Since student times, my Koga touring bikes carried me thousands of kilometres through many regions of especially Southern Europe, earlier with tent and sleeping bag, nowadays lodging in small hotels. A small Leica M camera is always with me, too.

What counts are not the kilometres, but the encounter with land, people and customs, and the round movement over days and weeks. The own world, the understanding of life, the heart become wider.

The black & white street photography evolving hereby, is a "photography in passing by". No posing, no instructions, no follow-up treatment. The images do not claim to be art or documentation. But they picture moments that touched me, situations telling something about human being. In style I feel influenced by pictures of the classical humanist photography.

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