An evening protest in Vienna II

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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.

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An evening protest in Vienna

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Another shot from yesterday night

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Fun shots from a farewell to Magnum evening

Morten

Nick

Irene

Magda and Ian

Nick and Martin

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Face of the night: Samantha

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Face of the night in Co-Op City

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Faces at night on Staten Island

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.

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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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Victor Jouvert - The New Yorker who moved to Vienna

My friend Victor Jouvert is my New York City apartment host. We had some quite good times in Co-Op City and whenever I came home with a new story I had in mind or with some stuff I observed on my ways through New York he could often tell me an interesting story or some background information. Unfortunatly (for me) he moved to Vienna a couple of days ago. That does not mean that I can't stay in his apartment anymore but it means that I am going to miss those nice evenings with him.
Anyway, he moved to Vienna for a year to be with his girlfriend Monika who lived in New York for a few years before coming back to Vienna. They had a house warming party as well as a welcome party yesterday evening which was really funny. The photographs above are from that evening. And guess what... On his way home Victor had an accident and had to be taken to the hospital. So it took him only four days to almost get killed in Vienna.

You can read about his injuries and his experiences as a New Yorker in Vienna on his new weblog here. Or see more Victor on this site here and here.

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We only come out at night

This is Nicole again. Another one of my first trial photos with a flashlight. See my yesterdays post about my first experiments with a flash.

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Karin and Nicole in the quietness of the night

I've almost never used a flash in my photographs. I never wanted to use a flash. But since Canon Europe just send me a Speedlight 550EX and a wireless transmitter ST-E2 to use the Flash off camera I am going to play round with it and use it for certain stuff. Thanks Canon.

The two images above have been my first trials with that. I went to a park with my girlfriend Karin (on the left) and our friend Nicole. I put the transmitter on the camera holding it with my right hand, kneeled down in front of them and held the flash away in my left hand.

I am still not sure about the use of flash in photography for myself but on the other hand side there are perfect examples of a great usage of flash in photographs:
Take a look at Bruce Gilden's new book "A Beautiful Catastrophe", Carl De Keyzer's "Zona" or at his series "East of Eden". And then there is an amazing series of images of Paolo Pellgrin on this years Victory Day in Moscow.

I am sure it's a long and not so easy way to learn how to use flashlight in a certain way. In the way you want it to be used. But hey, I am trying a lot of new things at the moment, I am widening my my photographic horizon in a lot of ways. And that includes trying out new equipment...

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