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For more than 30 years (with long stretched interruptions) I am trying to MAKE pictures, as opposed to 'taking' them - usually places devoid of humans. While my landscapes show how it might have looked BEFORE we humans came, my cityscapes show how totally different it is WHILE we are there and, finally, my Urbex images show places AFTER we have left again. By a simple before-after comparison you can judge for yourself how good the human species is for the planet in the long run.

So here is how I think of MAKING pictures: When I go out with my camera, I am collecting…. collecting photons. When I find a nice arrangement of them I put them in my little black box (the old Latin and now Italian word for box is 'camera'). Later, with the tool of our time, i.e. the computer, I am trying to bring out the images inherent in my photon collections. Often, those images are quite disguised, hidden deep within the information imprinted by the photons into the sensor of the camera. So it usually takes quite some post-processing to bring those images to the surface and MAKE the picture. But I never use this processing to alienate the picture - quite the contrary: I hope to bring out the essence of the picture, clear, pure and uncluttered.

Things have evolved quite substantially since I studied physics and photography at the University of Washington in Seattle during the Mid-80s. What we could do in the darkroom those days seems like very limited fumbling in the dark (quite literally!) compared to what is now possible in scope as well as in precision. Nowadays, photography is applied computer science. It's not just collecting data (what some people call 'shooting'). That is just the first (and shortest) step of a long process(ing) involving very advanced information technology to finally arrive at something you might call an image. Going along these lines I have arrived at some images which I found worthy to upload to the internet - even though there are already trillions of images up there. You can find them here or on my web site.

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  • JoinedMay 2012
  • OccupationPhysicist, Yoga-Teacher, Consultant, Photographer

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