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Chief Executive Portraits in Hamburg

The last days had been very exhausting. I had some appointments for two news-agencies and drove about 1.400 kilometers (850 miles) and often slept less than five hours a night. The days included a very interesting portrait shooting in Hamburg of the chief executive of the restaurant chain “Jim Block”, Mr. Dirk Block. He was kind to grant me around 30 minutes of his time to photograph him in different poses. It’s very difficult to photograph a busy man like…

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On assignment: The elephant’s robotic trunk

Today I was in Gˆttingen in the south of State Lower Saxony to photograph a just invented new robot. The scientists there named it the “robotic elephant’s trunk” because of the look and the same behavior that simulate an elephant’s trunk (surprise, surprise!). Okay, if you ever have seen something like CSI or movies that played in science laboratories you first would expect a very stylish ambient and think that photographers will be in heaven on an assignment in somewhat…

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