Incheon in Winter - End of year selection

Here is my selection from the series Incheon in Winter.

More images from this series can be found on my website

© copyright all images Michael Werner

The Lake, Unplugged - End of year selection

Here is my selection from the series The Lake, Unplugged.

More from this series can be found on my website.

© copyright all images Michael Werner

The Perfect Life - End of year selection

Here is my selection from the series The Perfect Life.

More from this series can be found on my website.

© copyright all images Michael Werner

Lands of Milk and Honey - End of year selection

2012 is almost over. It was a very productive year with lots of new projects and exiting travels.

To celebrate the festive season, I decided to put a small collection of photographs from my different projects together and show them in groups throughout the next couple of weeks.

Hope you enjoy them. Have a wonderful Holiday season.

For the start, I chose 6 photographs from the series Lands of Milk and Honey. (More from this project can be found on my website)

The Sprinkler, Tiergarten, Berlin.

The Kiss, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris

The Fountain, Jardin des Tuilleries, Paris

The Picnic, Jardin des Tuilleries

The Readers, Palais Royal, Paris

 Pigeons, Palais Royal, Paris


© copyright all images Michael Werner

Oliver Weber - Social Life at Beach

Oliver Weber's new and evolving series Social Life at Beach is a wonderful documentary about the touristic life on the Canary Islands of Spain. Every year hundreds of thousands of tourists, mostly from Germany, England and meanwhile also from Russia, take over the Canary Islands and turn them into the perfect object for observation on "social life at the beach" 

La Gomera based photographer Oliver Weber made this subject the theme for his newest series.

The result are captivating photographs that show this bizarre, surreal, sometimes melancholic and always fascinating world of tourism with all its side effects and cliches. 

Oliver Weber's Social Life at Beach will be exhibited as large scale prints in March 2013 at Galerie Lichtkreuzung in Munich, Germany.

More of Oliver Weber's work can be found on his website.  

All images below are from the series Social Life at Beach by Oliver Weber

© copyright all images Oliver Weber

Michael Lange - Wald

German photographer Michael Lange just published his first photo book. 

WALD (Forest) ist the title and subject of this beautiful book with photos full of mystery and magic.

Over a period of three years, Michael Lange wandered through Germany’s vast deciduous and coniferous forests, taking pictures with a sure sense of the places where childhood memories and sober documentations of nature blur. The mysterious photographs were taken off the beaten path, in the thickets and underbrush, at dusk or twilight. What was decisive for the cycle was the question of how the nature of stillness can be depicted in an image. The finest of nuances, shadows, and color gradients create thickly atmospheric compositions of concentrated clarity, conveying an experience characterized by the German Romantic word Waldeinsamkeit (woodland solitude). This publication traces the artist’s photographic tracks.

Michael Lange has been doing reportage photography and portraits for magazines and companies since the late seventies; since the end of the nineties he has devoted himself to his own projects. 

More of his work can be found on his website. 

The book can be purchased here or here 

WALD  MICHAEL LANGE

Text Wolfgang Denkel | Christoph Schaden

English, German

80 pages 32 images

34 x 26 cm, hardcover

Hatje Cantz 2012

ISBN 978-3-7757-3355-7

all images below are from WALD

© copyright all images Michael Lange

Two Way Lens and Chip Simone

Two Way Lens proudly presents Chip Simone.

I am very happy and excited that Two Way Lens goes on with another outstanding photographer.

Chip Simone is an Atlanta based photographer. He worked in this field for more than 40 years. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in many private and public collections such as 

The Museum of Modern Art, The High Museum of Art, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Sir Elton John Photography Collection.

He was educated in the history and traditions of creative photography at the Rhode Island School of Design (1964-67) where he studied with renowned photographer Harry Callahan. 

Chip Simone's work can be found online here and here. 

Please read the very insightful interview with Chip on Two Way Lens.

Camel Bubbles, Atlanta, 2005

 Highway Mirror, Atlanta, 2010

 Wet Bar Wall, Atlanta, 2006

Ron Paul Ripped, Atlanta, 2007

 Silverman, Atlanta, 2009

Man With Pink Boots By Blue Wall, 2012

© copyright all images Chip Simone

James Friedman - Self-Portraits

Self -Portraits from Oblivion is a new series by photographer James Friedman. When I saw this body of work the first time, I was captivated and looked at it again and again. The photographs had such a strong visual impact on me that I can't get them out of my mind.

The entire series can be found on James' website. Please make sure to see also his other terrific work. 

All images below are from Self-Portraits from Oblivion by James Friedman.

© copyright all images James Friedman

Photography Auction for fire victims of La Gomera, Spain

La Gomera based photographer Oliver Weber needs your help to raise money for the victims of the recent forest fires on the island of La Gomera.

Below is Oliver's call for help:

Auction aid for fire victims of La Gomera in August this year.
The Magical Forest of La Gomera by Oliver Weber
PHOTOKINA 2012 – Cologne – Germany
September 18 - 23, 2012
Hall 5.1 // B35

and on

Ebay:

Auction Link 1
Auction Link 2


The recent devastating forest fires on the island of La Gomera (next to Tenerife, Spain) caused the inhabitants to lose everything- a home to live, animals, fields, The situation is serious.
For the benefits of the inhabitants Oliver Weber (MD and photographer) and his wife Alexandra MD) , which are living and practising in a GP office in Valle Gran Ray/La Gomera , offer 2 pictures series of the mystical nature photography series "The Magical Forest" by Oliver Weber on the PHOTOKINA 2012 and on Ebay for an auction. These picture series were taken in the February 2012 and show the "Garajonay"- a national park of the UNESCO of the canary islands. This forest , which belongs to the inheritance of the nature of the world, lost hundreds of hectare through the fires.

This auction is designed to raise money for the residents of this area, to help them recover from this tragedy, and to try recover the Garajonay National Park which has also been impacted by this tragedy.
All the money raised will go for this cause.