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I don´t need
a studio
For
all intents and purposes a single sentence usually
suffices: “Would you mind terribly if I took
your picture?” It is not even a question, really.
Rather it is a promise. And lo an behold: It works.
Most women answer: “yes”. And then they
join me in my small kitchen in Lichterfelde.
I have often wondered how it can be this easy. You
are a man with a camera and suddenly women are ready
to do what you ask of them. Striking poses and exhibiting
themselves and their bodies. Is it the desire to be
beholden, the wish to be admired, to be noticed?
To be the only one for that one, fleeting moment?
The most beautiful, the best. That it does work is
the secret of photography, and one of the reasons
I like to be behind a camera. Although that might
be a bit exaggerated since I work with a small, hand
held camera.
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Some
say that´s one of my tricks because it makes me
look so utterly harmless. No pro works like that, but
that way I naturally have to get very close to my objects.
I
am also often asked how I even find my models in the
first place. As a photographer I get around a lot: I
am mainly afoot in Berlin's art scene, documenting exhibitions,
spectators and artists.
It is not simply beauty that fascinates me. Most often
it is one small detail: the feline line of a jaw bone,
a gently rounded shoulder. Or it´s the contrasts:
a bright gaze in front of a somber painting. Red lips
in an otherwise pale face. Slender legs clad in just
a breeze of nylon on a cold winters day.
I would even go so far as to call what we do in my kitchen
work: Together we are looking for that one moment in
which everything is perfect (and that can take a while)
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