Apostolos

The founder of 4sqwifi, Apostolos – also known as apas – needed a couple of simple portraits for a Greek weekly he is being mentioned in, so we went to the park on a winter day and took some shots.

Yet Another Bandshot

My very first shoot this year was something small and unofficial with the local singer-songwriter Tjandra, who came round to my studio with his band, instruments, and a lot of enthusiasm.  We decided to use props which I had handy in the ‘prop room’ – among them an old phone, a typewriter, a world-globe. Trying …

Katja

I did a photo-session with a violinist named Katja yesterday; I had never met her before and also had no idea what she looked like. As there were no big specifications on what kind of photos she needed and as the shoot was organised on really short notice, I wasn’t sure what to expect. It’s …

Summer on windowsills

  I found a bunch of slides (which, incidentally, I’ve promised for months to archive…) this morning before I left in a rush to go hang out in a semi-studio to practice/work/brainstorm on a secret project. I played around a lot with an (analog) synth and slides. SLIDES! I want to work with slides again …

Street style

I attended a 2-hour workshop last Sunday as part of the Vienna Fashion Observatory exhibition. Aim of the Workshop was to get a bit of a sense of what’s required for Street Fashion Photography – we were given the basic tips to approach people on the street and do portrait photos of them with no …

Summer in the City

Summer in the city, I’m so lonely lonely lonely I’ve been hallucinating you, babe, at the backs of other women And I tap on their shoulder and they turn around smiling But there’s no recognition in their eyes Regina Spektor: Summer in the City

Noemi: Analog

Back in 2003, I attended the Salzburg Summer Academy for the first time. The workshop I was in was called “From Photography to Painting” and we did a lot of experimenting. I practiced with portraits, because I had found a girl who was around my age then, and she was probably one of the best …