A fun assignment some time ago for Stadler Germany. Showing off their new and kinda unique train in the swiss alps.
Travel
wordless 45
“I was going along a dusty highroad
when the mountain
across the way
turned me to its silence:
oh I said how come
I don’t know your
massive symmetry and rest:
nevertheless, said the mountain,
would you want
to be
lodged here with
a changeless prospect, risen
to an unalterable view:
so I went on
counting my numberless fingers.”
Travel-Log Archive, Entlang der Gräben
Quite some time ago, I accompanied the writer Navid Kermani on his trip trough the east of europe. He did some research for his book Entlang der Gräben, and I stuck along and took some pictures. The gallery below is a chronological archive of my pictures, it is a sort of diary, with very little overreaching contextual correlation.
wordless 41
“War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.”
wordless 39
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.”
wordless 38
“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
wordless 33
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”
wordless 32
“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details.
Details are always vulgar.”
wordless 31
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
wordless 30
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
wordless 29
“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.”
Refugees on Sylt
Last month I did a small story about refugees on the german island of Sylt.
wordless 20
“Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature’s landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
wordless 16
“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.”
wordless 15
trippy
Extranational Assembly
Some days ago I was invited by the artist Jerszy Seymour to the swiss alps in order to document The Extranational Assembly, a happening he initiated because he wants to redefine the way we think about nations and nationality.
wordless 14
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
wordless 10
“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
wordless 7
“The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).”
Human Trafficking - edit
I am currently editing the story on human trafficking for my portfolio and a book project. These are some of my favorites right now.