Portrait

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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.
— Lewis Thomas

Mr. Karwat for Der Spiegel

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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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.
— Joseph Addison