I wish you all Merry Christmas! I hope you will have a good and relaxed time!

Last Tuesday, 05th December 2011 I took pics of the show in Munich of the upcomin Hardcore/Punkband "Title Fight" from Kingston/USA. Great show, great band - so please check them if you like this kind of music!

Last week I spent a couple of days in Glasgow, Scotland. Within these days I checked the frame and possibilities for a new project about the Irish minority of the city. So watch out, hopefully more will come soon. Below a mural of the history of the football club Celtic FC. The mural is in the pub "Bar67" in the Gallowgate area.

Here's the latest picture I took of the clinic clowns of the children's hospital "Olgahospital" in Stuttgart.

I took the pictures of the team of a local yoga studio plus some photos of the atmosphere there. The photos will be used for their new outfit. I really enjoyed the work because it was a good hand-in-hand job with a good and honest communication. Please let me do more of that!

After a long break without any new posts - sorry for - I will post a couple of new stuff in the coming days.
The beginning makes a article about a owner of a hotel in a city named Heilbronn and his love to Africa and especially to cheetahs. The article was published by the magazine ARTUR.

Last week started the new harvest season of hops in the little city Tettnang, in the Bodensee region, Germany. I had the pleasure to work with the author Andreas Steidel about a story of the economical, cultural and historical meaning of hops for the people there and beyond. The story will be published in the german magazine ARTUR soon.

 

A new picture out of  my work with the 'Click camera'. I made this shoot during a game of the german football club 'FC St.Pauli'. More will follow...

Here's a first picture of a new series which is in the pipeline. Beside using the casual professional camera of Nikon I discoverd an old 'Click camera' of the company AGFA years ago.
The allure is that you can only control the size of the lens (2 oppertunities) and with the ASA-code of your film the colors and the exposure in a way. All the rest is more or less a product of furtuity.
More pics will follow....

I had the pleasure to do the new press portraits for the Stuttgart based artist Nikita Gorbunov. Nikita is doing a wild mixture of poerty slam and singer/songwriting.

Since years I'm photograhing usual people taking pictures of their families, realtives or objects, statues, etc in the public space. It mostly seems that they are as tourists and visitors on the place where I discover and photograph them.
The idea of the series is inspired of a picture made by the great Martin Parr (please, have look here) and the thought of the late author Susan Sontag written in the chapter in her book On Photography where she discribed the change of the camera to a common documenting tool for the wide general public.
Last weekend I was in the german capital Berlin and continued the series. Here is a strong selection:

I had the pleasure to take photos of the musical therapy for children with cancer which is holding in Germany's biggest hospital for children - Olgahospital in Stuttgart. The therapy is sponsered by the foundation named "Olgäle Stiftung" who will use the pictures for their publicity work.

Here is my lastest publication in the daily newspaper 'Stuttgarter Zeitung'. Again about the 'Hofgut Himmelreich'. For more information about the background and story etc, please have a look below.
Aurthor: Mathias Becker, published in Stuttgarter Zeitung, 2nd April 2011

Have been on tour with the band 'THE WAKES' from Glasgow, Scotland. They call their style GlasgowIrish Folk'n'Roll which means a musical and lyrical melting pot in the tradition and style of bands and artists like The Pogues, The Clash, The Wolfetones and others. Their lyrics are refelcting the being as part of the Irish Diaspora and community in Glasgow plus the facts and results of the ruling sectarianism and the history of the Irish Immigration to the UK.
Below is a strong selction of pics of the tour through France and Germany last Eastern weekend. 

Here is one of latest publications. A story about a hotel and restaurant named "Hofgut Himmelreich", which is next to the city of Freiburg in the Black Forest area. The special point about the "Hofgut Himmelreich" is that a main part of the staff is handicapped. A fine little story and example how handicapped people can be part of a common daily life. Author was Mathias Becker. The story is published in the magazine ARTUR.

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