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AUTHORS & ARTISTS
JEKYLL & HYDE Munich pho-
tography duo Jekyll & Hyde,
who specialize in still life and
interactive photography, felt
like they had been on a trea-
sure hunt. How could they con-
gruently x-ray the layers of a
headphone? Not the usual
project, it called for a new ap-
proach. In the end, all present
were convinced that after a
roughly eight-hour x-ray ses-
sion they would either have su-
per powers or have achieved
the maximum recommended
lifetime exposure to radiation.
Figuratively speaking, howev-
er, they couldn’t prove either
one or the other. Even if they
had tried it on themselves,
above proof.
JOHANNES KROEMER AND
VANINA FELDSZTEIN The pho-
tographer and filmmaker John
Kroemer and Vanina Feldsztein
have lived in New York for al-
most twenty years. Shootings,
like the one they did with the
Sennheiser musician Stuart
Matthewman, are something
like the perfect workday. The
producer of the music group
Sade was “cool, nice and acces-
sible” – and his neighborhood
full of surprises: Before the
shoot, Kroemer photographed
possible locations to take the
portraits. On Bleecker Street in
NoHo, he snapped a picture of
an old man sitting in front of
his loft. It wasn’t until later
that they realized that this
man was none other than Rob-
ert Frank - the father of mod-
ern documentary photography.
LUCY HYSLOP For Lucy Hyslop’s
interview with Kristen Roos, it
was a case of artist and writer
mutually inspiring each other.
After a day spent test driving
the rhythmic hum of his new
installations in Surrey, British
Columbia, our author intro-
duced him to the word “thrum,”
now the working title of his fu-
ture sound work. For Hyslop –
following a 20-year career in
print from London’s Telegraph
Magazine to National Geo-
graphic Traveller – Roos has in-
spired her to venture into the
world of sound herself as a ra-
dio reporter for Monocle 24.
PAUL-PHILIPP HANSKE He
won’t be able to sleep well said
our author Paul Philipp Hanske,
who was visiting atmospheric
scientists at the environmental
research station Schneeferner-
haus on the Zugspitze. The al-
titude of nearly 3,000 meters
has the effect that the organ-
ism is constantly under strain.
It was just the same at night.
The lowlander was only able to
doze off after three movies
and two beers. Down in Mu-
nich, Hanske works for the
Süddeutsche Zeitung, the
Bayerischer Rundfunk, Nido
and Arte.
MICHAEL MEIER Michael Meier
has been publishing comics, il-
lustration books and prints in
his own independent publish-
ing house Rotopolpress since
2007. This is also where he pro-
duced his first comic “Die Men-
schenfabrik” (The human fac-
tory) based on a narrative by
Oskar Panizza, for which he
was recognized as the best
newcomer at the 2009 Frank-
furt Book Fair. His second major
comic book, “The Inferno,” has
just been published. As a free-
lance illustrator and cartoonist,
Michael Meier has drawn for
Ehapa, Le Monde Diplomatique
and GQ.
CHRISTIAN BUCK Sound waves
from the cosmos? Sounds that
travel through the void of the
universe? Author Christian
Buck was immediately on fire
about this topic – after all, in
his first life, the journalist was
a physicist and, even as a child,
was fascinated by the incom-
prehensible majesty of the
universe. All the more that his
interviewee was not only fa-
mous, but also had a typical
British humor.
THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES OF
SOME OF OUR AUTHORS AND ARTISTS
PARTICIPATING IN THIS ANNUAL REPORT