A Children's Game

When I was a small boy, we used to play hide-and-seek in our flat at some of my birthday parties. I remember having a lot of fun with my brother and my friends, but when the darkness crept up in the evening, and all lights had been switched off, the shadows and objects started to turn into blurry creatures.

My mother is still living at the same place. While the decades went by, little has changed, except I have grown much older.

The challenge “Take photos of a children’s game” has been an idea of Stefan, my friend and photography teacher, to whom I owe much.

The Colors of NYC

It was my first stay in New York City, and it will not be my last.

I have never seen a light mingled with colors like this. You can see it, you can reach out and touch it, you can feel it: the dark auburn and light clay brown of the apartment blocks, the rusty weather-beaten brown of the iron bridges, the hundred times repainted black of the bony fire ladders, fences and railings, the filthy grey brown of the pavement, the impenetrable reflective blue and brown of the skyscrapers’ glass panels, the earthy yellow of the buzzing taxis, the humid grey of the hot sky, the fathomless blue green of the sea.

All those soft nuances and vibrant tints blend to the brownish colors of the light, the light that shines on people, buildings, parks and streets, placing everything onstage for a split second while the shutter is released.

Shot with iPhone 4.

Berlin Hangover

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I’m lying on my bed in a quiet little hotel in Berlin, eyes half closed from sleeping, not yet ready to get up. It’s a cloudy grey spring morning, the window partly open, the distant noises of the busy town fading in. The curtain is moving slowly in the gentle breeze and I am trying to clear my head and get awake. There is a black and white picture on the wall facing the bed, framed in glass.

And a reflection. A gorgeous reflection, which interferes with everything, the picture, the soft pale light, the window, the hanging lamp, my muddled head.

This is my first blog entry, ever. Shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro 1 and Zeiss Planar 1.4/85mm.