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The Leica blog published an interview with me yesterday. Something between reality and fiction.

Das Magazin shows photos from my NACHT series in their new April issue.

After opening the exhibition “Reister & Von Aspern: Berlin + Wien” at BURJUAR, Berlin, with some busloads of nice audience last friday it is now open until March 23ed. Then the pictures will be sent to Vienna for the second exhibition at Eigensinnig Schauraum für Mode und Fotografie. Meanwhile the book is ready for order online. Today I’m going to carry 24 books to the post office. The book is limited to 100 copies only, so this is a forth of the whole edition. Huuuu…

More Infos:

Order the book

All about the book

Exhibition at BURJUAR, Berlin

Exhibition at Eigensinnig, Vienna

I’m proud to announce my next exhibition that will be a duo show with my friend and partner in crime Kay von Aspern!
The exhibition will be shown in Berlin and Vienna. And, yes, we are also working on a book. Stay tuned!

Event page on facebook

When I first heard some of the new songs from Andreas Albrechts new album, there was this one among them with the title “Nacht” (“Night”). A current photo project I’m working on has the same working title and much of a related athmosphere. So when Andreas came up with the idea making some kind of photo film video for the song with my photographs I first tried to bring it together with my new photographs but soon realized that this would not work. I always find it extremly difficult to combine music with lyrics and photography in a really cross-fertilizing way. In most cases there is always one medium “too loud” – either the images are too clear and strong to let space for lyrics or vice versa. So we decided to drop that idea and try to be as open as possible taking photos along a long shared trip through a Berlin summer night. We went by bike and feet, finally had a few hundreds of photos and Andreas would just take them home and do whatever he wanted to to with them. Full screen view recommended.

There’s a weekly interview series with members of Seconds2Real street photography collective in celebration of the forthcoming exhibition in Berlin on Sara T’Rula’s blog. The following interviews have been published so far: Elisabeth Schuh, Thorsten Strasas, Andreas Stelter, Mario Cuic and – today – me. Check all interviews here.

Started my Google+ account last week. I don’t know if I will use it a lot but if you like to add me to your circles please feel free to find me here.

In the making since I don’t know when… I have just finished and uploaded my new photography website. I’m still hesitant in showing new work but I thought it would be a good idea to refresh the presentation of the other series. I wonder how you’ll like it. Check it out on reister-images.de

Berlin 2006

This image was taken during an assignment for Berliner Morgenpost/Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung. It’s five years ago now and I remember that day very well. The job was to visualize the four elements fire, water, air and earth in Berlin. I was working with a fire juggler, a model on a swing and a “borrowed” idea of Andreas Burger’s Berlin Postcard series. Of course the only interesting photograph for me today is this one that wasn’t staged up. However, the layouter cropped all of the images very roughly – in this case he simply cut off the right part of it which made the first publication of the image look like that:

Wow! I was very enthusiastic about it…

Later the original photograph became part of some urban b’sides exhibitions and the Ankunft Bei Aufbruch book.

As a part of the Indie Photobook Library, my book ALEX is on exhibition at the New York Photo Festival this weekend like it was at the snap! Festival in Orlando, Florida last weekend. So if you should be around Dumbo…

Found this thread in a forum while googleing myself the other day. It’s interesting to read discussions like that about your own work and YES it should never be the intention to be everybody’s darling ;-)

Image from my book ALEX.

Every year I produce a small edition of calendars to give them to friends and customers as a christmas gift. This year it features parts of the Londoners series and there are some copies left. So why not give them to you? Here comes the big blog61 Xmas Competition: Win 1 of 10 calendars for 2011!

All you have to do is send your complete postal address to win@blog61.com. Deadline is December, 31th. I’ll cast lots within the fist days of the new year. Good Luck!

PS: Feel free to share the link to this competition on any social network or blog.
PPS: Of course your address will NOT be used for anything except for the competition.

UPDATE 2011-01-03: The winners have been allotted. I won’t publish any names here – just check your mailbox for it. The calendars go to Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands and Spain. Thanks to all participants. Happy 2011!

I feel honoured that Seconds2Real asked me to join their co-operative. We have some exciting plans for 2011 – a common book release about Street Photography in Austria and Germany as well as exhibitions in Vienna and in Berlin.

Check the Seconds2Real website for an ALEX selection with some pictures from the book that haven’t been published on the web so far. My other gallery on the Seconds2Real websites features photographs from Urban B’Sides and new photographs taken in Berlin this year.

…and of course be shure to check all those other fine galleries by my new buddies.