I decided to shrink my account form 1700something pictures to 140 as I got the notification from Ipernity telling me that only my last 200 pictures shall be visible if I do not join the club. I very well understand why Ipernity is doing this (like Flickr as well), but on the other hand I am particip…

10 years ago / 470 visits

Originally I wanted to participate with other pictures that represent more my style.Then I had to watch the tragic events taking place in my home-country Syria and Syrian Army rolling into towns with tanks in order to repress the people's peaceful freedom uprising. I remembered the children of whom…

13 years ago / 1 618 visits

This the title of the book I am reading now. Here is a link to the publisher's page: http://www.merrellpublishers.com/books.p hp I always admired impressionism as a school of art and I did not know that photography had such a movement and that it was struggling so early to acquire the title o…

15 years ago / 1 706 visits

I am reading for the moment the following book on photography with Flash: The Hot Show Diaries by Joe McNally http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.as px?isbn=032160248X The author wrote the book in the form of a funny (well this is subjective, and one has to understand American slang) diary showing…

15 years ago / 840 visits

I went today visit an exhibition on "Czech Photography of the 20th Century": www.kah-bonn.de/index_e.htm It was quite inspiring and I was mostly inspired by the old techniques of printing like OIl Prints, Gum Prints and many other processes. I am going to process my pictures in a way that is inspire…

15 years ago / 849 visits / 1 comment

HI everybody, I'll be away for 2 weeks and I'll come back on the 21st. Perhaps I'll have then a few nice pictures from Syria to share with you ;-) I wish you a great Easter

15 years ago / 500 visits

I bought the other day a set of fine art print papers to print a few pictures to be sent to a friend as a gift. I soon had to figure out and after I wasted a few sheets of expensive paper (and ink) that it was not possible (or I did not achieve it) to make the prints look like what is appearing on t…

15 years ago / 687 visits

Dear friends, Last week I went to see the opening of a beautiful exhibition of the photographer Antonio Girbés. It is in fact the series "Untitleds" in this website: http://www.antoniogirbes.com/ Would you please have a look at it and tell me what you think about the backgrounds? Have they been made…

15 years ago / 707 visits

I started a group called Protests against war in Gaza (Group) The aim of the group is to document the protests against the Gaza war. So, if you happen to have made pictures of protests against this war, you are more than welcome to add them to this pool

15 years ago / 521 visits / 1 comment

Today I particiapted in a demonstration against the Israeli agression on Palestine in Düsseldorf/Germany. There were something like 4000 remonstrants from all possible groups, parties and individuals, Germans, Arabs and Kurds, etc. I went there to demonstrate to the German government that I am total…

15 years ago / 521 visits / 1 comment

Well my friends, probably most thing I like is to look at beautiful pictures and share them with you. However, I do not feel like doing that now. I can't do this while people are dying in this horrible manner in Palestine (in this case Gaza) and nobody is moving or even trying to stop this mad killi…

15 years ago / 606 visits

I am asking myself a question all the time: A few decades ago (and even still) it was not possible to obtain cameras with good optic or even other features to deliver a photo with good quality, objectively speaking, without distortion, blur, colour infringement, etc. Many people had to shoot with Po…

15 years ago / 1 511 visits / 4 comments / 2 people like

I mentioned in my last posting Richard Avedon's exhibition in Berlin. I came back home and went straight away to buy a book about the pictures. I came back with 2 books, one contained the pictures themselves and one written by Laura Wilson titled “Avedon At Work”. Wilson accompanied Avedon in his ve…

16 years ago / 753 visits

Today I was in Berlin in a business trip and had extra 2 hours before my flight back so I jumped into the Martin Gropius building where an exhibition of Richard Avedon is taking place. I was stunned by the beauty of the pictures, mostly portraits made with a large format camera in B&W. I was feeling…

16 years ago / 666 visits

I am going to disappear from here for 2 weeks as I am going to spend 2 weeks of Holiday in Sicily. Let's hope that I'll have a few good shots to share with you when I come back

16 years ago / 627 visits / 1 comment