Well, I love contemporary Polish jazz improvisation by Marcin Oleś and Mikolaj Trzaska, also Grzech Piotrowski´s marvellous Alchemic and the sensational Pink Freud, not to mention Antonín Dvořák, Robert Schumann, Mahavishnu Orchestra live and the symphonic landscapes of Bruckner, the Miles of Filles de Kilimanjaro and Miles in the Sky, Godard , Resnais, Tarkowski, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Rachmaninov, the poetry of Sappho and Ovidius, and of several dead German poets, who used to apply ancient greek metra - yes, and the Pali Canon, which is not a camera, but an essential collection of buddhist texts, which to carry with You in mind along with the works of Marcus Aurelius is no mistake.

The river Ilm, which flows into the Danube here, in Upper Bavaria, where I grew up, that´s where I gained most of last years´ photographic inspiration. I haven´t mentioned othodox chants and Bulgarian monasteries, nor any contemporary writers like Josef Winkler, spells from the nineth century, neither the ruins of our Roman past nor old Slavonic graces, tube guitar amplifiers, collecting stone age tools in the fields, Czech folk singer Zuzana Navarová or the Kluge Dictionary of German Etymology. I use a Nikon D80 and Coolpix 5900. My first camera was a Minolta XG-2.

Finally, to make a statement about fotography, I came to the conclusion, that it´s all about showing emptiness, in an intelligent way. Yes, and the Byrds. I think, they should be mentioned here.