In preparation of a group exhibition, I selected a series of three photographs on the theme of “reflection”; reflection in shop windows, but also reflection about fashion and the way…
A short while ago, I visited a photography exhibition by Korean artist Dae Soo Kim (website). This was at Eulenspiegel Gallery in Basel. His large format photographs of trees most…
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Sander took extreme care in choosing the context of his portrait photographs (OCA, 2015). This exercise is a result of my study of his work, focusing mainly on a 1983…
The Museum of Design in Zürich (Museum für Gestaltung) presented a selection of colour photographs by renowned Swiss photographer René Burri. Simultaneously Phaidon published a book under the title “Impossible…
I have always been bemused (or sometimes amused) watching the associations created by advertising and marketing. Browsing a magazine is a good way to understand what I mean: an advert…
For this exercise, the subject I chose was a sculpture (by Lorenz Balmer) located in one of Basel’s botanical gardens at sunrise. I focused on the top part of it.…
The aim of this exercise was to test the effect on photographs of the camera’s shutter speed. While keeping the camera still in front of a moving scene, several shutter…
Dear Reader, During the last weeks I managed to find some time to prepare a few pictures of this year’s Basel Fasnacht. More will come later… To see the photographs…
Dear Visitor, I decided to inaugurate this blog on the occasion of the 2013 edition of Basler Fasnacht. In German, “Fasnacht” means “carnival”. It is a very old tradition in…