Two Way Lens and Andrew Phelps

Two Way Lens is proud to present Andrew Phelps.

When I told Andrew about the project and asked him to be part of it, he said yes straight away. I was of course totally excited about it and was looking forward to receiving his answers. What he writes is an absolute interesting and valuable insight information from a photographer who has made his way in the art world. He is a very nice person and willing to share his experience.

Check his interview out here

A must have for your book shelve is his book HIGLEY.

Higley, Arizona, along with its history, has lost the battle against a homogenous America. This township, once at the center of a farming expanse, is steadily loosing ground to the exploding metropolis known as the "greater Phoenix area." These photographs of Higley are an in-depth documentation of this microcosm of globalization.

You can order HIGLEY here


Try also to order his book NATURE DE LUXE, if you are lucky you can get the last copy on amazon. The direct link is
here

My copies of both are already in the post on the way to me.

Thank you Andrew for your contribution to Two Way Lens.

Andrew Phelps, from HIGLEY, 2007


Andrew Phelps, from HIGLEY, 2007


Andrew Phelps, from HIGLEY, 2007


Andrew Phelps, from HIGLEY, 2007


Andrew Phelps, from HIGLEY, 2007

Andrew Phelps, from HIGLEY, 2007

© all images Andrew Phelps

One For The Album

I just added another new project i am working on to my website. It is called One For The Album and I started the work with the camera, which means taking photographs for it, at the start of the year. It was already in my mind for a very long time, but somehow the time wasn't right for me to go out and taking photos. But it became more and more important to me and I've got really excited about it. This year we did a lot of traveling in Europe, so it was ideal for this project. I am totally happy how it developed.

Here you can check it out: One For The Album

One for the album - Domplatz Salzburg, 2008 © Michael werner

Terence Koh in Frankfurt

Terence Koh, Warhol remains as a Chinese winter garden in my heart (self portrait, 2006, © Terence Koh

Yesterday we saw the Terence Koh exhibition in Frankfurt. It was a very intense and somehow surreal experience. You enter the exhibition room through a small, maybe 100 cm by 150 cm, 39.4" x 49" opening and then you enter a totally light and glaring white space. Walls, floor, ceiling, the objects, everything is white and you can hardly see because of the brightness. It is hard though to stay longer in this room, after a short time you feel dizzy and it gets unpleasant. But in any case, it was a nice afternoon after strolling through the flea market at the shore of the river Main. We almost bought a beautiful bistro marble table for the garden. It was only 25 €, but the car was quite far away and it was difficult to get back there in time, since we had only 30 minutes till they packed up their stuff. So maybe next week or so, we will try our luck again.

Here is the text about the show:

Terence Koh is installing one of his signature monochrome environments especially for the Schirn; for this exhibition, he will initiate the surreal objects, ritually summoning them to life, in a secret performance. Under the title “Captain Buddha”, visitors who set foot in the luminously flooded room are invited to accompany the artist on a journey that will take them on a search for themselves through the entire world – India, China, Burma, Belgium, Africa, Mexico and Canada are just some stations along the way – one that aims to reach nirvana and ends in nothingness.
For his installation at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Koh links two worlds that at first glance seem almost antipodal: Buddhism and that popular classic of world literature, Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” – the tale of the fateful quest of charismatic and supremely obsessed Captain Ahab for the Great White Whale. But the two worlds are alike in their descriptions of endless and irresolvable search - a unity conveyed in the title “Captain Buddha”. For this installation, Koh himself set out on a quest: clad as a monk in a golden robe, he journeyed to fifteen places – Canada, Japan, China, Thailand, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Israel, Iceland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Africa, and the USA – in his search for objects, much as Captain Ahab sailed the world over in search of the White Whale. In Terence Koh’s words: “I’m like the captain in Moby Dick. I’m trying to find the White Whale in the white objects, but in the end I find nothing.”

Lands Of Milk And Honey

I just updated my website and added my new project Lands Of Milk And Honey.

I am really excited about this project and am looking forward to continuing it in different places. I can't wait to go and shoot more photos. But I have to be patient and wait till I can go back to my favorite place for this series, Paris.
In the meantime I will find other places for the project. There are many Lands Of Milk And Honey to find.

Check it out here: Lands Of Milk And Honey


Lands of milk and honey- Mirabell Garden, 2008 © Michael Werner

Paris Impressions 9

Tour Eiffel, 2008 © Michael Werner

Paris Impressions 8

Statue of Liberty Jardin du Luxembourg, 2008, © Michael Werner

Bruce Long

We worked the whole weekend to update Bruce's website. It was a lot of work since we changed almost the entire site. We added German text and changed the english text, we added new sections and changed others. Bruce told me what he wanted to add, remove and how it should look like and I did the technical work. It needed a lot of concentration but the result is worth all the work. Bruce is happy about his new website and I am happy because I learned a lot of new things about html codes and website design.

Check the results out here and don't forget to visit his blog Something for the fridge door

From the series Ecce Homo

From the series 15 / 40


From the series Fool's Gold
© all images Bruce Long

Paris Impressions 7

La Défence, 2008 © Michael Werner

Paris Impressions 6

Man on a bench in Paris, 2008 © Michael Werner

Paris Impressions 5

Woman Jardin du Luxembourg, 2008, © Michael Werner

Paris Impressions 4

Jardin Musée Rodin, 2008, © Michael Werner

Photography versus reality

Food Photography versus reality. Have you ever admired the perfect photographs of food on the boxes of the products you buy in the supermarkets. The food looks so tempting and delicious and you want to buy what you see. But when you open the box you always find something totally different. There is a cool website in Germany who shows the box with the photo and the real product. It's a great project and you will have fun looking at it.

So make sure to check it out here

Below are some examples of what you will find on the site.

Paris Impressions 3

Musée du Louvre, 2008, © Michael Werner

Paris Impressions 2

Musée du Louvre, 2008, © Michael Werner

Paris Impressions

Boy with green shirt, Sacre Coeur Paris © Michael Werner

Something For The Fridge Door

There is a beautiful new blog online. It's called Something For The Fridge Door and it's written by Bruce Long

The blog is an ongoing journal of thoughts, plans and images, made by Bruce, an Australian artist and creativity coach living in Germany.

Make sure to check it out here

Two Way Lens and Richard Renaldi

Two Way Lens proudly presents the fabulous Richard Renaldi.

I am so happy that Richard was so nice to send me his answers to my three questions. Although he is terribly busy, he told me immediately that he wants to be part of the project. Now it is online and you can check it out here

Thank you so much Richard for being part of Two Way Lens.

You are not only a wonderful photographer but also a great guy!!!

Richard Renaldi, Landon Keith's Farm, Port Jervis, NY, © Richard Renaldi

Paris I'm coming 2

Tomorrow we are heading off again to Paris, meeting some friends from Sydney, Australia. I'm looking forward to continuing my Paris project. We will be back on Tuesday.

Happy in Paris, 2008 © Michael Werner

Jenni 7

Here is Jenni and Jan, my mother in law, on top of the Wasserkuppe.

Jenni and Jan waiting, 2008, © Michael Werner

Jenni 6

Jenni walking on the Wasserkuppe.

Jenni walking, 2008, © Michael Werner

Jenni 5

Here is another photo of Jenni on the Wasserkuppe

Jenni picking flowers, 2008 © Michael Werner

Jenni 4

Here is Jenni on the Wasserkuppe, the highest point in the state of Hesse in Germany.

jenni on Wasserkuppe, 2008, © Michael Werner

Jenni 3

Here is Jenni on top of a mountain.

Jenni on top of a mountain, 2008, © Michael Werner

Jenni 2

Here is Jenni on the famous Loreley

© Michael Werner, Jenni on Loreley, 2008

Jenni

This is Jenni, a nice lady from Australia on her first trip to Europe. Here she is on a boat on the Chiemsee in Germany.

Jenni and Blinky Bill, 2008, © Michael Werner

Gone To The Beach

I just updated my website and added my new project "Gone To The Beach". It is about the cemetery culture here in Europe and especially Germany. While I was traveling to France and Austria I found some very interesting sites there as well. So, whenever I go on a trip, cemeteries are on my list.

You can check the new project out here





© all images Michael Werner

Two Way Lens

My new project Two Way Lens is now officially launched, starting with the wonderful Deborah Hamon.

Two Way Lens is a project designed to inform and inspire emerging photographers wanting to focus their creative output in a way that enhances their chances of finding an audience, being included in exhibitions and ultimately achieving gallery representation. The journey from inspired artist to successful artist is one that is often difficult to negotiate and hard to control. On these pages, I will feature the experiences and opinions of other photographers who I have found inspiring, and hopefully the knowledge they have built in their own experiences will be valuable to all of us finding our own way to sharing our creativity with the wider world.

Thanks so much to Deborah for taking the time to answer my three questions. I am so happy that she is the first one to kick this project off and I look forward to many more fantastic photographers following her in informing and inspiring us with their knowledge, wisdom and success.

Salzburg

My mother in law arrives today. She is on a trip in Great Britain and comes for about one week to visit us. So tomorrow we are taking her for a trip to Salzburg. It is her birthday present and her big wish to see Salzburg and some things about Mozart and "The Sound Of Music". So a big family trip is in front of us, with mother in law and Blinky Bill our dog. It will be fun.

Random Photo No. 8

© Michael Werner

Paris

Here are some more impressions from Paris!





© all images Michael Werner

Back from Paris

The weekend in Paris was absolutely fantastic. The city is just amazing, magical and extraordinary. I saw the Alec Soth show "The Space Between Us" at the Musée Jeu de Paume and it was really worthwhile to go on this trip for it.

In the first room were photographs from his "Portraits" series, then came the room with works from his "Fashion Magazine" project (the third photo is taken in this room). The next room was "Dog days Bogota" then came "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and the last room was "Niagara"

The prints are so wonderful in different sizes from small to really big. I spent a long time there and could not get enough from this fantastic photographs. To see the works in the books is one thing (which I also love) but to see the big prints on the wall is a totally different experience.



© all images Michael Werner

I also was able to spent the rest of the Saturday taking photos in Paris and I am really excited about the results. I am already looking forward to going back to Paris in only a few weeks ( on the 4th of July for 4 days) and continuing my new project in the city I absolutely love.

Paris I'm coming

Only a few hours and I am heading of to Paris. I will stay till Sunday evening and on Saturday I am going to go to see Alec Soth's solo show at the Musée Jeu de Paume, Place de la Concorde, Paris. I am looking forward to seeing the show. Here are some impressions from this amazing city.

I love Paris!!!



© all images Michael Werner

The Sparky Show - Opening Tonight

Tonight is the night! The Sparky Show opens at Schroeder Romero / Winkleman Gallery Project Space, 637 West 27th Street (btw 11th and 12th Ave) NYC. The reception is from 6 - 8 pm, so if you are in NYC try to make it to the show. It's really worthwhile. Sparky and Nelson will welcome you!

Random Photo No. 7

© Michael Werner

Jason Hanasik

Jason Hanasik just updated his website and added new projects incl. video-work on it. His new work is just wonderful. I really love his new projects. Here are some examples from different projects

Jason is also back on the blogosphere. Check out his Blog here


From the series "I love you but I have no idea what to do with you"
Victor, 2007


From the series "Range"
Range 216, 2007


From the series "He opened up somewhere along the eastern shore"
Steven (dirt), 2008,
© all images Jason Hanasik

Christian Patterson Interview

Peter Feldhaus who writes The Sonic Blog made a wonderful interview with Christian Patterson. Christian has a solo show at Galerie Kaune Sudendorf in Cologne, the show runs till May 16th. Check the interview out here

Random Photo No. 6

© Michael Werner

Random Photo No. 5

© Michael Werner