The purchase of my very first pocket camera at the age of eleven for
the then princely sum of 100 Austrian Schillings , marked the beginning
of my life as a photographer.
Today images form the content of my life, What
but music and my camera would I take to the desert island? The photographers
eye perhaps and the restless longing to transpose this world into
images.
Reduce but do not restrict, define but do not
judge, take part but do not interfere, shape but do not change.
Photography is like a mistress ,who wants your entire soul, your
undivided attention, not to be shared with anyone. .And so the camera
has been with me throughout my life. I have been to many places
around the world, become familiar with some, really understood only
a few. No matter what, photograpy has always forced me to define
my very personal point of view.
Truth, however, lies
in the eye of the beholder even in photography.
For an entire life.
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