Just a quick update today. Below is a little BTS from last night’s grand opening of photo09 in Zurich. The place was packed with 1500+ people and we all had great time. It’s always nice to meet folks year after year at the biggest photo event in Switzerland. Among some old friends like Klaus-Martin Gareis I had the pleasure of meeting Boris Baldinger, someone I have known “digitally” for some 3 years but had never met in person until last night!
My new show GLAUBE | LIEBE | HOFFNUNG (Faith, Love, Hope) has finally opened last weekend (Details here and here) and I am very happy how well it was received! As promised in my last post I will be sharing a lot of background info and BTS video from the shoots involved in the production. The project itself derives it’s title from three principal images. Today we will start with a closer look at the creation of GLAUBE (Faith).
It all started back in November 2008, when we set out on a beautiful autumn day to create the image above. In facty it started a lot earlier than that, because the planning and pre-production for this one took almost two months. And as the title of the image suggests, quite a bit of it had to do with keeping the faith…
It has been a little quiet around the blog for a while. I have been working full throttle on my new exhibition entitled GLAUBE | LIEBER | HOFFNUNG (Faith, Love, Hope) which will open tonight at Galerie Monika Wertheimer, Switzerland.
Faith, Love and Hope are the atoms of human existence. Everything we feel, do and think is ultimately driven by one or all of these sentiments. The original combination of these terms derives from age old religious concepts and was intended as a guidance to humanity. But humanity is not quite as simple and thankfully much more complex. Faith can misguide us, love can blind and bind us and hope sometimes does die. Join me in a visual exploration of the human condition!
Above is one of three principal images from the project, entitled “GLAUBE” (Faith). In the weeks to come I’ll be feeding the blog with a lot of background info and behind the scenes videos from the creation of these images - so stay tuned!
The grand opening will start tonight (31 October, 2009) at 5pm. The exhibition will be on display through 6 December 2009.
