Daniel Sannwald

the time is now

2012-01-09T16:33:00.000-08:00

i can hear you

the year of the dragon

2012-01-05T05:13:00.000-08:00

unleash the dragon!

IRA*H

2012-01-02T12:51:00.000-08:00

My youngest friend is maybe also one of the coolest kindz on the block! Irah!

I love his toys! Here my top 3!

and IRAH!
so happy we are friends.

groomed past

2011-12-30T02:50:00.000-08:00

philippe

2011-12-29T11:26:00.000-08:00

Courageous like a stamp

he went his way

tapping softly in his hands

to count his steps

his heart red as a boar

beat beat

like a pink green butterfly

Now and then

he planted a little satin flag

When he had walked a lot

he sat down to rest

and fell asleep

But since that day there have been many clouds in the sky

many birds in the trees

and there's been a lot of salt in the sea

There also have been lots of other things

my imaginary christmas wish list

2011-12-19T14:23:00.000-08:00

1. lovely plates from liberty

(lovely until u read the price )

2. exotic swimming shorts from burberry

(essential for my mexico visit! i need 2 one for me and one for enrique!)

3. nice sweater!! hand knitted by danish hands!

4. Cormega!!!

lights for M

2011-12-18T15:35:00.000-08:00

lets send all our love and lights to my friend moses!

we love you.

until i see again

2011-12-12T04:23:00.000-08:00

trials of the past

2011-12-04T16:45:00.000-08:00

New U/C out now!

2011-12-01T14:58:00.000-08:00

The new Issue of Under / Current is out now!

I am super proud of this issue.

Issue 6

with photographers such as

Ben Weller, Harley Wier, Jacob Sutton, Kira Bunse, Mel Bles, Pierre Debusschere...

http://www.undercurrentmagazine.com/

If you want to show me your work pls send me your portfolios.

we are starting to work on Issue 7 now!

meditation

2011-11-30T11:59:00.000-08:00

Peace out West London!

2011-11-21T04:59:00.000-08:00

الانفجار العظيم

2011-11-14T02:51:00.000-08:00

always never home

2011-11-13T06:10:00.000-08:00

last night was quite something... i mean something quite magical.

my friends Erik and Julie placed a bed on the streets in front of their house.

I tell you.! - there is nothing nicer then to lay on STREET BED'S.

We been reading stories to one another and welcomed all the passing passengers to join our bed. Its easy to make new friends if you have a bed on the street.

We welcomed the night with small and big fireworks... what a night!

If you ever move to a new street don't forget to put your bed on the street - from time to time!

You wont be lonely for too long...

a friend

2011-11-11T08:17:00.000-08:00

how beautiful it would be

2011-11-10T14:19:00.000-08:00

all images by Chad Wys

V! u are on my mind.

if you talk without words...

2011-11-07T02:40:00.000-08:00

and instead with images i would talk forever with "V".

"V" says:

pokemon trainer

2011-11-06T03:52:00.000-08:00

every challenge along the way

with courage i will face

i will battle everyday

to claim my rightful place!

week of wonders

2011-11-03T09:56:00.000-07:00

oh friends! what a week :-)

i been to roses 91 birthday party in the jewish elderly club singing and dancing to frank sinatra and eating lots of cream cakes. cakes in all shades of soft pinks.

Mazel Tov Rose!

this week was filled with lots of other wonders and adventures.

and

today i received a poem. how wonderful to have ur own poem.

For Daniel.

             The Snowman.

         He opened his arms on a beautiful day. First a bit - let's see... And then a little more.
   And just to see, some more... even more! But at one point, his heart broke.

and just 40 days to go to the launch of my new website!

really excited.

:-)

talk soon.!

Arena homme + "Looking for a certain ratio"

2011-10-28T12:42:00.000-07:00

"Looking for a certain ratio"
Ph: Daniel Sannwald
St: Simon Foxton
Grooming: Gemma Smith-Edhouse
Model: Fernando Cabral

arena homme +

2011-10-28T04:36:00.000-07:00

Arena Homme + is out

get an issue

to see the whole story Simon Foxton and I did !

i will upload the whole story soon...

Tali Lennox

2011-10-26T04:46:00.000-07:00

some of the images i shot of Tali Lennox...

big but small - small but big

2011-10-24T05:24:00.000-07:00

How often have you noticed that something big is actually rather small or something small is rather big?

when i was 19teen....

2011-10-19T10:33:00.000-07:00

when i was 19teen i had a really high hair do!

Roger Hiorns

2011-10-18T07:31:00.000-07:00

johan coppens

2011-10-12T02:59:00.000-07:00

  "The stars
         are in the lining
            of your coat"

colour circles

2011-10-09T15:28:00.000-07:00

Identity

2011-10-08T17:14:00.000-07:00

"Identity",

The word itself gives me shivers.

It rings of calm, comfort, contendedness.

What is it, identity?

To know where you belong?

To know you self worth?

To know who you are?

How do you recognize identity?

We are creating an image of ourselves.

We are attempting to resemble this image…

Is that what we call identity?

The accord

between the image we have created of ourselves

and … ourselves?

Just who is that, "ourselves"?

We live in the cities.

The cities live in us …

time passes.

We move from one city to another,

from one country to another.

We change languages,

we change habits,

we change opinions,

we change clothes,

we change everything.

Everything changes. And fast.

alina

2011-10-08T15:05:00.000-07:00

les liquides imaginaires 2

2011-10-03T12:37:00.000-07:00

The presentation of my videos for les liquides imaginaires in paris was really nice. The place was magical and it was the start of many new friendships!

Thank you P and I for the lovely time.

igor dobričić

2011-09-26T03:02:00.000-07:00

What is happening in a moment is happening forever, in parallel, not before or after past-future. When we regret that the moment passed away we are confusing one reality with another instead of receiving them both simultaneously. In fact by this misperception we are killing the moment by placing it, in our imagination, inside a wrong series to which it does not belong. In time, what will die is already dead but that is not preventing it from being immortal. Immortality is not the afterlife, it is a life outside of time.

roses for the favourite ladies

2011-09-23T09:47:00.000-07:00

Today is friday and its my favourite day!

Fridays are about roses.

and about great friendship.

My friend Rose had a splendid idea for this friday!

she gave me yiddish classes and i tought her german.

we ate the mini carrots from her garden so mini that you almost couldn't remember that you ate them.

she showed me photos of how funny she looks when she goes to the hairdresser.

and then we decided to celebrate the women we like.

we had some sparkling wine for each of the ladies.

rose favourite 3 ladies are:

Marilyn Monroe

Audrey Hepburn

Judy Garland

i love my fridays with rose!

lost images

2011-09-23T04:17:00.000-07:00

Les Liquides Imaginaries

2011-09-18T05:30:00.000-07:00

for more info pls visit :

lesliquidesimaginaires.com

I am December!

2011-09-10T04:28:00.000-07:00

Studio Baer and Mixt(e) Magazine’s Fashion Director Joanna Schlenzka launch ‘Style Calendar’ a covetable product for 2012.

Creative Director Daniel Baer and Stylist and Fashion Director of Mixt(e) Magazine, Joanna Schlenzka, have brought together one of the most exciting line-ups of fashion photographers to produce the inaugural and gorgeous
Style Calendar.

- Produced as a collectors’ item in a limited edition of 1500 copies - Price £22.00, available in selected retail outlets in London, Paris and New York - Order directly from the website

www.style-calendar.com from October 2011

Photographers: KT Auleta, David Dunan, Jam, Andreas Larsson, Serge Leblon, Mark Pillai, Miguel Reveriego, Johan Sandberg, Daniel Sannwald, Laura Sciacovelli, Esther Teichmann, Yelena Yemchuk.

VERLAINE SPRING/SUMMER 2012 WOMEN’S COLLECTION

2011-09-09T03:44:00.000-07:00

Creative Direction Macsiotti / Photography Daniel Sannwald / Styling Tony Irvine / Hair Anthony Turner / Make-Up Yadim / Special Thanks To Kyre Chenven

Pull and Bear Preview

2011-09-08T12:43:00.000-07:00

Here is a Preview of the Lookbook and Video for PULL AND BEARS A/W 2011 Collection.
I teamed up with my friends Stevie Westgarth (styling), Marie Schuller (edit) and Sebastian Litmanovich from Teatimestudio (music) to create the visuals for the A/W 2011 Lookbook + Video.

Here the directors cut of the Video:

Pull and Bear a/w 2011 directors cut from Daniel Sannwald on Vimeo.

To see the final Images and final Video pls check the Pull and Bear Stores or Pull and Bear Online.

my favourite place

2011-09-05T00:00:00.000-07:00

my favourite place is open again...

The Museum of Everything!!

and listen - dont be scared that the show is in Selfridges..!

Its wonderful as always.

Location	Selfridges & Co
	400 Oxford Street
	London W1U 1AT
	Great Britain

Dates	opens up September 2nd 2011
	shuts down October 25th 2011

Times	all day, every day
	9:30am to 7:00pm

me + you

2011-09-04T09:25:00.000-07:00

Two Roses on Friday and other adventures

2011-09-03T04:30:00.000-07:00

Every Friday I try to see Rose. She tells me often about her late husband and how he brought her roses on Fridays --- so one day I started to do the same.

Rose would always says: "Daniel! Its not because my name is Rose but Roses are just so wonderful.!!!"

Last Friday i brought her white Roses which made her very happy. To say thank you she wrote me a lovely poem which she read out loud in front of me.

Her Poem:

Dear Daniel,

The flowers you sent me

have lasted so long

they are so beautiful,

colourful and strong

they may not keep until our next repar

but you know that you are always welcome

to come and call again

and bring me some roses once again

The same day i said good bye to my little soldier who is having some adventures in NY... ((come back soon!))

and as my mum always says: wenn man sich nicht verabschiedet, kann man sich auch nicht begrüßen...und begrüßen, liebe ich...ich finde, dass ein ersehntes wiedersehen, die tiefsten gefühle empfinden lässt...

The same day i went to see the concert of my Friends Amor de Dias at the National Portrait Gallery. It was very magical to listen to their music amongst all this painted ladies.

my favourite lady:

my favourite song:

out now

2011-09-02T06:16:00.000-07:00

The Making of Bullett Magazine

2011-09-01T01:13:00.000-07:00

Making Of Bullet Magazine from studio sannwald on Vimeo.

The Titaness of Motherhood

2011-08-23T10:49:00.000-07:00

For the recent Issue of Bullett Anna Trevelyan and I teamed up to shoot 16 Gods and Goddesses.

Get a Copy to see them all - here is already a preview of

RHEA the Titaness of Motherhood

and Demeter Goddess of the Earth

video and more images coming soon!

Rose or the grandpa i want to be

2011-08-19T14:19:00.000-07:00

I want to become like Rose when I am older - I would do all kind of nice adventures with my friends too!
Today we had a small poetry party in her house and she read us some of her poems out loud.

oh and soon we will do a Michael Jackson Performance at the elderly club - because we both are huge Jackson fans.

Harpers Bazaar China / Mens

2011-08-15T23:28:00.000-07:00

Styling concept: Steve Westgarth

Styling: Harry Lambert

Hair: Tomo @ Streeters

Models: Josh Mccellen @ Select and Jacob B. @ Elite Models

Photo Assistant: Tom Moran and Colby Jones

Thanks to Studio Private

all kind of greens

2011-08-14T05:54:00.000-07:00

oh how much i love to search for totoro's in the nature!!

presents

2011-08-09T02:55:00.000-07:00

nice presents!

ghosts, lamp robots, magic plants and fruit boxes

2011-08-08T04:49:00.000-07:00

I packed my books into fruit boxes. boxes for peaches, grapefruit and avocados. in the morning all my books turned into fruits. the two volumes of the shorter oxford dictionary were plum pears. the pageant of modern poetry had become a banana.

what a week! exciting. with a ghost in a forest, a robotic lamp, a wonderful flower and fruit boxes!

storm

2011-08-07T16:46:00.000-07:00

summer

2011-08-03T14:42:00.000-07:00

summer sale at my friends label HUI HUI.
i think - i am sure - we should all wear one of the lovely hui hui scarfs.

click here

wonderful weekend

2011-07-10T17:07:00.000-07:00

RE-BEL TV

2011-07-09T08:00:00.000-07:00

if you want you can hear me talk about my work on RE-BEL TV but sorry my answers are very very dry! ITS MY GERMAN ROOTS!!!! :-) oh and look at my fantastic hand movements in the last 20 seconds of the video.

click here!

House of Organza / Video

2011-07-01T03:59:00.000-07:00

House of Organza/Muse from Marlon Rueberg on Vimeo.

Muse : ROY Inc
Curators : Kim Howells & Lyall Hakaraia
Director : Daniel Sannwald
Stylist : Kim Howells
Camera : Daniel Sannwald & Marlon Rueberg
Makeup : Ashley Ward at CLM using M.A.C Cosmetics
Photo Assistant : Colby Jones
Stylist Assistants : Daisy Newman & Saskia Wickins
Makeup Assistant : Lucy Pearson
Set Dressers : Johan Ahlkvist & Jacqui Power
Edit : Marlon Rueberg
All pieces from House of Organza by
Lyall Hakaraia
Piers Atkinson
Fred Butler
Dr Noki
Craig Lawrence
Patternity
Consultant : Alùn Davies
Produced by kimhowells.com
Thanks to Steve Savage at Old Cholmeley Boys Club

House of Organza

2011-06-30T07:21:00.000-07:00

click on the image to see it move.

tonight we will show my House of Organza film ( starring the amazing ROY )

at the House of Organza Exhibition

Muse

Stylist: Kim Howells

Make up: Ashley Ward

Edit : Marlon Rueberg

House of Organza

Fred Butler
Piers Atkinson
Dr Noki
Patternity
Craig Lawrence
Lyall Hakaraia

reasons

2011-06-27T06:41:00.000-07:00

....

i spent some time with my friend rose who i think is as beautiful as a film star and with skin so white that it is almost grey.

i had moments that my eyes looked as big as the day that a bird once flew into our front room at home - something that belonged elsewhere now up closer then ever before.

i went on a journey to wales to visit my friend jason evans with whom i was riding bikes down the hills and up the hills, around the city and over bridges...

i was dancing together with the tshe tshaw boys and now dreaming about going to africa.

i was enjoying the human spirit cos “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

and that are just a few of the reasons why my blog was so quiet lately.!

good reasons to be quiet, dont you think?

‘Tech Noir’

2011-06-22T11:02:00.000-07:00

When fashion maverick Daniel Sannwald was a kid, he dreamt of being a famous scientist.
That he became a photographer had a lot to do with his late father, who was an artist and in his short time gave Daniel the direction of photography.
But in some ways Daniel secretly still is a mad scientist working with utterly fictional technology to forward his schemes. Judging from Sannwald’s work you’d expect to find embalmed mutant creatures to be hidden in the cupbourds of his photostudio or secret potion to be found there in glass jars. Yet if there one thing he wouldn’t be caught dead in a lab coat. Daniel is not being meticulous, you see.
True liberty for him lies in the right to make mistakes, as moving about and experimenting is always more interesting then being careful. In a society which is focused on the perfect image, he’s trying to regain the sense and quality of mistakes and is not afraid of showing ‘errors’. “Keeping it real” is what they call that on the streets.

Sannwald doesn’t make choices between nature and technology, blending really raw animal stuff with high tech or clashing something organic with something computer generated. He seems somewhat torn between love and disgust for the digital age. “I hate these over-worked perfect images which are one result of the digital time. I love badly done digital things however: stuff with too much pixels, wrong colours and cheap photoshop filters.” If he overworks, he makes clear to the viewer exactly what he did and how it came about. Apart from fragments of the digiculture his work carries echoes of pop art, film noir and German expressionism. From the latter he got his way of shifting chiaroscuro lighting and the convenient idea to paint light and shadow onto the scenery rather than to produce it. To create the right ‘Stimmung’. Sannwald mostly builds his ‘haunted’ sets himself. ‘Tech Noir’ would be an apt term to describe his work for a number of reasons. Take for instance those monsters we mentioned earlier. Sannwald quite likes strange creatures, especially those from the old days. “Where it’s very clear that they’re wearing a mask. Basically I’m a big fan of masks in general. In my work I often hide faces behind masks or burn faces out, cut faces out et cetera. I like disguise - the way people use masks in our daily life. In my pictures in a way I try to deprive people of their own identity.”

It’s often a case of recontextualising, he states. “I sometimes take existing images from the past – like for example Dali’s human skull – and recreate it in the context of fashion. I’m fond of semiotics, giving things a new place and a new meaning. Those who don’t want to initiate anything produce nothing”, is a motto by Dali that is tightly embraced by Sannwald, be it in a slight pop-art way. For Sannwald embraced the art of today is all around us as he finds a great deal of inspiration in daily life. He estimates that about 80 percent of his time his brain is thinking of art and work, buzzing up new ideas for pictures. Sannwald’s photos are refreshingly stylistic, bringing back a creativity and fun in the world of fashion photography. “I think photography is a great tool to communicate moods. Why not make people laugh?” He smiles. Sannwald himself is quite a happy and cheery fellow, indeed, leading a balanced and inspiring life in Antwerp where he did his master at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. But never underestimate Sannwald’s rebel yell. He’s not cleaning up and calming down anytime soon. Daniel Sannwald photographs and lives solely on his own terms, following the road his own whirlwind of originality dictates. He always goes for carte blanche, no less. And that’s the way he’s conquering fashion magazines all over the globe.

Written by Nessie White

more wallpaper...

2011-06-13T17:43:00.001-07:00

Wallpaper

2011-06-10T12:59:00.000-07:00

some of the images for the wallpaper special.

fashion x furniture pairing

styling: kathi kauder

make up: ayami

hair: mark hampton

set: emma roach

painting: james trimmer

model: sofie bartos

greetings and love

2011-06-01T05:00:00.000-07:00

AnOther Magazine Korea Making Of

2011-05-29T16:20:00.000-07:00

AnOther Magazine Korea Making Of from Marlon Rueberg on Vimeo.

Photographer DANIEL SANNWALD
Styling JOANNA SCHLENZKA
Hair TOMO JIDAI
Make Up ADRIEN PINAULT
Set Design FABIENNE EISENSTEIN
Model KANG, SEUNG HYUN
Video Director MARLON RUEBERG
Interview ZINA S. SPARLING

U/C is out!

2011-05-27T09:13:00.000-07:00

The fifth issue of U/C is out! Its the first issue in which Daren Ellis is working as the new creative and me as the new Picture Editor.
I am so happy with the outcome... we started working on the next issue already.!

The recent Cover is shoot by Mark Brothwick and we have wonderful images from photographers such as Mel Bless, Ben Weller, Lukas Wassmann, Hanna Putz... and many more!!

have a look!

'Blomqvist' trailer from Alexandros Pissourios on Vimeo.

pluto and charon signing @ walther koenig bookshop vienna

2011-05-24T17:16:00.000-07:00

Vienna!

2011-05-20T06:06:00.000-07:00

take it back

2011-05-15T16:03:00.000-07:00

For Mum

2011-05-12T12:51:00.000-07:00

Le Monde

13. Mai. 2011

Daniel Sannwald, la mode hors cadre

Pour le photographe de mode Daniel Sannwald, 32 ans, le monde ne se résume pas aux mannequins, aux stylistes et aux studios. "La photo de mode est un monde dans lequel on peut vite se perdre et perdre son inspiration", explique le photographe qui expose ses images à la villa Noailles, à Hyères (Var), dans le cadre du Festival de mode et de photographie.

Deux jours par semaine, quand il n'a pas de commande, Daniel Sannwald reprend pied avec la réalité en allant boire le thé chez des personnes âgées esseulées, pour le compte d'une association caritative. Vu qu'il est allemand, et qu'il habite à Londres, forcément, les sujets de conversation ne manquent pas. "Plusieurs sont juifs. Certains me parlent de la guerre", sourit le photographe qui s'est fait ainsi un ami, Joe.

Le reste du temps, le jeune photographe est immergé dans un intense travail d'équipe. Tous les mois, il réalise de deux à cinq commandes pour des magazines tels que Dazed and Confused, I-D ou L'Officiel : "Il faut faire des recherches, rencontrer les stylistes, les directeurs artistiques, choisir les mannequins, fabriquer des décors... La prise de vue elle-même dure une journée, parfois deux." Puis vient le travail de postproduction, au moins trois jours supplémentaires, avec trois retoucheurs et un spécialiste des images assistées par ordinateur.

Les images de Sannwald, dont il montre une partie à Hyères, sont plutôt originales au regard de l'ordinaire lisse des magazines. Dans son univers étrange, on sent l'influence du surréalisme et de l'expressionnisme, le tout mâtiné de science-fiction. Côté technique, le photographe passe tout aussi facilement d'un registre à l'autre, des images de synthèse sophistiquées aux appareils argentiques anciens. Il brûle et troue ses images, invente des avatars et des doubles. L'improvisation est un de ses moteurs. "J'arrive sur le plateau avec des feuilles de plastique de couleur, des miroirs, et j'expérimente", résume le photographe.

Une approche risquée qui n'est pas sans donner des sueurs froides aux commanditaires : pour une coûteuse série haute couture réalisée pour L'Officiel, en 2010, Daniel Sannwald a décidé au dernier moment de tout photographier avec la caméra basse définition de son ordinateur portable. "Quand j'ai proposé ça, il y a eu un gros silence. Mais finalement on dirait des aquarelles, et ça a beaucoup plu !"

Ce n'est pas ce travail éditorial, quoique prestigieux, qui lui permet de vivre. Une page publiée est souvent payée aux alentours de 1 000 euros, mais la somme sert à la fois à payer le matériel photo, le décor, la postproduction et le salaire du photographe. "Je gagne rarement de l'argent, résume le photographe, qui ajoute :En plus j'adore manger, je préfère manger des choses délicieuses avec mon équipe qu'avaler des pizzas dégueu."

Daniel Sannwald tire l'essentiel de ses revenus de la publicité, un travail où les directives sont nettement plus contraignantes. Il a signé des campagnes pour Louis Vuitton ou Shiseido, pour des marques de sport. Il réalise aussi des travaux moins glorieux et plus anonymes, ce qui lui permet le luxe de refuser certaines commandes. "Je veux pouvoir m'exprimer à travers les pages, dit-il. J'ai toujours été clair, il me faut de la liberté."

Or en ces temps d'après-crise, rares sont les magazines prêts à donner carte blanche aux photographes. "L'époque actuelle est très ennuyeuse sur le plan visuel, regrette-t-il. Il n'y a pas beaucoup de directeurs artistiques audacieux. La récession est passée par là, les photographes sont là pour montrer les vêtements."Avec ses parti pris radicaux, Daniel Sannwald travaille donc moins souvent pour les poids lourds du secteur comme Vogue, que pour des publications pointues telles que l'Allemand 032c. Mais il ne s'en plaint pas : "J'ai toujours rencontré des gens pour me suivre." Il a reçu sa première commande pour Dazed and Confusedalors qu'il était encore étudiant à l'Académie royale d'Anvers, après avoir envoyé un portfolio par mail. Entre deux prises de vue et deux tasses de thé, Daniel Sannwald trouve encore le temps de donner des cours de photographie à Tokyo ou d'animer un atelier avec des enfants. Cet amateur de poésie, fan de l'Américain Frank O'Hara, édite aussi un magazine qui mêle textes et photos, Under/Current. "Ce sont toutes ces expériences qui nourrissent mes images."

Claire Guillot

ira and me

2011-05-10T13:10:00.000-07:00

:-) ira is the new kid on the block

lettre de blumenfeld

2011-05-08T06:45:00.000-07:00

last friday i found a letter by the Nadia , a relevant of Erwin Blumenfeld, in my postbox. Blumenfeld has been one of my heroes ! He has been a true visionair of his time and still is today. click here to read more about him.

i am so excited!

Its wonderful to have such a new penpal. although i did not have much time lately to write any of my letter friends!

je biseaute l'attente de vous écrire de nouveau Nadia!

Abstraction and Distortion Clip 42 - Erwin Blumenfeld from Karen Ardilla on Vimeo.

London College of Fashion

2011-05-06T07:39:00.000-07:00

Today my workshop started at the LCF.! Such a lovely class... we are working on a really nice charity project... will show you next month! The class is very motivated... and the teacher too (of course!)

michel and me 2 / Hyeres festival 2011

2011-05-05T14:35:00.000-07:00

u/c magazine out soon!

2011-05-04T14:59:00.000-07:00

our magazine u/c is coming out soon!

we are all really happy with the issue. very nice contributors...

cover by mark borthwick

'Blomqvist' trailer from Alexandros Pissourios on Vimeo.

pull and bear video

2011-05-04T11:33:00.000-07:00

oscars!

2011-05-04T11:21:00.000-07:00

hyeres 2011 VIDEO / the moon always follows the sun

2011-05-03T15:31:00.000-07:00

the moon always follows the sun / hyeres 2011

2011-05-03T13:31:00.000-07:00

here some parts of the show in hyeres

and an interview by tag christof for 2dm.

So, your exhibition opens today at Festival Hyères. What can we expect?
The show is curated by Michel Mallard, who I deeply respect. The show will be my work trough his eyes. He made a great selection of works and the room will take the visitors on a journey trough my visual world over the past five years.

Are you having a nice time in Provence?
I rented a nice country house with some friends from London. Its a wonderful house with a huge garden surrounded by fields and trees. We even have goats in our garden (and goats are one of my favourite animals). Its just lovely. More Friends are arriving from France, Germany and Belgium this evening. It feels like a nice holiday and we are enjoying the time together; grilling fishes, taking boat trips on the sea, reading poems, exploring nature and having late talks at night with wine and cheeses.

“The moon always follows the sun,” the title of the exhibition, is gorgeous and evocative. What’s behind it?
I am fascinated by the fact that things come to you and find you in the right moments. You just need to be aware and open, and not on a search. Last year I experienced the loss of a great love and was unable to understand the concept that the world kept on turning. For me everything stood still and I was extremely confused by the fact that my world stopped, yet the outside world kept on turning. One day in an African bookshop I found a poem titled “The moon always follows the sun.” It gave me much strength at that moment. I thought it would be a wonderful title for my first exhibition and a good link to my book title “Pluto and Charon” and my fascination with the universe…

click here to read the whole interview.

michel mallard and me / heyers festival 2011

2011-05-03T10:58:00.000-07:00

bottega veneta special for sunday times

2011-05-02T13:03:00.000-07:00

Stylist: Lucy Ewing

Hair: Angelo Seminara / Streeters

Make Up: Ayami Nishimura / Julian Watson

Model: Iris Egbers / Select

greetings from hyeres

2011-04-28T02:59:00.000-07:00

one more day to go! tomorrow is the opening of the 26th festival of hyeres. my exhibition "the moon always follows the sun" is set up and we are all very excited.

for our stay some friends of mine and I rented a really nice country house in the nature of hyeres. its wonderful. we have goats in our garden!

wish you all could be here.! we could grill fishes and drink wine at night.

and from time to time i would read you guys a poem.

à bientôt!

voyage vers le Sud

2011-04-25T15:23:00.000-07:00

i am off to france for my show "the moon always follows the sun" at the hyeres festival.

hope to see you there.

à bientôt!

sun

2011-04-24T16:57:00.000-07:00

the sun will close its circle in the sky before i close my own.

this evening i was sitting on my roof thinking of tomorrow. i plan to buy comics, sweeties and magic tricks.

i dreamed about a safari and was wondering how it would feel to ride a giraffe. if i would have my own giraffe i would use it as a crane. i would for example deliver letters to my friends who live above the 7th floor.

soon i want to tell you about my new found friend rose. who is the oldest friend i ever had. she is 90 and she reads me her poems out loud. She likes to talk about love and eat smelly cheese and so do i. you should meet her for a cup of tea. she is wonderful.

geography of the heavens

2011-04-24T05:50:00.000-07:00

today

-my friend narelle showed me "the geography of the heavens"

- marlon's friend pelin been playing a small acoustic wake up sunday concert in my room while i was half awake and half asleep

such a nice easter sunday!

冥王星和冥卫一

2011-04-20T06:37:00.000-07:00

below a recent interview in chinese and english on my book "pluto and charon".

"Pluto and Charon" is available in selected bookshops, amazon

at LUDION ( click here)

Click on the images to see them bigger.

jangala of friends

2011-04-18T17:30:00.000-07:00

these days i am really happy to run home and jump into my bed... my friend enrique is camping in my room. i love to camp and i love to talk late at night... especially if its talking with my friend enrique. in the mornings i wake up and look at him and i get really happy inside... its wonderful to have friends like him. its wonderful and it makes you strong for the day.

today i am also really excited to go to bed fast and to wake up early because a few month ago i joined a volunteer organisation called "befriending lonely elderly"in london and i became the friend of the lovely jewish elderly joe. tomorrow i will visit my elderly friend joe and i will surprise him with a passover lunch party... :-) maybe we will dance tango too.! because joe used to be a wonderful tango dancer.

such an eventful time.

wonderful.!

;-)

2011-04-18T10:34:00.000-07:00

click here to read my i-D interview about my show "the moon always follows the sun".

half asleep and half awake

2011-04-17T15:51:00.000-07:00

Half asleep and half awake,
half dreaming, half aware,
I cogitate..

another magazine korea

2011-04-14T04:01:00.000-07:00

another korea is out.

get your kimchi and have a look.

here are a few images out of the story:

styling: joanna schlenzka

hair: tomo jidai

make up: adrien pinault

model: kang sueng-hyun

set: fabienne eisenstein

digi + retouch: studio private

l'officiel hommes germany

2011-04-12T02:26:00.000-07:00

lenny pier ramos, james trimmer and scott campbell and i joined forces to shoot the spring summer LV collection for the recent issue of l'officiel hommes germany.
hair: olivier de vriendt @ artlist
make up: yacine diallo @ artlist
casting: melanie constein
models: david asdrubal, lucho jacob, vladimir mccray, bertold rothas, cyril huillard d'aignaux, tomaz de oliveira

ursa minor

2011-04-10T14:08:00.000-07:00

Today i discovered that my marks on my abdominal form the star constellation of ursa minor.
Ursa Minor, also known as the LITTLE BEAR, is a constellation in the northern sky.
I am very excited by this discovery... very mysterious... i am dreaming of adventures which will clear things up... so very exciting.

"The moon always follows the sun"

2011-04-08T16:13:00.000-07:00

The Hyeres Festival presents my first exhibition "The moon always follows the sun".

come and visit if you can :-). i am very exited.

thought deliverer

2011-04-07T11:52:00.000-07:00

imagine how nice it would be if you had an owl living in your head. every evening the owl would fly out to deliver thoughts. the owl would of course know to whom the thoughts are addressed to... owls are clever!

greetings from spain

2011-04-07T04:36:00.000-07:00

for a couple of days, niall and i went down to spain to shoot a video - in our breaks he teaches me how to pop.

España es muy divertido, especialmente si usted tiene una compañía tan buenacomo Niall.!

escape

2011-03-28T15:31:00.000-07:00

LV Preview

2011-03-28T01:13:00.000-07:00

l'officiel germany out 31th of march !

test

2011-03-27T17:28:00.000-07:00

Painted Eyes from TEST on Vimeo.

vupecula

2011-03-27T01:44:00.000-07:00

vulpecula is latin for "little fox" and it is the name for a faint constellation in the northern sky. its my favourite constellation these days.

:-)

2011-03-23T22:24:00.000-07:00

du cœur de bœuf

2011-03-22T13:14:00.000-07:00

if you don't speak french click here.

otherwise:

Mais il est aussi surprenant de manger du cœur de bœuf au cresson au petit déjeuner, de prendre des cours de hip-hop quand on habite en Chine, ou d’être le fier propriétaire de la plus grande collection de chaussettes roses. Voilà, à mon avis, quelques unes des raisons pour lesquelles il est exceptionnel.

Le Festival d'Hyères présente la première exposition du photographe Daniel Sannwald.

Hyeres 2011

walking becomes a method of remembering

2011-03-22T09:46:00.000-07:00

since i was a teenager i always had a cat near me. not that i ever wanted a cat, they always just been around.

similar to owls, i always believed that if cats could talk they would have really nice voices. dont you think?

they would talk alot of nonsense - for sure. because they are cats! and cats dont care about being too foolish or not...

but they would also tell you from time to time really clever things which make you think and wonder for a long time such as explaining you that

"walking becomes a method of remembering".

They would also teach you about voidness.

For cats, emptiness is a characteristic of phenomena arising from the cats observation that nothing possesses an essential - enduring identity.

just recently, i had to discover that being near a cat makes me feel very calm.

if i talk with marlon i feel calm too.!

just a few things in life make me feel calm - such as stones, trees or the universe.

today i wondered if marlon might be an enchanted cat.

i mean you never know... do you?

ken x cassette playa

2011-03-22T08:57:00.000-07:00

more here.!

miu miu

2011-03-20T01:16:00.000-07:00

Loewe

2011-03-19T06:22:00.000-07:00

Daniel Sannwald

the time is now

the year of the dragon

I*R*A*H

groomed past

philippe

my imaginary christmas wish list

lights for M

until i see again

trials of the past

New U/C out now!

meditation

Peace out West London!

الانفجار العظيم

always never home

a friend

how beautiful it would be

if you talk without words...

pokemon trainer

week of wonders

Arena homme + "Looking for a certain ratio"

arena homme +

Tali Lennox

big but small - small but big

when i was 19teen....

Roger Hiorns

johan coppens

colour circles

Identity

alina

les liquides imaginaires 2

igor dobričić

roses for the favourite ladies

lost images

Les Liquides Imaginaries

I am December!

VERLAINE SPRING/SUMMER 2012 WOMEN’S COLLECTION

Pull and Bear Preview

my favourite place

me + you

Two Roses on Friday and other adventures

out now

The Making of Bullett Magazine

The Titaness of Motherhood

Rose or the grandpa i want to be

Harpers Bazaar China / Mens

all kind of greens

presents

ghosts, lamp robots, magic plants and fruit boxes

storm

summer

wonderful weekend

RE-BEL TV

House of Organza / Video

House of Organza

reasons

‘Tech Noir’

more wallpaper...

Wallpaper

greetings and love

AnOther Magazine Korea Making Of

U/C is out!

pluto and charon signing @ walther koenig bookshop vienna

Vienna!

take it back

For Mum

ira and me

lettre de blumenfeld

London College of Fashion

michel and me 2 / Hyeres festival 2011

u/c magazine out soon!

pull and bear video

oscars!

hyeres 2011 VIDEO / the moon always follows the sun

the moon always follows the sun / hyeres 2011

michel mallard and me / heyers festival 2011

bottega veneta special for sunday times

greetings from hyeres

voyage vers le Sud

sun

IRA*H