Photo Essays

Lodz Kaliska - Spring

An essay about Lodz the former Littmanstadt.

On 10 April, the Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane crash in Russia, along with many other politicians on board he died. A day later, I visited the second largest city in Poland - Lodz. Seven days I observed life in the former textile town. People seemed to exept a few busy with their daily struggle to survive. Grief came only on Sunday at the official funeral.

Into the West

Bridge over the river Sieg close to the city of Eitorf.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.

Beirut! O queen of the world

Beirut has a picturesque sobriquet "Paris of the East". Recently, the Lebanese capital is hailed in guidebooks and the media as "the" party town of the Levant. But since the last military conflict with Israel, only four years have passed and border skirmishes with neighbors come in a half-year intervals. In addition, the Lebanon - theoretically independent - is between the forces.