About me: My pictures obtained awards at international photo competitions (www.adrianschaub.com/awards/) and are occasionally presented at exhibitions (www.adrianschaub.com/exhibitions/). Thanks to the pictures of Andreas Feininger, Henri-Cartier Bresson and the group f.64, in particular Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, I discovered my passion for black and white photography. I particularly like Edward Weston’s paradigm: “The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh”. The themes of my images can be described as “mysticism, forms and transience”. In some pictures I try to capture moods, such as the transience of industrial equipment or the lightness of the moment in street photography. In other images, I emphasize forms, whether natural-made in plants or man-made in architecture. In general, I like mystical images that encourage the audience to make their own interpretations.

Initially I photographed with Canon and Pentax cameras in 35mm format. In 2004 I switched to medium format and since then I have been working with Hasselblad, first analog and from 2021 digital. My preference for the Hasselblad system is based on the fact that, thanks to the digital back, I can continue to shoot with my beloved fully mechanical CM 501 and benefit of the advantages of the digital workflow. Additionally, I can use the digital back with the 907x with modern autofocus lenses, which opened up new fields of photography to me. Initially, I developed my images in my own darkroom. In the mid-2010s, I switched to a digital workflow. However, I remained true to my image processing principles and there is nothing on my printed images that was not already existing on the analog or digital negative.

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