Category Archives: TRADITIONS

18.1.13

A New Ireland Mask from the Ethnological Museum Berlin.

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Armadillo Scrub

18.3.12

I was in the Peruvian jungle, when a young American who was apprenticing to be a shaman told me about a stuffed armadillo he saw in a market in Lima. He asked if they do use the stuffed armadillo in rituals, the stall owner said "no", while heaving a cage with a live armadillo on the table, "we use this one."
Photographed January 2009 in Lima, Peru.

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St.martin in zillis

23.1.12

You would never imagine the humble church would have such an astounding ceiling. It just makes me think what Romanesque Europe would have been like, before the wars and fires consumed most art.
Photographed February 2011 in Zillis and Andeer, Switzerland.

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Ayacucho Carnival

10.10.11

This was such an emotional and rewarding experience. We were the only white people, not even any local Lima folk were there. Everybody was so happy to see us, to include us, to laugh and play with us. The atmosphere so charged. These simple people so filled with love and energy is one of the many things that makes Peru.
Photographed March 2011 in Lima, Peru.

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Lama Temple

15.7.11

I'm not a fan of much Asian architecture due to the constant restoration that makes many places seem as if they were brand new. Thankfully the Lama Temple survived the cultural revolution and while being alive and used, it still feels old and beautiful.
Photographed May 2011 in Beijing, China.

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Heilig Kreuz

1.7.11

Heilig Kreuz is on the way from Zurich to the Engadin, a journey I made hundreds of times. I am not sure the first time I went to visit, but I remember how much sense I thought the place made. I love concrete and find it such a sensual material, but most brutalist buidlings feel like second tier 70's furniture, interesing style, but the corners are all wrong. Förderer seems to have magical touch. It all seems so right, so soft, so perfectly channeling the idea of the time.
Photographed January 2011 in Chur, Swtizerland.

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Frog Juice

1.7.11

A few years ago while visiting Lima I was taken to the weird and spooky alternative medicine market. The place is full of trinkets, spells, healing soaps, jaguar skins, san pedro cacti, replica money, and of course tubs of frogs. Unfortunately its another case of a supposed aphrodisiac leading to the endangering of a species. You can read more here.
Photographed in December 2008 in Lima, Peru.

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