I am very happy to announce that I have been voted among the finalists of the 2008 Canon ProFashional Photo Awards! The jury selected 30 images out of 4′000 to be exhibited at the Igedo Fashion Fair in Düsseldorf last weekend. I am expecially happy that not just one, but two of them were mine. They are featured in this year’s CPPA Exhibition Catalogue (see images below) and may also be viewed on the CPPA webiste among the other finalists.
I give my thanx to the jury, Canon and all the people who helped in the creation of these images!
Posted by nicolas_henri on July 31st, 2008 :: Filed under
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Recently I had the fortune to shoot some material with Tatjana Gellert.
We only had a few hours before she had to head out and catch her train to Germany. I picked the harbour area in Basel as an industrial background for the shoot. (I actually work there often as there are so many corners, cool grafitti walls, train tracks, etc. - you find something new every time…)
While our make up artist Rachel was working on Tatjana, we had a friendly encounter with a local dock worker. He informed us that he could tell we were going to take pictures around there and that he had done so aswell with his girlfriend recently. Appearently he got a $400 fine when the police were walking by, because he and his GF weren’t wearing bright orange vests so that they could be spottet from the moon, or at least by the crane operators near by. (more after the jump…)
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Posted by nicolas_henri on July 9th, 2008 :: Filed under
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As most of you will know I take pictures of people. Humans. Sometimes Super Humans. As long as there’s a person in an image you got me hooked. Much less so with pictures, without humans. It will take a lot for me to get excited about images without a person in it. To me they are empty. A room or a space is empty with the absence of a human being. Does that mean it’s also boring? Maybe… maybe not.
Don’t get me wrong, I hold great respect for folks who can spend hours taking a picture of say a building. And I can get excited, when photographers achieve expression and meaning in the absence of a face or a human figure. It must be the hardest thing to do.
Perhaps out of this appreciation for the select few who “can” do it, I recently became aware of a few “empty spaces” around me. I pass by them regularly and have been for years. And suddenly they grabbed me, spoke to me even. Is it the absence of person, the absence of what interests me, that these places suddenly start to captivate me?
Here are two attempts:
Recreational Area…
Basketball Court…
(I have to admit: I also wanted to test my new 17-40mm f/4L … )
Happy weekend to all!
Posted by nicolas_henri on July 5th, 2008 :: Filed under
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