Vu sur un trottoir à Pantin. seen on a sidewalk in Pantin.

2006-2010. The items in this Berlin backyard are permanently rearranged by the children living in the neighborhood. The stones have been thrown to the ground in an effort to try and «break» them.

Rumpsti Pumsti is a shop for noise music in Berlin.

Heating in a 7m² room.

Parc des Dondaines, Lille/France

sketch for a film (inventory). These clothes have been offered mother in the late 1970ies, then living in East-Berlin, by her aunt, then working for the Red Cross in Bavaria, who was originally from the eastern part of Germany, too. … Continue reading →

This photo is a quotation of « Der arme Poet » by Carl Spitzweg, a painting of the german Biedermeier era (which hung, as probably in a lot of german homes, in my parents’ living room). It makes fun of the bourgeois … Continue reading →

Paris, Marcadet Poissonniers.

For Koreans health is very important. Older people, mostly women, called «azuma», may work out at these public places. As this is a very private occupation, which integrates perfectly into public space, and in order to respect people’s privacy, there … Continue reading →

Being nowhere, going nowhere, even if there is a direction indicated. Everywhere are walls and ways, but also emptiness.

Those little flags remind me of the GDR. So do the bungalows. And the people.

For many people Paris is « the city of love ». For me it is a place that suffers on the one hand from its history (centralisation of services, financial flows, population flows, organization adn centralization of work, probably a little bit … Continue reading →

Ces images font partie d’une série de mises en scène que j’ai commencé en 2007. D’après moi, pour un tel sujet, le reportage photographique n’a plus aucun sens. Nous avons vu moultes fois ces mêmes images, des pauvres dans les … Continue reading →

Ces images font partie d’une série de mises en scène que j’ai commencé en 2007. D’après moi, pour un tel sujet, le reportage photographique n’a plus aucun sens. Nous avons vu moultes fois ces mêmes images, des pauvres dans les … Continue reading →

Performance « Tsuneko/Marianne , Marianne/Tsuneko » by franco-japanese performance artist Tsuneko Taniuchi at « La Force de l’Art », the Paris triennale. I made these photos for Tsuneko Taniuchi.

Wedding pictures of performance of franco-japanese artist Tsuneko Taniuchi at the gallery Miss China Beauty in Paris. The pictures are part of the ceremony and constituted the exhibition that took place afterwards. I made these photos for Tsuneko Taniuchi.