later

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

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

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

rare encounters

end of glory

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

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)

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

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

rhine

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)

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