If you take a ride with the Deutsche Bahn this August you will probably find yourself eye to eye with one of Germany’s best comedians – Bastian Pastewka.
First time we met, which was at the dawn of his career, we created a special kind of “home story” for the magazine Stern. This time I chose a dummy-factory for our photo session. Since he is a great observer of his fellow humans, but doesn’t necessarily like to be surrounded by too many of them, I found dummies to be the perfect compromise.
My latest expedition to animal kingdom led me to the organic farm of Henning Bauck and his partner Sabine.
In cooperation with VW, food magazine “Essen und Trinken” chose to feature Bauck’s farm, since they deliver some of their meat products to Volkswagen’s Autostadt. Apart from doing that Henning collects all kinds of exotic animals, which he claims find the perfect habitat in Lower-Saxony. He also employs his two daughters to decorate the henhouse, and buys his cattle old phone booths to let them keep in touch.
Henning takes care of the whole production process: breeding, farming, butchering and selling. If he also sleeps I don’t know…
Shortly before hordes of football fans descended upon Warsaw, Greenpeace Magazin sent me to photograph the headquarters of Greenpeace Poland. There I met a bunch of very funny and friendly people who take a slighltly more humoristic approach towards saving the environment than their German colleagues. I was especially impressed by the melange of stickers with polar bears on electric chairs, tibetan prayer flags, blasting Novalis records and a playboy calendar. And last but not least it was the place where I found a huge evil bioengineered potato.
That’s the spirit!
Agatha, campain coordinator
Katarzyna, activist & press spokeswoman and Maciej, head of Greenpeace Poland
Anna, fundraiser and Iwo, activist and energy expert
Robert, special projects and Joanna, genetic engeneering expert
Michał, database manager
For the July issue of German Rail’s magazine “mobil” I visited Abc – Tiertraining who train and rent out animals for film productions.
The assignment was to photograph the animals doing all their amazing film-tricks. Initally expecting rabbits that jump through rings of fire and similar stuff, the owner Marco quickly made clear that the main trick his animals pull off, is to stay in one place. Well, at least sometimes.
For lack of spectacular animal stunts “mobil” decided to go for snaps from film productions instead. I still had a fun day with sitting pigs, baby foxes, yawning cats, grinning goats and got a decent suntan.
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