Azimut Brutal Chaos is my routine — a part of the "In search of the one true self" quest …
Photography
One night in Marseille
… That one night was the official opening of Marseille 2013, European Culture Capital for the year. Do not get me started on the whole politics behind it. It was an interesting night… Suffice to say. All was shot with the (in)famous Zorki 1D acquired in Budapest during the Carpathian trip of 2008 or 2009 [...]
Extreme Planting – Les Hommes qui plantaient des arbres en Colombie-Britannique
This exhibit presents a group of professional tree-planters in coastal BC. These people work in extremely challenging terrain and climate conditions, reforesting after clear-cuts. Beyond economical, political and ecological considerations and, the S word (sustainability, of course), these people perform a very difficult job with a great deal of optimism. Indeed, none of them will [...]
RPFing in the woods…
Let’s face it I was not actually RPFing on account of me not being a RPF (Registered Professional Forester). However I was assisting one. That’s how one learns, right? In the field… It was one of the best experience in my life, I was beaten up like I’ve very seldom been, not a single part [...]
Beach boys in Picardie
They need long sleeves! Shot with a Bessa R4A and a 21mm on Agfa APX100 (very badly) souped in Rodinal standing 1/100. …
For you went away…
Celebrating the anniversary of the death of all false hopes… But death is just another beginning, and I do not mean that in a stupid new-age kinda shit. Fuck that. (Originally shot with an Olympus OM2-MD, a 35mm lens and an extension tube, on hp5+ @ 1600iso on a very suitable rainy day in Vancouver [...]
Ropy stuff
This being a shot from the archive vault. Some extremely scary and unsettling amount of old rotting rope somewhere close-by the remnants of ski facilities in the mountains of Bulgaria, in October 2007. Do not ask the whys and whats of my presence there, I have a shady past, at best. The camera is the [...]
Ego
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand depreciative words… Shot with a Hasselblad 500CM and a 80mm 2.8 lens on hilford hp5+@400iso in a bathroom with multiple mirrors. These are fun. …
Clearance
On the conversion of feet and inches to a decent sensible system… With the Olympus OM2-MD and the 35mm 3.5 on hp5+ @ 400iso, dutifully souped in standing rodinal… …
Sta(r)ring at the night
That was after hitting the pretty well hidden secret bar on Main St., with the Bessa r3m and the 50mm 2.0 on hp5+ @ 400iso, dutifully souped in standing rodinal… …
Some hours in Reykjavík
During my getting back from Canada to Europe around the end of the year 2011, going to 2012, I made a choice that sounded cool when I made it but actually proved to be cool with a different meaning to it. It was a poor decision let’s face it, a 27h+ trip is not worth [...]
Straight into the fog
Shot along the coastal highway in Oregon, USA with a Bessa r3m and the 50mm 2.0 on hp5+ @ 400iso, dutifully souped in standing rodinal… …
Back to the roots?
I hope you, ô reader, will forgive me for the title… Taken/shot close by Tofino BC (on the west coast of Vancouver Island) with a Bessa r3m and the 50mm 2.0 on hp5+ @ 400iso, dutifully souped in standing rodinal… I like the tonal range for an otherwise pretty contrasty picture. …
Siat Khnam: a not so exciting random number generator
… There is a universal drive for gambling that I am at loss for understanding. Some people bet on horses, dogs, on anything that is able to run more or less straight in a suitably controlled environment. Ostriches, even! However, these arrangements are really elaborate random number generators. Actually each different type of betting service [...]
Walking the plank
This being one of my new favourite place on Earth… In the middle of a swamp or a marsh or whatever you want to call it. I love the dead (and not so dead) old western redcedar, the eagles, the ravens and the crows, the water, the plants, all this range of living being making [...]
The CCCP Timeline exhibition @ Copenhagen Photo Festival 2010
So!? What is this Timeline thingy? Well, it was a group exhibition by David Koji Kariyado Hansen, Amanda Thomsen, Dave Stott, Louise Felding, Mike Van Der Poel, Jesper A. Nielsen and yours truly. We constituted that period of time incarnation of the CCCP group (for Copenhagen Creative Cooperative Photography spawned out of my feeble brain [...]
Shanghai – Old town
Shot in Shanghai during summer of 2008, while wandering the old part of town with Ying (one can check her nice work on flickr) and the Precious… All rolls from that trip were dutifully souped in standing rodinal when back home, some one month after.
Marseille, Dark City.
… I was sent to Marseille, south of France, in March 2009, to follow the path of Fabio Montale and make a cover for a book. The then-starting publishing company Labyrint wanted to have a “film noir” oriented cover for their very first publication, Jean-Claude Izzoʼs Total Kheops – a dark and moody crime novel [...]
The night
It is no secret that I am a big fan of Michael Ackerman‘s work… Well, enough said, right? … Taken in the Copenhagen nights of June 2011, during the days of the photo festival, with an Olympus OM2-MD, at night, yes. It was souped in rodinal, standing dev., blabla…
Welcome to the fall
Take this invitation Bishops Queen to Pawn All of us were taken All that was is gone Of this information Shames us one and all Where’s my compensation? Watching others fall Welcome to the fall Everything is useless Nothing works at all Nothing ever matters Welcome to the fall Welcome to the fall Welcome to [...]
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Shot in Daejeon, South Korea, somewhen at night while stumbling from shady bar to shady bar, fuelled with soju or some other substance (I didn’t know about magkali at that time, fortunately or not) and trying to get back to the hotel …
An old man in Tripoli, Lebanon
This old man is probably repairing a kettle of some sort (actually not, see comments). He was doing it out of a small shop — barely a closet in the wall, to be fair — and was kind enough to let me take his portrait. I like his stare, very profound and serene. I like [...]
With the BOP master of abandoned buildings
That’s a shot from the archive, during the fled/escape from Denmark to my den in southern France. I met with BOP member Arnaud Thurel (aka Th) and he took me around Grenoble, France for a ride in his evergoing quest for abandoned buildings/factories… This was shot with The Precious, i.e. the amazing Olympus PenF and [...]
He was playing for his soon-to-be-born kid
The title says it all… Good luck with that new life in front of you man. This has been taken with an Olympus OM2-MD and a 35mm 2.8 lens, I am not very used to the 35mm, me being more of a 50mm guy. Learning, i.e. need to get closer.
The streets of San Francisco, at night
It could have been at the end of the 20s or the 50s… Taken in a side street of the Mission district, at night then, with the Olympus OM2-MD. The film is your typical Ilford HP5+ (developed by my new local lab, as I still have to set my bathroom-type Rodinal standing souping facility) One [...]
