Question 1: You are a photographer living in Geneva and Vienna. What characterizes your photographic style?

Photography is versatile in the sense of possible products or applications. For example, starting from a digital photo, websites, print media or complex design specifications can be served. My primary product is framed photos as decoration in the home or office. In my opinion, the printed photo still has the greatest appeal regardless of the digital approach.

Printed photos have a special charm as home decoration, if they can be appropriately framed. It is important to find the right aesthetic match with furniture, wall color, etc., while at the same time finding the complementary theme and, of course, dimension.

Photos can complement an interior style but also negate it, for example a very sophisticated interior style can be literally counteracted by a mountain panorama or a thematic collection of a winter motif can emphasize a white interior tone. All these variations can be quite charming.

Question 2: What is a panorama for you?

Panoramic photography of urban or landscape subjects is one of my passions. However, with one important restriction regarding the panorama composition . I do not create any panorama of 180 ° or more which is stitched to a single "mega" photo. I find these types of panoramas heavy and ultimately unstructured, and they are simply. On the other hand, panoramas are extremely expressive, especially as home decoration.

I try to combine both aspects by dividing panoramas into sub-images, which consist of photo series shot with a certain overlap. In the end the viewer sees a mosaic as a panorama and the single images help him to reduce the complexity and to discover the detail of the panorama when looking at the single photos. If the photos are put in frameless frames, it also comes to the feeling of a completely harmonious togetherness. To describe it figuratively: you can see the famous forest as individual trees or the forest through all individual trees.

Question 3: How do you typically create a panorama?

Creating a panorama is a (small) project. First of all, the subject needs to be defined. For landscape photography it is obvious; thematic collections require a deeper definition of the motif, for example the idea of the Empire State Building collection came to me through the changing color motifs when I had lived for a while on the other side of the East River and could watch the play of colors of the Empire State Building virtually every night. Another thematic collection motif is characterized by a contradiction: Who would expect photos in the snow when thinking of Istanbul (see: "Snow Impressions from Istanbul"). An example of a mixed form of landscape panorama and thematic collection is perhaps Cascade (see: "Cascade/ waterfall"), a vertical panorama structure horizontally extended by identical photos with different exposures including a synthesis of different exposures in the so-called "high dynamic range", all this not only to let the motif of the waterfall flow, but also to duplicate it (here the horizontal component).

With the causal idea of the motif then immediately arises the question of home decoration. The real effect of photos exist for me only in printed form and framed as wall decoration. Panoramas must be part of our homes, that is, there are a lot of design-technical questions that have to be answered: Number of frames over which landscape angle, overlap, orientation horizontal vs. vertical for both panorama and single photo, the focal length (which is the same for all frames to reproduce as natural an angle as possible) etc.

For the actual shots of the photo series, of course, the typical photographic issues such as exposure, coloring or lighting conditions (twilight or daylight, etc.) are added. I put less emphasis on Photoshop effects.