"Top 11" of 10horses 2009

It's that time of the year when You almost automatically take a step back and start reflecting on the year(s) that has passed.
Some time ago I noticed that I had over 500 posts and thought "isn't it time to rummage through the archives" and bring forth some "goodies"
There are top 10 lists all over, but no "top 11" and here at 10horses we don't want to miss out, so here You go...

The official 10horses top 11 list of 2009-2008
"Virtual Gold Trade"
"Ann-Sofie Back held hostage for crimes againt fashion"
"Monumental"
"Flash-Mob"
"3 gentlemen with guns..."
"McQueen ss99"
"Black Ascot"
"Sea of Tranquility..."
"The artist as freak, martyr or victim..."
"Berlin punks, and their dogs, a meme ?"
"Katarinas Sovjetiska upplevelser"

BlauBlut Edition

I'm very pleased to have BlauBlut Edition represent my image archive for licensing purposes.
BlauBlut Edition is a reaction against the current trend of "micro" agencies and will focus on the high-end segment of the fashion, beauty and lifestyle licensing market.
There is also a longer interview with me in their eMagazine BlauBlut Edition #1 where the subjects range from Peter Greenaway to the Elephant Man !!!

First snow in Berlin...

... the first snow has fallen, and already disappeared !!!
Here a previous posts on a similar theme...

MKK "Graceful Dawn" as free download...

... You can now download a free web-gallery of my MKK "Graceful Dawn" campaign, here:
This makes for a more elegant viewing experience !!!
(a 23 mB zipped file that will launch in Your browser...)

MKK FW 09/10 "Graceful Dawn" campaign out now...

my campaign for cutting edge hair/beauty salon, mika's koivisto karlsson which has positioned itself as the leading creative force in sweden.
the concept for this campaign was to pull back slightly from the usual hair beauty imagery and put the hair in a slightly darker, hedonistic context.
working very closely with mkk's "guest style director" tony lundström and jenny karlsson in setting the mood and styles for these images.
... here are some previous posts about the production of this campaign with some outtakes here.

FELD Hommes Chaos issue (on Issuu)

The current FELD Hommes "Choas" (Chaos) issue is now available online via Issuu here...
My cover + 12 pages hair inside...

Not horses...

Horses Think

... another blog, focusing on photography and pop culture:
horses think...
... really really good!!!

David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

... really, really thoughtful !
Basically Mr. Deutsch argues that human progress started when we abandoned myths, religions and mumbo-jumbo and embraced a world view based on reason.
That only started some 400-500 years ago !!!

Turning the Place Over - Richard Wilson, 2007 from Liverpool Biennial on Vimeo.

AmericanSuburbX

... for You who might be looking for great content on photography I'd like to recommend the blog "AMERICANSUBURBX - Photography & culture"
Here You'll find longer, very readable, pieces on photographers like Kohei Yoshiyuki, Lars Tunbjörk, Tanyth Berkeley, David LaChapelle, Richard Billingham  etc etc...

Bill Viola "Ocean without a shore"

I'm speechless...
Below Mr. Viola is talking about this piece...

The Manipulator, Relaunch 2010

The Manipulator is set to relaunch in June 2010.
This gigantic magazine was published 1984-1994 by Wilhelm Moser & David Colby and was had an enormous influence on me with it's heroic imagery of cosmonauts, larger-than-life-divas and melting icebergs.
The photography was usually very Thierry Mugler-esque, instantly rendering almost any mundane subject desirable, almost always shot from a low camera angle againts an heroic sky.
There was the magnificent layered portraits of cold war power, Leonid Breschnew merging with Ronald Reagan...
Flipping trough the magazine today ( I own 3 different issues) I realize that the powerful marriage of content and form was then well ahead of it's time.

Michael Hansmeyer "Platonic Solids" at SmallSpace Gallery, Berlin

My collaborator on the Qompendium + Lee Jeans "Sea of Tranquility" project, architect and 3-D programmer Michael Hansmeyer is showing his "Platonic Solids" project at the Berlin SmallSpace gallery on Nov. 12th.

Per Zennström / Noll Images

... just a post with some shameless self promotion.

My extensive image archive is now represented by Noll Images...

There seems to be a trend in the stock agency world of going in 2 distinct directions, one is the royalty free, micro agency model with huge sets of royalty free and very inexpensive photos...

Or "boutique agencies" where the focus is on name recognition and exclusivity...

Very soon there will be an interesting agency opening up in Germany where the latter has been drawn to it's extreme, more very soon !

Zentai

... just another day at work in Berlin !
The good people at Zentai Experience were kind enough to come by and take part in my last shooting , fearturing a well-known german actress, more later...

Flying hair

Workflow...

Just a quick post on my current workflow...
As always the cornerstone is the integrated combo Adobe Lightroom / Adobe Photshop.
(After switching to LightRoom I never, ever open up Bridge anymore !!!)

Shooting on cards with a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II (or Mark III)
At the moment I haven't figured out how to shoot tethered into Lightroom, supposedly there is a way of doing just that...
- Shooting on cards which gets saved on 2 disks.
- Edit, and a lot of color / contrast / cropping gets done in Lightroom.
The editing of, say 2000-3000 frames, used to be a nightmare but thanx to Lightroom I now get it done 10 times quicker.
Earlier it wasn't unusual for me to get bogged down for 2-3 days editing, but now I usually get it done in a few hrs.
Also, a lot of the postprod. work that I earlier did in Photoshop now gets done  in Lightroom !!!
- My first choices gets sent to client via Lighrooms webgallery.
- Final postprod. in Photshop.
- ... as always I use BaseCamp to manage the project and keep everyone involved in the project "on the same page" ( no more emails getting lost or resending of mails...)

SONY Soundville

GEIL magazine out soon...

My GEIL shooting with superstar male model , and enfant terrible Cole Mohr will ber out soon, end of October according to well placed sources...
Go here to see some out takes and random shoots of Cole