During my research trips, I took about 4,400 photographs, most of them documenting musical activities, like dancing or the building and playing of musical instruments. But, caught by a mixture of enchantment and disillusion, I also made a lot of shots merely because I was fascinated by the sights and motifs. I was impressed by the people and their culture as well as by their natural environment, the mountains and the forests.
I always wanted to make an exhibition with my photographs. It would have been especially interesting to exhibit in the Philippines, and I also thought of making a book or a CD-ROM with these pictures. But I was always busy with other things. Nevertheless, a small selection was exhibited at an adult educational center run by the Senate of Berlin for the period of two years but only a few people must actually have seen them there. When I finally got involved in Internet affairs, I considered this the appropriate forum to reach a wider public. So, there it is: a selection of 90 photographs as well as an animated sequence of six pictures. I will add some more in the future.
Apart from a few exceptions, all photographs presented here were taken on the island of Mindanao, in the southern Philippines. And those few that were from other regions of the Philippines are so general, regarding their motifs, that they also could have been made anywhere in Mindanao. The photographs are ordered under the following headings:
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Created: Sunday, April 28, 1996
Updated: Sunday, December 29, 2002
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