Off-topic and not… of course I like to write about photography as a whole and corporate communication in particular. About the fact that as a photographer you should see the world through the eyes of the client, but also with your own, otherwise the whole work becomes arbitrary and the art buyer or PR officer could simply book a vicarious agent instead of a photographer.

Anyone who knows me knows that my heart beats anachronistically for mobility on four wheels. I can’t deny it, I think the mobility that cars make possible is great. Theoretically, I could walk out of the studio door, get in my car and with a few fill-ups I’d be really far away. That’s great. A bigger travel project was thwarted by the Syrian civil war. Thank you very much…

Photography behind closed doors

Occasionally I work for a magazine with a strong focus on horsepower, and the attentive reader has probably already read one or two stories about it here. In spring, for example, I spent 2 days on the road in Westphalia and Lower Saxony with a VW-affine editor. And I did so with a VW Bulli T2 with Westfalia conversion, freshly restored, maiden voyage so to speak. And that brings us back to what makes my job so special: you see really special things, get to know places that you didn’t even know existed, let alone that you could open the doors there. So I was able to take photos in the collection of VW commercial vehicles. And they really do have everything, from the T1 and T4 to the Amarok in rally outfit. Anyone with a soft spot for Bullis would have had a heart attack there. But Hermann Walter’s private VW collection also includes an example of practically every model year of the VW Beetle since 1941. And many more vehicles, I was really amazed, even without being really well socialized with VW.

Why am I telling you this here? There are many who dream of such cars, and I am lucky enough to drive a T2b Westfalia to its birthplace, see rare vehicles and meet special people and take their portraits. Not bad, is it?

Here is the link to the whole article, here the direct link to the photos.