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Exhibition in Erbil, Iraq

May 2nd, 2012

god, i’m so slow when it comes to updating my own homepage.
facebook makes one just so lazy…
so now i’m just pasting the info from facebook here.

“Happy to announce my upcoming solo-exhibition in the Citadel of Erbil / Iraq on May 5th 2012.

In collaboration with the Goethe Institut we will showcase work from my projects in Kashmir, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Turkey and Iraq.

Being the oldest constantly inhabited place on earth, the Citadel of Erbil is certainly one of the nicer spots on earth to have a exhibition, although it might not yet be on the list of the most famous art-venues of the world…”

Balkan stopover

March 30th, 2012

Feature ‘Photo International’

February 25th, 2012

feature in the current issue of ‘photo international’
cheers!

Joop Swart Masterclass 2012

February 24th, 2012

i’m nominated for the JSP 2012.

Flare Magazin Top Ten unter 30

February 15th, 2012

kleines aftermath-feature zum Top Ten unter 30 contest von Flare

http://flaremag.de/2012/02/top-ten-unter-30-ein-jahr-spaeter-teil-ii/

my suite, my coffee, my fish

February 5th, 2012

yeehaaa, finally in erbil.
check in at 4 a.m., so 140 dollar for 3 hours of sleep.
i even got the suite. all singles are full, mister spyra.
i accepted, reluctantly of course.
thanks god this is an assignment…
when i opened my bag, the smell of nice iatalian coffee came into my nostrils
and i had to discover that all my little coffeebag has exploded somewhere between düsseldorf and erbil.
well, i guess i’ll have 10 days of sandy socks here.
luckyly it wasn’t the fishfilets that i brought as well…
off to sleep.
tomorrow i catch up with malte from geo and we start to work.

noc.

500g of finest coffee. what a waste.

Istanbul

February 4th, 2012

damn.flight left late and i missed my connecting flight to erbil.
24h in istanbul. tk pays for 4 stars. so, well, not the worst thing to happen, but still one day less of shooting time in iraq.

mamiya6

February 3rd, 2012

wow, pretty much amazed by the imagequality of the mamiya6′ 50mm lens!
6×6 just looks gorgeous!
the ’6′ is on the way to iraq with me to potray the disappearing christian community over there…
together with two babyphones for a friend of mine in erbil.
can’t wait to see the xray guys opening my backpack, staring at all the cables and two headphones…

scans from the drina valley

February 1st, 2012

found some time to scan some of my bosnia negs from 2011.
all from the drina valley.

My work from Bosnia in Gomma Magz ‘Mono’ book !