo shows my friend julia's intervention. she knitted this bit and inside these bowls are seeds covered in clay that will grow out into a climbing plant)

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Just before christmas 2010 i was walking through the shopping district in hamburg's mönckebergstrasse near central station and i asked people what money could not buy.
indeed, not the most innovative question to ask, everyone has already a "right" answer to this. it is like a code that everybody seems to have adapted in our society. we all seem to know that money can't buy love or health. we adapt this cultural knowledge in the course of our lives, one might even call it a truth.
but having witnessed and participated in the annual christmas shopping marathon i wondered if this truth is actually a repressed one. all these old ideas about christmas and love and tranquillity and so forth it is an absurd spectacle to watch. i buy you love and i rush to find the right thing for you. and after i have found it, i need to relax from all that stressful time that i went through to get it.
a lot of people also tell me that they dislike christmas because of this very commercialisation. think about coca-cola's santa claus and how much it shaped our modern image of this bearded man. i assume a lot of parents still try to evoke this fantasy in their kids until they grow up a little and realise it was not him who got them a present from heaven(free of charge). nope, it was provided by that massive shopping centre, just around the corner. Heaven on earth! then the kids see all these wonderful toys that they could play with. But all the parents have to say: "why don't you put it on your wishlist for christmas?! i bet santa claus would be able to get it for you." the kids arent stupid anymore. they know already that there is no santa claus at all. so they play their parent's game. as well-behaved kids they start writing a wishlist in their best hand-writing. they put it in an envelope addressed to the imaginary person and hand it over to their parents who then disappear with the words. "i'll be back soon. i just need to send it to santa claus." two days before christmas eve the parents rush through hamburg to get the presents. with the list in their hands i meet them interrupting their shopping rush.
"can i ask you a question and could you write your answer onto this tennisball here?" i hand over a ball and a pen. "what's the question then?" aks the irritated parent. "what can money not buy?" "love!" the parent replies almost less then a second after. "oh, you dont have to tell me, just write it onto the ball, please." while the parent is scribbling down the word in big letters i get a glimpse of the paper she holds in the same hand as the ball. i see a list of words written in kid's writing. only one i am able to catch: star wars. the parent returns the ball and pen. "it is quite tough to write on that ball. the surface is all hairy and my hand-writing there looks a bit like my kid's one." "that's alright, i can clearly recognise the word." "and what are you gonna do with it now?" she asks me. "i will approach more people and ask them the same question. and when i have enough answers i will stick them together with paper-clips so it might look like a bramble. then i will hang them on an old lamp post. so high, that no one can reach or read it. sooner or later some of them will get loose and fall down like a mature apple. the person that will pass by or find it will read a word on the ball that might be just yours."

less lobby

2011-04-12T10:15:00.001+01:00

less energetic

2011-04-12T09:48:00.006+01:00

This is the nuclear power plant in Muehlheim-Kaerlich, just 10km away from the place i was born. The construction was finished in 1986, but after two years of running it was switched off due to a false planning and construction permission. Earthquakes in this area could have occured, so it was never switched on again and it is scheduled to be taken down in 2014.
Of course, i am influenced by the events in Japan regarding Fuskushima. Only now i am truly understanding what a nuclear meltdown can actually cause. I could have understood it earlier, much earlier. Tschernobyl happened when i was six years old, to young to understand and later on maybe i never really wanted to realise what happened there or why people continued to demonstrate against nuclear power in germany over decades since the early 70s. only now i get a sense of its possible destructive and deadly force. I only need to imagine what could have happened if the plant next to my hometown had a meltdown during its two years of running time in the mid 80's. I could have run over by a car too, but nonetheless....

post loveparade

2011-04-12T09:10:00.004+01:00

The Love Parade in july 2010 in Duisburg ended in a tragedy. 21 people died due to a mass panic in a massively overcrowded festival area. As people tried to enter or leave the festival through two tunnels at the same time people collapsed, were crushed to death or ran over. Until today neither the management nor the city or police admitted responsibility for the deaths of these people.
a week ago i went to see the area with my own eyes trying to compare the images and videos made by eye witnesses with what i would experience. These videos that can be found throughout the internet had become a memory for myself. indeed, i have never physically witnessed any of the events, but i have acquired this "post-memory" through visual media. if you are interested in reading about "post-memory" in relation to photograpy there is an interesting essay to be found here.
ps: the term itself is being used for a transmission of memory of traumatic events to the next generation that did not witness those.

S=Save

2011-04-04T14:09:00.002+01:00

..-

2011-03-09T11:16:00.000Z

i will continue to sing

2011-03-04T19:20:00.003Z

It has been a while and sometimes i thought it would be too late anyway...
but it wasn't even though the mist in front of my eyes remained thick for a long time.
nostalgia is heavily linked with myself; i keep on longing for things that have been long gone. people, places and times...#
some weeks ago my only external harddrive died and with it all my digital photos that i had taken in the past 10 years. i was about to create a backup of the data, but it failed to do so when the hdd did not start again. i cannot really tell why i was not upset. i simply wasn't. from time to time some of these digital photos pop back into my mind and i can clearly see them in my mind. they are still there, somewhere in the depths of my memory.
the film negative is something else. i still have hundreds of them stored at my friend's place in london. since my move to hamburg in the summer of 2009 i have not been taking any analogue photographs.
finally, i got my camera, and i will continue to sing for nostalgia....

they taught him things

2010-12-28T10:30:00.001Z

They taught him things...(2010) from Time Emitter on Vimeo.

christmas fools

Clothes pegs continued

2010-09-03T15:57:00.000+01:00

Hamburg, Bellealliancestrasse

Tennisballs Interventions continued

2010-09-03T15:56:00.002+01:00

Hamburg,Clemens-Schulz Strasse

Hamburg, Hein-Hoyer-Strasse

Hamburg,Clemens-Schulz Strasse

Dockville Festival 2010

2010-09-03T15:54:00.001+01:00

thx to tom

drop box

2010-08-30T13:01:00.003+01:00

looking for something
in every corner of the room
then outside
with the wind on my face

strange looks
when i asked for the way

i thought i had arrived
but i was walking in a circle

an old sign warned me to open the box

but when i did
i could not hear, could not see

there are no islands
where you can sit and breathe

when i thought i was quicker
the lizzard escaped my hands

sleeping all day with my eyes open
walking all night

and when you run again
i will be as quick as you

we will meet here
and remember those days gone by

tennis ball intervention

2010-07-19T13:57:00.002+01:00

Hamburg St.pauli
hafenstrasse (close to pudels)tennisballs in braille

innerspeakers

2010-07-17T13:11:00.003+01:00

clubfoot

2010-06-28T02:06:00.007+01:00

(fake-)street sign (@ hamburger berg)
mixed media
thx to tina

µ

2010-06-17T18:54:00.004+01:00

thx to stefan
thx to lukas
thx to malte

oh sister, where light thou?

2010-06-16T16:41:00.000+01:00

oh brother, where night thou?

2010-06-15T13:22:00.005+01:00

from cater.pillar to post

2010-06-07T02:01:00.003+01:00

The reaction to his words was the kind of silence with which we greet the warbling

2010-06-03T12:32:00.009+01:00

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do"

if i had a ribbon bow

2010-04-27T02:04:00.007+01:00

dial EN

2010-04-25T23:43:00.014+01:00

it was not me
it was not you
it was not her
it was not him

when i grow up

2010-04-06T23:14:00.004+01:00

you will tell it was about time...

urban interventions

2010-03-26T02:05:00.001Z

hans, guck doch mal in die luft

2010-02-11T15:18:00.002Z

wearing wounds with pride

2010-02-10T13:09:00.010Z

ikea will come

2010-02-09T21:53:00.000Z

and this space will go...

now up again

2010-02-07T14:48:00.006Z

2010-02-02T01:17:00.006Z

take your chances whilst you have them
come back in the winter when the warmth is gone

videos

2010-02-01T01:56:00.000Z

help is on its way (2010) from Time Emitter on Vimeo.

it never changes to stop (2009) from Time Emitter on Vimeo.

public

2009-12-31T19:00:00.011Z

[in the garden of my childhood, koblenz (2007)]

light and analogue montage experiments

2009-12-16T01:40:00.004Z

2009-12-15T14:25:00.005Z

pepa ubera perfroming at shunt vaults

light matches

2009-12-15T01:36:00.013Z

night portraits

2009-12-11T19:06:00.004Z

london (2009)

night travels continued

2009-12-10T20:37:00.010Z

london (2007-2009)

bright night travels

2009-12-10T19:41:00.003Z

regent's canal, bow, london (2009)

zwei helden und männer

2009-12-07T20:36:00.004Z

hamburg (2009)

what a lovely island

2009-12-03T17:48:00.011Z

hackney, london (2007)

lviv, ukraine (2008)

i moved here for the weather

2009-12-03T16:53:00.003Z

london (2007)

family

2009-12-03T16:20:00.006Z

koblenz, germany (2007)

cardiff, wales (2008)

2009-12-03T13:00:00.000Z

brighton (2007)

a college project

2009-12-03T12:54:00.006Z

stoke newington, london (2007)

hoxton bar&kitchen, london (2007)

waiting for karl

2009-12-03T12:45:00.000Z

bow, london (2007)

le volume courbe

2009-12-03T12:44:00.002Z

newington green, london (2006)

richmond, london, 2009

2009-12-03T03:27:00.005Z

newington green

2009-11-30T15:28:00.002Z

london 2006

where is the head at?

2009-11-30T15:13:00.003Z

palermo, sicily (2009)

greenwich, london (2006)

victoria park

2009-11-29T22:59:00.004Z

london, 2007

to be re-constructed

2009-11-27T17:42:00.004Z