Timm Suess - Photography

Intervaluino now on GitHub

Timm — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:33:05 +0000

I’ve finally come around to creating a repository for the Intervaluino on GitHub. If you would like to contribute, fork, add or otherwise participate: That’s the place to go!

Intervaluino Plus

Timm — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:00:46 +0000

It’s great if somebody takes an idea and makes it better. Like Enekochan who took my old Intervaluino design and improved it to include an LED display and some other improvements (along with a better schematic). Check it out at:

http://tech.enekochan.com/2012/06/21/intervaluino-plus-a-configurable-intervalometer-made-with-arduino/

Here’s a video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDyXqA4iKsY

Pitworker

Timm — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:13:30 +0000

A couple of months ago, sound artist Panoptic Sweep has published a great soundscape remix of my “Elevator of Doom” recording. It’s called “Pitworker” and is an intensely atmospheric experience. Listen with headphones, but not too late at night…!

Check it out at: http://margaretnoble.net/blog/pitworker/

Interesting Kickstarter project: Safecast X

Timm — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:39:21 +0000

Safecast X (image by Safecast, CC -by -na)

By chance, I stumbled across Safecast, a global sensor network for collecting and sharing radiation measurements. I.e., it’s a crowdsourcing approach to measure worldwide radiation. Their scope is mainly Japan, but looking at the yesterday’s strange Reddit story about a radiation spike in Indiana/Michigan, one might wonder if a global preparedness network might not be a good idea.

Safecast has now a crowdfunding campaign running on Kickstarter to produce an open source Geiger counter for alpha, beta and gamma radiation (most counters only measure gamma). It’s called the Kickstarter X.

Check out their campaign (which is already fully funded) and consider donating – I think it’s a worthwile effort. Rewards include a range of goodies, from stickers to a fully working Geiger counter to a measurement trip to Fukushima.

Safecast X Geiger Counter on Kickstarter

Siblings of Kali

Timm — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:05:09 +0000

One of the first abandoned industrial places I’ve visited was a potassium mine in Alsace. It was a glorious expedition, full of bewildered sights and cathedral beauty admist the rust. Most of those old mines have been torn down, now that the industry is no longer. Their memories linger on in the stories the Alsacians tell you of their fathers and neighbors who used to work in the mines. Stories of pride and cameraderie. Stories of re-used worker homes. Stories of suicides after the closures. The photo set was called “Sisters of Kali“, and is still available in the gallery. A couple of years ago, shortly before Chernobyl, I went back on another tour. The result is a winter series called “Siblings of Kali”.

It was a cold day in January. The sun was a distant memory somewhere in the sky while the remains of the once proud mine opened up to us through unbarred gates.

First stop: The processing unit. Underground corridors full of tubes with no meaning left to its hesitant visitors. Large looming tanks in green and red.

Atop the staircase, an Escheresque grid construction of delicate steel.

Among the ovens and tubes, icicles decorated the hall.

Beyond the processing hall, a massive control had lost its footing and tried to escape from the room.

We enter another building, where lockers lead the way to the shower area. Bulls glower while signs warn us of wasting hot water. We don’t.

Enter the heart of every surface mine structure: The washing house. In French, it’s called “La salle des pendus” – the hall of the hanged.

A walkway begins further up the stairs: To the left for the clean, to the right for the soiled. It makes no difference today.

Another visitor awaits us in the equipment hall. She plans on staying there for a while.

The setting sun starts painting the buildings in misty white. We say good bye to a dying site.

Check out the full photo set in the gallery (109 pictures):

New Polyptychs

Timm — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:32:37 +0000

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

Timm — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:25:30 +0000

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

Timm — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:44:53 +0000

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

Timm — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:48:33 +0000

Why go out on big tours when you can film interesting scenes right from your kitchen window…?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqLUws0R_mg

New Photo Set: Balls & Boxes

Timm — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:44:30 +0000

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.

Underneath the hangar roofs, among nooks and crannies, a labyrinth of train tracks spread thinly, guiding yet confusing, watched over by knowing symbols.

Slowly, daylight creeped in, and revealed a myriad of structures, some curious, some threatening, all of them alien.

In the gorges of containers we walked, multicolored steel valleys full of cargo. The crane moaned and hissed as we passed it by.

And on the horizon, the wilderness of industry, the drums and spheres of containment, steam against the sky.

View the whole set: