no comment whatsoever

even here

but maybe it is..

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

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

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

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

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

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

on the road

through east germany

and we disappear in these places

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...