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2008

Meaningful background

Minister Doris Bures and Werner Faymann (SPOe) with Westbahnhof under reconstruction in background. I must confess I had sent emails to representatives of all Austrian political parties offering my services as photographer, and Franz Voves – governor of Styria (SPOe) was the only one who replied. Thanks, Franz! When I photographed you, I was fantasizing [...]

Red phantoms

There were hordes of successful soviet ideologues, which made their career imitating fierce creative activity. But it was not Zhanna case. She belonged to rare type of uncorrupted believers. She was person of sincerity and encyclopedia knowledge, but her eccentricity made her the scarecrow of the university. She expected from students who were fed up [...]

Red phantoms. Scarlet thread of my craze

Group of people in Mariahilfer Strasse, Vienna. That plump woman with hair standing on at her head looked rather funny. She addressed me with idea to get a few coins for drink Zhanna It was sunny spring of 1982. The university alley of apple and peach trees was all pink lace of blossoms. The air [...]

Anatomie der Liebe

I do not know whether you are teasing your readers with your comments about masculine stupidity, mean-spirited men who want to split bills in restaurants or you really mean it.I take your point that men are obsessed by their penises – it’s part of the male psyche that would be rather difficult to eradicate, but [...]

Homeless

Homeless woman had found in junk container something to eat. I made the snapshot in very center of Vienna. Perhaps she is crazy, like many of homeless persons. At least she was talking to herself. This email I received today: I read Die Wiener Nachrichten today and it upset me that you are not finding [...]

Hurentag

Wien Green party action in defence of sex-workers rights during international whore day on 02 June at Urban-Loritz-Platz Mit dem Motto “SEX-ARBEIT(S)-RECHTE – JETZT!” sind die Grünen Frauen Wien in einer Solidaritäts- und Informationsaktion anlässlich des Internationalen Hurentags am 2. Juni mit den Vereinen LEFÖ – Beratung, Bildung und Begleitung für MigrantInnen und sexworker.at am [...]