Snapshots from Berlin #2
If you came to the blog looking for Haiti, click here.
I went to Berlin again, this time for a family trip. Here’s some images from my trip:
Reminds me of 1984 somehow
Sony Center
Jewish Memorial Jumper
Gefaengnis is the German for Prison
Friedrichstrasse Train station
If you like this, you may like my previous Berlin photos.
Haiti, Los Angeles & Celebrities – The Kerri Kasem Podcast
My recent trip to Haiti was concluded by a trip to LA to do a shoot with the beautiful ladies of the Kerri Kasem Podcast and to speak about my photography and work in Haiti.
We ended up recording two shows, the first was to talk about our fantastic Malibu shoot (watch this space for photos from that) and photography in general. We talked about everything from Poison Oak to Annie Leibovitz and Patti Smith. I even managed to throw in a bit of talk about my favorite subject – philosophy of photography.
Listen to it by clicking here – I think we’ll manage to make you giggle.
The second podcast was a little more serious. We got a bunch of people together that had been to Haiti and done great work out there. We had beautiful Cassandra Hepburn (from Tarantino’s ‘Hell Ride’), the fascinating Josh Hawkins who worked tirelessly to help in the Miami University Field Hospital and Jack Osborne, son of Ozzy and Sharon. He went to Haiti with Sean Penn’s group and is just a really cool down to earth adrenaline junkie. We chatted about what needed to be done to ensure the future of Haiti, what YOU can do right now to help prepare Haiti for the inevitable rainy season and the diseases it will bring and we told stories about our experiences in Haiti. A few tears were shed but we hope we communicated some of the optimism of the situation and the actions that can be taken by every one of us to help. I talked also about my work with Help for Orphans and the amazing Future of Haiti orphanage, both of which readers of this blog will be hearing more about.
To listen to the Haiti podcast, click here.
L-R Josh Hawkins, Cassandra Hepburn, Felix Kunze, Kerri Kasem, Jack Osborne
If you listen to the Haiti show, you can hear the moment when I took this picture.
If you liked this, why not check out the overview of my first Haiti trip on the blog.
Travel travel travel
The next month will see me in no less than 9 separate locations on earth.
I’m putting aside commercial work and other commitments to embark on a second photographic trip to Haiti. I will be working on several projects, this time in a more structured fashion. I’ll be out there with Help For Orphans International as well as working with some other projects – more on that after the fact. I know that I will definitely be photographing about 100 more orphans in the same style I did on my last trip.
There’s also tie-ins with media and radio.
My trip will start on Monday, 1st of March, I’m headed to New York City. There’s something really cool happening there that I can’t yet talk about, but will reveal in good time.
On Wednesday, 3rd of March I head down to Philadelphia, I’ll attend a Help for Orphans fundraiser.
On Thursday, 4th of March, we’re headed out to Haiti via the Dominican Republic. I’ll be there for about 8 days, at which point I fly to Miami to spend around 24 hours on the 13th of March in the Tampa Bay area and wrapping up edits and loose ends from my Haiti trip. Then it’s an early morning flight to LA on the 14th where I will spend about 72 hours. I’ll speak on a big radio show and podcast about my work in Haiti. I’m leaving LA on the 16th, arriving back in London on the 17th.
Meetups:
For people in New York, if you want to meet up, I want to get coffee or dinner on the 2nd. I’ll be able to tell you all about my exciting news in NY on that day, but only in person. Message me for details and to arrange coming along.
In the Tampa Bay area, I want to do a meetup after another event I’m attending on the 13th of March. It will be late night chats and drinks somewhere. Message me for details!
For LA, my idea is to have a bit of a social on the evening of the 15th. I’ll have recorded my radio segment and will want to hang out, probably in Silverlake somewhere (close friends will already know the venue). Again – message me for details.
After that I’ll be heading back home to London for just over 24 hours and then it’s back to Berlin, this time for some family engagements.
That means I’ll be back in London properly on around the 24th of March, probably feeling a fair amount more tired that I feel right now, but with great stories to tell and many many pictures to show!
Sorry for the ambiguous blog post, the details will flesh themselves out as my trip goes on – My ‘placemarkers’ right now are my 7 booked flights, everything will revolve around those and updates will come daily on my twitter page or you can head over to my Where is Felix page to get location based updates.
Berlin February 2010
Berlin is the city of my birth, but this time I’m here for Thorsten Overgaard’s photo seminar.
I like to attend his seminars because they push me to do some street stuff, help me go over the basics and he’s always such sophisticated and intriguing company.
As luck would have it, I’m meeting him again briefly in NY soon.
Thorsten runs a series of Seminars that help anyone get started in photography. There’s more info on Thorsten’s site here. As part of the seminar there is a section on street photography. I enjoy it because I don’t do it enough. Of course I end up doing a bunch of other stuff and always gravitate towards the more portrait style shots as you can see below.
It’s all a bit of photo fun after the more serious (in comparison) work in Haiti.
More images after the jump