Wednesday, January 14, 2015

My favorite propaganda 2014

People write things and send their message to the world by putting them in public places. I can't but take pictures of these messages. Here is a selection of best of 2014.

Amsterdam: a warning

Amsterdam: how to sell condoms

Cracow: Elutka, you are great!

Lübeck: encouraging questions

Hanover: a poster for a party inviting those who need an alternative to watching soccer during the world championship. "Schland" is the common abbreviation for Deutschland: Punk instead of Schland.

Hanover: the lower sentence says let our cross be colorful! 


Monday, January 12, 2015

Museum's watch

One of my favorite photography themes are guardians in museums. For many reasons. They have a strange job. They are in representative places where thousands go to watch and they yet remain unseen. They feel unwatched. I can take pictures of them from shortest distance and they don't mind as they think it is all about the exhibits.

Palace of Ludwigsburg, Porcelain Museum

Some are proud of what they do. They naturally adapt to the weird artifacts surrounding them - they correspond with them. And they mostly do it unknowingly.

This guy in the ceremonial room of Austrian National Library in Hofburg, Vienna, was walking in circle around the statue. Over and over again.

Mirroring: A guardian pictured through Damien Hirst's artwork in Hamburger Kunsthalle

Becoming a part of artwork: a guardian of Guernica, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid

To the left: a guardian in Saint Petersburg's Eremitage, strict watch: Russian museum guardians must be trained by the military, museum in Russia is no place of fun. However, Eremitage's staff was far not that strict as Peterhof's "crew from gulag".

Feeling small? Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History


Once a splendid residence of Polish aristocracy, is Lancut in South East Poland apart of the palace an its  immense coach collection, quite dozy and provincial. Guardians on a cigarette break.

Berlin's museum Hamburger Bahnhof: Becoming alike.

Berlin's museum Hamburger Bahnhof: Who is watching over who?

Berlin's museum Hamburger Bahnhof: coming out of the jar.

Berlin's museum Hamburger Bahnhof: out of balance.

Berlin's museum Hamburger Bahnhof: in a stand by modus.