Visiting the Steve McCurry Icons exhibit
The Afghan Girl is possibly the most famous photograph ever taken. There are a few contestants for the title, but it is surely up there.The photographer behind it is Steve McCurry. McCurry has a long ansd storied carreer documenting the world and the events happening in it. And has taken a lot of amazing photographs along the way. He has an almost uncanny ability to capture both the brutality and beauty of the world, and …
A Visit to Berlin’s Museum of Photography: Helmut Newton & Polaroids
When you first enter the Museum of Photography in Berlin, you’re greeted by five iconic images that would almost certainly get me banned from every social media platform if I dared to use one as the featured image for this post. These bold and unforgettable photos are by Helmut Newton, the legendary fashion photographer who had a deep appreciation for the naked form and made no effort to hide it. A large part of the …
Metallica Death Magnetic release party
So back in the days I knew cool people, which resulted in me getting invited to the release party for Metallicas Death Magnetic album. I took quite a few pictures at the event, and while none of them are really all that great, maybe there might be a Metallica fan out there somewhere that finds them interesting, so I have decided to share some of them here, only 17 years after the event :p …
Peter Lindbergh at Galerie Dior in Paris is worth the trip
Peter Lindbergh is probably my favorite photographer when it comes to fashion and portrait photography, though it’s hard to pick just one, given how many great photographers there are. And besides, why choose only one? Anyway, when I learned about the Peter Lindbergh exhibit at Galerie Dior in Paris, I knew I had to go. After a few failed attempts, I finally managed to visit Paris at the beginning of January. The exhibit runs until …
A couple of days in Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City
as part of an art project my friend Martin is doing we went to Vietnam (and after that Cambodia). We stayed the whole week in Ho Chi minh City, so I can’t really claim to have an impression of the whole country, but I liked the part that I saw. We did a few tours out from the city, but for this and my next post I will just be sharing my pictures from the …
Helicopter ride over New York City
As an added bonus to our trip to New York I gave my dad a helicopter ride over the city for christmas. To be honest I was a bit scared how my fear of heights would handle this since the helicopter ride I booked had no doors. But it went fine, it seems that my fear of heights only really gets to me when I have to rely on my own balance, as I demonstrated …