Kolkata ( Calcutta ) -A streetscene in Kumartuli with rhino-sculpture. Kumartuli is the quarter of the statue-makers, traditionally for the big religious festivals like Durga-Puja or Saraswati-Puja, but also many other artworks are made here.
Born in Frankfurt / Main in 1950, I am into photography now for around 40 years, My first photographic steps I took as a teenager in the 1960s and from 1970 to 1975 I studied photography at the Arts College (Fachhochschule für Gestaltung) in Dortmund. My teachers were Pan Walther (portrait-photography, landscape and fine art photography), Adolf Clemens ( photojournalism ) and my favorite one, Kah Jagals (screen-printing and \'Fotografik\' / graphic art based on photography). I have never been...
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