“I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.”
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in Wordless
“Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.”
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in Wordless
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
Fremdenzimmer
in Reportage
Some time ago I did a story for Der Spiegel about an old couple from the south of germany who decided to take in a syrian refugee into their home. You can read the full story (minus the pictures) here.
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in Wordless
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
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in Wordless
“This is the true nature of home — it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.”
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“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
Refugees on Sylt
Last month I did a small story about refugees on the german island of Sylt.
Hamburg Wilhelmsburg Bar
in Reportage
While working on the story about human trafficking in Hamburg, I came along this bar in Wilhelmsburg where all kinds of immigrants meet during night and day. They drink and laugh and sing and sleep there, waiting to get their own flat and a regular job.
Farmer Portraits
Some portraits/images I did recently for Der Spiegel
Syrian Family in Zwickau
in Reportage
A week ago I did a short reportage about a syrian family in Zwickau for Der Spiegel. The story go published in the current issue, but they only had space for one image - so here are some more.
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“We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a “common goal” of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.”
Ms. Ziegler for Der Spiegel
in Portrait
A quick portrait I made very recently for the german magazine Der Spiegel.
CrossFit Portraits
in Portrait
Some days ago I made a few pictures for my friends at CrossFit Aorta, you can see some of them below.
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“Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature’s landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
Mr. Karwat for Der Spiegel
in Portrait
I recently had to take some portraits of Mr. Karwat - a gallery owner and author from Berlin. Nice guy and I really like how the pictures turned out. What do you think?
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in Wordless
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
Ismail Cetinkaya for Der Spiegel
in Reportage
Some time ago I did a story on Ismail Cetinkaya, a MMA-Fighter from Hamburg, as a part of a greater story about islam in germany.
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“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
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“It’s just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we’re all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it’s like a kind of poetry.”