A bit of history October 21, 2014 There is one single material in the periodic table of elements that is incredibly important to today’s cyber lifestyle. This element is silicon. It…
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi May 21, 2014 The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi is a place of superlatives. Coming from Dubai driving towards Abu Dhabi, I could spot the…
At the grave yard April 17, 2014 I cycled by this grave yard in the woods the other day. I found it by accident and something made me go back with…
And finally the city god temple December 18, 2013 Whenever I return to Hsinchu I go to the city god temple which dates apparently back to 1746. The adjacent food market is a…
The old market in Hsinchu December 17, 2013 Hsinchu is a town in northern Taiwan, about one hour south of Taipei. It’s home to the Hsinchu Science Park where once Taiwan’s semiconductor…
A different kind of decay September 16, 2013 The Stalin statue in Budapest was erected in 1951 as a “present” of the Hungarian people for the soviet leaders seventieth birthday. But the…
How I met Isabelle Huppert and other surprises September 4, 2013 So, last weekend I went to a workshop how to develop photographic film in coffee in Salzburg. On Saturday we walked around in the…
Ammendorfer Plast Werke or the returning past August 8, 2013 I grew up next to a chemical plant on the outskirts of Halle once a center of the cemical industry in Germany. The smell…
Tech Talk – Testing exposure with a gray scale April 24, 2013 The shooting I took a gray scale and color control patches, a medium format camera, a roll of Ilford HP5+ and a standard light…
Looking for the sun January 8, 2013 What do you do when it’s cold, wet and gray? You escape, right? But what if the weather forecast tells you that it sucks…
