COSPLAY
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Private View | Cesky Krumlov CZ
June 2015 Czech | My first show since a couple of years with a set of new works. Although the residency was on the short side, I was well prepared and could process some new ideas. Set on the backside of the Egon Schiele Art Centre the studio was gorgeous and huge, the apartment cosy…
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Portraits | Cesky Krumlov
The picturesque town of Cesky Krumlov has long history into medieval times. Due the short months of the the residency I worked on some sculptures made out of wax and taxidermy. One weekend in June there happened to be a historical festival in town. At this occasion I could persuade some of the medieval actors…
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Second Last World
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Vanitas | Linz
The beginning of my approach to work as artist again startet in 2014. After art university I had a good run with black and white photography and a very special project in Vienna, Krakow and Berlin. But this was more than ten years ago and now digital photography took over. My idea was to work…
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The Last World – Metamorphoses
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Drag Queen 01
It was Summer 2001 when I arrived in New York with my new born son who was 17 month old at the time. We stayed in new jersey most of the time but I was happy to catch up to a Christopher street parade as I did the years before when we stayed in the…
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Street Portraits | Tokyo 14
Street Fashion on a Weekend in Tokyo is unchallenged. We stayed for seven weeks in the late winter and travelled a part of the country. What a difference to anything I experienced before at the cosplay events in Europe or in the streets of Shanghai. Not only would the girls and boys know how to…
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Street Portraits | Osaka 14
During this stay in Japan we had the possibility to visit different cities south of Tokyo. One of the things that most impressed us at the time was the bustling metropolis of Osaka.
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Old Tsukiji Fishmarket
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Jack Dracula
He was known as Jack Dracula, Jack Martin or Barcelona Jack ‘The Marked Man’. In the early 50ies he started to work in tattoo shops. Famous are the pictures of Bela Lugosi and Frankenstein on his belly. As ‘Marked Man’ he had to show over 400 tattoos insideshows and ‘Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey Circus’. He…
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Connichi | Kassel 12
At this year it happened also to be the time of the documenta in Kassel. For the portraits I tried to experiment a little with perspective and distance and with some of the models it worked out quite well. It happened to be our last trip to an event like this in Europe, although we…
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Kassel Connichi 11
It was my second time in Kassel, not visiting the documenta but instead the cosplay event. For the first time I used a digital equipment for my portraits which I had to get used to. But tech talk beside I realised that the main problem was, as so often, that many girls did not know…