The Beauty of Parking

It was a while ago, in 2007 to be precise, before the time when I started shooting car commercials. I was driving around the country with my analogue medium format camera, working on a series with the beautiful title Schöner Parken / The beauty of parking. As it happened, Dummy magazine was working on the 14th issue dedicated to “TEMPO – the pace of life and the pulse of society” It became an eight-page photo series and started with the words: „BITTE WARTEN- Im Parkhaus kommt das Fahrzeug zur Ruhe. Und die moderne Architektur zu sich selbst. Ein Streifzug durch die Stellplätze der Republik.” “Please wait - the car comes to a halt in the parking garage. And modern architecture comes to itself. A journey through the parking lots of the Republic"