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Poland

Blogging for me these days is like calling that far away friend to congratulate him or her with his birthday.... that actually happend two months ago. With each day it gets more and more embarrasing to call him and admit that you are - maybe a little bit - late.

But maybe its good news soon.. Im currently finishing of a small project that I did for the class of Martine Stig and am packing boxes soon since Ill move to Berlin for the summer. But first: I went to Poland a couple of weeks ago and have a fresh bunch of pictures ready to put online in the next few weeks!

Photographers should write more...

" I might be wrong here, but I think we’re moving into an era where words are going to become increasingly more important to understanding photographs, if not absolutely necessary. People don’t trust photographs and we’re inundated with so many on a daily basis that it really becomes difficult to make sense of them. Writing helps us find our bearings."

Is the statement of Bryan Formhals, that started an interesting discussion on his blog. I enjoyed reading this in the train on my way back from Warsaw/Berlin/Amsterdam...and I have to say I feel inspired by it...

Vonk in de Zuidas | 14th of April

I know. I'm the worst when it comes to self promoting. Last month we had a very interesting exhibition in the W139; one of the biggest and well known contemporary art space in Amsterdam. We had art, lectures, performances, lots of good beer and even yours truly as a DJ.
I should have posted about this before it was over.....

But ok.... here is a new chance to actually announce something.... on time!
Upcoming Thursday the exhibition "Vonk in de Zuidas" organised by bougieartiniatives will open at the Kunstkapel (Wich is located a very strange building that looks like a weird/failed gugenheim clone and houses a expensive restaurant as well). I'm showing a new 8 meter long Photo installation, inspired on the Zuidas (one of the major business areas in Amsterdam, where this museum is located) Also, there are some great painters and video artists showing work there, so come to the opening on the 14th of April at 17:00! It will be an explosive opening (literally)

Also, more great news: I'm getting my first publication in a Magazine that is sold world wide...and its launching this... Thursday. Ill keep it a secret for now, but by the end of the week I'll make the full anouncement!

Benidorm #009

Benidorm #008

Benidorm #005 and #006

Benidorm #004

Benidorm #003

Benidorm #002

Gutte Aussichten 2011: Junge Deutsche Photography

The Deichtorhallen in Hamburg - a museum that is dedicated to contamporary and historical photography - is worth the trip itself for its great bookshop ( Bring creditcards and a big car! !). Oh and...uh...the exhibitions are also nice.
Two weeks ago I visited the Deichtorhallen for the exhibition "Gutte Aussichten" that features work of the best eight German photography graduates. While beeing a photography graduate myself, I was interested to see what the competition in the neighbor country was up to. I didnt find everything as "Out of the Box" and "Experimental" as the exhibition venue wanted us to believe - the expensive and superclean presentation even balanced on"conventional" and "boring". But still there was some very likable photography, like Katrin Kamrau's installation, that sort of concluded the end of photography , and the work of Tine Reimer.

Check out the other participants here . Overall the presentations were very clean and professional - I like to see something similar in the Netherlands as well!

A New Kilo of Kesselskramer

A new Kilo of Kessleskramer is a follow up to two kilo's of Kesselskramer, A brick like tome that covered every piece of work by willfull Dutch comunicationsagency Kesselskramer. (make sure to check their hilarious website wich you have to refresh a couple of times)

The Amsterdam based company asked me to shoot promotion material for this new publication, that is supposed to appear in a Bulgarian Magazine (No clue what/when/if). So, right before christmas we had a two day shoot with a whole bunch of people, ranging from professional model to randomly-picked-at-the-local-supermarket guy. It was fun (See post bellow)

Now, officially finished with this assignment I present to you the five final photographs that the agency selected.

Kesselskramer making off

Hello Amsterdam (a digital ruin restored soon?)

Currently planning to redo the lay out and concept of this blog, and also tweak and upload new work on my website. There seems to be a big digital informationgap between my end-exam at AKI last summer and my current activities in Amsterdam today. Now I only hope I'm just as good at executing plans as making them....

Kesselskramer preview

One of the five images I did for Kesselskramer - I'll upload more after official approval!

Benidorm #001

Last Saturday I presented the first version of my installation, that is a result of my trip to Benidorm last december. Here are some preview photographs - installation shots will follow.

Martine Stig

Dutch Photographer Martine stig makes very interesting conceptual photo work, and will be my new tutor in the next few months. Exciting!!

Exhibition night at the Appel upcomming Saturday

For the people that will be in Amsterdam upcomming Saturday (22nd); I'm part of an exhibition night at the Appel art center! The theme of the exhibition is "Aging" and is a result of a project we did with Spanish artist Alicia Framis and the Amsterdam based magazine ARCHIS.

I'll be showing the first part of my project "Monday's in the sun" , that is a result of my trip to Benidorm.

Evening starts at 17:00 (www.deappel.nl)

Come say hi!

5 projects I never showed here...

There weren't many new photographs here for the last couple of months (and also not much else either). Here are 5 projects that should have been on this blog - but haven't been featured yet..... (due a lack of a scanner! Ah!!!)

1. UWV Office Hengelo - where I spend a day capturing office life...(yes it was just as depressing as i thought it would be)

2. Sales training: more office people, but this time with heavy disco music, collage art (made by the workers) and Nintendo WII's that could be won!

3. Summer fun: Good times with friends. Either in Enschede or Berlin. Tons of photographs.

4. Last months in Enschede, where is started documenting my own street a lot....(?!!)

5. Hamburg: Strange architecture, strange people. Many good unscanned photo's