Williamsburg

I moved from Red Hook to Williamsburg in Brooklyn a few days ago and started to photograph the neighborhood at night (the camera was set at ASA 3200 and hendheld at 1/5 sec - 1/10 sec at f 5.6).













































The neighborhood will not look like this for long, for this part of Brooklyn is being developed at a neckbreaking speed.













































I bet the waterfront will have a skyline like Manahattan does, not too many years from now. But I sure love living here right now, it is my favorite neighborhood in Brooklyn, next to Greenpoint, where I have also lived a while ago.













































Crossing the Mc Carren Park from Williamsburg towards Greenpoint one can see new luxury condominium buildings grow like asparagus. Is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson going to save us??































(Please also see my related post Chelsea)

New York Brooklyn Williamsburg Greenpoint Neighborhood Stefan Falke Photography

MOKO JUMBIE Website

Update January 16. 2009:

for reasons unknown to me the website no longer excists. Please visit my Moko Jumbies galery instead at

http://www.stefanfalke.com/#/stories/Moko%20Jumbies/1
and
http://www.stefanfalke.com/#/stories/Keylemanjahro%20School/1

Moko Jumbies Moko Jumbie Trinidad and Tobago Keylemanjahro Stilt Walking Dragon Stefan Falke Photography Photography Books

Hounded (Verfolgt)

Director Angelina Maccarone ('Hounded' German: 'Verfolgt') won the Golden Leopard Award in the category cineastes of the present at the Locarno Filmfestival. Congratulations !
See more stills from Hounded at my website

Locarno Film Festival Hounded Verfolgt Angelina Maccarone Movies Movie Stills Stefan Falke Photography

St. Paul's Chapel and 9/11

The Foreign Press Center arranged for a meeting with The Reverend H. Hoke, Th.D., at the St. Pauls Chapel on Broadway in lower Manhattan. The Chapel, just behind the World Trade Center, was spared during the 9/11 attacks and served as a relief and rescue center. The Reverend, who was at the nearby Trinity Church when the planes hit the towers, is shown here with a dramatic photograph taken by the French photographer Christophe Agou (www.nousyork.com).
















Today the St. Paul's Chapel is a memorial site with more then 30.000 visitors monthly. For more information about the Chapel go to www.saintpaulschapel.org or read this story by The Reverend Lyndon Harris at National Geographic

9/11 St. Paul's Chapel World Trade Center Photography Stefan Falke

Maren Kroymann is 'Hounded'

I photographed the wonderful German actrice Maren Kroymann at her home in Berlin a few weeks ago. I had last worked with her about a year earlier, on the set of 'Hounded' (German titel: 'Verfolgt'), a daring movie about a forty-nine years old successful probation officer (Maren Kroymann) who "abandons herself to a sadomasochistic affair with her sixteen years-old new probation candidate (Kostja Ullmann)"...
















The movie, shot in black & white, has it's Worldpremiere at the 59. International Filmfestival in Locarno today !!
















It was directed by Angelina Maccarone, DOP Bernd Meiners, script by Susanne Billig and produced by Ulrike Zimmermann.
















Film Movies Hounded Verfolgt Angelina Maccarone Maren Kroymann Kostja Ullmann Stefan Falke Photography Movie Stills