Aeri and I met at the S-Bahn station Hackescher Markt. I waited upstairs and she downstairs. The funny thing is, I thought I had seen her leaving the train but then she was gone all the sudden. I thought it was funny because I thought I had seen somebody who might be a ballet dancer by the way she moved, not because I recognized her face. One of the side effects of this project seems to be that I learn something about ballet :-) Aeri had been shopping and presented herself i

We had picked a pretty hot day for our shooting. The shooting with Cam should bring some changes for the concept in several ways: The first two shootings were indoor, directly at the Staatsoper Berlin. But the locations within the Staatsoper were limited for us and shooting outside was a nice alternative. I also decided to use a "faster" but certainly analog camera, my Nikon F4. And last but not least we shot both styles, with Tutu and a summer dress. And for the future I dec

Yuliya is the the second member of the Staatsballett Berlin who was kind enough to do a shooting with me. I am still full of admiration when I see what ballet dancer are able to do. And I enjoy it even more since I am allowed to be so close with my camera(s). I very much remember Yuliya when I saw her dancing the Arabic Dance in Tchaikowsky´s Nutcracker some weeks ago. I was so impressed. It was her and the Arab Dance which "inspired" me to do this project. Because I wanted t

I met Patricia Zhou from the Staatsballett the other day and shot a couple of photos of her while she got ready for the show that evening. The closest I ever got to a ballet dancer so far was when I shot photos from the nutcracker last month: about 25m away from the stage, together with quite a few other press people. So this was quite different. I guess I don´ have to explain that I really enjoyed talking to and shooting Patricia that day and I hope that we´l have the chance