Schlagwort: Berlin

Analogue Now!

… is the title of a wonderful Photo Festival happening Friday and yesterday!

They call it Photo Weekend and say: “Our yearly Photo Weekends are the highlight of our programming. Over two days each spring, we host a festival of analog photography with hands-on workshops, talks, a group exhibition, a market, show and tell sessions, and more. It’s a weekend to celebrate analog practices and connect Berlin’s analog photo scene.”

I was part of it with a super 8 filming and ecodeveloping workshop!

Located at the Nirgendwo / Nowhere (Helsingforser Str. 10, 10243 Berlin) which is a cultural center dedicated to environmental and sustainability education: “A place that has grown up around an old locomotive shed on a former railway wasteland, sustainably developed and designed by a local community. A place and a project on a mission to create a biodiverse and climate-resilient city that makes room for all forms of life.”

We (lovely people from Hamburg, Slovakia, Ukraine and Berlin!!) filmed, ran around, developed in a juice made from banana, potato and orange peels and some local leaves and flowers and in the end we had two wonderful developed super 8 reels which will be digitized next week!

Hänsel & Gretel And A Long Winter

Not much has happened the last week … I’m a bit ill, with a cold and cough, but I’m still walking through wintry, freezing, snowy Berlin.

I had a scanning appointment for my many pinhole camera negatives and realised once again: when the world, people and politics depress me, pictures fill my heart with a smile and gentle confidence.

This strange Hänsel and Gretel photo: me and my friend-who-flies-around-in-an-unknown-universe. … Fixing error? Minor solarisation? Sticky fingers? Black stars twinkling? I don’t know… but I find it mysterious and beautiful.

I See Double

… that was the name of my recent workshop. Filming with double super 8 cameras! And even more adventurous: creating double exposures!

We used fresh Czech FOMA films and old ORWOs.

Developed in Caffenol, classical poisonous black & white reversal stuff like potassium permanganate & sulfuric acid and a little less toxic and more experimental: peroxide and acetic acid. Yummy stuff and beautiful results!!!