Elena

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Just some quick portraits I did of a friend of mine a few days ago.

Der Märchenonkel

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I made some portraits of Matthias Richter, a journalist from germany who wrote a story about Jörgen Todenhöfer and his book Inside IS. You can read the article by Özlem Gezer here: Der Spiegel

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“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.”
— Cato the Elder

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“Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.”
— Jules de Gaultier

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“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
— Elbert Hubbard

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“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
— Blaise Pascal

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“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.”
— John Ruskin

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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.”
— Jane Howard

Hamburg Wilhelmsburg Bar

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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.

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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

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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.”
— John Muir

Mr. Karwat for Der Spiegel

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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?