The landscape photographs presented here were made with medium and large format cameras. For a couple of years I have almost exclusively used my Phillips Compact II 8x10" camera for landscape photography. This camera, combined with Rodenstock and Schneider lenses, delivers 8x10" negatives of exceptional sharpness and a large tonal range. For the panorama photographs I use a split darkslide to get two 4x10" exposures on one 8x10" sheet. I use Ilford FP4 plus and HP5 plus sheet film, developed in PMK Pyro or Rodinal developer. The prints are made with a Durst Laborator enlarger on Bergger or Forte warmtone fiber base paper. All prints are toned for permanence with selenium toner.

The portraits were made in the years 1997 to 1999. Despite some technical problems I worked consciously with the available light in order to document the tendency of the workspace. During photographing the features of the workers became more and more proud and confident. It was a challenge to hold these delicately chiselled features. Some pictures obtain rather a melancholic mood, other ones become witnesses of friendship and solidarity. Yet, all hold scenes of the working life of these humans, being parts of an animation only interrupted for seconds.

The portraits as well as the older landscape photographs were made with a Hasselblad medium format camera and a Zeiss Planar 80 mm lens. Ilford Delta 100, Delta 400 and occasionally Delta 3200 roll film developed in TMax is used with this equipment. I print those negatives with an Agfa Varioscop or the Durst Laborator enlarger on Agfa MG Classic fiber base paper and all prints are toned with selenium toner.