Monat: November 2025

Curry and Cucumber Pinholes

Curry – the golden Indian mixture of turmeric, pepper, coriander, cumin, garlic, buckwheat clover, mace, black pepper, chilli, allspice and cardamom.

Each of these spices contains phenols, some more (for example, chilli and turmeric – they act as an antioxidant against free radicals, antiinflammatory and anticancerous), some less (cardamom). Together they celebrate a golden, hot, warming party!

Combined with soda and vitamin C they develop photo paper, giving nice soft shades of gray, and the coloring power of turmeric tones it yellowish or for some strange reason rather a little greenish!!

And now: Cucumber!

Cucumbering – SD 480p

Yesterday – see the video above – I mixed some cucumber pickles water developer! I did it before and I know it works fine … now again because I’m actually producing a handful of photo prints for a little exhibition (me amongst many other artists, it’s a kind of benefits event for a gallery here in Berlin-Neukölln).

And there will be a winter market in December at my beloved spot “Silent Green” where I’ll have a stand exhibiting some pieces, mostly … you guess it … photos that I developed in various magical soups!

A Flock Of Flickers In November

Achchch, my little webinar meeting pot! I thought it would come to an end … nobody showed interest to participate in summer … I guess everybody was on holiday or whatever …
Anyway: yesterday I had 3 lovely people from Germany and Ireland and we talked 2 hours about super 8 and ecological developing!

Here’s a 2 minutes short recap!! On YouTube!

La Meko Film Festival

My film ‘Audry Lornacle or 14 Days in DJ’s House’ just had its world premiere at the La-Meko Film Festival in Landau in the Palatinate / Pfalz (I was there two months ago and gave a workshop!).

What is La Meko? It started 20 years ago in the Media Education/Communication Psychology (FaMeKo) department of the Institute for Media Education and Communication Psychology (IKM) at the University of Koblenz-Landau … phew … in short: La Meko! Maybe it also means ‘Landau media goblin’… And since then, this small but excellent festival has been around.
I’m now a fan and have a subscription … Next year, I’ll be doing another workshop there on pinhole photography!

I was there for four days: it’s so far south-west that it wasn’t as cold as in Berlin … the vineyards glowed yellow and red, and France is only 30 minutes away by train (Wissembourg / Weissenburg). I went there to buy cheese!