Paint & Object
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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…
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Duesseldorf Japan Days 11
I visited Düsseldorf for the first time a couple of years ago with a friend from Art University who used to study there. Now around fifteen years later I realised that the city hosts the largest Japanese colony in Europe. For that reason we enjoyed the city with alle the shops and restaurants as much…
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Berlin Comic Con 11
The event in Berlin was quite early in the year and I think one of the first in the city of its kind. The meeting was also a good excuse to travel to Berlin and visit some museums which I did not do for a while. Manuel and me had a good time in Berlin,…
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Brooklyn
We lived for a year in Brooklyn Williamsburg before it became trendy at all. We moved there from our Village apartment on 7th Avenue which we rented for a year straight before. Simpler times.
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Kassel Connichi 10
These portraits reassemble my first trip to a cosplay convention. Set in Kassel, Germany in 2010 the Comicon “Connichi” was at the time the biggest event so far. The pictures are made with an analogue medium format Mamiya, which was a challenge by itself. Most of the models were quite surprised that I could not…
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Martin Luther King
Our second time in New York together and the first parade in January after we moved to the city at the beginning of the year. What was sheduled for six month at first became an on and off time of two years. We travelled back and forth the ocean with no money on hand only…
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Street Portraits | Shanghai
My first time in Shanghai was in 2011 and an adventure by its own. The city was quite rural at this time with street food and some old city’s housing which were demolished some year later. It was a time travel and by no means comparable when I visited again in end of 2016 for…