Photographer Michael Strasser (Germany) Can you tell us a little about you? My name is Michael Strasser, born and raised in the south of germany. I studied a medical specialty some years ago and have my own business now. I love being creative concerning music and photography. In the meantime photography led me across the pond, too. otherwise a proud father of three kids, interested in all kinds of arts, people, life, cultures.. How and when did you get into photography? Since I was a kid. my mother always supported me back then, sadly she passed away 5 years ago. experimenting with self developing and some weird stuff. A camera with 4 lenses comes to my mind. Then in the `dark` teenage times i got more into it, but the real kick off was the first digital camera in my twenties. What does photography mean to you? A picture can have an incredible impact on me and to the world in general. I always try to somehow own or create pictures transporting deeper emotions or great light. Best bot, but there´s still a long way to go, not knowing if i will ever reach this aim i have in my head. it can also be very de-stressing and euphoric but also a son of a bitch sometimes and you meet a lot of interesting people, too. Please briefly describe your photography style for our readers. I do mostly black and white portrait pictures trying to catch some deeper selves of the persons or some boudoir with more interesting shadowplay. At the moment i plan to do more street stuff in the near future. Where do you get inspiration from? Everywhere, i´m a huge fan of old painters from the netherlands for example. but also everyday life, politics, zeitgeist, the connection between two persons during a shooting, conversations, art, music, photography.. stuff like that. Do you think in advance what you want in the picture? That depends. sometimes there´s a certain picture we want to create. most of the time we have some moods and play around with the surroundings, lights, perspectives, shadows, ideas etc..
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