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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.
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.
Testing: Abstract
Sunday, August 30th, 2009 | abstract, artists, decay, gallery | 2 Comments
One of my favorite artists is @davespertine, a London photographer I know from DeviantArt. Dave’s photography is abstract to various degrees, and he strictly refrains from explaining what his work is based on – it’s there for enjoyment and interpretation, not understanding.
Having seen and commented so much of Dave’s work, I decided to dip my feet into abstract waters. I’d love to hear what you have to say about my first three pictures.
Exhibition: “Industrieromantik” in Zurich
Saturday, August 29th, 2009 | artists, decay, exhibitions | No Comments
If you’re in Zurich one of these days, check out Dy Tammy Wyssgott’s and Holger Schimanke’s exhibition “Industrieromantik” (industrial romance) at Rote Fabrik. Tammy and Holger display about 25 of their industrial and decay photographs; the exhibit includes sad and sensual details of factories and residences, as well as contrast-rich architectural structures. Also, the exhibition is inside a cool alternative restaurant, just by the lake, which features great fruit cake. Check it out.
Exhbition homepage: “Industrieromantik” (until 14 September 2009)
Exhibition location: Ziegel Oh Lac (part of Rote Fabrik)
Chernobyl Wallpapers
Sunday, July 26th, 2009 | decay, hdr, wallpapers | 5 Comments
The last few weeks have been very successful: The Chernobyl Journal was featured on a couple of high profile sites, notably Design You Trust, Neatorama, Cult Case, and radio host Kim Komando’s Cool Site of the Day. At one point the server broke down from an amazing 14 000 visitors on one day.
Among the loads of feedback I received, one request consistently came up: Wallpapers. You want wallpapers. So here you go: I’ve prepared 4 pictures in various wallpaper formats for your desktops. › Continue reading
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