Three coats, but not just any coats. Three winter coats made of leather and thick woollen fabric lined with sheepskin. With a thick big collar that you can pull far over your neck and chin up to your ears. With a big flap that keeps out all the wind and cold. These coats that have clearly served for a very long time, that have been lived in, hang in a shed by the sleigh. Because that's when they were worn. In the cold northern winters of the Baltic world when the snow was thick on the roads, the lakes were frozen and temperatures dropped well below zero. Surely then the farmers had to go to town or to church on Sundays. Surely then the landowner's coachman had to take his lord and his wife to a ball or concert through the cold clear freezing night. Not just any coats, but coats from another vanished world. Coats with a sense of romance that bring a warm feeling to a room where today's clothes are hung.
My great loves are the water and everything about it. Ships, travel, history and photography. The combination is therefore very common in my photographic work. Most photographs are created intuitively. It is an image that strikes me, usually a combination of form and color in which a.. Read more…