Probably this way: At the end of the 1970s I bought a camera, a Nikon FM. A tough tool, for proper work. No automatic functions. It‘ll accompany me for more than 30 years: on Scottisch peat bogs, on Swedish glaciers, in the primeval forests of Poland, while touring England – the camera would be my robust sketch book always, wherever. …
This is a video of me working on my KORREX proofing press. It was made in 2010 while I was printing the sheets for “Mir fehlt ein Wort” my artist’s book on Kurt Tucholsky. Back then the studio was located in the south of Germany. For one day my workplace was turned into a film set. Sven Löffler and his …
My first press was delivered in November 1998. It was a KORREX Hannover, an entirely manual cylinder proofing press. This press is a rather unrelenting teacher, I can tell you. I very much treasure it. The press came with its standard inking unit (carriage). There are three rubber rollers, one of them with a pin on to which a handle …