Jan Söhlke

Project 12·12: Mirko Krause

The library of the Viennese Arbeiterkammer (Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour) is quiet, well stocked, has a sensible policy on water in the reading room and comes with a garden, so on most days this is where I work – and so does Mirko. He is an architect and writes his Ph.D. on Peter Eisenman

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The People

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Wolfrum Banana

Lobkowitzplatz, Vienna, Austria, 18 April 2013.

Balloon

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Fuck

Almost a Zadie Smith quote (from White Teeth, p

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The stuff creativity is made from

Talking to Christian about creativity, inspiration, style, artistic language (and Austrian unincorporated association law) made me remember I still had shots from his studio sitting on my hard drive:

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Project 12·12: Marianne Vlaschits

Or: how to make art with a hammer. On roller skates.

When on Monday I asked Marianne Vlaschits (»artist, roller girl, fashion victim«) to be part of project 12·12, she immediately liked the idea: coincidentally my timing

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Satan

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Bright Field Trinity

Re-reading Light – Science and Magic and coming through the glass department, I thought I'd give bright field and dark field a try. I picked non-coloured bottles with different contents (brownish, clear, air) and am quite

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Project 12·12: Fabian Bazant

Last week I shot my second 2013-protrait for »12·12«. Aspiring Austrian author Fabian Bazant agreed to be Mr February and so we had some fun with an old grand piano and a typewriter at the Mo.ë.

One of my flashes apparently had

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The Tricycle

A week or so ago Christian said he had an idea for a picture involving himself, a children's trike and one of his paintings. Was I interested in helping him shoot it? Of course I was – he is very easy in front of my camera and I knew it was going to

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Fuji Finepix

When I am out and about I usually don't take the DSLR but use an old Fuji Finepix. She accompanied me to the summit of quite a few mountains, to the beaches of several seas and preserved the memory of the odd pique-nique, too. The wear is starting to show and she is nor ever was perfect, but as

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Zack Arias: Starting Business

Zack Arias: If I had to start my photo business today from PhotoShelter.com. (via Sara Lando)

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Photographer: Sara Lando

Website: www.saralando.com     Blog: www.saralando.com/blog-en

Ms Lando is the Strobist's Correspondent to Europe and

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Project 12·12: Shooting Steel

Shortly before Christmas I visited Alex, who is a metalworker. He kindly paused building a motorcycle to turn my old cymbal boom stand into a lightstand. I took the opportunity to take some welding and grinding pictures of him, his friend Lippo and his little apprentice.

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Photographer: Yohei Shimada

Website: www.yoheishimada.com

Interesting environmental portraits. Strobist correspondent Irwin Wong had an article on him.

Photographer: Dan Winters

Website: www.danwintersphoto.com

He has a whole variety of approaches, ranging from gangs over bees to celebrity shots. I especially like his Brad Pitt series, my favourite is the one of Brad and Quentin in the cinema.

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Photographers: Winkler + Noah

Website: www.winkler-noah.it

Mostly pretty standard (high class) advertising stuff with cars taking up a lot of space. What I like are some of their kids and grans (»christmas

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Photographer: Christian Tagliavini

Website: www.christiantagliavini.com

I like his »Waiting for Freud« and the »1503« series (through the latter he won

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Photographer: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Interesting takes on a broad range of subjects like water, architecture and the colours of shadows.

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Photographer: Taryn Simon

Website: www.tarynsimon.com

I am a bit reluctant to call it »political photography«, even in the best sense of the term, but it is definitely concerned photography on the highest aesthetic level. Really do check her out. She also had a

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Photographer: Martin Schöller

Website: www.martinschoeller.com

There's not much to see on his website, but there are several collections of his images elsewhere: at livejournal some of his famous

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Photographer: Cristoph-Martin Schmid

Websites: www.christoph-martin-schmid.com     www.c-m-s.biz

Funny and at times uncanny conceptual pictures. His »Storytelling« series (»Scream«, »Trouble in Paradise« and »Pursuit of

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Photographer: Denis Rouvre

Website: www.rouvre.com

Wonderful portraits. Winner of Hasselblad Masters 2012 »Portrait«.

Photographer: Claire Rosen

Website: www.clairerosenphoto.com

Her Fairytales are especially interesting.