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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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Testing: Abstract
Sunday, August 30th, 2009 | abstract, artists, decay, gallery | No 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.
Prints now available on Imagekind
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 | gallery, prints | 1 Comment
So far, I have only sold prints at my exhibitions. Now, since I have received so many requests from abroad, I have made some selected pictures available as prints on Imagekind.com.
I really like Imagekind: The service allows you to pick the size, paper, canvas and frame of your print, the quality is really good, and they offer a 30-day money back guarantee. So far, I have used them for all my exhibitions and have never been disappointed.
In my shop, you can find 56 of my Chernobyl pictures, as well as 4 prints from the Autumn Leaves and 5 of the Corridor Country series. Check it out and let me know if you miss anything!
PS: If you want exhibition quality, I recommend Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl and Hahnemühle Photo Rag papers.
Chernobyl Journal #11: Music and Mirrors
Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | decay, gallery, hdr, project wormwood, sounds, travel journal, video | No Comments
This is part eleven of my travel photo journal to the Chernobyl zone of exclusion. Check out the Chernobyl Journal page for the full story, all pictures, videos and sounds.category.
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Leaving the docks, I went on to the cinema/theater complex to the north. In front of it must have been a large gathering area, probably with fountains, which was now a collection of concrete plates with yellow grass between them. On the side of the cinema, there was a large red-and-blue Soviet mosaic on the wall. Unfortunately, the lighting inside the cinema was almost absent, and I couldn’t get a good shot of the projection room (Beat has a picture of the room, I don’t know how long he had to expose in there!). Not surprisingly, its closed nature made the cinema one of the spots in Pripyat with the lowest radiation levels I had measured (<0.1 uSv/h, lower than my living room).
Pecha Kucha Reviews
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 | decay, events, gallery, project wormwood, video | No Comments
Participating in Basel’s first Pecha Kucha Night was great. The PK rules – present 20 slides for 20 seconds each – impose a set of boundaries that makes presenting a completely different experience than your usual Powerpoint spiel: There’s just too much going on to have stage fright, it’s all about the excitement of making the most of the 20 x 20 seconds.
Pecha Kucha Daily has a nice overview with event photos about the evening.
I’m especially pleased with the great review the Tagesanzeiger, one of Switzerland’s biggest newspapers, wrote about the event and my presentation:
“He shows what probably no one in the audience – around 100 people – has ever seen: A deserted classroom, children’s respirators, an amusement park that was never used, the totally irradiated forest – everything in close proximity to the decomissioned reactor, deserted, in unbelievably warm colors, and at the same time icy cold in its mood. Suess manages to distract even the chatterers at the back of the room and make a big impact with his entertaining performance.” (translated from German)
If you haven’t seen the slide deck, here it is.
The next event is on October 22nd, again in “Unternehmen Mitte” in Basel. Put it in your calendars!
New Photo Set: Autumn Leaves
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 | decay, gallery | 1 Comment
Photo Set: "Autumn Leaves"
Some months ago, my friend and fellow photographer Annie Bertram recommended to me to visit the historic automobile cemetery Gürbetal near Bern. The area was originally planned as an open air museum for vintage cars from the 1940s – 1970s, but the owners (who dealt in used car parts) never realized the project. So, the car collection became a car cemetery under birch trees, which was recently used for a national art exhibition. Unfortunately, the area is now closed for environmental reasons, and its future uncertain.
My wife and I visited the cemetery in October, one day before it closed. It was an amazing autumn day, and birch leaves were covering the cars under the trees. I’m happy to present to you a photo sets called “Autumn Leaves” – it contains 34 color and 20 black & white pictures.
New Photo Set: Hawaii 2002
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 | gallery, non-decay | No Comments
After having scanned 2600 35mm negatives, I thought it might be nice to share some of them. Here are 36 pictures from my 2002 trip to the Hawaiian islands. They are decidedly non-decay, mind you.
Photo Album: Hawaii 2002
Countdown
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 | exhibitions, gallery | No Comments
The exhibition opens in 9 days. I’ve got almost all the material I need, only one frame is missing (and expected next Friday). What’s left is framing.
And here is are the pictures that will be on display:
Photographs on display (framed)
All framed photographs are printed on Hahnemühle fine art paper.
Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm (including frame)
Prices: between CHF 190.- to 350.-
Further Photographs (artist’s folder)
All photographs are printed on Hahnemühle fine art paper.
Dimensions: 30 x 45 cm (no frame)
Prices: between CHF 90.- to 120.–
Most of my pictures are now CC-licensed
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 | gallery | No Comments
As of today, most of my photographs will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: You may share and remix the pictures, as long as you give me credit for them (show my name and link back to this page), and use the same license to distribute work based on it.
Not all of my photos are CC-licensed (but most), so please check the license information, which can be found underneath every photo on my Flickr page.
Please comment or contact me if you need more information.
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