"I was born in 1980 in the north of Germany. After quit school I tried different jobs and cancelled two apprenticeships. Then I got my university admission and started studying "Visual Communication" in Weimar / Germany (until today).
I really like quality prints and I work with some medium format cameras and with a large format camera. But often I use toy-cams or self-made pinhole cameras. All my pictures are manipulated in the darkroom. I don't want to mirror the reality. I like grain, subjects out of focus, chaotic pictorial structures (I cannot control) and techniques e.g. lith printing, bleaching, toning, dodging, burning. When I bought my first camera 10 years ago I never took pictures of people. Today they are my main subject - but always touched from a distance."
By: Thomas Raatz ©2011
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