Such overkill in satellite dishes is hard to understand for someone who has basically given up on TV, but then, living in a foreign country, I might appreciate even TV in my mother tongue. As I know that this quarter are inhabited by many people from Turkey, this is the most likely explanation for this…
Carl Valentin – you see his portrait in the upper right corner – was a Bavarian artist and comedian and philosopher. His specialty was “Blädln”, a dialect word that might be best translated with “fooling around”. But Valentin’s jokes rarely were superficial jokes, most often there was some truth or absurdity behind it. For non-Bavarians…
Those trips to Batticaloa were not only work – organising and coordinating the projects, discussing possible improvements, supporting the newspaper at home with reports – but they marked also the transition of my own photography away from a purely private, visual memory oriented one. Soon I started to upload images to flickr, another year…
The end of 2014 for me personally marks a marginal victory over procrastination: My Sofobomo Book “Christmas Trees” was finished in time. You’ll find it on the Sofobomo Website as well as in the ‘books’ section of this blog. Outside the family, 2014 was not such a wonderful year, unfortunately. But don’t worry, I won’t…
The loader was the most awaited heavy gear in Batticaloa, as the purchased one could not be delivered in a reasonable time, a similar model was rented to enable the municipal council to do the heavier clearing work. The civil war at that time (see wikipedia here) had left the city of Batticaloa bare…
Those families, that had lost their homes, found temporary shelter in a school and a paddy store. Thanks to the energetic Special Commissioner of Batticaloa, works had already started to build temporary shelter in a freshly cleared area, and the families were relocated there. The first donations for the tsunami victims often were fishing boats…
On Dec. 26th, 2004, the most disastrous tsunami of modern times killed 231.000 people. The City of Munich had a working partnership with the city of Batticaloa on the east cost of Sri Lanka at this time, and the municipal council of Munich decided to donate 700.000 € for immediate help and reconstruction tasks. As…
Despite of all the troubles of pre-christmas-time, despite of the same-as-every-year untimely early arrival of christmas eve itself: A Merry Christmas to you all! May your hearts be filled with joy, and may you be able to share your joy with all those near and far that are or could be dear to your heart!
A leftover from this year’s most shocking criminal case in my hometown, a evidently purely random stabbing-to-death of a pedestrian at night. The suspect got caught, but he’s still not on trial. Anyhow, the image reminds me of those warrants of apprehension in the good old western movies of the last century. … which in…
Would you have ever expected Steidl to print on leftover newspaper paper rolls? Or Robert Frank photographs just pasted to a wall? Artist’s statements coarsely hand-painted on an academy wall? An exhibition catalogue sold for € 2.60? Me, not. But this just happens here in Munich’s Academy of Fine Arts, an 18th century palace in…
