Tourism kills the city – Barcelona -Exhibition

Der Münchner Hobbyfotograf Christian Schweikert stellt in der GOOD TRANSFER Galerie in der Clemensstr.61 , 80303 München (0176-21210950) sein neues Fotoprojekt “Barcelona – Tourism kills the city” vor. Seine Streifzüge  durch die katalanische Metropole folgen dabei nicht den üblichen touristischen Pfaden. Den Besuch in Barcelona hat er in ungewöhnlichen Bildern festgehalten.  Diese Fotoausstellung arbeitet Auswirkungen des Massentourismus künstlerisch und mit einem Augenzwinkern auf. Seine Fotostreifzüge versuchen die Auswirkungen allgegenwärtiger Touristenmassen in eine Bildsprache zu übersetzen. Warum hat er dieses Thema aufgegriffen? Hier hilft ein Blick in die Statistiken vom Amt für Tourismus: Bevölkerung Barcelona Innenstadt in 2016: 1.6Mio Einwohner versus 12.6 Mio Touristen mit 35 Mio Übernachtungen. Anstieg der Besucher …

VOLKSSTIMME = “Wir sind das Volk” ?!

Ich habe in einem verlassenen Hotel in der ehemaligen DDR einen Berg Zeitungen aus der Zeit von 1985 bis 1990 gefunden. Die Artikel darin öffnen die Augen und vermitteln, warum heute in Ost-Deutschland der Zulauf zu rechten Gruppen, wie z.B. der AfD so stark ist: In vielen der damaligen Artikeln in den Zeitungen wurde der Mensch direkt angesprochen, gelobt und erhoben. Das Themenspektrum war schmal und die Erklärungen waren einfach gehalten. Heute dagegen sind die Menschen in der ehemaligen DDR der kalten, bösen Welt mit all seinen komplizierten Vorgängen ausgesetzt. Keiner hält mehr schützend die Hand über sie und führt sie nicht mehr durch das Leben. Ich glaube, dass viele …

ORGOSOLO

Some days ago, I read an article in SPIGEL ONLINE about a little village on the island Sardena /Italy called ORGOSOLO. It is about the mafia and the local culture there. I have visited the place some years ago w/o knowing the mafia-background. What I found there were the outstanding graffiti – I’d better call the ‘murales’ as the mexiacans name their monumental wall-paitnings. Here a (bit strange formated) set of photos, I took on that topic

München / Munich / Monaco

I’ve started to work on a page about Munich: A mix with infos, history, videos and links about my home-town. Take a special attention to the chapter my view photos I took in different contexts. So far, the page is just the beginning with: | History | Quarters | Museum | Videos | Photos | my view | References | Enjoy… München / Munich / Monaco  

Abandoned Places Tour ’16

We did another great trip to various abandoned locations in the north of Bavaria and Thuringia / Germany. ABANDONED Places Tour ’16 So far, the page is under construction, as I have ~1000 photos to digest. So come back and check out the updates. If you want to enjoy other photos from exciding abandoned locations, have a look into the page URBEX exploring

NORWAY ’16

We have visited Norway during our easter vacation period and experienced a wide spread of different landscape, weather and activities. Here the photographic review of this outstanding trip in two sets: Water & Sky We had a small cottage on a little pier of a farm in the Arnafjord which is a side arm of the Sognefjord. Some of the photos have been take from our balkony, others during trips arouns that area. Land & Snow Even when the country is in a kind of hibernation during this time of the year still, there are many little interesting spots to observe. Impressive is the snowy landscape even already on 800m …

WINDOWS to the WORLD

There is a exciting project beeing prepared right now an launched by 2016 March, 1st at 3:30pm Finland time and Kauppahalli in Joensuu/ Finland: Photos: WINDOWS TO THE WOLRD Project: WttW at Kauppahalli It’s an Photo, + Music- Arts – Embedded Electronics – Learning- Gaming Project in cooperation between:   Ubium (Project owener, Joensuu/ Finland) Sie-expressions (Graphic Design, Munich/ Germany) DINGS (Electronics, Munich/ Germany) D40OOM (Photos, Munich / Germany) Cassisb (Music, New York/ USA)  City of Joensuu / Finland Fear4Electronics Kuvanmaailma Joenkilpituote  

Destillery – Rotten Posters

This post is an addendum to the Abandoned Places Tour ’14, specifically the abandoned destillery in the north of Bavaria. In the explored destillery, I have found some old posters and photos which I’ve found today in my shelf. I took photos from them. Find here the Rotten Posters.

New LE4EL Project comming up: KULTF4BRIK (w.update)

As you might know, our photo-arts goup LE4EL observes and documents processes at placed from four different angles. Here is comming up now a opportunity: KULTF4BRIK in Munich – This multi-dimensional with location discotheques, bars, startups, studios, workshops, etc will be demolished in the next years to build – as usual in Munich – offices and exclusive appartements. We’re taking the chance to show in our project the exciding location as it is still present and furthermore observe the destruction. Here a first impression: