April 12, 2023 | preparations and thoughts
Traveling is stepping into the unknown .. and that you want to ‘know’
to meet, learn, listen .. connect.
photo by Babette B-light
blog #8 travels to India
blog #7 Palermo Story of ‘Pupi’
April 10, 2023 | Palermo Theatre of Puppets
La Macchina dei Sogni 2 is like an old storybook with illustrations.
Theatre of Cuticchio (father and son) – which came in 1835 in Palermo by Don Gaetano Crimi – tells the heroic and humorous story of an island and several powers that took Sicily by force but all lost it at the end because of some fierce rebels of Sicily.
shot in Palermo in 2020 / posted Apr. 10, 2023
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blog #6 Paris in April
March 11, 2023 | Paris the blueprint for cities
Next month April 25-30 we will return to Paris for photography and storytelling. I started already with my preparations for two stories with photography and text. One is of course about the changes in Paris: till shortly cars dominated the streets, but a new and fast movement is changing everything. You see more bikes, more electric steps and faster electric bikes, even fatbikes. Whole streets reserved for cycling and walking, along the Seine and through the heart of the city. New paths for walking, more green, more gardens open for public, new zero carbon parks, more vertical green and trees on balconies and rooftops. Yes the rooftops will be the next huge surface to use, specially when they will be connected and create new routes over the housings.
The other subject for my story must be my analogue camera with old film and finding places that tell a story of beauty. People talking about now and future, changes, possibilities. I am very excited to hear their visions.
blog #5 looking vs seeing
Sept. 2, 2022 | Amsterdam
You try to make the best picture, more and more pressure on succeeding. The obvious you forget: the product is only the product, it is the process that is most important. How you behave, how you treat the environment, how you move, how you make the picture. Bringing yourself into a state of ‘observing’ and nothing more, being ‘perceptive’ and receiving what happens around you instead of projecting yourself on what you are looking at. Seeing is much much more, it is receiving and getting in tune, on the same wavelength as your subject: a flower, a building or a person.