i've decided to show the photos from the trip to paris by each day. on the first day i took 2 b/w rolls and a few colours frames.

my first photo in paris. first time we took a rest and got rid of our luggage. miriam and i had something to eat on these stairs beside the saine. thi woman sat down behind us, took a green apple out of her bag and i knew what to do.

following photos: plus-x 125, leica m6, 35mm f2.0 summicron:


miriam showed me a place behind the notre dame, where we sat down for a moment. this guy beside us took staged photos of someoene with a book. he gave her instroducions of how holding the book, like a pro, but using a disposable kodak 1-time camera made me just wonder... hah.

one legged pigeon.

you could hear him from far. it sounded like a one man parade. he was drumming on his can and screaming wild things.. he asked for money and i thought i'd better give him something so that he'll leave us. i was just having my first warm meal so all i wanted is to make him go away. i'm glad this photo turned out to be something.. because i had all my luggage arond me, on my back a bag on my shoulder, the gyros in my left hand and my prints and the coke.. so shooting this photo was rather tricky.. lol


she took some photos of him form above. she left with a "wave" after she had enough photos.. he tried to commuicate with her.. in "his" language.


yeah. we met suzage for half an hour. she's a cool lady. this shot should show that hopefully.. crazy chick !


me being mean, shooting a french coinslot :]


after the gyros-lunch. cha took us to her home. i took some detail photos just for fun.





got rid of the luggage, we went back downtown. this little dog "barked" like a dying rat on the roof there. first impressions of gentiliy, cha's residence.


french cars ! :O


first metro shot, still using plusx125, thanks for standing in the light for me mister ;)

miriam and i checked something to eat and drink in a "francprix" supermache ! these old ladys cought my attention.. funny couple they were.


on the way to the eiffel tower..

wish i was closer here.. full view is needed




in the metro again..



of course i needed a photo of me there.. ;)

we walked to the louvre later. switched to kodak 400nc, my most favourite c41 film.









got dark. trix+3:

haha.. yeah came across this. a coat made of chinchillas for 24.000 euro.. i wonder how many chinchillas had to die for this ugly coat..







back home at cha's:



finaly in the bed.



tomorrow: day 2

bernhard and i went there. out of curiosity, intrest and as a learning experience. next time, we need 1.4 lenses and a flash.. that's what we've learned about the photography part.. what we've learned about the life-part.. well.. as an arrogant person i can only say, these people are primitive dumbasses. these photos are no journalistic photographs but rather a critique on the whole. i could not believe what was going on there. well. the photos are kinda crap.. bern and i have been disappointed, because we didn't expect it to be that dark and hard to shoot. well next year, we're gonna be prepared and go deeper and shoot more.


photos from the eroitc-fair vienna 2006

ps: one b/w roll will be scanned. photos will be added to the blog later.

back from paris with 18 more filled rolls and one girlfriend less.

my plans are. developing the 14b/w tonight. scan them till tomorrow, bring the 4 c41 to the lab scan them tomorrow night and start to submit.


here some leftovers from two rolls before leaving vienna for 2 weeks.


she was too close for the m. so i put the focus on 0.7m and held the camera beside me. either i'm a photogod or was damn lucky to get the focus dead on.

1/2 second. who the fuck needs tripods :P







we met radiohat by accident. he touched berns leica and jerked off immediately in his pants.

bern having fun while melting austrian handmade deluxe chocolate in warm milk.


she's back in germany. i gave her the finger. i'm sure i had a reason for it. have fun in little wiesbanden nicole !

greetings from paris, paris hilton...

i've actually maby more shots but loading 17mp raws on cha's computer is like reading the bible (twice) i also know that these photos could look like shit colourwise.. but give a f about it.

beside the more or less classic portraits, i've focused also on elements that symbolize human appearance and the most obvious was the radiostation. so i collected those i found.

it soon was clear to me that there were no women except the secretary, which does not stand for a special profession of a power plant in this case, so was not added to the portrait series, were not existing. there was no woman working in the plant directly so to say. the only appearance of women were pin up calendars. so i collected a few of them and still avoided to be striking.

please keep in mind that these images are plain previews and that on a print you'll see more detail of course.






during my stay, i've also realized some "secure initiatives", mostly in form of posters. i've just added three to the series, because the contrast is stronger then. the oldest i found and first in the series must be from the mid 70ys and the newsest is just a few years old. it was intresting to study the difference in style and message. they are quite offensive and straigh. it's german language of course.

first impressions of the project. i was shooting portraits of power plant workers last week. it was a project of the academy and the austrian hydro power (verbund). people did not know that someone will come to take photos of them, so it was all a very complicated situation sometimes. we (robert and i) had 3 days time to realize our ideas. we had to share our time, because we "only" had one scout, who was a great help. he had access to all power plant stations and any little door.. had the knowledge how to get to the best views etc. so in short, i had not much time to shoot and realize my ideas. i have had planned to visit the workers homes too, what turned out to be impossible in about 3 days of shooting. so i focused on portraits at work. i took photos of people in their natural invoronment at work or with a symbolic element that represents their area of responsibility. for an exhibition it will be important to add name and function to the photographs to let the "concept" work.

i have other sub-series , like photos of certain human details i found there or just documentation of the effort that got investigated to take some of the photos but first will show the portraits, since i'm still scanning the recent b/w material.

photos taken with kodak plusX125, kodak trix400 and kodak trix+3, leica m6 summicron 35/2

a break of submitting till november. maybe some digital images when i'll be in paris !

enjoy my latest negscan. the only i have of this film at the moment.

i want to thank for the active watchers here. i'm reading all comments and want to thank each of you. it seems that in this blog, nobody is typing useless information, what i really enjoy and appreciate !

wish me luck for the upcoming projects. next entry when i'm in paris !