Im Himmel, über den Wolken

Diesen Sommer,
den werd ich verbringen
springend auf Dächern.
Kletternd in Bäumen.
Und fliegend, in der Luft,
in einem kleinen Flugzeug.

©Diane Vincent, Auf den Dächern, Berlin Mai 2010

Onkel Wilfried

Mein lieber Onkel Wilfried,
ich bin so traurig.

©Wilfried Ahrens, Vehlefanz, ungefähr 1964

Shot+Printed in Lüdenscheid

"Geschossen und Gedruckt" ist ebenso bis zum 19.5.09 in der Städtischen Galerie Lüdenscheid ausgestellt...


from Dirty Cars ©Diane Vincent

Today's opening "shot + printed" at c/o Berlin

Hello there,
my pictures will be included in the exhibition shot + printed. Please come by and say hello!
Best, Diane

Seltmann Photo Award 2009 18.4.-17.5.09
Opening Friday 17.4.09 7pm
Location C/O Berlin at Postfuhramt Oranienburger Str
Entrance Tucholskystr.19/21
10117 Berlin


from Dirty Cars ©Diane Vincent

To Loose Oneself

Boy and Girl, loosing themselves into the Night

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, that I didn't know who I was... i wasn't scared, i was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost...
Jack Kerouac, On the Road, The Original Scroll

Willenlos, exhausted, nicht wissen wohin, ruhelos, müde und aufgeregt zugleich, late night and early morning mood, raw, aufgelöst sein, transzendieren

Heddi&Andi, Berlin June 2008, ©Diane Vincent

Dedicated To The Plain People

Felicity can be,
Spending the afternoon in a park,
creating pictures with Jackson,
who likes to catch the special mood from the plain people.
The huge smelly dog,
who welcomed us taking a shit in the middle of the lawn.
Its name was Dante.
The blond haired girl,
making noises like a mouse while nibbling her popcorn.
The guy with his shirt with the word Gerüstbau written on it.
He just came from work, a Gerüstebauer.
Aishe, sitting on a bench and doing huge bubbles with her chewing gum.
And the tree climbing girl,
like a monkey she went up and down.

I forgot my mask in the tree.
Somebody else, maybe a little kid,
frightens now her parents with a strange mask.

I got sad news,
my grandmother died yesterday morning.
Just before I had this beautiful afternoon shooting with Jackson,
who likes to witness the plain people mood,
which means happiness.

First Anniversary

It's time to celebrate!
One year ago I did my first Polaroid photos. It was at the Fusion, a great alternative festival near Berlin. Of course I had taken pictures before, like everybody, but the trashy and likewise beautiful plastic polaroid camera changed things...
...For me, making pictures is similar to doing music in my teenage life, where I tried to release my Angst and transform the aggressiveness... - "look your demons right into the eyes" (thanks Bonnie Prince Billy).
...I love to get inspired in totally different moods, and the best ideas might come in when I'm lost. Or being in an hang over, when the mind and body is so exhausted that it has no control and will (willenlos) and everything is just going going going without the borders boundaries barriers, without the moral judgment one constantly keeps in his mind.
...I've been creating pictures which were described as soft and touching, and going back in time. Now I would also like to create pictures who open you for gloomy moments, as happiness isn't everything (remember the demons).
I saw a new road to love the world I'm living in, and this road is like a dirt road but hopefully has no dead end... I'm high-spirited and keen on to drive this dusty road...
Thanks to everyone and everything who is supporting me. I need you.
love
diane
vincent
p.s. Fusion, I'm coming!
p.p.s. Total aufgedreht und müde zugleich, empfindlich sein und unvernünftig, willenlos und voller Ideen.

Diane Is Looking For You!

Dear Blog Readers,
here is another chance to get in front of my lense!
I'm currently looking for new people to shoot...
You are twenty-something (read 18-30), good-looking, open-minded and young-minded, relaxed and fun to shoot with. Please introduce yourself in an email (you'll find mine on my website) with a few lines about yourself and include your stats and attach recent photos. Please be prepared to sign a model release.
I'm currently planning my summer projects - including driving around, swimming in a lake, hanging out at night... basically being outdoor, preferable in nature. I'd like to produce a certain madness; I want to loose us in the heat of the day as well as catch the twirled and overtired mood of the late night. Remember, we will have fun!
Looking forward to your mail!
Diane Vincent
p.s. thats for Berlin. LA California will be on from end of July.

"Stories"

I'm asking myself... should I tell stories or shouldn't I? I kind of like the idea to show pictures without posting big words, you know, show the pictures and everybody can look at them with his own stories, ideas, dreams, thoughts, fantasies...
But what about telling stories in between? Little things like this:

Today I had come over another boy for my new series" boys boys boys!". He came in, and after a short amount of time I had a good feeling about everything and also about him being relaxed. As we started the shooting I began to look for my picture, and I searched for a while. The light.,.. the pose... and so on.

I know from posing myself that this search can feel quite strange to you as the posing model. Whatever, me being now behind the camera I'm all about for the search.
And then, all of the sudden I remembered my model having still his chewing gum (you can't chew a gum in front of a camera...) so I asked him to take it out. And I got the answer "I swallowed it, accidentally." I was like... no way... come on... but he really swallowed it!
I guess my model was just a bit nervous as I was... Swallowing a chewing gum accidentally... After one second I was back on my search for the great picture.

Diane Is Looking For Boys and Couples To Shoot

Dear blog readers,
Are you looking for a new experience? Ever wanted to pose (half) naked in front of a nice polaroid camera (and behind that a girl)? Maybe you want to have nice pictures of yourself - for yourself or for your Love. This might be your chance:) I'm looking for new and fresh people to shoot. You should be at least 18, max 30, young, good-looking (though not necessary model-like). You should have a nice body and be fun to shoot with and be open-minded as I want to have the option to shoot you topless or naked. Be prepared to sign a model release. Oh, and you should live in Berlin (or nearby or maybe you are visiting Berlin...) I'm mainly looking for boys, but couples are very welcome too. Please write me some lines, you know a little bit about your background, age etc, and your measurements, and please don't forget to attach photos. My email is hello and then dianevincent and then de. This will be for my Polaroid Picture Project as featured here on this blog. And as this is my art project I can't pay anything but you will get scans of the best pictures and one print of the best picture.
Thank you!
Diane Vincent

The Hippie Series

The Hippie Series is the first project I did for my Polaroid Picture Project. It's an idea born at the Fusion Festival earlier in the year 2007. I wanted images full of desire and longing for inner peace and soul and for love. It came in a time I was looking to romanticize everything, the people, the nature, the world, myself. I looked to transfigure the everyday occurrence, the loss of emotion. I looked for a way to crystalize in the rays of sunshine.
My shooting notes - besides Hippie, 70ies and Summer of Love - contained: white magic, catching the end of summer, daydreaming and dreamlike, melancholic, shooting stars, making love with the Polaroids.
At the end the Hippie thing... is made up of many soup bubbles and it comes all together under the sentence "All You Need Is Love".

The Hippie Girls, Berlin Summer 2007, © Diane Vincent

On the Road

From the original scroll of Jack Kerouacs "On the Road":
"All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep [...]."