#Portrait 051, barber in Teror, Gran Canaria
28.Feb.2010, next new portrait after some days off, I shot this old man in his barbershop in a small Village called Teror, here in Gran Canaria.I had some problems with the lightning, my flash did not work. But I think its good enough to see the place where he is working since more than 50 [...]
#Portrait 050, Christine from Austria, 30years on the island
22.Feb.2010, after a one day brake I did the 50th Portrait here in Gran Canaria. It shows Christine from Austria. First, 30 years ago, Christine was nanny for the children of Björn Dunkerbeck, a great german windsurfer. Now she speaks perfect spain and lives since 30 years on the island of Gran Canaria. You can [...]
#Portrait 049, Igor, on paddle court
20.Feb.2010, we passed a curious looking small tennis court with glass walls where some people played with funny colored small rackets with holes instead of strings and tennis balls. We asked one of this guys, Igor, how to play. He explained the rules of this sport called paddle. It is a mixture between squash and [...]
#Portrait 048, Herbs an spices salesman, market Las Palmas
18.02.2010, to find this market stand at the market in La Vegueta, you have just to follow your nose. The market hall in La Veguetta is the old part of the City Las Palmas. You can get all the fresh things from the island and the Atlantic ocean there. The taste of fresh and dry [...]
#Portrait 047, stormy selfportrait with Ralf Eckel
17.Feb.2010, selportrait after the 18th hole in Anfi Tauro Golf course. I played with Ralf and wanted to portrait him exclusive. But at hole 17 an enormous storm with hard rain hit the island and we got washed. So I decided to shoot together to show the results of the rain. Ralf Eckel lives in [...]
#Portrait 046, unknown carneval star, Las Palmas
16.Feb.2010, one of the last heroes of the Las Palmas Carneval, she (or he) looked a bit tired when I photographed her in the streets of Las Palmas. She did not speak english so i could not get her name. I`ll call her Ana 4%, not only because of the signs in the window behind [...]
#Portrait 045, Petra, 18th Hole, Real Club de Golf
15.Feb.2010, We met Petra at the Real Club de Golf de Las Palmas. Petra lives in Bielefeld and spends her holidays with her friend here in Gran Canaria. The Golf Club is the oldest in Spain, founded 1891 and is situated round a volcano with spectacular fairways and views
#Portrait 044, Alejandro, Tejeda
14. Feb. 2010, the Festival El Almendro el Flor (Almond bloom festival)in Tejeda was our target today. It was raining and pretty cold in the mountains. There, early morning I met Alejandro who is a farmer in this region, with his traditional canary clothing and with two of his cows. I hope, I registered his [...]
#Portrait 043, Mr. Carnavale, Las Palmas
13.Feb.2010, the bonus portrait for the one day off. (Maybe there will come a few more, I am in time out at the moment…) I named him Mr. Carnaval 2010, he was one of the millions or more masks at yesterdays carneval parade in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. I shot him in the large TV [...]
#Portrait 042, Malih, la Capuccina, Las Palmas
13. Feb.2010, my next portrait (after a one day break ) from Gran Canaria, Spain is Malih. I met him in his bar in Placa St. Anna 2 in Las Palmas. His little restaurant is close to the cathedral in the historic old city of LP. You can eat fine tapas there, ask him for [...]
#Portrait 041, Adoney a wine worker, Gran Canaria
11.Feb.2010, the first portrait from the canary islands, spain. It shows Adoney, a young man who works for a wine maker in Gran Canaria, where I spend a time out for the next 3 weeks. Today his work was to protect the young grave plants against varmints, so he used the shown protective clothing. I`ll [...]
#Portrait 040, Annemarie with Baby Lenz
10.Feb.2010, shortly after midnight I shot this portrait of my long term friends, Annemarie and Martin with their Baby Lenz and dog Buddy on the floor. It is their 4th child, its late in their life but they love iLenz and are total happy with the renewed challenge. All the best for the young family! [...]
#Portrait 039, Daniela, marketing Boneco, Air-O-Swiss
09.Feb.2010, after a long working day in our studio. Daniela was responsible for the organization and the content of todays shooting. The air treatments systems in the front are made by her company, Plaston and are branded with Boneco and Air-O-Swiss.
#Portrait 038, Alex, photographer and freelancer
08.Feb.2010, Alex is back. Long time ago, he began to work with us as an photographer assistant. At the moment he starts up as a self employed photographer. Sometimes when we become realy stressfull, he comes from Tyrol to help for a few days. So he did today. Whe worked in a furniture shop for [...]
#Portrait 037, Luca, waiting for the train “Computerfuehrerschein”
07.Feb.2010, after a very short night a cold sunday morning 7.am in Dornbirn, Bahnhof. My son Luca left for the professional school in Linz 500 KM far away. The next 10 weeks he visits the photographers class there. So I was not sure if he looked sad because he left all his friends (and maybe [...]
#Portrait 036, Wolfgang, Volvo salesman and charity organizer
06.Feb.2010, my next portrait, shortly before the 7th comes up. Wolfgang organized the puttmasters 2010, a charity putting tournament, in the Volvo showroom in Lauterach, Vorarlberg. The full income was spent to the network for children, a non profit organization for children help.
#Portrait 035, Stefan Grob, copy writer
05. Feb. 2010, Portrait of Mr. Stefan Grob, a friend and golf partner of mine. He is a geniously copy writer and runs the Complecta GmbH in St. Gallen Switzerland. Togehter we worked on our new sfh magazine which appears in spring 2010. You can preorder the (german spoken) magazine now, just leaf a message.
#Portrait 034, Marijana, stylist and hair artist
04.Feb.2010, next portrait Marijana, a stylist at Rath, a coiffeur studio in Dornbirn. For me relaxing 40 minutes, for her hard work to shape my head in a good and stylish result. You can`t see me now, but with this base material it was great work. Thanks Marijana.
#Portrait 033, Lukas, sfh photographer assistant
03.Feb.2010, a day with troubles. Software did not work, Hasselblad did not work, but thank god, Lukas and Luca worked well. He was back the 1st day from a one month trip in Brasilia. And he worked very hard togehter with Luca, my son and sfh assistant, to finsih a big hurry job in time.
#Portrait 032, Roli Geiger, ammarkt agency
02.Feb.2010, as time goes by. Roland, the customer consultant of ammarkt, an adverdising agency in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Last time we met is maybe 6 years ago, he thougt only 5. I´m not sure if there were 8 of them… I did this photo in their meeting room, the background window shows his assistant.
#Portrait 031, Bruno Rossi, sfs marketing services
01.Feb.2010, and the next month starts with Bruno, the marketing director of the sfs services marketing divison in Heerbrugg in swizzerland. His retirement will start end of 2010 and sometimes he is contemplative about that. I tried to catch one of these moments for my daily portrait.
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