This evening’s presentation is by Hendrik Lohmann.

He will cover street photography very generally before showing us his TTPP project.

Hendrik started with an analogue camera and switched to a digital one in 2009. For some years now, however, he has been using both types. In the beginning landscapes and architecture were the focus of his photographs. Nevertheless at some point, he discovered street photography and developed a great love for it.

One of his greatest influences in the beginning was Marius Vieth. It was the moment when he saw one of his photographs that depicted a guy with an umbrella running through the rain, that he decided to become a street photographer himself. A candid moment shown in a very fine and sensitive way.

“I am fascinated by humans” – a sentence summing up my thrill. Their uniqueness and versatility at the same time, impresses him. It drives him towards trying to catch these moments and immortalise them on pieces of paper.

Besides street photography, where he tries to seize not only the special moments, but also the casual everyday-life situations, there is also the street portraits.

Hendrik addresses an unknown person on the street, that catches his attention, and asks to portray him/her. It happens on the spot and usually never takes more than a few minutes. Since it all happens fairly quickly, he still achieve unselfconscious facial expressions. That is how many of the portraits for the “What the hell…?” and the “beard-series”, as well as others, developed.

During the past three years Hendrik has been photographing the “What the hell…?” series. The project combines the portrait with the question of what the hell are they doing on this planet…

His personal motivation is the fact that he has a lot of fun doing it, nevertheless he also love bringing joy to the people that he portrays, with the photographs that he takes.