Towards the end of 2010, the design agency “ringzwei” commissioned me to contribute a couple of pictures to the annual report of Europe’s biggest broadcaster of radio and television, RTL. Instead of going through the usual process of casting people first, I combined photographing people I met on the street with people that were recommended to me, as a safety precaution.
In January 2010 I left Hamburg, to spend a year in Thailands capital Bangkok.
Apart from expecting to get a decent sun tan and several mosquito bites, there wasn’t really a meaningful plan behind this venture into the unknown. I wasn’t too worried about getting a few assignements from magazines back home, in order to pay for my curries. Shortly after my arrival though, a political crisis hit the capital and Thailands image as an easy going Southeast Asian paradise took another dent. As a result, my potential clients looked elsewhere for untroubled travel destinations.
Before the city went up in smoke though, my girlfriend, travel companion, and liaison officer Gabriele, managed to sell an idea to the corporate magazine “à la carte” of household appliance maker “Miele”. She had read an interview with the well known food stylist Suthipong Suriya, aka Karb, in a Bangkokian paper. We found him to be not only a passionate lover of thai food, but also an expert on where to go for the best of it, how to cook it and of course, how to make it look extra-yummy.
I ended up not only taking the pictures, but for lack of an author, wrote my first editorial “piece” as well.
The new issue of “Greenpeace Magazin” looks into the present and future of German energy supplies. A journey through the length of the country, took me to some of the visionary people who contribute to the final shutdown of Germany’s nuclear powerstations.
In the same issue there is my reportage on the mismanagement of Indonesias
“Komodo National Park”, and it’s most prominent resident – the Komodo Dragon.
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