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Behind the lenses
... a series on visual arts
Ever noticed this tiny subtitle on our main page?! "Life is art, be creative" was one of our guidelines when we started yellowisthenewpink.com some years ago. Behind the lenses is a series focussing on being creative in the music scene (in the broadest sense) without sticking around in a band. This run of interviews is about the art of flattening the three dimensional space in which all music takes place into the two dimensions of a photograph.

Sure, today’s torrent of images reached undreamt of quantities: no concert without hundreds of flashlights, band photos on every zine’s page, massive pictorial postings on every messageboard, not to talk of flickr, myspace or youtube. Yet a small quotient of photographers is worth to speak of while the majority falls into digital camera clichés: as they focus on snapshots of stage acting, bands posing and rocking out only. No aestaetical surplus is achieved, hence only a evanescent amount of pictures is actually worth to talk of.

Behind the lenses is basically about creating a platform for those photographers who stand out of this ocean of boredom and get them talking about their work, their inspiration and their aims. No matter if it is a professional, a poor punk kid or a d.i.y. activist ten thousand miles away.
Raymond McCrea Jones
Raymond McCrea Jones
New York City (US)
Having just survived a traffic accident, Raymond MacCrea Jones luckily found time to speak about his...
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Burkhard Müller
Burkhard Müller
Dortmund (DE)
It’s less about one and a half year ago that I first discovered Burkhard Müller and his stunning...
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Henner Flohr
Henner Flohr
Münster (DE)
When you attend a gig in Münster, you will surely spot Henner Flohr. In front of the stage behi...
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Katja Ruge
Katja Ruge
Hamburg (DE)
Last months have been arduous but successful for Katja Ruge – her lauded photo documentation "Fotore...
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Thomas Reitmayer
Thomas Reitmayer
Wien (AT)
Since the first issue of the Glow In The Dark magazine in 2005 publisher Thomas Reitmayer constantly...
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