Stille Berge

For me, photography is a pathway that suits my temperament, and my involvement with it is like a journey during which my horizon is constantly expanding. My work with the camera in these remarkable landscapes - especially at night and during the long expoure times - is conducted with a feeling of agreeable and hushed concentration. My sense of serene composure is such that I hardly seem to be breathing, and I feel at ease and excited at the same time. My experience of these locations is often of a deeply satifying intensity. Photographing the Alps in my own vision was a creative process that developed over years. One day - or night rather - it clicked. Under the dark skies I found the tranquility that the Alps of today lack during the day. The night and its silence gives the mountains a sublimity, feeling of raw creation and aloofness that I strived to capture in my work. This body of work is a subjective image of these awe inspiring natural spaces where I am also experimenting with the boundaries of photography as they relate to paintings of works on paper, chichis best notiveable in the originals. Exposure times were about an hour; a sharp contrast to my city images which required only a few minutes. Focusing and even framing the image through the ground glass was another issure, as there was precious little to see under the low light conditions. This contributed to the fact that many of the exposures didn't make the final selection.