Tomorrow I work again at the gallery, and the Sugimoto retrospective opens at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Thursdays are also when the city museums keep extended hours -- and, I think, even waive the entrance fee. So that's a plan. Friday and Saturday I am volunteering for Tuned City (tunedcity.de), a festival on architectural spaces and their acoustics. There's another soul party Saturday night.
Last weekend I was the party photographer, and I made a lot of good shots. Good enough to make me happy and want to give it another go. I was a little nervous, considering that I wasn't working with the best camera and that people move very quickly when they dance to soul music. One of the most important things I learned that night was that Germans do not like getting their picture taken. I'm accustomed to going to dance parties where people not only expect, but very often try, to get the photographer to pay them lots of attention. It's a whole lot easier to shoot people who are posing for you.
Friday and Saturday were both big nights for gallery openings, and I was kept busy until about midnight. Free drinks, easy conversation, what's not to love? Well, perhaps being obligated to stand in one room, blinded by the freshly-painted white walls, and being talked at by strangers and smiling until my lips lose their composure and fall into a grimace.
go for the martha graham!---->
one of my fave photos of all time.
http://www.afterimagegallery.com/morgankick.jpg
sounds like you are living the life, miss!