Threatened with extinction: the telephone box. It remains unclear whether downgrades to column form or upgrades to wi-fi and screens will halt or accelerate their demise.
Many of the booths are not in good condition defective or repurposed, they have lost their primary function, but continue to serve as rain shelters, advertising space, smoking rooms or lavatories for people and animals.
Project Start: 2015
Locations: Arcachon, Calvi, Cologne, London, München, Newcatle upon Tyne, Vienna, Whitley Bay
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I shoot on location in labs, factories, and research facilities, working with genuine curiosity for the processes and the people running them.
With more than a decade of experience in industrial, science, and corporate photography, I bring a genuine understanding of the world I shoot in – earned through completing a PhD and years heading communications across research, business, and startup environments.
What I enjoy about product photography is that through spending time with an object that otherwise gets overlooked as a mere utility, beauty can be found in unexpected places.
Making the extraordinary within the ordinary visible for others always is a very exciting process.
In the words of Arnold Newman, Portrait photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
It never ceases to amaze me how, by creating a carefully designed context for the subject (or: by moving some furniture around), photography can condense the many facets of a personality into a single image.
Industrial, scientific, and corporate photographer. Based in Telgte near Münster, within close reach of Osnabrück, Bielefeld, and the Ruhr area. Staff photographer at ZESS/University of Siegen. Working for research institutions, universities, and business clients across NRW and beyond.
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