Erbjudanden

Was für ein lustiges Wort … ich lese es überall – und ich hab keine Ahnung, was das bedeuten könnte und kann es mir auch nicht irgendwoher ableiten.

Erbsenzähler Erbschleicher Erdatlanten Abhandengekommene!

Dazu passt kein Bild … doch, vielleicht meine Magnolie am Picknicktisch? Vielleicht ist sie ein Erbjudand? 😉

At Konstepidemin, Göteborg, Sweden

I am finally here now, at my sweet studio at Konstepidemin, Göteborg / Gothenburg, Sweden!!
I am invited here to stay 1 month and make some pictures 😉

It was a long train ride from Berlin, Germany, about 14 hours … via Denmark … across the beautiful Öresund bridge that connects Denmark with Sweden. Entering Sweden the Corona Border Police checked my fresh and negative German Corona test and for some obscure reason didn’t accept it, sent me back across the bridge to Denmark to make a quick test and then, after a 3rd bridge crossing they let me in! Welcome in Sweden!!! (Denmark had accepted it btw).

But I must say it was all ok for me, I lost just 2 hours (the bridge trip doesn’t take more than 15 minutes from Hyllie, the first Swedish city and Kastrup Airport Station, the first Danish stop) – Göteborg-bound trains go every hour – and everybody was extremely friendly and explaining (the tall, blonde, charming officer said they are taking off about 100 people every day – with tests they don’t accept, and send them back to do a quick test …).

I mean: it’s a pandemic! You shouldn’t travel at all … or if you have to (like me), be prepared for some inconveniences. Still I feel very very privileged to be here!

https://konstepidemin.se/artist-in-residence/gastkonstnarer/

Pinhole Activities

April oh April, you are so damn cold … I don’t really feel like going outside my warm nest … being at my friend’s country home for a couple of days …

But there I went and you can see the results here: some new pinhole photos!!! Path into nothing and some flowers in the wild (I am fascinated by the extreme large field of depth of this lovely Illy coffee camera flower power picture!!!!).

Tulipol

Chopping some withered tulips is fun!
I make a tea, a nicely smelling green tea, not to be drunk by me but to find its fulfillment in a black&white developer as you might have guessed.

It works fine and softly! I made some positive photo prints using my favourite baryte photo paper: FOMA.

Zooming to Brazil 2

What a wonderful workshop!
Me in Germany and the other beautiful people spread all over Brazil …
We are all filmmakers and photographers with our heart beating for ecological, yummy, non-toxic processes … and tadaaaaa, they performed live!
We had one Caffenol developing (still photo negatives, pushed from 400 to 1600 ASA – 2 minutes longer developing – fantastic!!), one super 8 developing in flower soup and Brazilian blueberries with very cool results too, and one mate tea and coffee developing of colour negatives … but the magical thing about it was seing and hearing them mixing and developing, following them to their working rooms / darkroom – thank goddess we have wifi and phones! – so it felt we were all in one boat instead of 9400 km apart …

Zooming To Brazil

I’m getting more and more used to be a zoom entertainer!
Yesterday I held a workshop at the 13th Strangloscope Experimental Festival in Florianòpolis in Brazil, day 1 of 2, 3 hours long talking about eco processing film and photos, the power of flowers, the magic of Kodachrome, and so much more … it was fun!
And you know what: I did a live developing in front of my laptop: compost juice mixed with vitamin c and washing soda, heated to 30° and poured into the Jobo tank that was filled with a super 8 stripe. Can be contagious!

Agfa Blue

Nothing beats an Agfa blue!
These old expired films can still be developed (in E6 developer) … but all Agfas will come out blueish, sometimes greenish. This one was well exposed and probably not too old. Not too old means 35 – 40 years …
Not my film, it was a job, I offer this service like a one-woman-lab. If you like to know more, check this out: developing service, click!

I Cannot Stop …

… taking pinhole photos!
The snow is melting rapidly as March is marching in soon … birds go crazy and I can feel the sun beams on my skin. I love it!
So here we go: one of my last snow photos taken with my beloved Illy coffee camera, FOMA negative film inside, 100 ASA, exposure time just a few seconds.