European photo journey
Basil/ Freiburg, 2006
Within 24 hrs a friend and I hitchhiked from France to Germany stayed up all night drinking and managed to travel to Switzerland, back to Germany, the to Switzerland and finally into France. Let’s just say it was a crazy trip. Zoom.
In 2006 I took a 4 month photo source travel around Europe. While I’d intended to use this all as source material for my printmaking, I ended up having fun with the photos themselves. I focused on exploring the relationship of lines and the ‘horizon line’ in my photos as well as a couple unexpected outcomes. Such as shooting people photography which is quite fun and a carefree way of documenting life.
During these travels I ended up staying at random peoples places through the website Couchsurfing or just people I’d meet. The ability to stay in neighborhoods tourists rarely visited affected the content of these photos. At the end of each stay I’d make a photo composition present as a ‘thanks’, I ended up making a lot of friends and came away with a newfound faith in people.