D-Day

D-Day

On Death and Dying
Imagine a windy , cloudy morning on the north sea shore, tide moving out. You can walk for miles with just the noise of the waves which after a while has a calming influence on the mind and makes you loosing the sense of time for a while. Seagulls perform their artistic skills.There is so much to discover that has been washed ashore, crabs, shells, starfish, unknown plants, plastic bottles, crumbled nets, debris of unidentifyable character whatever you want. You are facing dead bodies in different stages of decay. Take the crabs for instance. At first they just don´t move, then they loose their legs, soon there is a wonderful geometrical skeleton left until it brakes into pieces and eventually vanishes completely. Due to the cold atlantic ocean they always appear clean, and hardly smell when they are just washed on the beach. These little creatures that have lived for millions of years proved to be very successful as a species and they are beautiful as individuals. So I decided to shoot macros from their bodies and then I came across Robert Capa and Steven Spielberg with their images from d-day in normandy. War fotography is not easy and it shows a horrible topic. At the same time it is about human beeings and their beauty, even in death. I didn´t want to take cliché fotos from cemetaries, rusty tanks, memorials, leftover guns. I just thought, these dead little crabs on the beach show the beauty of creation, death included and they remind us of the possible horror men can do to each other.