Ernest Thiesmeier

Dublin

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Welcome to Dublin. A city I expected to be much more fancy looking than it actually is. My idea stemmed from the information I had gathered about housing market prices beforehand. If you pay 500 Euros for a shared room in the city centre it must be a pretty posh place I concluded. I was not completely wrong. Dublin has its . . .

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September 02, 2017

Colour

It almost looks like reality

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These photos were taken with different rolls of film over the last two months or so. Their arrangement does not refer to any spatial or temporal coherence between them. But it might. Please feel free to establish any degree of coherence for yourself.

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Locations: Luxembourg, Berlin and Kassel. I . . .

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August 24, 2017

Urban Impressions

Berlin + Luxembourg + Kassel

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Stony landscapes. Not mountains. Walls made of accomodations.

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My sky is a strip of light when I raise my head.

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Life is dense here. A man is shouting. Young girls order kebabs. Laughter. Honking cars. Smelly trains. Fast taxis. Slow tourists. Two lovers are making . . .

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August 05, 2017

Land

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Land.

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Das Korn das ich esse gedeiht hier.

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Der Himmel ist weit. Die Hecken sind gepflegt.

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Meine weißen Turnschuhe schlurfen über den asphaltierten Feldweg.

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Die Dorfbewohner fahren . . .

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July 24, 2017

Berlin V

The most expensive post

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This is probably the most expensive post on this blog so far. The reason? All of these photos were taken via analogue film and then digitalised. Just to transform these images into a digital format, which is able to be shown on this blog, several steps had to be undertaken.

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July 17, 2017

Welt aus Glas und Wasser

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Welt aus Glas und Wasser.

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Shoppingmall gefüllt mit Fischen.

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Die Kinder sind entzückt.

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Der Kraken bleibt in seiner Höhle.

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Aquarium.

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June 28, 2017

Rotterdam

Visual Information

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What do we really see in these photographs? Maybe only what we expect. The explanation for what it is being seen is provided by the way we learn how to read visual information.
Actually, all of these are just two-dimensional recordings of light, which have fallen on the electronic sensors of my camera when I . . .

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May 19, 2017

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