NEW PROJECT: "21 Years after the Balkan Conflict" In September 2016 a new Photographic Documentation guides me through the Balkan countries: Serbia – Macedonia – Kosovo – Albania – Montenegro – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Croatia If you are interested in hiring me for an assignment, please drop me a note. -------------------- Oliver is a physician and a documentary photographer who hails from Munich, Germany. Currently he lives and works on the Canary Island of La Gomera. His specialty areas are reportage, portrait and what has come to be recognized as street photography. His work has been exhibited internationally and published in leading magazines and newspapers. November 2015 he received his Professor of Visual Arts at California University.
2012 - Spyder Award, 2008 - Spyder Award
In September 2016 a new Photographic Documentation guides me through the ex-Yugoslavia countries: Serbia – Macedonia – Kosovo – Albania – Montenegro – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Croatia If you are interested in hiring me for an assignment, please drop me a note.
With the arrival of spring comes Easter week. It has centuries of history behind it and is one of Spain's most authentic and emotive celebrations. The streets of the vast majority of Spain's cities, towns and villages become the stage for religious fervour and devotion, combining grief and meditation in memory of Christ's death. The Holy Week in the historical and University City in Tenerife, La Laguna, is especially famous in the Canary Islands. The most important days are Easter Thursday and Friday (Viernes Santo).
It is a Sunday in April. A strong, gusty wind on the Canary Island of La Gomera. I am sitting in a dark living room. Time seems to stand still. Around me furnishings in the style of "Rustic German" dating from the 1970s. Hunting trophies, a skeleton, a treasure chest, swords and books. I am not alone. With me is Captain Flint. Little burn holes, caused by one of his about 120 pipes decorate his dressing gown. We stare together at the swell of the waves and listen to music of the 50s - old sailor songs. The windows are closed. Flint can't bear drafts, and so the room gradually fills with his pipe smoke. He offers me a lukewarm beer. "You know?" he says and begins telling me about his past. (...)