Me and my Hasselblad

Formentera, October 2021

It feels so good to be back on duty again! What the hell did I do all these years without my analogical media format baby in hands? Although it takes much longer to focus properly nowadays because my eye sight is getting worse but I don’t really care and rather ask for patience from the personalities I am portraying than not doing it at all. And yes, they really are important personalities for me. I am actually continuing a longterm project I had started more than twenty years ago on Formentera, which will be hopefully leading to a published book, including all the archive and present material. Therefore I am eating up one roll film after the another, taking pictures all the time and everywhere. It‘s so much fun to have gained back that passion, I can‘t believe it. Daily life is different with a camera because one is constantly searching for the right framing, measuring light and chasing the appropriate moment. Back in the days I had to force myself to leave the camera at home, in order to relax sometimes. Nowadays its different because I am not that agile anymore and a little lazier, but still hunting like a dog with the nose up against the wind. Not giving importance to the fact that I lost my sense of smell over 10 years ago, haha…

Remembering the exhibition I did in the year 2010 in Formentera on the project, I really hope to be able to do another one there. Lets see how the harvest will look like, once I develop all the film material and scan the huge amount of negatives on many rainy november days in Berlin.