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Lanzarote

gerrit — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:27:46 +0000

Get on a plane and escape the cold for a few days – the volcanic island of Lanzarote beckons. Dark and off-season, it has peculiar charms to lull you in.

Rike & Julia @ Agency V

gerrit — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:21:03 +0000

A portrait of the lovely Rike and Julia of Agency V, for Süddeutsche Zeitung, along with the original for good measure.

Wood Wood show at Berlin Fashion Week

gerrit — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:46:48 +0000

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It’s that time of year when the city teems with superhip peoples from all over the place. Enough to make you feel seriously underdressed anywhere you turn. No matter, I live here, so i don’t care. I was invited (thanks, Agency V!) to Danish label Wood Wood’s défilé, and it was good fun. Lots of tired bloggers around, as well as drinks, clothes, and, of course, the beautiful people. In a word: good fun. Which is why I made it mostly black and white, to add a touch of…gravitas, you know?

Dinghy ride on the river Elbe

gerrit — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:31:38 +0000

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It’s late December, I’m home for Christmas, and my friend Jan called my up for a wintery ride down Hamburgs’s big river, the Elbe. This former English Save and Rescue dinghy is his mode of transportation of choice, and with the cold wind blowing into your face, I can see why. It’s fast, fun, swift, and badass. To warm ourselves up again, we had tea & drinks at Café Engel in Teufelsbrück (Engel means angel, and Teufelsbrück means something to the effect of Devil’s Quay)

Arrivals

gerrit — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:10:25 +0000

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As if to prove my point that I like to travel, take a look at that view that you all know – but which you dismiss at once, as you hurry outside the terminal to catch a cab, or be embraced by those expecting you. It is a moment that is precisely so in-between (worlds, places, time) that I thought I had to start documenting it.

Now you know I like to travel (or fly, in this case)

An Afternoon in Berlin-Marzahn

gerrit — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:44:50 +0000

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I drove to Berlin-Marzahn to shoot some video, but I ended up snapping a few photos as well. Marzahn is a part of town you rarely get to see, your typical Communist-era satellite-town-within-a-city in the Northeast of Berlin. Plattenbauten aplenty, and it looks just like any other settlement of that ilk, you might just be in Bratislava or Wladiwostock. But you’re not: this being Germany, the government decided to add a dash of colour here and there, to make it a little less drab. To a degree, successfully so, especially when basking in this warm Autumn light – but still, I’d rather live in Neukölln. I’ll come revisit this part of town in the grey months of November, for the full monty of greyness (with a dash of colour, of course).

Danielle

gerrit — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:26:54 +0000

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Danielle is a girl I knew. She was a dancer, and I photographed her in New York and Philadelphia, where she was from. I dont know where she is now, facebook be damned.

In the news….

gerrit — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:32:22 +0000

When a group of Berlin artists heads to the westernmost tip of France, they make the news, that’s a gives…and so here we are, a bunch of Berlin artists in Brest. We were invited to participate in the Festival International du Carnet de Voyage, a biennial celebrating all things travel diary. It was a blast. And in case you’re wondering, I’m the tall guy in the crease of the paper.

Aeroplane

gerrit — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:57:15 +0000

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Believe it or not, but I’m one of those people who still enjoy flying. OK, I don’t mean the ridiculous “security” procedures, but the act of being on a plane, and going somewhere. In my other life, I’m a pilot (as a matter of fact, I sort of am). Take a look at these photos and maybe, just maybe, you’ll see what I mean.

Article on the Kentucky Derby @FAS

gerrit — Sun, 22 May 2011 12:40:46 +0000

I went to the Kentucky Derby, the most famous horse race worldwide, and came home with some interesting photos (view them on the homepage). I wrote an article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung as well (think Sunday New York Times), and if you read German, just click here for the PDF.