New Polyptychs
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 | abstract, decay, gallery | No Comments
I’ve started to work on a new set of abstract polyptychs (pictures in parts) from a recent trip to a local industrial area. Enjoy!
The full set is here (new images will be added as the set grows)
Beauty in Decay
Saturday, July 31st, 2010 | decay, odds and ends | 1 Comment
I’m proud to announce that a number of my Chernobyl pictures have been published as part of a abandonments photo book project called Beauty in Decay – and what a beauty it is! Editor RomanyWG and his team put a lot of effort behind this opus, featuring 200 pictures from 50 artists. The book is available for £19.95 at CarpetBombingCulture.
In this context, two well-known UK newspapers have reprinted some of my pictures – the Sunday Times Magazine and The Sun. Find the articles below.
Abstract Squares from the Dockyard
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 | abstract, gallery | No Comments
I’m currently publishing a set of new abstract squares based on my recent Balls & Boxes series from the Basel dockyards. The whole set should be complete within a couple of days, and I’ll continue uploading the pictures as they are ready.
Below are some impressions. The full set is here.
Timelapse: Garbage Day
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 | non-decay, time-lapse, video | 4 Comments
Why go out on big tours when you can film interesting scenes right from your kitchen window…?
New Photo Set: Balls & Boxes
Monday, April 26th, 2010 | gallery, non-decay | 2 Comments
On a chilly Saturday morning in December, it was still dark, David and I jumped into a bus to shoot some rare sights at the dockyards in my hometown, Basel, in Switzerland. Uneasy in its sodium nakedness, the container crane and his minions greeted us like bugs on a table cloth.
Decadimento – Italian Decay
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 | decay, exhibitions, gallery | No Comments
Yesterday, I presented at the third Basel PechaKucha Night, taking place at Unternehmen Mitte. I was honored to be invited again after last year’s presentation about Chernobyl. If you don’t know what Pecha Kucha is: It’s a presentation format where a couple of people present 20 slides for 20 seconds each, resulting in a 6:40 minutes show. Great fun – go see one if you have the chance.
My topic this time was “Decadimento – Italian Decay”, where I presented urbex four locations from Northern Italy. Each of these places has its own history which I will explain another time with a full set. Enjoy!
Chernobyl News in Hungarian
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 | decay, project wormwood | 3 Comments
This is pretty amazing: A fellow Chernobyl enthusiast from Hungary translated my Chernobyl journal into Hungarian:
So that’s the reason why I’m getting all those Hungarian visitors… thank you Kornel!
His blog is also worth a visit: Pripjaty & Csernobil
New Urbex Photo Series: Mad Hatter’s Desert
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | decay, gallery | No Comments
In Summer of 2007, we went on a longer trip through Northern Italy. One of the places we visited was an abandoned brickworks plant. The workshop was a large area outside a small town, situated atop a hill. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, and the orange brick roofs were waiting patiently under the warm evening sun.
A Little Pixel Experiment
Sunday, October 4th, 2009 | abstract, decay, gallery, pixel art | No Comments
I have a huge respect for pixel artists; the simplicity, the love for the detail, and the whimsical results – it’s such a fun artform. Today, I’ve taken a couple of my newest abstract photographs and tried to morph them into pixel art pieces. All of them are hand-drawn, i.e. I haven’t just rescaled the original, but created them from scratch (that’s why the colors are sometimes a little off).
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My latest abstract works
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | abstract, decay | No Comments
Over the last couple of weeks, I have experimented a lot with abstracts, mostly square crops of industrial details as well as a couple of polyptychs. It’s a very intuitive process, and the folks over at DeviantArt have been a great help in finding out what works and what doesn’t.
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