Umbrella Gallery

I still don't know why, but whenever I see an interesting umbrella, I take a picture of it. So I added a new gallery to my website www.stefanfalke.com (under 'personal projects') called, well, Umbrellas.

Also, visitors to the website can now email any single images from the site to friends or colleagues by clicking the 'email this image' button below the picture. http://www.stefanfalke.com/#/personal%20projects/Umbrellas/1

Crawford minus Bush

I added a new series of images titled "Crawford minus Bush" to my website www.stefanfalke.com
Reporter Peter Hossli and I visited Crawford/Texas earlier this year to see how the 705 people of this town were coping with the departure of their famous former neighbor. During his time as the President of the United States Bush lived on a nearby ranch until he moved to a new home in Dallas.

http://www.stefanfalke.com/#/stories/Crawford%20minus%20Bush/1

Moko Jumbies and UNICEF

This image from my series about a stilt walking school in Trinidad (and the resulting book 'MOKO JUMBIES: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad') received an Honorable Mentioning from the UNICEF Photo Award in Germany in 2004, and was printed again last week in a special edition of Unicef's German magazine.

Moko Jumbies Gallery click here

ATMs in NYC

I think New York City has more ATM machines than rats these days ... I counted seven on each block in my neighborhood, and they keep on coming. Pictures from the East Village and Williamsburg







... and sometimes one is not enough ...

Puerto Rican Day

The Saturday warm up parties for the Puerto Rican Day Parade were drenched in rain and I got my umbrella picture, but the sun came out on Sunday and umbrellas were only used to hold up flags.

Rosa von Praunheim in New York again

I photographed German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim in Manhattan about 20 years ago (above). The occasion was the shooting of his movie 'Survival in New York' ('Ueberleben in New York'), the lives of three German women, Claudia, Uli, and Anna, who came to New York in the 80s and survived here against all odds. This and other movies by Rosa will be shown at the Anthology Film Archives this weekend. I shot the new portrait (below) about a week ago on board the Staten Island Ferry, where Rosa was filming a new movie, more on that here soon.

HELLONEWYORK HELLOHAMBURG in fotoMAGAZIN

German fotoMAGAZIN features the blog HELLONEWYORK HELLOHAMBURG in it's current print issue (June 09). I share that blog with Hamburg based photographer Andreas Herzau. In a 10 page article Anja Martin writes about and shows samples of various German and international photo blogs. Thanks for including us !!!

http://hellonewyorkhellohamburg.blogspot.com/