urban people 1997

urban people 1997, originally uploaded by andrea bayer.

What caught my eyes and my pen as I arrived in the city was the multiracial side of Rome.

The fishing boat was just arrived at the Travemunde harbour (10 minutes by car from Lubeck) and the fishermen were selling the catch of the day, mainly Baltic soles. The son of the fisherman was shoveling ice in the fish boxes. I bought two fishes and cooked them in the evening. They were extremely delicious.

cahos in Rome

This was my first impression of Rome as I arrived in 1997 to stay for some years (and I still do) . Porta Portese market on sunday and the everyday motorbike jam in the traffic, showed the cahotic side of the capital as it is, even worst, 12 years later.

and this is Alstertal. The river was deep black, a fantastic contrast with the white of the snow.

cold people Alstertal

that morning in Alstertal was snowy and very very cold (for me) minus 5 celsius. All the people I met had the face red as a crab apple, almost burgundy colored. Only the Swan and the snow were deep white.

these are prortraits I have taken in the foyer of schmidt tivoli teather on the repeprban-hamburg, at a restaurant on the hamburg harbour and in a big shopping center near poppelbuttel-hamburg.

hamburg private tropaquarium

this rooom was a dream. A glass wall 10 meters high in a dark room. Behind the glass big fishes as sharks, mantas, cernie, swam in a surreal and magic light

plastic man hamburg

teaching in the snow

While walking in the alster valely woods we met an entire class sliding on the wood's slopes on their sledges. At a certain point the teacher called out and eveyone gathered his sledge and went back to the nearby school. What a nice way to study!

christmas people in hamburg