Timm Suess - Photography

Chernobyl News in Hungarian

Timm — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:01:41 +0000

This is pretty amazing: A fellow Chernobyl enthusiast from Hungary translated my Chernobyl journal into Hungarian:

Timm Suess két napos túrája Pripjaty-ba és Csernobilba

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

Timm — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:10:02 +0000

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.

Like skeletal structures, welcoming us to enter them, we found the large halls where once workers stacked bricks in neat rows to dry them. The long shadows pointed east, while resting on old transport machinery.

Inside the factory, the deep, cool, and somewhat scary corridors of the ovens known as ‘kiln’. We didn’t enter them, trusting that the light wasn’t strong enough to fight the sleeping ogres hidden inside.

Up the stairs, atop the kiln, a wide desert of brick dust, occasionally broken by humble columns, symmetric compartments and rows of valves, like toddlers in blue and yellow overalls. Fields of regular, rusty, hat-shaped ventilation shafts.

Next to the brickworks, a beautiful old villa, overgrown by a jungle of precious garden plants. It must have been the residence of the owner and his family.

Finally, on our way back to the car, a sturdy little plant, triumphant in her conquest over a man-made thing, looked up from her sunbath, and waved us good-bye.

And here is the full gallery:

A Little Pixel Experiment

Timm — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:19:29 +0000

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).

… became …

My latest abstract works

Timm — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:11:52 +0000

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.

More…

Photography by Sergey Maximishin

Timm — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:38:05 +0000

Sergey Maximishin:Rural Church, Aramus, Armenia

Sergey Maximishin’s portfolio, mostly from Russia, ranges from whimsical to bizarre, showing scenes of unusual everyday life. This is among the best photo works I’ve ever seen, simply stunning.

Sergy Maximishin Photography (via BoingBoing)

Testing: Abstract

Timm — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:25:58 +0000

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

Timm — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:12:43 +0000

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)

Prints now available on Imagekind

Timm — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:37:09 +0000

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.

Video: Mediterranean Timelapse

Timm — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:52:04 +0000

I’m back from the beautiful island of Ibiza. To give myself the chance to relax a bit from all the Chernobyl fallout, I had left my camera at home. And it worked: I’m relaxed.

That however didn’t keep me from taking my video camera with me, which I used to make some timelapse recordings. Here is a nice cross-cut of fleeing clouds and a sunset, recorded over two days, each roughly 8 hours. It’s called “Mediterranean Timelapse”. Enjoy the sun.

Music by Zeropage (CC- by, via Jamendo)

Chernobyl Wallpapers

Timm — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:23:18 +0000

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. These will probably not the only ones – if you have any special requests, let me know.

Radioactive Sign: 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 – 1440 x 900 – 1680 x 1200 – 1950 x 1200

Star: 1024 x 768 – 1280 x 800 – 1440 x 900 – 1680 x 1200 – 1950 x 1200

Gasmask Floor: 1024 x 768 – 1280 x 800 – 1440 x 900 – 1680 x 1200 – 1950 x 1200

Cooling Towers: 1024 x 768 – 1280 x 800 – 1440 x 900 – 1680 x 1200 – 1950 x 1200