Todays assignment 09.02.2010

I had to take pictures of people who suffered a fracture and are now treated in the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin. More than 50% of their patients got admitted with this diagnosis in the past few days.

Feb 10, 2010 | Anything to say? Comment! »

Todays assignment 21.12.2009

The other day I had to take pictures of an australian journalist who recently came to berlin and freelances now for the Berliner Zeitung. Tourned out that there was some missunderstanding because the assigment should have been to take pictures of her at her favorite place in berlin – and her flat doesn´t count. So we had to redo the pictures, this time at the Paul-Linke-Ufer, her favorite place to take a walk.

Dec 21, 2009 | Anything to say? Comment! »

Todays assignment 16.12.2009

Two portrait-jobs today, one of a bishop who recently moved to berlin and the other one of a australian journalist who will write a column for the Berliner Zeitung about beeing a foreigner in berlin. Coincidence?

Dec 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Todays assignment 15.12.2009

Today was tough! Three assignments, one after the other, no break. A quick overview.

In the morning I had to take pictures of mentally disabled children performing a nitivity-play in a hospital church. I was deeply impressed by the nurses and the other people taking care of them – they seriously must have nerves of steel and (more importantly) a heart of gold.

Next one: I had to take pictures in the newsroom of the Berliner Zeitung of… a Dog. Right. The 14th floor is his alone and he is regarded by most as the BLZ-Dog. The most difficult part of the shooting was getting him to sit still.

Last one: The news was: “A street is again open to traffic” / The editor wanted: “A cool image of the street” / The problem was: “well, it is just a street like any other” / I was like: “wtf!?” It happens really often that you get in a situation where you have to make something out of nothing. You know that you wont win the Pulitzer with it, and the nice thing is that nobody expects you do it – they just wanta nice, printable foto.

Dec 16, 2009 | Anything to say? Comment! »

Todays assignment 14.12.2009

The assignment you get rather often is to take pictures of building XY, and usually these are the most unrewarding jobs. You have like 30min time to figure out a composition, make the shot, and be gone. Same here, only today I also needed to make a portrait of some guys working in that building. Needless to say it freaks you out when you have such a limited time-window to work in. And I must confess – I am kinda bad at working during stress, I need some time to think the shot trough and get an idea of the final image I want to get. But I am getting more and more used to it.

Anyhow, the results:

Dec 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Todays assignment 03.12.2009

Today a team of Greenpeace-Activists decided to politely (but firmly) ask Angela Merkel to show some commitment at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. They pulled two gigantic banners from the rooftop of the central train station and hoped someone will notice.

When the editors saw the pictures I brought back they said one of them will run on the front page, but later that day they made up their mind because someone thought that lately Mrs. Merkel was feature too often on the front page and they need some variety… Thats how it goes I guess.

Dec 03, 2009 | Anything to say? Comment! »

Todays assignment 02.12.2009

One of the assignments for today was to take pictures of a youth ice hockey team during their training. I experienced really difficult lighting conditions there because the ice was shining bright and the background was rather dark – so either the forground was blown out or the background pitch-black.

Does anyone has any tips concerning sport photography on-ice?

Dec 02, 2009 | Anything to say? Comment! »

Berliner Zeitung – Tear sheets

This post will be showcasing some of my work for the Berliner Zeitung during my internship there. I will be updating it once a week, with the new stuff on top. Tell me what you think.

Update, 22.12.2009: Allright, it wont work like this. It is to much work to gather all the .pdf files after the pictures got published in order to show them here. So here is the deal, I will only show tear sheets from “large” storys and with pictures I belive are worth sharing.

Berliner Zeitung, 24.12.2009

Berliner Zeitung, 03.12.2009

Berliner Zeitung, 09.12.2009

Berliner Zeitung, 21.11.2009

Berliner Zeitung, 19.11.2009

Nov 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Moving back to Berlin

Starting next monday I will begin an intership at the Berliner Zeitung in… well, in Berlin. I am not sure how tight my schedule will be and how often I will be able to update my blog.  But posting some pictures now and then shouldnt be to much of a problem. We´ll see.

Anyhow, this means that I cant continue to work on the story about Masu right now. I hope I will get the chance to finish it when i come back in 6 months.

Nov 13, 2009 | Anything to say? Comment! »