A couple of days ago the union of the Austrian Post called for a protest march against the privatization of the Austrian Post. They expected about 800 participants, about 350 came.
Anyway, they started to march at about 4:30 pm when it was almost dark. Not exactly what I'd call good light conditions to photograph. I used a flash to photograph in the beginning but I haven't really been happy with the results. Since I didn't have an assignment for that I decided to play round a little bit and shot without a flash and at times from 1 second to 1/6 of a second.
Obviously there is a lot of movement in the images. Usually not what I like to work with but I found the results interesting.
I've taken this pictures a couple of days ago on Staten Island. I went there together with Siobhan (first photo) and Irene to celebrate Shiobhan's last night in New York. She was a Magnum intern for three months. Originally born in Germany, she grew up in England and left to finish college in London.
We've just been walking around for a while when we met those two guys, John Ponzio (second photograph) and Richy Mirissis (last photograph), at the waterfront. We somehow started to talk and have finally been hanging out together for about an hour or so. It was good fun, interessting to talk to them and I was able to play around with my flash again... :-)
See more Faces at night in the archive.
Last day in Vienna - My girlfriend Karin and her son Fabian
I originally planed to fly back to New York August 8th. For that day I couldn't get a flight back for a decent price so I postponed my departure to August 16th. Still 865 Euros (about 1.060 Dollars) for a round trip... So my three weeks in Vienna are over. I am leaving with mixed feelings. On one hand side I am really looking forward to come back to New York, go on working with Magnum and go on shooting on the streets of New York. Experiencing new things every day. On the other hand side I won't see my girlfriend Karin and my family for the next three months. That's kind of hard but there is Skype which really helps staying in touch without a 500 Dollars phone bill.
Honestly I don't think I'll miss much more than my family and good bread.
So thanks Vienna but I'll go back to New York. At least for the next three months doing the second half of my internship at Magnum Photos. See and read more about my girlfriend Karin here. And expect my next posting to be from New York tomorrow.
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