essays
Shortly after the earthquake in Haiti some photojournalism workshops were announced to be held in Haiti. The reactions on lightstalkers, duckrabbit and so on were, let’s say, harsh. One of the difficulties of discussions like that is that it pretty fast gets personal and in my opinion is in many ways missing the point and [...]
Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Two weeks ago the earthquake hit Haiti and destroyed more or less a whole country in seconds. What we saw in the direct aftermath was a media coverage close to painful in many ways. Now, not even two weeks after the earthquake, the topic does not even make the headlines of most newspapers anymore, the [...]
Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 7:22 am
The mainbuilding of the university of Butare is huge, white with a beautiful green inner quard. It is one of the places what show the reasons behind the project we started earlier this year, called ‚With our own eyes’. Rwanda has been for a long time in the collective mind of most people outside Africa [...]
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Chicago is one of the first big cities in the world without a printed daily newspaper. What sounds surprising is just the peak of a crisis journalism in total is coming in right now. There is maybe no newspaper in the world who is not suffering from the lack of advertisments and the new fast [...]
Friday, September 4th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
When you look to Rwanda these days you will see the yearly time of mourning about the genocide of 1994. Only 15 years ago one of the darkest chapters in human history happend in this little country in East Africa with the world looking away. 100 days of killings, 800.000 people dead, killed in the [...]
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Today 12 Mio children are orphaned as a result of HIV/ Aids in Africa and even with the expansion of antiretroviral treatment access, it is estimated that by 2015, the number of orphaned children will still be overwhelmingly high. In Kenya around half of the orphans are orphans because of HIV/Aids, meaning without the Aids epedemic [...]
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
The DR Congo has been at war for the last decades. War with itself, war with it’s neighbors, war about the massive resources. Since 1998 the total death toll is way over 5.000.000 (five million!) people, what is more than in any other war since World War II. Millions of people are on the run, [...]
Friday, March 6th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
In a couple of hours i will be on my way to Frankfurt airport, once more, this time for my flight to Nairobi. It’s another journey (or as called in Swahili: Safari) to begin and i’m really looking forward to it. I can’t remember being so excited about something for a long time. Beside the [...]
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I would have liked to write a nice little story about my recent trip to Swizzy, about hard sends and all that. The trip at the end was a little bit depressing, i must say. I got a bad flu with fever. The whole package you don’t wanna have while at a beautiful place like [...]
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
I made it! One of the biggest projects in my mind has come to an end. On Sunday, short before it was getting’ dark, I made the first ascent of one of the most beautiful lines I know, the line that is now called ‘the bittersweet moment of losing’ (aka ‘ES direkt’). It has been on [...]
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 8:52 pm