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facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading june update prepping the show printing the book june 28 2011 1 comment daniel hofer 2011 hey all after some hard weeks of work i m finally almost done i m still preparing the small exhibition that will take place in dortmund next week details here schauraum but the book actually in a pototype edition of 2 is already printed and bound but first let me give you an update on what happened in june basically everything happened at the same time speaking with the printer the bookbinder the framebuilder the guys who mount the pictures and somehow trying to make at least some money here is a proof i made with kreuberg based printer s shop ausdruck to find out how the pictures look like on the paper stock i ve choosen luckily i didn t have to make major adjustments on my files so printing was surprisingly easy more test prints and proofs were made for the upcoming exhibtion prints i ll produce this week the night before i had to bring the files to the printer i still had so much stuff to do the last days before deadlines are always stressful aren t they i finally decided that the title of the project should be simply salar the next picture shows how jonas holthaus who helped me with the design of the book thanks again jonas and me try to find an interesting typeface for the front cover we did a bunch of variations but in the end we decided to just print salar on the cover and not use a photograph after almost one year of work and 10 weeks in bolivia we i finished the book last wednesday and today i finally picked up the final book unfortunately that would not mean that i m really done now some time ago i ve started to think about the final thesis show and i made some tests concerning the size of the frames etc the next pictures give an idea of that process afterwards i had a better idea on the sizes i would like to produce so i made test prints bought plexiglass and transported everything via train to düsseldorf where a good friend who is a carpenter helped me to build 1 frame per size as a dummy as the whole school will be full with graphic fotodesign diplomas next weekend each student will only have some meters of wall to show his work thus i will only be able to show a few pictures but the book will be shown too so if you are around stop by in dortmund and you ll see plenty of good photography 08 07 10 07 11 fh dortmund thesis show diplomausstellung design department http schau raum net 52 523405 13 411400 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading april may update may 16 2011 leave a comment buenos dias amigos after exciting travel posts from bolivia in september and january i must admit that sitting in my berlin studio and doing post production book design preparing the thesis show etc is not really that exciting for you my dear readers btw almost 9000 clicks on this blog since august not too bad but here is a tiny update overview on what s happening first of all editing roughly 2400 photographs is hard work i spent a great deal of time on sequencing the selected photographs for my book the next picture shows that i printed the pictures i liked all in a small size of 6 7 cm s which makes it easier to move them around and combine pictures in terms of spreads etc on top that s the material put together by place colors genre topic beneath i tried to put my favourite photographs in a sequence for the book though that has already changed so many times for a larger version clck the pics i m not done with the layout yet but i wanted to figure out which pictures work with each other maybe even as spreads so i took snap shots of a couple of paires watching the photographs over and over again you really get mad and i must say that there are days when it s quite hard to be motivated and continue the work but as my final presentation and the thesis show will take place from july 8th 10th in my school in dortmund there are only 2 months left so i better keep working one strange thing that happens once in a while is that one finds so many new details in the scans one didn t see before for example the next photo and i found that really shocking because i would never have expected that in bolivia so far you might not notice something special but then if you lighten up the shadows you see this a swastika hakenkreuz tattooed onto the hand of a salt worker i know that the swastika is not only a symbol that was used be the nazis also in india you do see it once in a while having i think a religous cultural and not political background there but why do they use it in the bolivian province in case i ever come back i ll ask this worker the same guy together with my friend david middlemiss who will contribute text to our book project along with nathaniel freiburger dave nate and me will meet in bristol uk in july to bring together my photographs and their texts and continue planning an exhibition of our project we ll also present the project to an institution a great exhibition space in london the people there seem to be quite interested in showing our lithium story there some more pictures of my travels that so far didn t make it into the tighter edit but i still like them finally i mentioned you get mad after looking at the pictures over and over again i once noticed i photographed soo many bare light bulbs if you turn them around they look like plants don t they everybody who s around should come to the thesis show in dortmund in july it s called schauraum and i will not only show an exclusive first print of my book but also have some beautiful pictures on the wall i hope that i will be able to have a bigger show with my photographs later this year in berlin for all those who can t make it to the old west invitations will come thanks for following supporting this project 52 523405 13 411400 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading february march update march 14 2011 leave a comment hey everybody 6 weeks ago i came back from bolivia and since then a bunch of things have happened first of all i had to work quite a bit to refill may rather empty bank account 93 rolls of exposed film got developed and i then printed contact sheets and scanned a wide edit and quickly printed the pictures as small 13 18 cm 5 7 copies another thing that kept me busy was moving into my new office studio in berlin neukölln it s a wonderful big space that i m sharing with 6 other creative guys from various backgrounds architecture fashion design graphic design copywriter art so until july when i ll have my thesis show in dortmund i will probably spend quite some time here here are some pictures of the space and some snapshots of the long lasting editing process 2 more pictures from a december visit in the office ice ice baby and lots of snow on our wonderful huge terrace at the moment and that s not going to change within the next weeks i m working on the edit and doing post production on the high res scans which means color corrections cleaning the files of dust etc i also began to do some first layouts and think about how the book should look like especially in terms of format and size but also in terms of the concept sequencing the photographs another thing i m about to start with is learning how to build wooden frames for my exhibition there is a workshop connected to the office studio space which i can use as one always needs frames for exhibitions etc i thought that this is a good moment to start making them myself though not quite sure if that s gonna be succesful we ll see ohh and i forgot flare magazin flaremag de flaremag com selected the top ten german photographers under 30 years and i was fortunate enough to be among them next to guys like julian röder whose work i really like see the post here 52 523405 13 411400 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading german tv program on lithium in the salar february 21 2011 leave a comment german tv channel 3sat has a 30 mins documentary tonight at 9 30 pm you can also watch it online and find more information here worker in the salar de uyuni daniel hofer bolivia 2010 52 523405 13 411400 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading last saludos from bolivia january 31 2011 leave a comment last week a made a 2 day tour through the salar with a tourist agency main goal was to take some more pictures which focus on tourism in the salar only in winter time from dec feb occasionally a few inches of water cover parts of the salt flat and make the salar a big big mirror fascinating to see and to drive through with a jeep at the edge of the salar we stayed overnight in a small village and it totally felt like scotland stone towers and walls and really green which is rare for the bolivian altiplano highland this was my last post from bolivia will head to germany soon and keep you updated how editing and making prints and design the book and exhibition will keep me busy until july 52 523405 13 411400 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading playing golf at 4300 meters january 23 2011 leave a comment the nowadays small village of pulacayo situated 18 kms from uyuni at an altitude of 4100 meters was home to the the biggest bolivian silver mine of the 20 th century in the 1940 s 50 s up to 60 000 people lived there an incredible contrast compared to 2011 as only 500 people still live in pulacayo the cemetery of pulacyo as there where many european specifically british and german engineers working in the pulacayo mining industry these people brought some european sports culture with them to the bolivian andes one example for that they constructed a golf course an older man who remembered the golf course described me where it had been and after walking an hour or so through the hills of pulacayo i found something that could be the ruins of the golf court that concrete kind of thing in the next photos was this the teeing ground it s strange to imagine that people would play golf in such an environment as the photos maybe show this place can be terribly windy for sure this must have been one of the highest golf courses worldwide at 4300 meters one of several old abandoned tennis courts in germany we call this seifenkiste soap box i guess that makes no sense the old machine and metall workshop is full with old european machinerie from england and germany this one is from wuppertal these 2 tanks were produced recently in this very old workshop they will be used at the lithium pilot plant soon a locomotive from the german ruhr area essen but the highlight of this day was the fact that i meet two austrian guys michael and thomas they are producing a documentary film on pulacayo and when we met they had their last day in the village after 6 weeks of filming their translator wasn t available that day so when they made their last interview with franz see the next picture i translated for them their film will be finished by the end of the year we thought about combining my exhibition in berlin with a screening of their film one last thing many many cars and trucks in bolivia are used imported ones from europe especially scandinavia often there are still stickers of the old companies on the trucks this one was swedish i guess bolivians love volvo trucks taxi with japanese lettering greetins from room nr 14 52 523405 13 411400 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading tourism at it s best january 22 2011 leave a comment after visiting the previous places at the salar where i focused mostly on mining and work i came back to uyuni and continued some parts of my work which i had begun during my last trip i photographed interiors of restaurants offices and officials and some other bolivian curiosities one of these curiosities can be found in almost every tourist agency and there is more than a dozen of them in small uyuni people who have done a tour through the salt lake area with an agency write on a piece of paper that they liked this specific tour agency because the food was good or the driver was knowledgeable or whatever most of these writings doesn t matter which language say the same positive stuff they are almost never critical i think the value of these papers isn t a big one for tourist who search an agency but some are fun to read and all these amazing asian texts but first 2 photographs of my recent restaurant visits here a small selection of recommendations and finally another great socialist office of the miners federation 52 523405 13 411400 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading getting to know rio grande january 19 2011 leave a comment after visiting the lithium plant i spend 3 days in rio grande where i had already been in 2010 i meet again luis and his colleagues who are borax a mineral and a component of many detergents cosmetics etc workers i had brought them some copies of the group photo i had taken the last time and that kind of opened some doors for me so the next 2 days i spent a lot of time with the workers which allowed me to get closer to them and gain their trust we had lunch and dinner together and i also hung out with them in their very basic accomodation which is nothing else than a room with some beds and no window no electricity not bathroom no heating which in bolivain winter is really hard the 7 seven guys are mostly between 18 30 years old and being originally from la paz it seemed to be hard for them to be away from their homes and families for several weeks before coming home for a week or so also their work is physically challenging and more than one of them seemed to have pain in his back and knees at night after 9 10 hours work loading dozens of 50 kilo bags of minerals on trucks and train wagons group photo with luis and his workers remember that room in this new barrack they have one room for all of them these 2 photos show my accomodation while i stayed in rio grande this small village has no hotel or such thing so after one night on the restaurants floor i finally stayed in the old medical centre of rio grande next photo thanks to a young dentist whom i met and how offered me this room thanks gualberto wednesday i wanted to take the bus back to uyuni actually during the day 2 buses passed through the village but both were so crowded and full that there was no way for me and my luggage to get in the bus looked like a japanese subway train during rush hour totally over crowded but as i was not in a hurry i stayed one more night the next day i could get to uyuni with a jeep...