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JOURNAL
Articles on mindfulness and photography, garnished with philosophical inspiration
This journal is a place for articles on current projects and their development. It will also serve as a collection of essays on related philosophical topics. Infos about collaborations with creative friends will be found here, too. As well as announcements regarding exhibitions and books.
Hannah Arendt's color photograph of Augustin
God cannot be helped or When philosophers talk about love In the summer of 2021 the German publishing house Piper circulated a new...
Mindful Photography: On what silence depends on and why it makes all the difference
Jon Kabat-Zinn: From catastrophe to creative silence through mindfulness It thunders, a storm rages, lightning flashes elucidate a...
Mind over matter? When the golden scarab beetle flies away again
Carl Jung's idea of 'synchronicity' as phenomenological explanatory model for contingent events We cannot see ourselves in the eye. The...
Mindful Photography: Creative shift through selflessness
The dissolution of ego centered, fixed points in Terrence Malick's movie aesthetics and its inspiration for photography Earth, die...
Mindful Photography: Why Buddha changed the focal length under the Bodhi Tree
Is mindfulness more than being attentive? What exactly is Mindful Photography? What does mindfulness have to do with photography? Isn't...
When man trancends himself as practicioner - change or escapism?
What Sloterdijk's amusing analysis of our present times has to do with my Christmas cookies In most cases, eating too many cookies on...
Mindful Photography: Selflessness and creativity
The value of Buddhist Philosophy for photographic creativity - when the light is switched on, but nobody is there About a disagreeable...
What there is to know, when they always talk too much - Henri Cartier-Bresson's view on philosophers
Simone de Beauvoir or A photograph like a visit to the dentist Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004) learned film from Jean Renoir,...
What kind of escape the Fieldpath meant to Heidegger: On his search for Being with his camera
A philosophical call to set out on your own photographic fieldpaths First one might ask, an escape of what? Heidegger 1953 begins his...
Mindful Photography: What I see when I am the camera
How the process of photographic image creation is being translated into self-knowledge through mindfulness Three basic settings to expose...
Matthieu Ricard as photographer: The happiest man of the world
A French Buddhist monk, who sends us photographs about Buddhism from the roof of the world The happiest man of the world? Whether it is...
What Plato would have posted on instagram from the courage of cave colleagues
Hopeful glints of long exposures in the cave Given that Plato would have been stayed in the cave for an extended period of time,...
Ek-sistenz: Why is there anything at all and not rather nothing?
Which thoughts are forming around the development of a new clay sculpture in September 2021 The question, why there ist anything at all...
Photography as a mirror of consciousness - Making visible what is not within space or time
Tracing the non-visible with Kant's transcendental philosophy When philosophers want to know how experiencing anything was possible, how...
Mindful Photography: The raisin, the present moment and me
A classic MBSR-experiment aimed at photography To give mindfulness novices a foretaste of the intent and purpose of every mindfulness...
Mindful Photography: Encounters of the third kind
A mindfulness exercise without your camera - tracing three different kinds of light to renew seeing habits The sighting of UFOs has been...
Bankei or the teaching of the 'Unborn'
How big of a stir is created when a Zen master falls out of heaven Bankei Eitaku was a Japanese Zen master of the 17th century. And a...
Memento mori: Are Stoics better photographers?
How thoughts on death may enrich your own photography with an creative attitude of peace of mind Buddhist philosophy on mindfulness and...
What Plato saw when he went to the riverside with his camera
How Plato's cave allegory juggles our seeing habits Those, who leave the cave under toughest effort, don't see in HD and color above...
Mindful Photography: Slowing down your own photography
How to transform your time with the camera into a meditative downtime with just a little adjustment In the age of digital photography...
Mindful Photography: Being in the beginner's mind
How and why mindfulness can transform your own photography Paradoxical - on one side photography is an art of skills, there is much so...
Joy of life: A painted heart as a reminder of the present moment
An exhibition with photographs of authentic joy Is it something playful by which own potential disabilities, for example physical ones,...
Ek-sistenz: Clay sculptures & photographs
A sculptor and a photographer in a special collaboration Ek-sistenz is a term from the Heideggerian thought sphere. In contrast to the...
Advaita: Paths not Works
Advaita book 2021 - the making Path not works - these are the words at the beginning of the Heideggerian complete edition. And while this...
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