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