Retired Soil
Retired Soil
"Retired Soil" is the portrait of two german lignite mining areas: Lusatia and the southern bounds of the city of Leipzig.
It shows the earth beeing cultivated, energy-distributing and recreational landscape - used, exhausted and reshaped by human hand. Full of promises to gain profit for the big energy distributors but also full of promising expectations to grow tourism in these rural industrial regions, the work mainly focuses on the concomitance of single processes of transformation. Whether supernumerary, fun orientated "mining tourist" and fascinated observer of large-scale coal mining or desperatly fighting demonstrant, struggling to preserve his homeland - man, cause of these transformation processes always remains part of the landscape.
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"Retired Soil" ist das Portrait zweier deutscher Braunkohlereviere - der Lausitz und des Leipziger Südraums. Es zeigt die Erde als Kultur-, Energie- und Freizeitlandschaft - von Menschenhand genutzt, verbraucht und neu geformt. Voller Gewinnversprechen für die großen Energieerzeuger, aber auch voller hoffnungsvoller Tourismusträume für die Bewohner dieser ländlichen Industrieregionen, konzentriert sich die Arbeit auf die Gleichzeitigkeit einzelner Veränderungsprozesse. Ob als Statist, spaßorientierter Bergbautourist, faszinierter Beobachter des großtechnischen Kohlebergbaus, oder verzweifelt um den Erhalt seiner Heimat kämpfender Demonstrant - der Mensch als Ursache dieser Umwälzungen ist immer auch Teil des Landschaftsbildes.
"Retired Soil" is the portrait of two german lignite mining areas: Lusatia and the southern bounds of the city of Leipzig.
It shows the earth beeing cultivated, energy-distributing and recreational landscape - used, exhausted and reshaped by human hand. Full of promises to gain profit for the big energy distributors but also full of promising expectations to grow tourism in these rural industrial regions, the work mainly focuses on the concomitance of single processes of transformation. Whether supernumerary, fun orientated "mining tourist" and fascinated observer of large-scale coal mining or desperatly fighting demonstrant, struggling to preserve his homeland - man, cause of these transformation processes always remains part of the landscape.
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"Retired Soil" ist das Portrait zweier deutscher Braunkohlereviere - der Lausitz und des Leipziger Südraums. Es zeigt die Erde als Kultur-, Energie- und Freizeitlandschaft - von Menschenhand genutzt, verbraucht und neu geformt. Voller Gewinnversprechen für die großen Energieerzeuger, aber auch voller hoffnungsvoller Tourismusträume für die Bewohner dieser ländlichen Industrieregionen, konzentriert sich die Arbeit auf die Gleichzeitigkeit einzelner Veränderungsprozesse. Ob als Statist, spaßorientierter Bergbautourist, faszinierter Beobachter des großtechnischen Kohlebergbaus, oder verzweifelt um den Erhalt seiner Heimat kämpfender Demonstrant - der Mensch als Ursache dieser Umwälzungen ist immer auch Teil des Landschaftsbildes.
Rosia Montana
Rosia Montana / Romania
Rosia Montana is a tiny village in the Apuseni mountains in north eastern Romania. For more than twothousand years goldmining in this area was the leading
financial and economic power. What once the Romans started and much later was continued under communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu shall now be done
large scale style by a consortium of canadian investor Gabriel Ressources and romanian companies. Due to their plans the village needs to be almost entirely relocated
and the valley next to rosia is planned as gigantic reservoir for acidic waste from goldwashing.
A new project in Rosia Montana will be started in early 2012.
Rosia Montana is a tiny village in the Apuseni mountains in north eastern Romania. For more than twothousand years goldmining in this area was the leading
financial and economic power. What once the Romans started and much later was continued under communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu shall now be done
large scale style by a consortium of canadian investor Gabriel Ressources and romanian companies. Due to their plans the village needs to be almost entirely relocated
and the valley next to rosia is planned as gigantic reservoir for acidic waste from goldwashing.
A new project in Rosia Montana will be started in early 2012.
Twenty Four Berlin
Twenty Four Berlin / 24h Berlin
Twentyfour hours in the life of Berlin. Captured by 36 photographers. I was one of them. And took pictures in Kreuzberg,
mainly around the Kottbusser Tor. Night and Day. The Book was published by Steidl in september 2009 and presented
at C/O Gallery Berlin on fifth of september 2009, one year after the pictures were taken.
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Twentyfour hours in the life of Berlin. Captured by 36 photographers. I was one of them. And took pictures in Kreuzberg,
mainly around the Kottbusser Tor. Night and Day. The Book was published by Steidl in september 2009 and presented
at C/O Gallery Berlin on fifth of september 2009, one year after the pictures were taken.
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Tour Stills
Tour de France 2010
For about fourteen days in july 2010 i was assisting Tino Pohlmann during diverse productions for Canyon Bikes Germany and Lotto Belgium.
But there was enough time to take my camera and some looks beside the road. Here is what i noticed beeing along the Tour the very
first time.
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For about fourteen days in july 2010 i was assisting Tino Pohlmann during diverse productions for Canyon Bikes Germany and Lotto Belgium.
But there was enough time to take my camera and some looks beside the road. Here is what i noticed beeing along the Tour the very
first time.
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