I took this picture last fall when working on my ‘Margins’ project on working poor in Istanbul. I went to the ferry terminal in Kadiköy on the Asian side to photograph shoe shine boys. There, I met Haydar. He dropped out of school early and tries hard to get by with rudimentary shoe shine services. Even with a shoe cleaning not more expensive than 3 Turkish Lira (approximately 1.50 Euro) it is still hard to find customers. However, Haydar wanted to have a picture taken of him in action and tried to convice passerbys to pose with him for a photogaph. read more…

A new story is available on http://claudiusschulze.com: Passengers and their luggage. So far, URI-Navigation doesn’t work so you have to click your way through the page.

I teased a small selection of the pictures some time ago but know I decided to put the work into my portfolio, even though this project is very much work in progress. So far, I only ‘covered’ Antwerpen Centraal but since my travel behaviour is more or less maniac, I am sure to add much more soon.

PS: Btw travel behaviour: Did any of you dear readers aver travel with a cat? This thursday, I have a flight booked /w her. Finally, I am bringing her from Istanbul home to Antwerpen. But I wonder how much Black September will hate flying…

PPS: I had to work a bit to make sure that the fullscreen mode of my website doesn’t crop these pictures. While doing so, I noticed that more than 10 percent of the vistors have a higher screen width than 1680px, the maximum size I uploaded the pictures in. Big faux pas. I will have to re-upload all the pictures. Big hassle since the caption in my Lightroom database and online differ in many cases…

Last week, I had a very good and intense workshop with the French portrait photographer Charles Fréger. Personally, I always considered my portrait work as weak. Don’t worry, I think I learned a lot.
We worked a lot with classical and iconic photographs, with the original prints of the collection of the Foto Museum Antwerpen. It is a overwhelming experience to see all those famous pictures directly in front of you (and in one case, even holding it in your hands: One of Hine’s famous pictures of construction workers of the Empire State Building.)
But first of all, let me show some of the work I produced during the workshop: A portrait series of passengers and their luggage waiting for their train.

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