„Lichtempfindlich“ is a slide show I produced with my videos and images for the event Slideluck Berlin at Ehemaliges Stummfilmkino Delphi Berlin on Saturday, May 2nd 2015. Here is a recap of the evening on PiB.

Slideluck is a non-profit organization based in New York City that is dedicated to building and strengthening community through food and art. Since 2000, they have hosted potluck dinners combined with multimedia slideshows in over 75 cities worldwide and presented the work of roughly 10,000 artists. At each event, guests bring home-cooked dishes to share and the feast is followed by a slideshow of 20-25 local artists, ranging from emerging to very established.

The 5th Berlin edition, curated by Julia Schiller and hannah goldstein & Katja Hausstein from Kaetha took place at the beautiful historic Stummfilmkino Delphi Berlin in Berlin-Weissensee on Saturday, May 2, 2015.

Music: Shlohmo – Ghosts (Part 2), Error Broadcast, CC 4.0
Images below by © Slideluck / Casey Kelbaugh

Finding myself in a big sea, nowhere is everywhere. Looking around, slowly observing, adjusting my pace. The world disintegrates, I see light, shadow and movement. My head hurts. I forgot to answer 256 E-Mails. My retina tries to compensate and produces an afterimage. Layers of pixelated type, cat videos and the new flashy car ad crush into a blur of painful nothingness.

I understand my own work as an extended form of photography. Through the concentration on one given point my work tries to create a state of meditation and preoccupation with oneself while the absence of sound sharpens senses and opens the mind. Impressed, benumbed and irritated from the daily information flood, I think we’re not used to idleness and standstill anymore, it’s irritating.

Sequences are a series of still videos. See all of my videos at vimeo.

I was invited to a festival called Artsolut Berlin on August 16th 2011 to present some of my videos on a big cinema screen at Lido, Berlin. The festival showcased Berlin based artists from different genres such as music, film, art, poetry and theater such as the Berlin based Krautrock band Camera and the artist and illustrator Stefan Fähler.

Also, some of these videos have been shown at Loopingstar, a festival for video art that took place on January 12 – 24, 2013 in over 20 shop windows in Saarbrücken, Forbach, Brebach, Sarreguemines and Luxembourg.

Dazed and mesmerized, Greece shows its grace and shadows.

Athens, Greece, 2012

One of my images has been selected for a the printed issue of fLIP Magazine. The magazine is published three times a year and each issue has an overarching theme, in this issue: “Fantasy”. fLIP is founded by London Independent Photography, a community organization for amateur and professional photographers.