Zehn Fotos - July
I feel like I say this every month lately, but it was tough picking 10 photographs. And not because I had 20 that I loved, more the opposite. It’s been a tricky last few months for me. Work has been sporadic, which gives me plenty of time to be out taking pictures, but not having the steady income puts me in a constricted mindset, not an open and exploratory one. I find personal work harder to justify when I’m not also earning a proper income.
I’ve not been entirely idle though, and this month features multiple pictures from either my studio or my way to and from the studio. Even though it’s been a rainy summer, I’ve managed to walk to and/from the studio on a regular basis. It’s a 40 minute walk, or a 25 minute train trip, and well worth the extra time when I have it.
Ten things about these ten photographs (in no particular order).
Wili Wacker is the German translation of Andy Capp.
Graveyards in Berlin are great places for a walk, and more often than not feel like overgrown parks rather than tidily tended gardens.
Polish pottery at home, Polish pottery in the studio, Polish pottery everywhere.
When in doubt, try making the picture black & white. It’s a cheap cheat, but works more often than you’d imagine.
I’m also a sucker for a blown-out highlight in a photograph. A nicely over-exposed spot in an otherwise relatively balanced picture helps remind me that photography is, at the end of the day, all about light.
Dappled light is also lovely, and really quite hard to catch. Our eyes often exaggerate it, and the camera lens frequently flattens it out.
I imagine that before the 2nd World War, all of Berlin looked like this.
Another of my walk buddies. He’s less interested in me than I am in him.
Self-portrait, museum gift shop at the Kulturforum.
There’s no such thing as non-political art.
