Selbstinszenierung
Month: July 2021
Double A
If I remember correctly, I first photographed the model’s girlfriend because the model was late. Then I put them both together behind the window. And finally, to complete the series, I also photographed the model.
"Motion"
I’m delighted to have been selected for the themed group exhibition "Motion", to be held at PH21 Gallery, Budapest, August 26 – September 18, 2021.
Image link here:
https://www.ph21gallery.com/motion-21?lightbox=dataItem-kqwavhfn4
Exhibition link here:
https://www.ph21gallery.com/motion-21
Back to Life – Pandemic City (Part 2)
When I first started photographing the streets of Rome during the pandemic for my 20/20 vision project, my primary interest was to record people, and the behavioural differences being played out on the streets in these strange times of social distancing and lockdown.
I live very close to the Vatican City, an area full of businesses that depend on tourism for their very survival. It’s a busy area which is usually thronging with crowds. Now there are many shuttered shop fronts, and permanently closed restaurants. Tourism is still predominately domestic at time of writing, but very recently, as restrictions slowly lift, there are suddenly more people on the streets. The atmosphere is charged again with an albeit faint buzz of human activity and renewed energy. I hope these recent photographs convey this.
Some hard lights
Some hard lights in july.
Blog post by Photographer Trostheide / 09.07.2021 15:58
Katrina, in my Studio. Shot on Kodak Ektar 100 with a MamiyaRB67. Messed up the Home-Development with C-41 but I am more than happy about the results
About my Gonzography and some shots made in Ostia, Rome
Many people feel comfortable with the order and the beauty.
This influences their vision and prefers it when they observe. I can feel this sense of order in open contrast with the unpredictability, tension and chaos in the world. My work is an examination of the different forms of how the human animal adapts and shows its different faces in the world.
Without filters. Raw. Straight.
I enjoy to photograph moments where you can feel there is a particular kind of tension. It doesn’t really matter if I am on a street or in a little room. I am influenced both the relative quiet that the mathematics of chaos.
Essentially, I want to celebrate the human. I want to show the deep and indissoluble dichotomy between the eccentric and the ordinary. Photography and writing are always an interpretation of reality. In my photography there is a lot of emphasis on interpretation, because I always believed in this continuous relationship between the external reality and what is my feeling when I work both as a photographer and as a writer.
The space for interpretation is always present when I make a photograph. For this reason I think any photograph is a document of what happened in front of my eyes but also a witness of what it was my mindset at the moment to press the shutter button. A photograph is a revealing action, of the situation represented and also portrait of myself.
I borrowed the Hunter S. Thompson concept of Gonzo Journalism, and I speak of Gonzo Photography. I immerse myself in the situation, I enter it really, I put myself at stake, I take my own risks.
The photos you can see here are a reflection of my approach. I realized these photos in Ostia, I would say a barrio in Ostia, that is not completely safe to photograph there but I did it. Because I am a photographer working in Mexico in popular neighborhoods everyday.
I can remember how someone said me that I could’t reply the same approach in Italy…as if photographing in Mexico was easier …
In these images there is interaction and there is not. I don’t use just an approach and anything depends by the situation. To the end of the game to me is just about photographing life. Just like it is.
I hope you enjoy.
Bilder aus meiner Heimatstadt Duisburg
I look in the corners. The melancholy, the banality, the hidden, and the loneliness of things.
Thanks for watching.
Regenshooting mit Celeste
Heute ein spontanes Regenshooting mit Celeste
feels good to be free
Back then, when nudity was still considered normal and not yet demonized by Facebook and Co., models often had an even more relaxed relationship to their own nudity.
I had a wonderful day of shooting with the beautiful Ina. We always had small breaks between the individual sets. But anyone who knows me knows that I can’t put the camera aside during the breaks. Especially in the moments of relaxation, pictures are often created with a lot of emotional proximity to the model.
The images are unprocessed, except for converting them to black and white, reducing them and then sharpening them.
The picture are unedited, except converting to black and white, resizing an sharping
In the future I will try to select the pictures in my blog a little more and to reduce the number of pictures.So now this is my first try with only three pictures.