11 Oct, 2013
by KIKI
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KIKI
Photography Trip - Bishkek to Karakol

 

On Thursday we took the public bus from Bishkek to Tamchy to spend a night at lake Issyk Kul. Our hosts were a Kyrgyz family, they served us delicious food from their garden and the son played for us on kind of a Balalaika. It was a special experience, the night was pretty cold, though, and it rained heavily  ...

 

 

Today we took the public bus to Karakol, it's a cheap way to travel and you get in touch with the people, very nice. Karakol seems to be a very laid-back city and once again the people are incredible! We had a brief stroll around town, light was beautiful, took a coffee in one of the local cafés and had dinner in a very delicious Kyrgyz restaurant. I had meat, but when you have a look at how animals are bred over here it's not a big deal at all, very natural ...

 

 

Tomorrow is landscape day. We will take one of the minibuses into the mountains. Hope lighting is great :-)

 

Check back soon ...

 

KIKI

 

 

9 Oct, 2013
by KIKI
Author:
KIKI
Photography Trip - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

 

There's not too much to say about our first day out with the people in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. It seems to be a really amazing country, the pictures should speak for themselves and give a good impression of how great the people are. Stirred! ...

 

 

And then we had Japanese dinner, yeah! :-)

 

 

We're heading to lake Issyk Kul tomorrow morning, countryside, awesome ...

 

See you later

 

KIKI

 

 

 

7 Oct, 2013
by KIKI
Author:
KIKI
Photography Trip "East 13" - Week One

 

Phew, what a week. I started my photography trip „East 13“ on Monday, 30th September. It‘s going to be a two and a half month journey through Eastern Europe, Central Asia, China and Southeast Asia. A friend from London is joining me and apart from my usual every day life documentary I am planning to do a portrait project in Cambodia at the beginning of November.

 

We started in Berlin on Monday morning with the Warsawa Express and leave Moscow tomorrow morning. Have a look what happened in between, it was a lot and we met incredibly nice people on the way ...

 

On the train to Warsaw, our first stop, we shared a compartment with a Polish father and his two boys. We talked most of the time and we learned a bit about Poland ...

 

 

Our first stop was Warsaw. We spent the day with Ilona, a friend, and she introduced us to this very interesting city.

 

 

This is quite funny, a lottery window, look at the chestnuts placed there as well :-)

 

 

This Varsovian played the sticks on a chair, really cool ...

 

 

Then on Tuesday evening we took the sleeping coach to Kiev.

 

 

And at the border something really, really strange happened. The train stopped inside an industrial building and a bunch of workers appeared. They changed the wheels of our entire train to be able to proceed on Ukrainean rails. The whole thing took three hours. Weird!

 

 

In the morning we arrived in Kiev.

 

  

And then we took the train to Moscow arriving there on Saturday morning. We met a lot of nice people in the Hostel and Igor the host was just as welcoming as it can get. Moscow is massive and there's a lot of luxury, everything is pretty expensive but when you move out to the suburbs you see that most people are living a pretty basic life. Have a look at my Moscow footage ...

 

 

That's it! I wanna come back to Russia at some point. Tomorrow we're heading to Kyrgyzstan, very excited.

 

Check back soon for some more documentary ...

 

KIKI

 

 

 

13 Sep, 2013
by KIKI
Author:
KIKI
Photos - What happened in the last weeks? ...

 

... this, check it out ...

 

 

Happy weekend!

 

KIKI

 

 

 

26 Aug, 2013
by KIKI
Author:
KIKI
Photography - Quick snaps with the OM-D

 

Ha, three quick snaps from today strolling around in Mitte with friends from Switzerland. The Olympus OM-D is a great little camera and a lot of fun to shoot with. Have a look at the images first ...

 

 

The last one is the OM-D at ISO 10000 by the way ... seriously, if you want the best pro-like camera with everything you ever need, in a great looking, super small, super versatile body with heaps of great lens options, don't look any further.

 

It's in many ways better than a big DSLR with some unique features like 9 frames per second full resolution bursts or a very good electronic viewfinder that lets you check your shots immediately after capture without having to take the camera away from the eye, brilliant.

 

I will try to write a review soon ... you won't get as easy and as creamy subject isolation of course, necessary to set your images apart from digicams.

 

BUT, beside the right subject timing, lighting, framing and composition are key to a great picture in the first place, achievable even with a cellphone - it's all relative,

 

happy shooting ...

 

KIKI

 

 

23 Aug, 2013
by KIKI
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KIKI
Festival Weekend

 

We're at Freifeld Festival in Oldenburg this weekend exhibiting and selling T-Shirts, Pants and Postcards.

 

There's some really cool acts and an interesting program to experience. Today we saw SEA + AIR, a very good alternative Pop duo with brilliant voices and rad sounds. I read they've played over 1.200 gigs together and they've even been a support act for Whitney Houston, weird combo but pretty cool nonetheless ...

 

 

Update August 25 2013:

 

 

Pretty laid-back Festival, nice, and the coffee from Tante Käthe's is delicious, too.

 

Usual posts with tips on photography and photos from Friesland coming next week.

 

Happy Sunday

 

KIKI

 

 

17 Jun, 2013
by KIKI
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KIKI
Documentary - Special Testsieger

 

Ha, last Saturday we've been to Helsinki Klub, Zürich, to see Testsieger, a really cool band from Northern Germany. They were promoting their new album "Neue Platte" and the concert was great with the crowd dancing and rocking the place. Check out the images ...

 

Pretty cool, huh!

 

KIKI

 

17 Jun, 2013
by KIKI
Author:
KIKI
Documentary - Art Basel Special

 

Ha, tonight I'm quickly posting a set of images from Art Basel today. It's a huge art show, actually one of the biggest in the world and it's very popular and there's thousands of artworks to see, from super famous like Andy Warhol or Damien Hirst, Picasso or Miro to new young artists. My focus is on contemporay art as I love it the most, it's quite often political. This time my favorites were the one by Jani Leinonen "One day the poor will have nothing left to eat but the rich" or Thomas Hirschhorn's "Four Men", which is actually quite shocking as Hirschhorn shows war photographs of dead lacerated bodies or heads, we've seen a huge installation in the Swiss pavillion at 54th Biennale in Venice two years ago. So here's some of the artworks from today ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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That's it from Art Basel 2013!

 

Have a good week

 

KIKI

 

 

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