Silver medal in 26. Trierenberg Super Circuit

hooray…we won a competition!
I knew it was a good idea to climb into that sink on our tour of the abandoned hospital.

Håkon Grønning foto

Wohooo… ! For the second year in a row one of my images was awarded a medal in Trierenberg Super Circuit in Austria, this time a silver medal! This is said to be “The world’s largest photo salon. It is by far the largest annual salon of photography on the globe.” Among the more than 100 000 images submitted, my image was among the few selected for a medal!

Pantry bench II – with Rebecca Tun

Thank you Rebecca!

In addition I got 30 of 32 possible acceptances for my 8 prints and 16 of 16 possible acceptances for my 4 digital images submitted.

Here are the 12 entered – and accepted – images:

Monochrome prints

Colour prints

Digital images

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See more of my awarded images in my awards gallery:
https://hgrfoto.wordpress.com/galleri/awards2/

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Enigma’s music video for Sadeness (Part II)

“All your life /
You’ve been waiting to be free /
Trade your pride for ecstasy /
That’ll make you /
Reach the sky” – Sadeness (Part II)

Last August I acted in a music video for the band Enigma‘s new song Sadeness (Part II). The song was released in October.

What do you think? …I’ve noticed both the song and the music video have had mixed reactions from hardcore fans. I don’t know how to to talk about music, so I won’t say anything about the song. Some fans have asked if there’s a version of the video without pixelated-private-parts. Well I haven’t come across one. I guess I could start claiming that that’s actually just what I look like naked.

The story in the music video has two characters – a dark, brooding monk and a mysterious seductive woman. You’ll notice that I played the latter. At first the mysterious woman is a luring temptress.

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

The monk takes her to his decadent den of dark desires.

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

Now the woman is a prisoner.

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

There is some inevitable running away and chasing.

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

And an ultimate fight between good and evil.

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

Enigma Sadeness (Part II) music video

And in the end, it turns out…well, I shouldn’t spoil it. So I guess you should just watch the video.

© 2016 Baloo Music S.A., under exclusive license to Polydor/Island, a division of Universal Music GmbH

me pink polka-dot jumper

My pink polka-dot jumper is sadly no longer with us – although its remains do live on in tiny pieces, for example in the form of some home-made buttons for which I was on the receiving end of cruel teasing from at least one of my siblings (though not as cruel as the teasing I was subjected to over the actual sweater, during its heyday). These photographs from 2013 by Ronnie The Dux Medal are special because you can see here the origin of the item’s demise – the fraying armpit (which, at the time, provided a convenient viewing window for when I wanted to show people my armpit’s first hairstyle involving the presence of hair).

images © The Dux Medal | May 2013
model, hair, make-up, styling by me
Berlin, Germany

© The Dux Medal | May 2013

© The Dux Medal | May 2013

© The Dux Medal | May 2013

© The Dux Medal | May 2013

Rorschach-style monster shadow

At this point, even I thought I was pretty weird. One morgen I woke up and saw the need to make a Rorschach-style monster shadow-selfie around the vertex where the cups cupboard met the fridge – as one does. I saw it as as disembodied type of yogic sunrise meditation.

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Today it reminds me of an earlier point in my life when I was only able to express myself through shadows…

“Models. Der Film” – a documentary by Leif Allendorf

This is the trailer for ‘Models. Der Film’, a documentary by Leif Allendorf about four different models living and working in Berlin – Jenny Jane, Melanie Unrau, Nadya Wendt and me. The movie involves interviews and some footage of each model at work. In this version my voice is dubbed into Deutsch.

an impromptu collaboration

I spent the day shooting Vincent Littlehat at my apartment in Berlin. Well it was only going to be a 2-hour shoot but instead we worked together until both our brains were aesthetically exhausted, plus she convinced me to get my modelling hat on as well and we did some teamwork.

(c) Rebecca Imogen Tun and Vincent Littlehat . models: the same . Berlin, Germany . May 2013

portraiture with Andreas Neubauer

Last March, I hitched a ride to Munich to be photographed by Andreas Neubauer. I say ‘be photographed by’ rather than ‘shoot with’ or ‘model for’, because this time the whole thing really felt more like he was taking my portrait. Maybe I was modelling as myself.

(c) Andreas Neubauer . Munich . March 2013

first shoots in Berlin

So here are some results from the first couple of shoots I did in Berlin.

A snapshot of my first month in Berlin

Rumours of my disappearance have not been exaggerated. A couple of months ago I somewhat mysteriously vanished from Cambridge and to my own surprise migrated into Continental Europe.