I have just arrived home from the Democratic Republic of Congo where I spent 6 months with Médecins sans Frontières, also known in other parts of the world as Doctors without Borders. We set up a project in the heart of Kasai, bordering Angola, on the west coast of Africa. Kasai is also a traditional […]
Photography – a Growing Passion
I’ve lived most of my life in Australia, and growing up on Sydney Harbour my early interest in photography grew out of a desire to capture the beauty of the ocean and beaches on which I spent so much time. Back in my younger days I used a Canon SLR and 35mm slide film which […]
On the Streets of the City – with Coffee
I am a full-time professor at a university, teaching film theory, digital and visual culture and literature, and now moving into photography on a critical-theoretical level as well. The reasons behind my choices for academic topics are interestingly coming from my hobbies – and so it happened with photography recently. As a child, I was […]
Pahiyas – A Festival of Fruit and Fanfare, with the E-M5II and the Laowa 7.5mm f/2.0
Lucban Lucban is a small town in the province of Quezon, a large province in the island nation of the Philippines. Legend has it that a diwata, a powerful nature spirit, settled on the foothills of the enchanted mountain, Banahaw, and her presence made nature’s bounty flourish – with lush springs, rivers and rich forests. […]
How I see the world
Hello everyone! I was asked by Maurício & Hugo from Olympus Passion Magazine to write an article about my photography! I am super stoked to get that chance and it came to me as a complete surprise. I did not have to think very long about doing that. I was just hoping I to fulfill […]
An eclectic world to experience and experiment
I am very lucky to live in this beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain. We enjoy a very mild and pleasant climate throughout the year, that allows me to be outdoors a lot, often with my dogs, which I really like! Here we have beach, mountains, culture & architecture at our doorstep and all of them […]
My Take On Street Photography
Hello! My name is Hansae Lee. I am a student photographer from South Korea, currently based and studying in Singapore. The first time I was introduced to photography was somewhere around 2014, when I was on Instagram one day and came across a photographer who specialized in ‘minimalism’ photography. I was amazed by his photographic […]
Roaming the city at night
Andreas, it’s a pleasure to have you here in the Olympus Passion project. Could you tell a little about yourself, your childhood, where you live and how you started in the craft of photography? I grew up in a rural area in Germany and always wanted to work in visual creative field. At first I […]
