03|08|2010
News-from-Nippon VI
Seems like we're hanging in the internet all day, but here are so many things happening, i have to post them.
Today i explored Shinjuku again. And there i met this very friendly, old man. We couldn't understand each other at all. But everything goes easier with a smile. So he took a little break that i could do some portraits of him.
He made my day!
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03|08|2010
No. 12-Gallery, Tokyo
Taro Hirano is the owner of the No. 12-Gallery here in Tokyo. He gave us the chance to do a show there. By the way: Ari Marcopolous held also once an exhibit at his gallery ;)
Thank you Taro!
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03|08|2010
News-from-Nippon V
Here's a little preview of yesterday-night in Shinjuku. I am going again tonight. There is almost behind every corner something interesting waiting... so good
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02|08|2010
Couple days ago Red Bull unveiled their finalists for this years Illume-Award.
Lucky me, i got into the final with both of my pictures. I am so happy about this. The cut was huge from more then 20'000 images down to the top 50! Unfortunatly i couldn't join the show in Dublin with the other swiss-guys like Howzee or Silvano. But i bet they had good times up there..
Yesterday's exhibition @ No. 12-Gallery went pretty well. Update soon. Speaking of exhibitions: next week tuesday the 7th we're going to go to Ari Marcopolous' show here in Tokyo in the Vacant-Gallery! Can't wait to see that. Yes. And we just relocated into a fancy hostel in Shinjuku called "NUTS".. priceless
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31|08|2010
eleven-advertisement
Since the first magazines are in-print with the new eleven-campaign, i can show now what i did for next winter! Please have a look under "commercials" for the rest of it.
It's probably the first b/w-ad-campaign from a snowboard-outerwear-brand. Since last year was so colorful and flashy we decided to do something new, something different and all with daylight. But to be honest, it was a mission, seriously: 6 months from the first idea to the last picture! Weather was not on our side. But everyone was so into it. The riders Ursina Haller, Steve Gruber and Brandon Reis plus all the helpers we had and all the friendly people at eleven: Thank you all so much!
I am really, really glad and happy how it turned out! Hope you like it as well..
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30|08|2010
News-from-Nippon IV
Tokyo is such an inspiring place.
Lovin' it!
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29|08|2010
News-from-Nippon III
So we arrived in Tokyo. What a place! wow.
The Exhibition @No.12 is on Wednesday. So still couple days to explore the city and the people here.
On the photo left is Aki, one of the dogs of Alex' father.
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28|08|2010
News-from-Nippon II
Yesterday we drove up to the mountains to a place close to Nagano. For those who didn't know: Switzerland's very own Gian Simmen wrote history back in 1998 taking home gold in snowboarding's first ever olympic's! Also, it looked like the Versasca-Valley in Ticino / Switzerland. So similar. Tomorrow we've planned to shoot some scenery there.
Anyway. We ended up in a great local-spot, ordering lots of fish and beer before taking our (almost) daily onsen-bath. The image shows the scenery there.
Campai!
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25|08|2010
Zurich - Doha - Osaka - Goma or News-from-Nippon the 1st
We've arrived savely in Goma, Japan. Alex' father, Detlef Schauwecker, picked us up at the airport in Osaka. Goma counts around 300 habitants and is located 2h outside Osaka on the countryside.
Japan is amazing! Such a beautiful country with super friendly people. The only tough thing to deal with are the hot and humid temperatures during the day: 34degrees! But we found already the solution for it: Onsen-Spa's! Good times.
On the photo to the left are some wonderful clouds high above Islamabad. Thanks to Qatar-Airways for making this happen!
Domo-arigato!
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15|08|2010
Helen again
I am so happy i could work with Helen last Friday.
She's so natural, calm and down to earth! When she left, i said: "It's ok if you leave now. I'll clean the studio myself!" She was like: "Ah, ok. Uhm.. i can help you with that of course!" Everybody was smiling at her .. ;)
Here's a little teaser of Helen. More to come soon.
Little note on the side: when i am back from Japan i will have a great place around good people where i'll call it my "office and studio". Looking forward to this.
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14|08|2010
Helen in the studio
Yesterday i shot an outfit for fashion-design-student Nadine Burkhardt.
Model was Helen from Option. It was actually her 2nd shooting at all. No one realised this, she was so into it and 100% on it!
I am sure it wasn't the last time, that i worked with her...
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08|08|2010
The Blox I
Today i was busy getting some work done for my book.
It was actually the 4th time that we tried to shoot on this location outside Zurich. But every single time we had to cancel our plans in the very last few minutes. Either the girl got sick, the weather turned very bad, ... you name it
Which was, of course, very exhausting for all of us. All the phonecalls again for all the permissions, telling everybody that it's cancelled, organising the equipment and so on.
But now it's done. Here's a little teaser. Stay tuned!
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04|08|2010
Portfolio-update in book III
Last january during a super cold morning i asked strangers if they'd give me 1 minute of their time. Most of the persons said yes, even though it was even colder not walking and standing still!
Also new, are the portraits of Jarno Trulli, the F-1-Driver.
There soon will be, hopefully, book IV with a whole new segment of photos. Looking forward to this.
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03|08|2010
The Dirksen's
I just went through the photos of Fabienne's and Josh's wedding.
Such a nice couple!
And to be honest, Josh isn't as good in blowing the alphorn as he is on his shredstick. Even if both are mainly made out of wood... haha
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03|08|2010
Morbid and mystic
This is my favourite photo rightnow.
Shot it on an early morning during our wilderness-camp 2 weeks ago at that beautiful lake in Ticino.
I am very inspired by now. Looking so forward to Japan!
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02|08|2010
The Dirksens
Yesterday, Fabienne Reuteler became Josh Dirksen's wife! They celebrated their wedding at a beautiful place high above lake zurich with their families and close friends.
Fabienne and Josh, they truly love each other. I bet everyone, not only Fabienne, felt chicken-skin when Josh had his speech about his "1st and only love"! wow.
It was also my first wedding with camera since 6 years. It was such a great experience for me. They let me do totally my own thing, since they didn't wanted to have the "regular" weddingpictures.
Photo to the left is Fabienne's Grandfather.
To the right is Josh's Father getting the groupshot done.
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31|07|2010
After 2007's big success, this is the 2nd edition of worlds biggest actionsport-photography-award. From almost 23'000 photos they made a huge cut down to 250 which is followed by a cut down to the 50 final-images! The ones to the left are still in the game.
Unveiling of the finalists is today in one month in Dublin, Ireland.
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24|07|2010
The boys are back in town!
We're back from camping in the wilderness.
Again, a great experience! 5 days far far away from any civilisation. Only bees, cows, goats, a beautiful lake, a good book, a good friend and a tent.
This is the lake we were camping. I took those photos on the 2nd day in the morning. Very inspiring.
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23|07|2010
Japan I
August the 23rd, we're leaving for a month to Japan.
On the schedule are 3 exhibitions in Tokyo, Goma and Kyoto plus lots of fun with the Whaleforce-Collective!
Cause we are all a "Child of mother nature"...
Looking forward to this.
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17|07|2010
Done.
That was a super fun night at the "Baur au Lac" we had yesterday.
There were more then 50 young people from all over the world, celebrating and laughing. Good times.
I am pretty happy about the outcome from the 2 weeks. We gonna cut down the photos into a tight selection which is gonna go in print so everyone gets an own coffee-table-book as a memory! Here are some snapshots from the Gala-dinner.
I am off now for camping. Seriously.
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16|07|2010
Last day of work
Today is my last day of that 2-week-documentary i've been working on recently.
Been pretty funny but also hard work. Like most of the time.
So here are some impressions from the last 2 weeks. Of course these are not the final images, but unfortunatly i am not allowed to show any faces of the people. Still pretty interesting photos that show perfectly the mood.
Next week i am going into vacation and it's all about this:
- 2 friends
- 1 tent
- a lot of food, books...
- 1 week in the wilderness of Ticino
And last but not least: A pair of trunks, since we camp right next to a small mountain-lake! Enjoy summer,
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09|07|2010
Summertime!
It's summer, finaly.
I am pretty busy, doing a 2-week-documentary for a swiss-bank.
Yesterday we've been at the lake, but unfortunately no time for a swim. At least for me.
I hope i can show you some more soon.
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04|07|2010
2 years ago..
.. i spent the summer in beautiful Argentina! I am still in love with that country.
This was in Cerro Bayo, a small resort on the opposite side of Bariloche.
Good memories.
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30|06|2010
Busy times
Just been on my second last snow-shoot for this season.
Originaly i planned to finish my season middle of May with the eleven-campaign-Shoot. The idea is all about daylight and since it was hardly never good, it all took so long. So last weekend it was number 3 out of 4. Rider was Steve Gruber and i visited him on his home-mountain in Hintertux for 2 days.
Totally happy about the outcome! Can't wait to post it here...
So number 4 is coming up real soon too, if the weather is on our side.
On the photo you see Steve on the right and some weirdo-photographer with some burka-thing on his head on the left....;)
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29|06|2010
Good old days!
While moving in a new flat, i just found that beauty again:
Mitch Buvoli, alley-ooping the famous "Dirty Harry"-Hip @ Engelberg in 2002!
It's still one of my dearest photos i've taken since then. I guess it would still get published these days since it's so timeless.
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21|06|2010
Friday-Magazine
Due to Lozza's busy schedule, i got the opportunity to shoot my first own job for Friday-Magazine. It was Model Nadine Strittmatter and it had to be photographed in a paparazzi-way.
By the way: Lozza got a brand new website!
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16|06|2010
Ice-Glacier...
Found some old landscapes i took couple years ago. It shows the Titlis-Glacier in Engelberg. I am just thinking now to go back there again and take some more.
Wondering also, how it looks these days...
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15|06|2010
New in book II are 2 photos from Manuela from Visage Model.
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14|06|2010
Happy Yvo in Basel
This is Yvo Schneiter. Very inspiring person, great skater and overall nice guy.
One of the very few skatephotos i've taken in the last couple years. But it never got published. Still like it a lot.
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08|06|2010
Back in the day..
.. i was waiting hours and hours on airports. Glad, i mostly had my beloved Hasselblad with me. Like this one, shot in Washington.
Somewhen in 2006.
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07|06|2010
Manuela
This is Manuela from Visage. Spent yesterday's afternoon with her.
Styling / H&M: Kathrin Tollas
More to come soon.
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06|06|2010
Busy days
Today i was again on my bike, scouting the city. Found some interesting locations in beautiful daylight. After that i went for a swim, worked on my tan, ate breakfast and then did another portfolio-test in the afternoon.
Life's great. I've been working and assisting almost every day the last 2 weeks. Which leads to a lot of inspiration, like yesterday. If you don't know him yet, please have a look at Juventino's.
P.s.: Photography is the best thing that ever happend to me.
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24|05|2010
Last days in the snow...
Since almost 3 weeks i was checking the weather-forecast on a daily basis. But nothing else then rain.. very depressing. I am not finished with my season yet, there are 2 more project waiting.
Today was the last possibility to do one of them for this season, since the pipe in Kaunertal is closing tomorrow. Couple phonecalls and Markus Keller, Nicholas Wolken and i were on it: Wake-up-call @ 1.30 a.m.! I wanted to get the beautiful and strong morning-light...
I am super happy how it turned out. Hope to show you the real piece soon...
Thank you Nicolas, thank you Markus for getting up that early or in Markus' case, not even go to sleep at all.. haha
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17|05|2010
last weekend...
.. i shot for "SI-style", a swiss magazine about fashion and celebrities, at the energy-fashion-night here in zurich.
I spent half of the evening in the vip-room, shooting switzerland's celebs and some other people, sipping champagne, chatting, laughing and so on.
Highlight of the evening was swiss model, Ronja Furrer! Such a beauty.. wow and i mean her name.. who wasn't in love with "Ronja die Räubertochter", back then?
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10|05|2010
I want summer!
The weather is so bad since 10+ days, so scouting new locations is a good thing to do.
This is actually on the schoolyard where i spent a lot of time as teenager. Never thought of going back there just for pleasure... haha
Sun, where are you?
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07|05|2010
Portrait-shoot
Did a portrait-job for a dental technician today.
Was so much fun, working with so many people in one day.
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02|05|2010
Portfolio-update II
Also new in book II are the photos from last weekend.
Clothes: Julia Brumm
Model: Corinna from Scout
Hair&Makeup: Pia Kühner
Assistents: Andi Graber / Basti Brumm
Location: Allmend, Zurich
Thanks everybody for making this happen!
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01|05|2010
Portfolio-update
Hair&Makeup came from Mitzi, Clothes from Charlotte Ernst.
Thanks again to all of you, didn't feel like work at all ;)
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30|04|2010
eleven campaign-shoot II with Brandon Reis
Oh my good! I am so happy how everything turned out. It was totally worth it getting up at 5 a.m. 2 mornings in a row for being the very first ones on the glacier except 2 skiers and 1 skidoo that were testing skis instead of giving us their ride..
We ate breakfast on almost 3000m altitude. At 10a.m. we got what we were looking for so we chilled for a bit, packed the camera away and rode for ourself the slushy-spring-park and slopes!
Anyway, i wished i could show already the real piece we made. But you know the rules...
Now i am looking forward for photo III and IV, coming up real soon.
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29|04|2010
Scouting-days
If you're not looking for something special you always get surprised! Mother nature made a good job on this incredible place i've found after just cruising around.
Actually i've been there couple times but it was never as good as it is rightnow. Have a look on the very first cover under "commercials". The white background is that place shown here. I know, hard to believe.
wow
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27|04|2010
Lookbook-preview from Charlotte Ernst
This is from our shoot last week with Vanessa from Visage.
Pretty happy about the outcome.
The full story will be online soon.
Now i am packing for my last days in the snow:
eleven-ad-shoot II at kaunertal. Weather looks good, rider's
there, appartement is nice, fridge is full.. i am coming!
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25|04|2010
Been busy
So today we shot another portfolio-test. We produced the lookbook of Julia Brumm, fashion-student @ ESMOD Munich.
Great people, good mood, nice clothes, beautiful girl, perfect weather...
Thanks to Julia Brumm, Corinna Rutschi from Scout, Pia Küehner for H&M, and Basti and Andi for assisting on the set.
More to come.
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21|04|2010
Car, Camera, Sun...
Since my bike is in kinda bad shape, i took my car today to do some more scouting around the city for an upcoming shooting this weekend.
Pretty happy with what i found.
Stay tuned.
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19|04|2010
Bike, Camera, Sun...
Been scouting all afternoon today for 2 upcoming jobs/tests. Still haven't seen what i was looking for, but stoked on some other stuff i've found. Realised that i need to buy a new bike soon. And new shades, as well.
Summertime!
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18|04|2010
Studio-nights
Yesterday was pretty heavy. 2 Shootings in one day in 2 totally different places. Plus each one of them was totally different then the other and took me a lot of brainstorming the last weeks. Was a good experience too, having so much ideas/plans/things in your head at the same time and not mixing everything up.
So after laax i headed straight in the studio in Zurich and spent all night shooting fashion. We shot the collection of Charlotte Ernst, an up-coming Fashion-Designer from Germany. On the set was also Mitzi for hair&makeup and wonderful Vanessa V. from Visage-modelagency.
Here's a little teaser. The whole series will be online soon.
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18|04|2010
eleven-ad-shoot part I
Yesterday i was shooting Ursina Haller for her upcoming eleven-advertisement. The boys and girls at eleven always let me do my thing which is the best thing ever! I love concept-work. You can come up with an idea, plan it, make some tests, think more, throw your plans in the garbage cause you just realised that it won't work, think more, even more, plus another test and there you are, hopefully. The clouds in Laax were not really co-operating with us but we got what we were looking for. Thanks to Ursina! For all the male-shredders outthere: have a look on her ad in fall and then go out and work on your style!
After working for almost a year on something, spending hours thinking, painting, sketching or testing in the snow, it feels unbelievable good when everything turns out as you wanted it!
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15|04|2010
Yves Suter took...
.. those photos of me when we were walking home pretty wasted from a party!
I like them a lot. Usually i hate being photographed, but Yves always gets the good ones.
Visit his online portfolio here
Thanks Yves!
11|04|2010
Morocco IV
Yesterday night: Imagine a big place with lots of different scents, noisy and loud, thousands of people, 2/3rd tourists and we're in the middle having a photoshoot at night! It was sucha special experience since the people were not used to this kind of thing and formed a big circle around us. Everybody stayed calm and nice.
Today was another day off and tomorrow as well before leaving back home on tuesday. We spent the day sightseeing like Jardin Majorelle, Djemaa el Fna-Market e.c.
Light is still great! So much inspiration here as you can see.
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10|04|2010
Morocco III
Been scouting a bunch these days. There is sucha beautiful light everywhere.
And the people here are very, very special. Funny like hell but also sometimes pretty much of a challenge. Tomorrow we're going to shoot on the Medina-Market. Wonder how that turns out, with all the bums, local-kids e.c.
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09|04|2010
Morocco II
Yesterday i had a day off! We hang at the pool and enjoyed life.
I like palm-trees. And i like the sky. So here's what i was looking at all day.
Gotta go now, the pool's calling! Life can be so hard sometimes...
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07|03|2010
Morocco
I am in Marrakesh / Morocco for a week, assisting for couple of upcoming Editorials.
Marrakesh is crazy, loud, stinky and super busy. Glad we're mostly out in the nowhere, like today.
02|04|2010
Red Bull Soundclash 2009
This is a very lucky shot i took during the Red Bull Soundclash @ Frison, Fribourg!
I was shooting the action and all of a sudden, the girl in front of me held her camera up and took a snap. I couldnt resist when i saw the 2 main-characters of that night, Nega and Elia singing together. In fact, her photo looks from far away a bit like a stars-wars-figure...
31|03|2010
Back in the days...
This is little Mu Maurer, gapping the A-Frame in Laax.
I miss the analog-times sometimes.
Was around 2003/2004, right Mu?
30|03|2010
Hoch-Ybrig...
..is my favourite place to shred! We built this thing for the very first time this year. The light was amazing, thanks to Ms. Sun! For me it's all about daylight these days.
27|03|2010
Travis Limoge
Another photo that never made it into print. Travis fs lip on that kinda famous rail in the montreal-woods.
15|03|2010
Brave and Missy
Shot this a while ago for a personal project, which i haven't finished yet.
Working with animals, specially dogs, is just great. Love it.
10|03|2010
Scouting-days
Been scouting a bunch these days for upcoming projects.
Stay tuned!
09|03|2010
unsold
Since every photographer shoots a lot of photos but only a very few will be ever published, i would like to show you some favourites that never made it in print.
This time it's Diego Koch, spinning frontside on a very famous place in Meiringen-Hasliberg. Shot this 2 seasons ago. Still like it a lot with the all-tracked-out run-in in the back and the 60cm fresh in the landing.
05|03|2010
Raphi Rocha @ Laucheren!
Here's my good friend Raphi Rocha. Shot this couple seasons ago during a nightshoot where we tested some stuff out for an upcoming project that we never did! Didnt work out at all how i planned it! But still happy about those photos
04|03|2010
Fredi K.
2 years ago i went shooting with Fredi K. for the first time. Nobody knows his hometurf as good as him. A friend of mine who is an editor over at Pleasure Magazine complained about how hard it is to write all the captions issue after issue. So i made him a favour, i hope
03|03|2010
Summertime!
Found this pool some time ago. It was last winter, to be exact. Wonder if it still exists, would love to get back there again and shoot some bikini's....
24|02|2010
Last week i shot this handbag for Katja Alissa Müller. The bag is made out of 5 or 6 old shirts.
Model: Jasmin Leeb
Photos are in book II.
23|02|2010
Winning "Bestes Bergbild 2009"
Last Spring i got this link for a photoaward were tirol-tourisme was looking for mountain-photography. I wasn't very hopeful about all this but gave it a try! Long story short: I ended up winning that award with Reto Kestenholz' fs3 in Meiringen which is on 2nd position in the very first book! During the ceremony @ Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol, Seefeld, 2 weeks ago, i got this paycheck from Josef Margreiter, on the picture to the right, about Euros 5000.-. Woohaa! The lady in the middle is Melanie Mühl. She's a very talented writer and won 5ks as well, for the best mountain-tale.
I re-invested straight into Canon, Eizo, Epson and Wacom ;D
21|02|2010
Cover!
This is the coolest thing to me! My very favourite snowboarding-picture from last season made it onto cover of my very favourite snowboard-magazine, the pleasure photo special. All the hard-working snow-photogs get honored by showing their best images from 1 season. Buy it!
Getting photos published on covers is nice, but getting your personal favourite onto cover is something hard to describe. YESSS!
Sooo happy about this!
20|02|2010
Jarno Trulli for PRECOR Fitness Tools
For PRECOR i got the chance to meet Jarno Trulli, the F1-Driver from Italy. We were at his house in Ticino and ate delicous Pasta, made from his wife.
19|02|2010
Assisting-days
This is me during an assisting-job for Gian-Paul Lozza. I never imagined that i looked so scared when the Owl opened her wings and Lozza snapped it. The Owl checked me out everytime i made some adjustments on the lights behind her back. At the end i even got to fondle her head.. pretty impressive!
18|02|2010
Markus Keller for Red Bull
Red Bull
gave Markus “Mä“ Keller a brandnew
website ! Shot this a while back but the website just launched the internet..
so please have a look what we did in the basement.
15|02|2010
Rapper Nega for Red Bull
Shot
recently portraits of the swiss rapper Nega during the Red Bull-Soundclash @
Frison, Fribourg. Great event, great people, great mood and great music!