Demonstrations for freedom in Iran in Berlin 16.6.2009 +21.6.2009

The writing means "Truth" in Persian/Farsi 

Sommersonnenwende - Fête de la Musique, Berlin

Berlin Summer

Mook Magazine from Beijing

Lately I have been getting several requests for editorials for Chinese magazines. I'm not sure where they discovered my work but I always look forward to receiving an issue with my photos edited through their eyes accompanied with beautiful signs I can't read. 

This story was recently published in Mook magazine from Beijing, whose selection and layout I particularly enjoyed.

Wern's World

Man who sold the World

In the wake of Nirvanas cover of Bowies song, Bowie bemoaned the fact that when he performed the number himself he would encounter "kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It's cool you're doing a Nirvana song.' And I think, 'Fuck you, you little tosser!
(from Wikipedia)

It's actually hard to find a good version of Bowie doing the song himself on Youtube but I DO like this performance:

Last Concert of the Falling Stones!

Enfants de Berlin for Liberation Next

We recently produced a fashion editorial for french magazine Liberation Next. Here is a selection from the story we shot.

On the Dry Lakebed

We were spending one day in summer on a California Dry Lake with actor Steven Grayham and his brother Rick and band member/friend Robo. Nothing beats a drive there and ending the day with a campfire!

Missing Summer 7

Missing Summer 6

Rio, Brazil 2006

Missing Summer 5

South Beach 1996

Missing Summer 4

Sommergewitter in Berlin

Missing Summer 3

Christopher Street Day Berlin 2007 - They were cooling themselves with ice vendors hat emptied onto the street on this hot day.

Missing Summer 2

Missing Summer 1

I think I have a pretty good understanding now of all the possible shades of grey you can encounter at the end of a Berlin winter - so I'm gonna do a little 'Missing Summer" series here for this week.

Winter in Berlin

Winter keeps its firm grip on Berlin. I have enough already and wonder why I'm not in Brazil or somewhere...

Election III - photolink

Just one link before going back to work after a long night.

A page which shows good photography about the election&politics is Bagnewsnotes. Its worth clicking back a view pages on the site.

Link

Election II - prediction

Prediction!

Not for percentages, seats and everything - I leave that to the pros (Link)

But that somewhere somtime today or tomorrow a photo of the decade will be shot. there will be a huge Love Parade like street event in Chicago and I guess Magnum and everybody will have photographers there (and I would love shot there myself)

But I wonder if THE picture will be shot by a professional photographer or if it will again come from a videostill, cellphone or small digital camera.

Waiting for the Obama Effect

the now famous Obama Giant poster which I saw a lot in Los Angeles and California was designed by skater artist Shepard Fairey. The amazing thing is that he got the official ok from Obama's campaign.

Here's more on it in a Washington Post article:

Link

This was around the corner where I've been living in LA this summer in Echo Park.

Newsflash: aktuelle Veröffentlichungen in Park Avenue, Kasino, Emotion und SZ Magazin

Für die Geschichte "Söhne und Töchter" der September-Ausgabe der Park-Avenue ein Porträt von Artur und Alice Brauner.



Kasino ist aus Finland und eines meiner Lieblings-Magazine. Hier ein kleiner Ausschnitt von einem Porträt, das ich in Los Angeles für Kasino fotografiert habe

Für die Zeitschrift Emotion ein Porträt von Dr. Carole, Therapeutin in Beverly Hills:

Für das SZ-Magazin, Beautyshots zur Illustration von 'Berührung'

LisaLisaandtheRedBalloon II

Here's an outtake of the Balloon story I did with Lisa...

LisaLisaandtheRedBalloon - Making of Video

Debra Tate for Park Avenue

I took a portrait of Debra Tate at her ranch for the August issue of German magazine Park Avenue. Debra Tate is the sister of Sharon Tate who was murdered by the Manson family in 1969. From the drive to her ranch to the actual shooting it was a real interesting assignment - amazing to hear Debra's views and experiences on an event everybody has heard of.

For The Love Of...

...California:

©Werner Amann, June 2008

Roadtrip III / Living In A Box

Miami - Kansas City














©Werner Amann, May 2008

Roadtrip II

©Werner Amann, Miami 2008

Roadtrip I

Here is a first selection of portraits I took during a recent trip from Miami to Kansas City














©Werner Amann, June 2008

Sternenstaub

Ich bin bis ca Mitte September in Los Angeles.

I will be working in Los Angeles till around Mid-September - then back in Berlin.
If you have a shooting here or know about a good party, exhibition etc. call me at +1 323 334 5602




Sternenstaub ©Werner Amann, June 2008

Urban Beach Weekend, Miami

©Werner Amann, Miami May 2008

On The Road

©Werner Amann, Miami May 2008

Couple

Couple, ©Werner Amann Berlin May 2008

Mirco and Andre

from a series of portraits I took of friends last summer.

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough

... said Robert Capa, who is probably the first guy to embody the cliché of the photographer as adventurer akin to Hemingway's image of writer/adventurer.

Theres an interesting NYtimes piece on boxes of his negatives of the Spanish Civil War which were thought to be lost since decades but have been rediscovered recently.

There's probably a book and exhibition coming up but till then - one picture I really like -
of the box with the roll of negatives which you can see on a slide show here:
Link

I'm not sure if digital data would survive for 75 years laying around in boxes like this, but it seems that these negative are still in a pretty good shape.

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

I was rather busy the last weeks and months with different commercial projects - - but I also managed to go to Tel Aviv for a personal project. I'm still editing the material (I also shot some interviews on video) but here's already a little preview:

Tel Aviv

I will be in Tel Aviv for a personal projekt from this Wendsday on. I'm also planning to visit the Negev desert and Jerusalem for a day.
I'm visiting for the first time and I'm very much open for any tips, advice, locations, people, places etc...

Its a trip I wanted to make since years and I'm happy its finally becoming real!

HeartBeatBerlin

Together with Diane Vincent I am doing another blog called HeartBeatBerlin. Right now most of the pictures - the B/W polaroids - are actually from her - so much more reason to check it out if you are bored of my stuff ;-)

Link

Link

A blog I like to check out regularly:

www.aphotoeditor.com

goskate

Together with my grandfather I recently decided to go and learn skating. Here's a picture of my Opa on his board.

Portraits in ZEITmagazin LEBEN

This is Jonathan Meese. I shot him for the ZeitMagazin Leben, with the theme "How was your summer?". The portrait of Johnny can be found in the current issue.